As artificial intelligence systems play a bigger role in everyday life, they're changing the world of education, too. Here are four ways I believe these kinds of systems can be used to help students learn. Teachers are taught to identify the learning goals of all students in a class and adapt instruction for the specific needs of individual students. An AI system can observe how a student proceeds through an assigned task, how much time they take and whether they are successful. If the student is struggling, the system can offer help; if the student is succeeding, the system can present more difficult tasks to keep the activity challenging.

Artificial intelligence happens to be a popular theme of science fiction movies highlighting its benefits and dangers, including the possibility of machines taking over the world and the human race. The 2014-film'Ex Machina' is also about a programmer becoming the human component in a test to determine the capabilities and consciousness of Ava--a robot. The movie ends with Ava walking away, leaving her creator dead and the programmer trapped in the facility. AI Ex Machina was fiction. However, the emergence and subsequent popularity of AI chatbot ChatGPT has shown that the day is not far when thousands of jobs related to research, coding, writing, human resources, etc, may become redundant.

The claim by Google engineer that LaMDA, a language model created by Google artificial intelligence (AI), had become sentient and begun reasoning …