1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,760 What do you think? Do you think AI could replace 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,200 me? Hello and welcome back to the 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:18,320 Easy English Podcast where we explore real world topics in 4 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:23,040 slow and clear English. And I'm going to help you stay 5 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:27,760 informed in English with things happening around the world. 6 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,760 I'm Oliver. And today we are talking about 7 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:37,040 an interesting topic because it's directly related to what I 8 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:41,880 am doing right now. And in a way that is education. 9 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,040 And this will affect you whether you're a student or a teacher. 10 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:54,360 We're asking the big question, could artificial intelligence AI 11 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,080 ever replace human teachers with AI? 12 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:04,560 Chat bots, online courses, apps and all of this technology 13 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:10,200 changing so quickly? How will it affect the jobs of 14 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:16,080 teachers and also how you study? I'm sure you have already 15 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:21,120 noticed a difference in the study materials and ways of 16 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:26,440 study available to you, but how might this change in the future 17 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:31,360 and how might it affect the education industry? 18 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:39,280 So as always, we are going to look at 5 new pieces of key 19 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,480 vocabulary. Some of them are obvious, you 20 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:48,080 probably know already, but we will learn many more words 21 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:52,160 throughout the episode. I always like to focus on five 22 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,240 at the start. So let's read our five 23 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:01,760 vocabulary list before we begin and listen for these phrases and 24 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,520 words. The first one I've already said 25 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,960 many times, but I have to explain it just in case someone 26 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,280 doesn't know it because I will say it so many times. 27 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,120 And that is artificial intelligence, AI, and that is 28 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,520 technology that can think or act like a human. 29 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:29,040 It can learn and develop. So many schools now use AI to 30 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,480 help students with maths and writing, for example. 31 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,600 The next point is personalized learning, and this is a phrase 32 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:43,360 personalized learning. What personalized means is it 33 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:49,280 means it is designed to meet an individual, an individual's 34 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,040 needs. So you can have a personalized 35 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:58,400 diet, a personalized workout plan or personalized learning. 36 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:04,120 So it's a way of teaching that is designed to meet a student's 37 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:09,600 individual needs. For example, AI programs can 38 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:15,520 offer personalized learning based on your strengths and 39 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,480 weaknesses. The third phrase that I want you 40 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,720 to learn today, so we have mainly phrases today, is 41 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:27,200 critical thinking, critical thinking. 42 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:33,680 And this is the ability to think clearly and evaluate 43 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,280 information. For example, a good teacher 44 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:44,560 helps students to build strong critical thinking skills. 45 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,920 Our 4th phrase today is a very important one. 46 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:54,560 It's a phrase that I have used in many episodes before and that 47 00:03:54,560 --> 00:04:00,840 is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence and that 48 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:05,120 is understanding your own and others emotions. 49 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,920 This you might remember this from the leadership episode at 50 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:14,600 the beginning of the week. And our final phrase is digital 51 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,079 divide. Digital divide, This is the gap 52 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:24,360 between people who have access to technology and those who 53 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,960 don't. For example, the digital divide 54 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:35,320 can make online learning harder for students in poorer areas, so 55 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:40,520 they have less access to the Internet, to technology than 56 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:46,440 those in more rich or wealthy areas, which causes a digital 57 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,960 divide. OK, lots of phrases there. 58 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:53,560 Don't worry if you know them all. 59 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,000 There are many other phrases and words that I will use in this 60 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,600 episode that will hopefully be new for you too. 61 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:06,360 So we're going to get started into the main episode. 62 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:11,800 Try to look out for those words, but very quickly first, I want 63 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,400 to remind you that there is a Patreon link in the description 64 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,280 below. So if you would like to support 65 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:23,440 this podcast, this podcast is free, absolutely, and it will 66 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,800 always be free. But if you would like to support 67 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:32,520 the podcast for AD free episodes and bonus content with more 68 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:38,360 advanced episodes, faster speech, and additional content 69 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,040 and series, you can check it out in the description below. 70 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,640 And for a small fee every month, you get to support and keep this 71 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:51,200 project going as well as getting more learning content. 72 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,920 OK, so let's get started. And the first thing we're going 73 00:05:55,920 --> 00:06:00,960 to look at is what is already happening in this education 74 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:05,440 space. So for many years, I guess AI 75 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:10,720 has been developing and it isn't really science fiction anymore. 76 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:16,680 It's not imaginary, it's something real and it's already 77 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,640 in many classrooms and many learning plans or methods. 