AI in education

Traditional Technology
Method Enabled
(W/o AI) Teaching Supervised AI Unsupervised AI
School 5 4
Graduation/Post Graduation 4 5
Vocational 5
Online 5
Corporate Training 5 3
Evaluation 1 4

The participants in the interview were shown a video of AI in live action, being used in University of
Minnesota wherein AI used complex algorithms to map students based on demographics,
educational background, their social media activities and profiles. The professor gave an outlook on
how he wished to map the students with the priorities to the criteria he deemed important. The
outcome was a more fruitful discussion amongst participants, it was later discovered that the
students who ended up having such fruitful discussion were earlier not even aware of each other’s
first names. This just went on to show the power of AI which in this case was being used to aid
professor in mapping the groups in the classroom, which is classified as Supervised AI as the
professor is supervising the use of AI in aiding him deliver the course.

The traditional method incorporated the gurukul method of teaching and the simple black board
based teachings, Technology enabled teaching involves the use of projectors, presentations and
videos to aid in delivery of lecture and unsupervised AI involved the complete elimination of the
human interface and the whole course would be delivered by the AI based technology wherein the
students will learn on their own by watching videos and answer quizzes at the end of every lecture
and based on the result the AI will adapt to the pace of learning and IQ of the student. The
participants were asked to rate which mode of AI did they deem to be most effective in each of
these cases and their votes are cumulated in the table above.

New Insights were also explored which involved the learning of culture, personality and teamwork
among the students who are eventually the end users of this medium and it was found in unison
that AI at most might only aid in this aspect and will never be able to replace the human form of
value transfer. But, in examinations AI can be an asset by evaluating the students with the examples
of GRE where the level of questions depends on the response of students in a set of questions and in
GMAT which involves and incremental linear adaptation of the students based on their response per
question. The motivation which a traditional teacher provides to the students to perform better and
a child usually imitates his/her professor would be absent in case of unsupervised AI and id
implemented we might find the students behaving like mechanical robots with minimal EQ.