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nov
24
2015

Future learning

Posted 7 år 72 dage siden ago by Nordisk Netværk Voksnes Læring

Ville Venäläinen Introduced us to future studies and questions conserning the meaning of the rapid inevitable changes in technlogy where machines learn, augment and even enhance our possibilities.
Ville was the presenter during DISTANS' webinar on November 25th 2015

Watch a recording of the webinar here

What does that mean for us who work as adult educators?

Ville works as a development manager at Otava High School and is currently working on his dissertation on the future of generic machine intelligence.

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Ville showed us cases where it has become easier to let computers learn themselves thtn for us to learn and then teach the computer or computer assisted tools - such as helecopters learning to fly by themselves, instead of humans teaching them to fly.

He mentioned the concept of singularity (introduced by Ray Kurzweil) which shows that human's adaptation of technology has been rising at an exponential rate, and that soon we will hardly notice new technological changes, so commonplace they will become...

Does this frighten us???

NO, it should not! ==> The future is (partly) created by our choices and actions and we should thus take on the our ethical responsibilities and try to create the future we want!