78 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:27,600 There's so many apps already out there that do utilize AII guess 79 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,480 for a long time people have been using many language learning 80 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:35,560 apps like Duolingo. I think there's like, I don't 81 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,640 want to advertise anything here because I'm not sponsored by any 82 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,880 apps, but you know, and use them as well. 83 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:48,240 There's many, many applications out there and some of them do 84 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,520 utilize AI already to help learners learn at their own 85 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:59,240 pace, help them self study. And some schools already are 86 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:05,360 even using AI artificial intelligence to grade essays, to 87 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:12,760 mark essays, to assess them or even to suggest lessons based on 88 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,520 test results. For example, a student that 89 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:22,000 struggles with mathematics might receive extra exercises 90 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,920 automatically. This is called adaptive 91 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,800 learning. So adaptive learning is when the 92 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:35,480 learning is personalized. It adapts to the individual, to 93 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:40,200 the person. It's great for revision and also 94 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,520 support. But even though these tools are 95 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:49,360 very useful, this is my opinion. They don't mean that the teacher 96 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:54,760 will disappear. In fact, many AI tools today are 97 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,720 designed to help teachers. They're to help the people who 98 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:03,560 are delivering the education rather than to replace them. 99 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:10,320 But I guess there's a reason why I'm making this podcast episode 100 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,440 today. This topic and it's because I 101 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:18,800 have noticed a trend in my own space, and that is of course 102 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,520 podcasts and English language content. 103 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,960 There are so many English podcasts that I've noticed now 104 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:32,360 that have started in the last two years, which are entirely AI 105 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,480 generated. So what do I mean by that? 106 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:41,640 They not only have AI scripts, but they're also AI voiced. 107 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:47,840 So it is not even a real native English speaker speaking in 108 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,320 these podcasts. They are computer generated 109 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:57,240 voices, a high voices that speak the entire podcast, sometimes 110 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,360 with multiple guests, multiple people. 111 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,840 And some of these podcasts are massive. 112 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:09,560 They have hundreds of thousands of subscribers on YouTube, and 113 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,760 from reading the comments, people think they are real 114 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,760 people. They believe that these people 115 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,280 are real and that they're having conversations. 116 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:26,920 And perhaps because it's quite hard now to detect, especially 117 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:33,240 if you're not a native speaker, it's hard to detect AI with 118 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,600 foreign languages if you're not so familiar with the language 119 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,240 yourself. So why do I think this is a 120 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,800 problem? I think it's a problem because 121 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,960 at the moment, AI is definitely not perfect. 122 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:52,040 Native speakers, of course, are not perfect either. 123 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,960 Like myself, I have lots of pauses. 124 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,960 Sometimes I can mispronounce a word. 125 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,480 Maybe I use incorrect grammar from time to time. 126 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:06,320 But regardless of the mistakes that I may make as a native 127 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,920 speaker who's a human, it is natural. 128 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,480 They are natural mistakes and it's a natural way of speaking. 129 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:20,600 So for you, learning, I hope it is a natural way of learning and 130 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,720 you're going to pick up normal habits and normal way of speech. 131 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:29,240 But learning from a robot is unnatural. 132 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,240 And when I listen to these podcasts and these episodes, to 133 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,640 me it sounds very unnatural. And I'm quite concerned that 134 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:44,040 people are modeling and learning their speaking off of these AI 135 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,720 models because it is not natural speech. 136 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:52,000 Even the text is unnatural. It's quite formal, quite strange 137 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,120 as well. So that's where this topic idea 138 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,160 came from. But there are some things, and 139 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:02,840 I've made some notes here that I think AI does well in education 140 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,600 and with language learning as well. 141 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:08,920 But there are many things that I don't think that it does well. 142 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:14,240 The first is it's very fast. So of course it can produce lots 143 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:19,280 of content for learners and it can provide assistance, I guess 144 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,800 very, very quickly and often much faster than a real person 145 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:30,440 or a real teacher like myself. It can also give instant 146 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:35,480 feedback, so it can immediately mark your answers, give you an 147 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,840 answer back, and answer any questions you have. 148 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,120 And finally, of course, it doesn't get tired. 149 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:46,680 It doesn't have a schedule. It isn't limited by the number 150 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:50,760 of hours in the day in the same way that a teacher or a human 151 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,240 is. It can do so much more in such a 152 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,440 short time. It's available when you need it 153 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:02,040 pretty much always, but there are a few things that it really 154 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,360 struggles with. And the first I would say is 155 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,600 that it doesn't have real human emotions and it lacks that 156 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:13,680 empathy where as a teacher, and even take myself for example, I 157 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:19,160 have studied other languages and I understand the struggles and 158 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,600 the difficulties with learning another language. 159 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:28,360 So I can teach you in a way that I understand how you struggle. 