Educating Machines:A New Paradigm for Human Education
As the new generation of artificial intelligence has the conditions to receive education because of the emergence of intelligence,intelligent machines become new objects of education,and the relationship between humans and machines changes into an educational relationship.Educating a machine as if educating a human is not equal to educating a human as if educating a machine.There are fundamental differences between"machine teachers"and"human teachers."Machines cannot be designed to teach humans in the way humans teach themselves.With the rise of intelligent machines,education faces a shift from the"human-to-human"paradigm to the"human-to-machine"paradigm.To construct a new educational paradigm to educate machines,we need to redefine learning,education and teachers,update educational concepts,prepare educational theories,and provide a feasible mode of practice for the new paradigm.Compared with the learning-and teaching-centered educational paradigms,the new educational paradigm to educate machines"integrates teaching and learning."The key to shifting educational paradigms is to educate machines so as to develop a structure integrating"teaching"and"learning"and its learning mechanism.