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AI chatbots will teach kids to read within 18 months says Bill Gates. Soon, artificial intelligence could help teach your kids and improve their grades.
Thatβs according to billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who says AI chatbots are on track to help children learn to read and hone their writing skills in 18 months time.
βThe AIβs will get to that ability, to be as good a tutor as any human ever could,β
Gates (1) saidΒ in a keynote talk on Tuesday at theΒ ASU+GSV SummitΒ in San Diego.
AI chatbots, like OpenAIβs ChatGPT and Googleβs Bard, have developed rapidly over the past several months, and can now compete with human-level intelligence onΒ certain standardized tests. That growth has sparked both excitement over the technologyβs potential andΒ debate over the possible negative consequences.
Count Gates in the camp of people who are impressed. Todayβs chatbots have βincredible fluency at being able to read and write,β which will soon help them teach students to improve their own reading and writing in ways that technology never could before, he said.
βAt first, weβll be most stunned by how it helps with reading β being a reading research assistant β and giving you feedback on writing,β said Gates.
Historically, teaching writing skills has proven to be an incredibly difficult task for a computer, Gates noted. When teachers give feedback on essays, they look for traits like narrative structure and clarity of prose β a βhigh-cognitive exerciseβ thatβs βtoughβ for developers to replicate in code, he said.
But AI chatbotsβ ability to recognize and recreate human-like language changes that dynamic, proponents say.
Kevin Roose, a New York Times tech columnist,Β wrote last monthΒ that heβs already used programs ChatGPT to improve his writing, using the AIβs ability to quickly search through style guides online.
SomeΒ academics say theyβre impressedΒ by chatbotsβ ability to summarize and offer feedback on pieces of text, or even to write full essays themselves.
However, those same academics warn that the technology isΒ not yet fully formed, and can inadvertently introduce significant errors or misinformation. And AI technology must improve at reading and recreating human language to better motivate students before it can become a viable tutor, Gates said.
βIf you just took the next 18 months, the AIs will come in as a teacherβs aide and give feedback on writing,β said Gates. βAnd then they will amp up what weβre able to do in math.β
The idea that chatbots will excel at reading and writing before math may be somewhat surprising:Β Algebra and calculusΒ are often used to develop AI technology.
But chatbots, which are trained on large datasets, oftenΒ struggle with mathematical calculations, experts note. If a solved math equation already exists within the datasets the chatbot is trained on, it can provide you with the answer. But calculating its own solution is a different story.
Gates said he regularly asks Microsoft AI developers why chatbots canβt perform relatively simple calculations, or even multiply some numbers. The answer: AI needs improved reasoning abilities to handle the complexity of a math calculation.
It may take some time, but Gates is confident the technology will improve, likely within two years, he said. Then, it couldΒ help make private tutoring availableΒ to a wide swath of students who might otherwise be unable to afford it.
Thatβs not to say itβll be free, though. ChatGPT and Bing both have limited free versions now, but the former rolled out a $20-per-monthΒ subscription planΒ called ChatGPT Plus in February.
Still, Gates said itβll at least be more affordable and accessible than one-on-one tutoring with a human instructor.
βThis should be a leveler,β he said. βBecause having access to a tutor is too expensive for most students β especially having that tutor adapt and remember everything that youβve done and look across your entire body of work.β
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