Newsletter 41: Future Education 3.0 - I'll tell you what Open AI wants, what it really wants...

Obviously they want to "Zig-A-Zig-Ah."

And wipe away the economic system of the world by building AGI. The vibe surrounding the team at Open AI is described by Wired magazine as, "like Beatlemania," and they clearly have some high and lusty goals, not unlike Dr. Doom or Thanos. It feels inevitable they will be biten soon by a radioactive spiders, or be involved a strange space wave incident that changes their DNA and gives them strange skin complaints and stretchy arms.

Well, it's all in a day's work, right for the Open AI team? But here at Education 3.0, we are more concerned about what might happen in our classrooms before then, and for sure, these ideas will have consequences for the way we teach our children, especially if there is no economic system left when they get into the world of work and we have to barter our public speaking abilities for food.

What will shift is how we measure value, and what will turn are the ideas of scarcity and abundance. What will be abundant is cognitive labor, and this AI cognitive labor, whether it is in the form of Sam Altman's AGI end of days scenario, it will mean that the same value we currently put into the educational system, which is a high value on the retention of subject-specific knowledge, will not have the same scarcity and therefore not the same value to future workers.

The idea we need to study and go deeply into a field of research or study in academia, I presume may well still exist, and I'm sure humans will still indulge in this deep pursuit of knowledge. But what will change is that to enter the world of work, which may now be centered on the creator economy and entrepreneurial activities, the abilities to manage these types of activities may well be scarce.

Mr. Beast may well be the first YouTube Billionaire, but will he be the last? And what gives Mr. Beast his edge. I would argue creativity above all else, combined with a range of other well defined DELTAS.

If you wanted to prepare children for this potential scenario, where would you start? I suggest you would start in your curriculum by adding in new project-based learning concepts as they work on different sets of abilities and skills, and you would start to train teachers and students how to integrate AI into immersive learning environments and try and change the evaluation system in your school. Phil Redhead Kinteract

Or find out what makes children passionate about their lives and start there Colegio Ikigai

The idea that we need to go physically to a school to learn is a concept that is now fairly outdated. It is preferable to have social interactions and learn what it means to connect to a community, play a sport or instrument, go fishing, or jump in a lake. But to learn these new DELTAS, there seems to be new and important work taking place around the world, changing the very concept of a school and the workplace. John Tan & Russell John Cailey TheQube Satish Ramakrishnan

Here is a round-up of some of most interesting articles and websites, I found this week. Thanks Matthew Wemyss for this one.

Describe what you want in the 3D video game world and it will appear, as if by magic. Arthur C Clarke style.

180 Billion seems enough for my needs.

How to we get the best out of AI? There is more than one useful thing here.

Here indeed are the new Fab 4, before the radioactive accident.

AI models that can robustly reason. OMG.

Hype curves or no hype curves, there are many new and important ways we can start to prepare children and to use this technology to unlock new potential in their work and allow all children to succeed in 'school,' while school still exists. The best way is share ideas, create community, connect with all everyone in our space and share the best practcies and most interesting ideas.