Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press)

Joseph E. Aoun

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2017-08-25
  • 售價: $873
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$856
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 216
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262037289
  • ISBN-13: 9780262037280
  • 相關分類: 人工智慧機器人製作 Robots
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商品描述

Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a threat to low-skilled labor. Now, many high-skilled functions, including interpreting medical images, doing legal research, and analyzing data, are within the skill sets of machines. How can higher education prepare students for their professional lives when professions themselves are disappearing? In Robot-Proof, Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun proposes a way to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover -- to fill needs in society that even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot.

A "robot-proof" education, Aoun argues, is not concerned solely with topping up students' minds with high-octane facts. Rather, it calibrates them with a creative mindset and the mental elasticity to invent, discover, or create something valuable to society -- a scientific proof, a hip-hop recording, a web comic, a cure for cancer. Aoun lays out the framework for a new discipline, humanics, which builds on our innate strengths and prepares students to compete in a labor market in which smart machines work alongside human professionals. The new literacies of Aoun's humanics are data literacy, technological literacy, and human literacy. Students will need data literacy to manage the flow of big data, and technological literacy to know how their machines work, but human literacy -- the humanities, communication, and design -- to function as a human being. Life-long learning opportunities will support their ability to adapt to change.

The only certainty about the future is change. Higher education based on the new literacies of humanics can equip students for living and working through change.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

無人駕駛汽車正逐漸上路,由人工智慧驅動。機器人可以爬樓梯、開門、贏得「危險邊緣」遊戲節目、分析股票、在工廠工作、找到停車位、為腫瘤科醫生提供建議。過去,自動化被認為對低技能勞工構成威脅。現在,許多高技能的工作,包括解讀醫學影像、進行法律研究和分析數據,都已經成為機器的技能範疇。當職業本身正在消失時,高等教育如何為學生的職業生涯做好準備呢?在《機器人無法取代的教育》一書中,東北大學校長約瑟夫·奧恩提出了一種教育下一代大學生的方法,讓他們能夠創造、發明和發現,填補社會上即使是最先進的人工智能也無法滿足的需求。

奧恩主張,一種「機器人無法取代的」教育不僅僅關注於向學生灌輸高強度的知識。相反,它通過培養創造性思維和心智彈性,使他們能夠發明、發現或創造對社會有價值的事物,例如科學證明、嘻哈音樂錄製、網絡漫畫、癌症治療方法等。奧恩提出了一個新的學科框架,稱為「人文學」,它建立在我們天生的優勢基礎上,為學生在智能機器與人類專業人士共同工作的勞動市場中競爭做好準備。奧恩的人文學新素養包括「數據素養」、「技術素養」和「人文素養」。學生需要數據素養來管理大數據的流動,技術素養來了解他們的機器如何運作,但人文素養(人文學科、溝通和設計)則是作為一個人的基本能力。終身學習的機會將支持他們適應變化的能力。

未來唯一確定的就是變化。基於人文學的新素養的高等教育可以使學生能夠在變化中生活和工作。