160 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,040 I understand what you find difficult and some of those 161 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:38,080 challenges with learning English, an AI, artificial 162 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:43,360 intelligence, really, it copies these emotions at the moment and 163 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,200 it's not very genuine. It's very hard for it to show 164 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,840 emotional intelligence with others. 165 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,840 Perhaps this will change in the future, but for now, I really 166 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:59,400 don't see that changing within education especially. 167 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,840 And it also does not really understand both cultural or 168 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:07,160 emotional context as well. So with that emotional 169 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,280 intelligence, it's very hard for it to understand from the 170 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:16,520 context that you're speaking. And as well, it is very hard for 171 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:21,240 AI to to motivate and build relationships in the same way 172 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,880 that a human can. And I believe that relationships 173 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,360 are very important with education, with language 174 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,200 learning, even with this podcast. 175 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:36,080 And although I do not personally know you, I like to think that 176 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:41,040 as we have these episodes and as I talk to you, you get to know 177 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:46,360 me a little bit more as well. My opinions, my views, what I 178 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,440 talk about. And over time, this can really 179 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:53,240 help you with your learning. You're developing a kind of 180 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,400 student teacher relationship with me. 181 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:01,000 Even through these podcasts, you're getting used to my voice, 182 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:05,960 my way of speaking, and this all helps. 183 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,320 It really helps. Even though it's a podcast, 184 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,840 there's still a real human element there. 185 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:18,760 So I think these are some of the real drawbacks over using AI and 186 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,880 artificial intelligence for English education. 187 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,520 But many learners of course, need so much more than just 188 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:32,560 information that AI can kind of provide more than just the 189 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,520 structure and and feedback. They also need the 190 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,360 encouragement, the fun, and that human element and social 191 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:44,480 learning around it too. So in my opinion, I don't think 192 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:51,440 that any use of AI tools is going to get rid of teachers in 193 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,320 the long term. I think that a lot of AI 194 00:14:54,320 --> 00:15:00,840 projects and softwares, they will be really useful for 195 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:05,280 learning, but I think the human element will always stay there. 196 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:11,280 I'm curious what you think. So if we look into the future 197 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,120 and how AI is going to change, most of what I've talked about 198 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,680 today is the current state of things so far. 199 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:23,920 So how advanced AI is at the moment, the types of tools that 200 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:28,080 we have at the moment, But in the future, AI will of course 201 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,600 continue to get more and more advanced. 202 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,960 And this is where it gets a little bit more unclear from my 203 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,840 side. I'm not too sure how this will 204 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,520 continue to affect things in the future. 205 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,520 It might. AI could in theory become even 206 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,400 more natural. It could develop emotional 207 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,280 intelligence, or at least it can pretend to have emotional 208 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,120 intelligence to a level that is very, very good. 209 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,120 And it can of course create even more complex lessons and 210 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:05,240 personalized learning for students, perhaps more than a 211 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,840 teacher. But even if this happens, there 212 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:14,400 might still be some problems. And those problems are the exact 213 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,160 same what I've said. So that kind of relationship 214 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,240 element, the human element, particularly with face to face 215 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:26,520 learning as well and even access to technology. 216 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,520 So if we look at that vocabulary we mentioned before with the 217 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:34,400 digital divide, there are going to be certain areas, certain 218 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,520 people that are not going to have access to this new 219 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:43,440 futuristic high tech technology as much as others. 220 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:48,800 Perhaps with the development of AIA, lot of these systems will 221 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:53,920 will charge money and become quite expensive because we 222 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:58,480 already know they use so much energy, so much power, so much 223 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,600 computing power around the world. 224 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,119 It's very difficult for it to remain free and it will have to 225 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,720 be monetized in some way. Particularly in the education 226 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,720 sphere. A lot of these apps and services 227 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:16,119 charge subscriptions and this can be quite expensive as a 228 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:21,280 study aid alongside teaching. There are some dangers with AII 229 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,480 think with learning sometimes something which I never 230 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,800 experienced with my language learning because AI has not 231 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,320 really been arrived when I began my learning. 232 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:35,520 And that is, I think sometimes the challenge to critical 233 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,600 thinking, so critical thinking like I mentioned, is that 234 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:45,080 ability to think clearly and evaluate information on your 235 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,600 own. With the likes of ChatGPT and 236 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:53,520 other artificial intelligence systems, it is doing a lot of 237 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:58,480 critical thinking for us. So we can give it the problem, 238 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,720 we can give it the text, we can give it something that we need 239 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:07,480 to get the correct answers for, and it will do the work for us. 240 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,800 And this is great for productivity, But how will this 241 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:16,480 affect the critical thinking skills of a student in the long 242 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:18,800 term? You know, will it hinder? 