Every week I get dozens of emails about ChatGPT and student education. As a professor of law focused on technology and a mom of three kids I am fielding messages from my kids' schools, from my workplace, and from colleagues near and far. They share a sense of panic about the AI chatbot that is able to almost magically--and instantly--generate schoolwork that students for centuries produced through laborious research and writing. How will students learn to research and write? How will we assess them?

As per the Data Science Skills Study 2020, more than 10% of the machine learning and data science practitioners learn from various online sources, such as massive online open courses or MOOCs, online certifications and courses, online videos hosted on such platforms as well as LinkedIn and YouTube, among others. On the other hand, traditional formats like university certifications and courses are at the lower end of the spectrum of preference, which is 5.7%. The one main reason behind this is the dearth of AI teachers among institutions and academia. To get an industry perspective on this, Analytics India Magazine caught up with a few experts in this field who explained the reasons behind the void and helped in understanding how these issues can be addressed. The use of artificial intelligence-based solutions has been proliferating in everyday life, starting from the shopping experience to financial transactions.

One major influence on my view of AI, was spending 2 years in a synthetic biology lab. I came to appreciate how much intelligence is contained in living systems (even as simple as a cell). And attending Michael Levin's NeurIPS 2018 keynote underscored that the key to intelligence is not just in the brain -- that it is everywhere in the body, with even a single cell being autonomous and competent. This motivated my desire to leverage open-ended, biological intelligence in AI -- shifting my view away from just "intelligence", and more towards "artificial life". When I was a child, I played with a brand of educational toys called Discovery Toys.

One of the main reasons to integrate AI in the current school curriculum is to make the upcoming generation familiar with technology. The Government of India and the educational board have been pushing for more artificial intelligence to be integrated into the education system, not from the perspective of enhancing it, but also with the intention of making young minds more aware and skilled when it comes to artificial intelligence. Today, children are curious about the smart conversational devices and AI used in applications like Siri and Alexa; some of them even wonder how Netflix gives them precise recommendations. Gradually, they will grow curious and try to learn what algorithms are, what a neural network is, and how they work. The Government of India and the educational board have been taking measures to make the existing school curriculum more AI-centric with a firm belief that the students will learn about AI, have fun and also take India forward.

BLISS Team Educational Services, Bred Hub, has called on the Federal Government to introduce Artificial Intelligence in school curriculum as part of measures to prepare this generation for the future. Speaking ahead of train-the-trainer programme in Lagos, the General Manager, Bliss Team Educational Services, Christian Chime, said that government must champion the initiative that would introduce children and youths to the world of innovation through the teaching of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Coding and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Chime noted that in the nearest future, the world would expect AI/Robotics to be a way of life and would play great roles in human existence on earth; adding: "Whoever leads in Artificial intelligence in 2030 will rule the world until 2100. We want this skill to be part of school curriculum, we want every student to be able to build and programme robotics. Irrespective of what a child wants to become, he or she needs to understand how to use technology because it is taking over every industry it makes process faster in whatever industry they are going to find themselves. "Bred Hub in partnership with UBTECH is organizing an interactive Artificial Intelligence and Robotics training for teachers and educators so that they can educate their students.

Norwegian Minister of Digitisation Nikolai Astrup has presented a new strategy concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI). The aim is to give digital skills more prominence at school and also to encourage adults to keep training throughout their lives. A Norwegian version of the popular Finnish course'Elements of AI' will appear in 2020, it added. The government wants digital skills and technology literacy to be given more prominence at primary and lower secondary school level. Under a curriculum renewal, natural science will be made a more exploratory and practical subject at primary school, with a distinct technology element that includes programming.

Technology experts have stressed the need for schools to prepare students for tomorrow's jobs by increasingly teaching them artificial intelligence (AI) skills to an adequate level. Necip Ozyucel, Cloud and Enterprise Business Group Lead, Microsoft Gulf, said the latest World Economic Forum's'Future of Jobs' report, released in January this year showed that two in three children starting school this year are destined for professional roles yet to be created. "There is an urgent need to recognise that many of the jobs referred to by the World Economic Forum, are supported by artificial intelligence," Ozyucel told Khaleej Times in an exclusive interview. A recent survey by McKinsey & Company on specialist education practice - where 2,000 students, 2,000 teachers and 70 thought leaders across the Americas, Europe and Asia including the Gulf region were interviewed - found that students would be better prepared for'future jobs' if they shored up their soft skills, particularly the social and emotional. And only 42 per cent of employers consider today's graduates as having developed those attributes to an adequate level, according to Ozyucel, "When trying to determine the best approaches to bridge these soft-skills gaps, there is evidence in both studies that students and teachers alike favour collaborative learning scenarios. Mentor-led class discussions or group-learning scored consistently high as the most effective methods of learning," said Ozyucel.

Schools are not preparing children to succeed in a world where intelligent robots have transformed the workforce, MPs have warned. A report by the cross-party Science and Technology Committee suggests that the education system should be adapted to "focus on things that machines will be less good at for longer," rather than skills that are rapidly becoming obsolete. The committee also warned that while "robots as portrayed in films like Star Wars" remain some way off, the government's role in preparing for major social change is lacking. Dr Tania Mathias, acting chairwoman of the committee and Conservative MP for Twickenham, said: "Science fiction is slowly becoming science fact, and robotics and AI look destined to play an increasing role in our lives over the coming decades." Mathias told ttold the Guardian that the school curriculum, particularly in secondary schools, did not reflect the "fourth industrial revolution" in robotics and AI that is underway.