Robot Teachers

[Illuminattile]

The Korea Advanced Intelligent Robot Association, an organization developing artificial intelligence technology under the Ministry of Information and Communication, announced yesterday it has begun operating, on a test basis, robots that can help young students pronounce English words.
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According to an official with the ministry, the current robot model can perform basic tasks such as reading stories to children and teaching them how to pronounce certain words in English.

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I'm sure some people will get paranoid over this, but I think it's a useful piece of technology and, more importantly, very cool.

 

[PuffnScruff]

it could be useful and it is a cool piece of technology, but i dont like the idea of robots doing jobs that humans could do.

 

[Illuminattile]

it could be useful and it is a cool piece of technology, but i dont like the idea of robots doing jobs that humans could do.

That's a good point, but if there's a lack of teachers in Japan as there is over here I can see why they're doing it.

Besides, it's not like they're going to actually replace teachers, there's no way a robot can do the job of a teacher. Not a good teacher, anyway.

 

[PuffnScruff]

the problem i see is there are very few good teachers these days. only a few stick out in my mind from my days in school that actually struck me as being a good teacher. so when people start to wake up and understand how many bad teachers there really are attempting to educated their children, they might actually think replacing them with robots is a good idea.

i wouldnt see this happening any time soon. years down the road, sometime when i'm in a nursing home maybe.

 

[Glockmatic]

awesome, now you won't need to bribe the teacher for marks you can just hack into the system HARDCORE

 

[Amara]

I think its a good idea and I dont care if teachers get replaced by robots, lol, even though the technology is so obviously far off that being a possibility.

I think teaching should embrace and take advantage of the internet as a basis for both standardising and making access to information available more readily, especially because teaching has a propensity to be subjective and contingent upon trivial factors. The costs of setting up a system and giving the sectors of education access wouldnt be easy, yet ultimately I think any costs would be outweighed by the advantages. Universities seem to acknowledge this and are heading in this direction, schools seem to be far behind though... no surprising though, they only maintain the status quo, rarely is there any positive advancement in primary and secondary ranks imo.

 

[Illuminattile]

the problem i see is there are very few good teachers these days. only a few stick out in my mind from my days in school that actually struck me as being a good teacher. so when people start to wake up and understand how many bad teachers there really are attempting to educated their children, they might actually think replacing them with robots is a good idea.

i wouldnt see this happening any time soon. years down the road, sometime when i'm in a nursing home maybe.

If they can design robots advanced enough to actually perform the job of a teacher, then maybe they should replace humans. If a robot can do the job of a human better, quicker, more accurately etc. then it's beneficial for the employer and for the consumer to go with the better option.

Of course, it won't happen. Teaching is a lot more than just knowing, and relaying to someone else, the periodic table or the battle of Hastings. Teaching involves man management, motivation, crowd control...things a robot can't achieve.

awesome, now you won't need to bribe the teacher for marks you can just hack into the system HARDCORE

Maybe, but imagine the punishments it could hand out.