243 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,800 So will it slow down and reduce progress? 244 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:28,200 Perhaps another threat to education in general that people 245 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:34,600 say with language education is often discussed as translation. 246 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,800 So AI translation. So this ability, it's already 247 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:44,440 exists with the likes of Google Translate to say something and 248 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:50,120 have it translated by a computer automatically and then repeated 249 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,480 in that language. And perhaps in the future we 250 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:58,160 will be able to use devices to automatically translate what the 251 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,920 other person is saying in their language and hear it in our 252 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:05,320 language. I do think this will probably be 253 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:09,560 a reality at some point in the future, perhaps not a 254 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:16,360 widespread, so a common reality in our lifetimes, but it will be 255 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:21,160 absolutely in the future. But I still don't think that 256 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,400 this is going to stop language learning. 257 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,680 Learning another language allows you to think and understand in 258 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,760 that language. It develops our brain in so many 259 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:41,480 different ways, and using an AI model or a piece of technology 260 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:47,320 to do that for us is going to not really replace all of those 261 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:52,680 other benefits around connection, around culture, and 262 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:57,160 around understanding that we actually get from learning the 263 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,840 language and even from just that benefit for our brain. 264 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,080 Learning a language is so good for you. 265 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,160 Using your critical thinking skills is so good for you. 266 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,000 And replacing these with a computer, replacing these with 267 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,160 an AI model is not going to to help. 268 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,680 Now, don't get me wrong, I think that AI is fantastic. 269 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,160 I think it's an amazing technology. 270 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,680 And I utilize AI every single day. 271 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,840 I use it with this project to subtitle my videos. 272 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:36,720 I use it to then produce transcripts for the videos and 273 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,520 to organize and edit texts as well. 274 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:45,840 But the likes of me speaking to you and the words that I'm 275 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,880 saying, the contents that I'm producing, I want to keep that 276 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,600 natural. So I will never replace my 277 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,760 speech with AI. I will never replace my thoughts 278 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,960 with AI. And to me, that is quite a scary 279 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:03,880 concept. So I do think that AI has its 280 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,960 place, and I think that it is helping particularly smaller 281 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,480 creators like myself and teachers and individuals to be 282 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:18,920 able to do so much more with less, which is an amazing time 283 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,120 to be alive. There's so much opportunity, and 284 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:25,520 I think that with learning English, you have so much 285 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:30,760 opportunity to use AI with things like vocabulary learning 286 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:35,800 and with things like reading and writing and grammar, but don't 287 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,800 use it to replace the real human things that you need. 288 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,320 It's just my advice. The likes of speaking, 289 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,680 listening, you need that real input. 290 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,000 There's something about that natural speech, that natural 291 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,640 listening, which I think is going to be very, very hard to 292 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:59,040 replace with machine learning and with the output that comes 293 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,240 from that. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I do 294 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:07,000 think that there's so much cultural, so much natural 295 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:13,240 background behind real speech, real thought, and then the 296 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,560 listening practice that comes from that, that I just, I would 297 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,280 never replace that with something that is artificial. 298 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,720 But of course, time will tell. I'm not going to say I'm right. 299 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:30,760 I think that time will change a lot with technology in 300 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,720 education. So to summarize my thoughts, 301 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:40,320 could AI replace teachers? Not completely, at least not 302 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:45,120 yet. AI is a really powerful tool in 303 00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,640 whatever form that it can come in. 304 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,840 I know it's such a generic general phrase, but when it's 305 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:58,200 used well, it can really support both students and teachers. 306 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:03,120 But education, as I've said, is much more than just data. 307 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:04,960 It's much more than productivity. 308 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,400 It's about growth, it's about support, and it's about 309 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,520 relationships. And for now and in the 310 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,800 foreseeable future, in our lifetimes, at least in the next 311 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:22,040 1020 years, I think that only real people will be able to give 312 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,440 that to the top level essentially. 313 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,600 So if you're learning English, do use some AI tools, you're 314 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:36,120 probably already using some AI tools as well, but you're also 315 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:40,720 learning from, you know, a real human voice with emotions, 316 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:45,840 connection, and you're probably utilizing a lot of a real human 317 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,360 side too. So as things go forward in the 318 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:51,080 future, be careful how you use AI. 319 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,920 Use it to serve yourself and make sure that you're not just 320 00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:00,160 consuming only AI content. 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