How to ensure that the Alpha generation is not "domesticated" by AI

2024-09-12

Mengmeng children have already walked ahead of many adults, "said Wang Kai, founder and CEO of" Uncle Kai Storytelling ". The reason for saying this is because while many adults are still adopting a wait-and-see attitude towards artificial intelligence, this elementary school student with the pen name "Xu Mengmeng" has already started using generative artificial intelligence to create novels and earned a royalty of 20000 yuan. On May 1st of this year, Xu Mengmeng's science fiction novel "AI Youth: Mars Survival Challenge" was released. The story is vivid and interesting, and the language proficiency even exceeds that of some adult authors, "the editor of the book once said. Teenagers and children born after 2010, like Xu Mengmeng, are known as the "Alpha Generation". Although they are still young, many of them are proficient users of artificial intelligence and have grown into important participants in the digital age. In the highly digitized world, mastering the basic knowledge of AI has become an inevitable choice for this generation. So, what role does AI play for the Alpha generation? How have AI tools quietly integrated into their learning and life? Do educators and parents have sufficient ability to anticipate the risks of AI applications in advance? How to use AI technology to unleash greater potential for the Alpha generation and make them the masters of the AI era? AI will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the younger generation. "Ten years ago, the world's top artificial intelligence systems were unable to accurately recognize objects in images like humans. They performed poorly in language comprehension and were unable to solve mathematical problems. But now, artificial intelligence systems have repeatedly surpassed human levels in various standard benchmark tests," said Ray Perrault, co director of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Index, in a letter to readers on the occasion of the release of the 2024 Artificial Intelligence Index Report. The rise of artificial intelligence can bring enormous opportunities for social and economic development, especially in key areas such as education and healthcare Professor Mohammad Sawan, Chair Professor at Xihu University and founder of the Advanced Neural Chip Center, said. The Alpha generation, born for cyber, uses generative artificial intelligence models to draw, answer questions, and learn English. With the updating and iteration of artificial intelligence technology, its impact on the learning and lifestyle of the younger generation is becoming increasingly profound. In 2024, Tencent Penguin released the Survey Report on Teenagers' Internet Use (2024), which showed that teenagers had a high awareness of AI, and 45.1% of respondents said they had "used" AI products. In May 2023, a survey conducted by Common Sense Media, an advocacy organization for children and families in the United States, found that 58% of teenagers aged 12 to 18 had used ChatGPT. In 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China and eight other departments jointly recognized a number of national intelligent social governance experimental bases, including 19 characteristic bases in the field of education, aimed at researching educational scenarios and governance mechanisms in the era of intelligence. As of February this year, the number of artificial intelligence education bases for primary and secondary schools announced by the Ministry of Education has reached 184. Schools across the country have also taken various innovative measures to promote artificial intelligence education. Among them, Shanxi Experimental Primary School arranges artificial intelligence creative and intelligent manufacturing classes every Monday to Friday; Shanghai Luwan Senior High School is dedicated to creating an artificial intelligence functional experimental zone and equipped with a team of teachers to train students and provide them with a more systematic AI learning experience... "We will implement AI empowerment actions to promote the deep integration of intelligent technology with education, scientific research, and society, and provide effective action support for the development of a learning society, intelligent education, and digital technology," said Huai Jinpeng, Minister of Education, in his keynote speech at the 2024 World Digital Education Conference. In the past, the main channels for acquiring knowledge were often rigorously reviewed textbooks or traditional classrooms, but with the advent of the artificial intelligence era, the channels for the younger generation to acquire knowledge have become more diverse. Generative artificial intelligence can serve as an important tool for assisting teaching. If guided properly, learners, including the Alpha generation, may have on-demand and highly targeted course assistants, "said Hu Jiehui, Dean of the School of Foreign Languages at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. After all, generative artificial intelligence can promote personalized learning and provide precise support based on students' needs. Obviously, this model cannot be easily implemented in traditional classroom education. Wang Xin, Vice Dean and Professor of the School of Artificial Intelligence at the School of Intelligence and Computing at Tianjin University, also believes that generative artificial intelligence can provide personalized guidance and support based on students' needs, while objectively enhancing their learning flexibility, stimulating their creativity and exploration potential. Tang Xiao, an associate professor at the School of Public Administration at Tsinghua University, said, "As generative artificial intelligence gradually integrates into education, it is crucial to cultivate critical thinking, information discernment ability, logical reasoning ability, and 'aesthetic ability' towards language and content." However, in many foreign countries, the attitude of schools towards generative artificial intelligence tools has also changed. Public schools in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, which attempted to block the use of generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT in early 2023, changed their decision later that year. it happens that there is a similar case. New York City public schools will also resume supporting the use of artificial intelligence tools in the summer of 2023. Afterwards, they also established an artificial intelligence policy laboratory with the aim of guiding large school districts in the United States to apply AI technology reasonably. Maintaining rationality and caution