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A private school in London is opening the UK’s first classroom taught by artificial intelligence instead of human teachers. They say the technology allows for precise, bespoke learning while critics argue AI teaching will lead to a “soulless, bleak future”.

The UK’s first “teacherless” GCSE class, using artificial intelligence instead of human teachers, is about to start lessons.

David Game College, a private school in London, opens its new teacherless course for 20 GCSE students in September.

The students will learn using a mixture of artificial intelligence platforms on their computers and virtual reality headsets.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 days ago

    Straight up just taking a piss at both the children’s future, and the teacher’s professional career

  • winkly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 days ago

    Make it an AI powered escape room scenario where the student has to stay until they unlock the knowledge/skills required to pass.

  • KellysNokia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    10 days ago

    I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot allow you to go to the bathroom during classroom hours.

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    11 days ago

    I bet those kids can’t wait to learn about how issac newton invented the colour yellow when seeing an apple fall from a lemon tree hitting a cow and thus causing him to invent gravity which trapped photons from venus allowing humans to finally have the technology to grow pineapples in canada.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 days ago

    So many things come to mind reading this, but the most important thought is: This will be how the bastards finally get rid of those pesky teachers and their gasp progressive teachings! /s I hope this fails hard, because a world without trading ideas to children is just prison for all.

    • wabafee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      10 days ago

      It potentially could, even better if it’s still supervised by an actual teacher but each children would have their own AI, so teaching subjects could be personalized. This could mean slow students can still catch up and have bigger chance understanding the said subjects.

      • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        If the AI doesn’t hallucinate incorrect information, I totally agree.

        One size fits all classroom learning leaves many students behind, and having a personal AI tutor could really help kids fill in the gaps in their understanding that would otherwise be overlooked.

        AI hallucinations is still a very real factor that limits the usefulness of this tech right now though. I magine coming into class and your tutor you had yesterday is confidently telling you the opposite of the fact that it taught you yesterday.

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      10 days ago

      It could. For example, I learn better by myself than in a classroom setting.

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    11 days ago

    That’s stupid as hell. They think a bunch of kids are just going to sit there and listen to a robot? They don’t expect them to take advantage of every flaw in AI? Not only that but it removes the human interaction element of development. And to just top it off, AI is so basal right now that it will most likely teach students erroneous information anyways. Why are so many influential people with money complete morons?

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      It’s not that they’re morons, it’s that they don’t care shit about others or the future of others. And that’s why they are rich, intellect plays only a very little part in that equation.

  • gencha@lemm.eeEnglish
    26·
    11 days ago

    Marketing play to grab the money off of rich parents. There are still teachers, they are just proxied by “AI”. And there will also still be teachers monitoring. And there will still be teachers for certain topics.

    So it’s teacherless, but with plenty of teachers.

  • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
    161·
    11 days ago

    The platforms learn what the student excels in and what they need more help with, and then adapt their lesson plans for the term.

    Strong topics are moved to the end of term so they can be revised, while weak topics will be tackled more immediately, and each student’s lesson plan is bespoke to them.

    The students are not just left to fend for themselves in the classroom; three “learning coaches” will be present to monitor behaviour and give support.

    They will also teach the subjects AI currently struggles with, like art and sex education.

    It doesn’t sound quite as dystopian as the headline but I still think we are way too early in the development of this technology to be deploying it at this scale in education.

    • scratchee@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      11 days ago

      Yeah, it sounds like a normal lesson plan with ai fairy dust sprinkled on top as a marketing gimmick.