Transmission vs. Truth -- An interesting article
Here is a link to an article referenced in an earlier post. This article explores large-language models capacities related to children. As the authors write in the abstract:
“Critically, our findings suggest that machines may need more than large-scale language and image data to allow the kinds of innovation that a small child can produce.”
Why do we care about this at Volo? Well, one reason we are interested in human strengths compared to technological capabilities is that human strengths need to be the focus of modern education. We need to help people learn to be human and develop human strengths. It will not work anymore to try to teach people to think like and act like machines. Volo is consciously designed to foster and nurture humanity. While the Volo learning community has various perspectives and may not agree with all of this article, we are interested in the ideas of current educational research.
