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Indian culture is the birthplace of the Guru-Shishya tradition. The concept of education is that of learning through a Guru. The Vedas were passed down orally from one generation to another. In any era and in any country, education has developed through Guru-Shishya relationships and conversations. The Greek philosophy that we speak of so much was established through Guru-Shishya conversations. Even Plato, the predecessor, taught this, making it clear that there is no need to accept anything as a standard, but that truth should be discovered through discussion. Therefore, it would be foolish to try to replace the role of the Guru with a machine.

 

Changes in teaching

 

There have been many changes in today's educational methods. The system of identifying individual students has changed to group systems. The teacher-student ratio has increased. It is becoming a challenge to identify students in the classroom. The plight of not knowing what the teacher is saying and what the students are listening to. To overcome this problem, the method of teaching lessons with the help of machines has started. This has become more entrenched with the Corona pandemic. Teachers are relying more on power points, audios, and videos. Online teaching has become commonplace. In such situations, there is no possibility of strengthening the teacher-student relationship. Teachers are teaching based on internet information. The youth have also become addicted to this. Both teachers and students are not in a position to notice the loss that is happening. As a continuation of this, artificial intelligence has come to the fore. Machine learning, cognitive computing, etc., which are part of this, are radically changing teaching methods. Till now, collecting material was a big challenge for the teacher. Now, due to the internet, it has become easier. The teacher and the students have to decide what information is reliable.

 

There is no doubt that the internet is making students and teachers lazy. An artificial intelligence-based technology called 'ChatGPT', developed by a company called Open Artificial Intelligence, answers many questions. Students are using it extensively to prepare assignments, write essays, and compile reports. Teachers are also competing in this regard. In competition with this, Google has released a product called 'Gemini'.. Now all these have become an integral part of teaching. 'Generative AI' has come to the fore as a further development of artificial intelligence. It perceives, encodes, and processes information like a human. It provides information in a requested manner in various media such as text, audio, visual, and music.

 

The key question is how much machines are needed in the education system and teaching process. Whether they will improve the education system or degrade it is something to consider. Teaching and student-teacher relationships are like pillars of the education system. Thinking and practice are important in the teaching process. If the subject of thought is transferred from a human to a machine, the very existence of a teacher becomes questionable. Transferring the thought process that is unique to humans to a machine will only lead to bad consequences. It will harm the future generation. It is not desirable for a person to use artificial intelligence as a tool, but to consider it as everything and not to practice his divine virtue. Over time, the risk of becoming a slave to a machine increases. It is not possible to achieve key goals related to education such as good behavior, discipline, respect for elders, and patriotism through machines.

 

There must be wisdom!

 

The characteristics of education are to foster creativity in students and to make them disciples who surpass the teacher. In any culture, the teacher is the next in rank after the mother and father. It is the teacher who lays the foundation for personality development from childhood. Every student grows up following the teacher from the school level. All this is possible only for a person with emotions. A machine is like a parrot that can learn words at any time. It speaks what a person teaches it. A machine works based on the 'logic' provided by a person. If logic is ignored, bad consequences can occur. Therefore, it depends on the wisdom of a person to act wisely and decide to what extent to use these.

 

Human life is full of emotions. Emotions are expressed depending on the context. How does a machine understand the natural characteristics of a human being, such as anger, frustration, happiness, sadness, and fear? Efforts and research are being done to teach machines these things as well. But, even artificially reproduced animals and plants cannot stand still. All these things must be taken into account in the case of artificial use. Only then will the human race overcome obstacles and progress.

 

By

Dr. Ramanaiah

School of Management