- Amazing use of machine learning: “PHerc. 1667 began as a blackened, rolled mass of carbonized papyrus. To read it, we never unrolled it physically. Instead, we scanned it with high-resolution X-rays, reconstructed the wound sheet inside the volume, flattened it into a readable surface, and used machine learning to bring out the faint traces of ancient ink.”
- Steven Pinker: “If critical thinking skills are so fragile that they can erode when people use AI, those skills could not have been robustly taught in the first place.”
- Yes and based on OECD data reported by the Economist: “The best are cleverer than ever, but a growing number have basic skills that would embarrass a child half their age. About one in seven students at American colleges and universities scores no better in literacy tests than a typical ten-year-old. For numeracy, it is nearly one in five.”
- The Socratic method improves AI?