Geoff Johnson: Artificial intelligence can never replace classroom teachers

My earliest recollection about the crossroads between artificial intelligence and classroom education was my Grade 12 math teacher, who, good man that he was, did not seem to understand calculus any better than we, his non-math-oriented students, did. Despite this, "Father Bert," as we called him, always managed to engage the interest of a classroom full of rugby-playing surfers. Computers that duplicated some aspects of human intelligence? Neither he nor we knew about the fact that calculus would play such an important role in the development of what came to be called artificial intelligence and the kind of small laptop computer on which this article is being written. Artificial intelligence is the apparent simulation by machines of human intelligence processes.