The future of education with generative AI

Education is an ever-evolving domain, continuously seeking innovative methods to enhance the learning experience. In recent years, the advent of generative AI has sparked immense interest and enthusiasm within the educational community.

Personalized Learning:
One of the critical benefits of generative AI in education is its capacity to intellectually engage numerous individuals simultaneously, with customized communication. Traditional classrooms, often seen as stagnant and homogeneous, suffered from a 'one-size-fits-all' model, contributing to a lackluster public education system. However, with generative AI, educational materials can be dynamically tailored to match everyone's unique learning styles, abilities, and pace, offering a new hope for a more personalized and effective learning process.

Interactive and Immersive Experiences:
Generative AI holds the potential to create interactive and immersive learning experiences that far exceed traditional textbooks and lectures. It enables us to pose limitless questions to highly intellectual entities about a vast array of topics. Moreover, the integration of VR and AR technologies with generative AI, which are already being developed, can simulate real-world scenarios. This allows students to delve into historical events, scientific experiments, or even complex mathematical concepts in a hands-on, engaging manner.

In South Korea, the topic of education, specifically the CSAT, has come under scrutiny following President Yoon's comment regarding the elimination of 'killer problems'—highly challenging questions— from the test. While this perspective is understandable, it overlooks the more critical issue at hand. The real challenge for Korean education is theunpreparedness of educators, students, and academics for the inevitable AI revolution. Current AI models, such as GPT-4, have already demonstrated capabilities surpassing those of Korean high school students in various fields. If this trend continues, the advent of GPT-5 could spell a crisis for Korean education. Hence, the pressing issue is not merely the test structure but the education system's overall readiness to integrate and adapt to the AI-driven future.