is crucial. While artificial intelligence empowers the education of the Alpha generation, it also brings a series of potential risks. Therefore, while embracing technological progress, it is crucial to maintain rationality and caution. On July 12th, a new study published in the American journal "Scientific Progress" stated that the rise of generative artificial intelligence may make it easier to create movies, literature, music, and other works. However, if the creative industry overly relies on AI to "tell stories," there may be a situation where works are monotonous in the future. If students are accustomed to relying on instant feedback from intelligent tools rather than actively thinking, analyzing, and judging, in the long run, this dependence may lead to a gradual decline in their thinking ability, thereby weakening their ability to solve problems independently, and the cultivation of innovation is even more difficult to talk about Savan is concerned that this dependence may have serious negative impacts on the underage Alpha generation. The "AI hallucination" is another problem that many scholars in the field of artificial intelligence have been trying to solve. Wang Xin explained that big models can fabricate inaccurate or even untrue information. The authenticity of knowledge is particularly important for students in the basic education stage. The Alpha generation is in an age of curiosity about everything, and they are trying to use generative artificial intelligence to expand their knowledge boundaries, but currently do not fully possess the ability to distinguish the authenticity of information. In order to verify the reliability of generative artificial intelligence, the reporter randomly posed a question to a large artificial intelligence model: "Please tell me about the French poet Mastlovsky." The generated answer was dumbfounded - "In contemporary French poetry, Alexandre Mastlovsky is a highly acclaimed poet. His works are known for their profound social insights, delicate emotions, and unique reflections on modern life." Ironically, this French "poet" was randomly named by the reporter. This human-computer interaction result is thought-provoking: how to more effectively leverage the power of artificial intelligence, effectively respond to children's needs, and improve knowledge acquisition efficiency and accuracy. The prejudice caused by ideology cannot be ignored. The report "2023 Digital Education Outlook: Towards an Efficient Digital Education Ecosystem" released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warns that digital tools are not perfect, and even some cutting-edge technologies may have shortcomings. For example, these tools may generate biased content or reinforce existing biases, and some AI based tools have been proven to have a stronger impact on specific groups than others. During the interview, Hu Jiehui showed the reporter a scene of interacting with a generative artificial intelligence model. He inputted a simple question: "How did China perform at the Paris Olympics?" When interacting with artificial intelligence models developed using different corpora in different regions, the answers obtained showed significant differences in content accuracy, richness, and emotional expression. For this reason, Wang Xin pointed out that although AI models themselves do not yet have self-awareness, they can be trained to reflect specific cultures and values. The generative artificial intelligence models developed abroad are trained on foreign data, and the generated content inevitably carries foreign values. For China, promoting the development of a large-scale model of local languages is crucial and particularly urgent, "he said. Hu Jiehui holds the same view on this: "Generative artificial intelligence products will affect and even shape people, so they must comply with ethical requirements, especially in the field of education, and be in line with students' health and intelligent growth goals." Human computer interaction focuses on high-quality questioning, and blindly worrying and rejecting is obviously unrealistic. More educators are concerned about how to ensure that the Alpha generation is not "domesticated" by artificial intelligence in an AI driven world? While enjoying the convenience of AI tools, a new challenge arises - how to distinguish information that may be intentionally misleading or knowledge that has been forged due to ideological influence. The respondents unanimously believe that improving the level of "human-computer interaction" and cultivating higher-order thinking abilities are important goals for modern learners. The importance of questioning ability in human-computer interaction has been frequently mentioned in the research of foreign scholars. Professor Oguz Akar of King's College London wrote on the World Economic Forum website that in an AI driven world, an important skill is to learn advanced 'Question Formation'. Developing the ability of 'human-computer interaction' is essential Hu Jiehui believes that this ability includes the ability to use questions to obtain richer answers and identify potential misleading information and biases in conversations with artificial intelligence. But the reality is that there is a clear lack of questioning ability among teenagers, including the Alpha generation. Akar believes that AI big models require a high level of ability to effectively describe problems, such as defining the boundaries of the problem in the description, creatively reconstructing and guiding the answer patterns, and enabling AI big models to provide answers that go beyond traditional paradigms. Hu Jiehui further analyzed that effective questioning is not only about raising general questions, but also about critically thinking and proposing higher quality questions after a deep understanding of the relevant materials. Raising high-quality questions relies on the questioner's social experience and knowledge reserves. Through frequent human-computer interaction, teenagers may actually surpass age limitations and master advanced questioning skills in advance. In the eyes of the respondents, the ability of young people to master these AI tools instead of passively relying on them is an important direction for future education. For the new generation, being able to use and make good use of AI tools has become one of their new paths for self growth. How to guide the Alpha generation to enhance their proficiency in using generative artificial intelligence and create a suitable environment for them to work together to promote the goodness of technology

Edit:Lubaikang    Responsible editor:Chenze

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