Can AI be a partner for high school students?

nhigh_info ＼“Distribution Starts! Special lecture byTakahiro Yasuno “Can AI be a Partner for High School Students?” Discussion on the use of AI in Mr. Anno’s Manifesto!N High SchoolS High School https://www.youtube.com/live/OoM2JGCqGNM

takahiroanno The day before yesterday, I was talking with high school students at an N High School live-streaming event, and I realized that N High School is a community that is pretty much at the forefront of [digital There aren’t many communities in the world with 30,000 people who are so digitally literate that they are able to use Slack. I think the trial and error of the N-High School Student Council will be worthwhile.

To summarize the main content of this special lecture:.

AI developer and entrepreneur Takahiro Yasuno presents a case study on the use of AI in the Tokyo gubernatorial election:.

• AI Town Meeting: How AI Answers Questions 24 Hours a Day
• Broad Listening: Analyzing and Visualizing Citizens’ Opinions with AI
• Policy Improvement with Open Source: Accepting Policy Proposals Using GitHub

Discussing the relationship between AI and high school students:.

• Possibility of viewing AI as a tool, partner, or higher being
  • Positioning of AI:
    • Tools: AI as a tool to streamline tasks
    • Partner: AI as an equal and cooperative entity
    • Higher-level entity: a “god-like” AI with capabilities that surpass humans.
  • Yasuno stated that AI is likely to be viewed as a partner.
• Potential use of AI in learning support, tutoring, mentoring, etc.
  • AI use in learning support:
    • Individual tutors available to answer questions 24 hours a day
      • Related: AI Tutor.
    • Providing an individualized curriculum tailored to the learner’s characteristics and progress
    • Support for maintaining learning motivation and goal setting

Challenges and prospects for AI applications in government and education:.

• Issues such as personal information management and business efficiency
  • Challenges of using AI in government and education:
    • Appropriate management and protection of personal information
    • Improved output accuracy in Japanese
    • Identifying areas where human judgment is needed
  • Yasuno noted that it is important to properly divide the roles of AI and humans and utilize them in a complementary manner.
• Expectations for closing the learning gap and personalized learning experiences
  • Expectations for closing the learning gap:
    • Education tailored to individual learning styles and [cognitive characteristics
    • Provide learning opportunities that transcend time and location constraints
    • Support for learners who have had difficulty adapting to the traditional education system

Considerations on how to deal with AI and how to become a human resource that will not be replaced by AI:.

• Importance of gaining experience through personal contact
  • Importance of self-experience:
    • To actually use AI services and understand their characteristics and limitations
    • Develop the ability to make your own decisions without being misled by advertisements and promotions.
  • Yasuno recommends trying out new AI services for yourself as they emerge.
• Importance of unique human abilities (e.g., problem finding, decision making, communication)
  • The importance of unique human capacities:
    • Problem finding: Ability to recognize what the problem is before giving the task to the AI
    • Decision-making: Ability to make appropriate decisions from multiple alternatives
    • Communication: the ability to focus on human interaction and emotional connection
  • These capabilities are unlikely to be replaced by AI in the foreseeable future.

Discussion on the arrival of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and its impact on society

• The arrival and impact of AGI:
  • Experts are divided on the timing of the arrival (predictions range from 1 year to 50 years)
  • In the short term, AI may emerge that can perform tasks autonomously within software
  • It has been suggested that in the long term, it may exceed human capabilities
• Yasuno emphasizes the importance of preparing for that scenario, taking into account the possibility of AGI’s arrival.

Introduction of AI and VR applications at N High School and S High School

Throughout the lecture, multifaceted discussions were held on the relationship between AI and humans and the future possibilities that AI will bring.

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