Knowledge, society and artificial intelligence in the media – NIGERIAN TRIBUNE

All human actions are based on anticipated futures. We cannot know the future because it does not exist yet, but we can use our current knowledge to imagine the future and make them happen. The better we understand the present and the history that has created it, the better we can understand the possibilities of the future. To appreciate the opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) creates, we need both a good understanding of what AI is today and what the future may bring when AI is widely used in society. AI can enable new ways of learning, teaching, and education, and it may also change society in ways that pose new challenges for educational institutions. It may amplify skill differences and polarise jobs, or it may equalise opportunities for learning.

The use of AI in education may generate insights into how learning happens, and it can change the way learning is assessed. It may re-organise classrooms or make them obsolete, it can increase the efficiency of teaching, or it may force students to adapt to the requirements of technology, depriving humans of the powers of agency and possibilities for responsible action. All this is possible. Now is a good time to start thinking about what AI could mean for learning, teaching, and education. There is a lot of hype, and the topic is not an easy one. It is, however, both important, interesting, and worth the effort.

Progressively, AI has played and continues to play a huge role in the transformation of society. It has been applied to various sectors and fields such as finance, public security, health, computational creativity, information processing, urban transportation, industrial manufacturing, mobile phone and internet entertainment, and retail. Moreover, AI is changing shopping, advertising, entertainment, education and healthcare, longevity, food and business insurance, and finance. Thus, AI has significant advances for all spheres of human endeavor. Society simply needs to keep abreast of the advances and evolve processes for maximising benefits or minimising weaknesses.

In sum, AI is recognised as a novel and dynamic approach that paves the way for enhanced and sophisticated knowledge discovery, learning, problem-solving, and efficiencies in decision-making in the world today.

Asiya Kassim Bataiya,

Skyline University Nigeria

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Knowledge, society and artificial intelligence in the media - NIGERIAN TRIBUNE