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View all search resultsDon’t rush to bring AI into classrooms: Deputy technology minister
Deputy Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Stella Christie said that early education could benefit from the fact that the human brain, even at the early stage of human growth, has a superior capability than even the most advanced form of artificial intelligence.
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(From left to right): Executive director of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Jose Rizal Damuri, chair of CSIS board of directors Djisman Simandjuntak, economist Gabriela Ramos and Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Stella Christie listen on Wednesday as a moderator opens the Digital Lecture Series. (The Jakarta Post/CSIS)
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senior government official on Wednesday cautioned against the introducing artificial intelligence in elementary school education, saying that such a policy, if implemented, could stunt student’s intellectual agility and harm their critical thinking skills.
Deputy Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Stella Christie said that early education could benefit from the fact that the human brain, even at the early stage of human growth, have more superior capability than even the most advanced form of AI.
Stella, who is also a cognitive psychology professor at the Beijing-based Tsinghua University, said that while large language models (LLMs) take massive amounts of data and energy to train, the brain of a toddler could learn even the most difficult language, once she was immersed in her native environment.
“The rule of the game for AI is the bigger the data, the better the outcome, that’s not how our brain works. A three-year-old who grow up in any country can speak the local language, whatever the language is. Chinese or Arabic may be the most difficult languages but from the brain perspective nothing is more difficult than the other,” Stella said in the Digital Tech Lecture Series organized by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The deputy minister said that Indonesia’s education system should train students to make the best use of their critical thinking instead of relying on AI to solve classroom problems.
“Humanity is a function of being able to make an abstraction, to understand concepts from very small amount of data, and this is something that we should not lose in our education and something that we should guard because this is our advantage,” Stella said.
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