Ask Me Anything with Conrad Wolfram: The Math(s) Fix, ChatGPT and Education in the AI Age

Join Conrad Wolfram for an ask me anything session. Conrad is recognised as a thought leader in AI (including use of ChatGPT), data science and computation, pioneering a multiparadigm data science approach. He is also a leading advocate for a fundamental shift of maths education to become computer-based or alternatively introduce a new core subject of computational thinking to achieve computational literacy for all—founding computerbasedmath.org and computationalthinking.org to deliver this change.

00:00 Start stream
5:06 Introduction
10:38 I am curious about how AI can assist teachers and tutors better help students master subtexts. Will it be important for my 2 year old to have multiple different AI teachers in his early life?
13:50 Wondering if ChatGPT might assist in checking theorem proof (attempts) too?
17:46 If we don't embrace the use of AI / LLMs in education, what do you think will be the implications? Will there be any benefits?
21:36 What are your thoughts on teachers and schools being hesitant on AI in education?
25:35 How do you think current AI technologies are going to help self taught students? Do you think that a person who knows how to use these tools properly could compete with someone from a top university?
30:23 It just seems strange to potentially have only one teacher throughout your life.
31:45 Do you have advice for a teacher that wants to use these new technologies in their classrooms but their administration is not supportive (or actively blocking their usage in curriculum)?
36:03 Critics of AI and large language models say they are totally incapable of thinking & have no way to be creative, is it just plagiarizing. What is your take on creativity, now & for future AI?
38:53 What current teacher specialty do you think is most able to take on the new "computational thinking" teaching? [like when "keyboarding/typing" teachers had to pivot to "computer teachers" in the 90s]
44:26 The role of teacher is changing. When Google emerged, teachers were encouraged to "ask better questions." Now, the work is encouraging learners to "ask more questions." What parts of the current mainstream curriculum do you think should continue?
55:32 Will students be used to train the AI? Or perhaps used to build AGI?
56:15 Will it still be worthwhile to learn how to code? What is the future of coding if AI can do that better and much faster?
1:02:29 If we fast forward to the year 2043 when all 18-year-old school leavers have been through a new curriculum in line with TheMath(s)Fix, what benefits will there be to society, the environment, personal well being?
1:08:53 Is the current hype helpful or harmful? Will the fearful rhetoric "AI takeover" sci-fi tropes of some lead to regulation and government control that will destroy open access to these tools?
1:12:59 History is written by the winners it seems like we will give AI much power over us and what we believe is true? How can we filter fact from fiction?
1:15:14 At what age/stage do you think the Math(s)Fix should start in education?
1:19:55 If the majority of learning is done using a computer, how do you ensure learners' responses/submissions are their own?
1:28:10 Will there need to be AI schools to train AI's how to teach humans?
1:28:36 If such a large proportion of society agree that math(s) education is broken, why isn't it changing? Has anybody begun The Change?
1:39:26 Summary & Wrap up: Any parting advice? Immediate, actionable "go do this one simple thing to get started with computational thinking"?

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https://www.computerbasedmath.org
http://themathsfix.org
https://www.computationalthinking.org

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