6.2 Advantages and Disadvantages
What are the advantages of using Artificial Intelligence? Let us take a closer look at a few aspects:
Artificial Intelligence Analysis – Advantages:
- Speed and scale: Artificial Intelligence can process immense amounts of data at speeds that would be impossible for humans.
- Consistency: From the point of view of long-term consistency in its results, artificial intelligence does not suffer from fatigue or emotional instabilities and can therefore deliver a predictable, consistent and quick analysis for entire days, months or years.
- Objectivity: Artificial intelligence should ideally be impartial. However, input data biases can distort the outcome of its responses.
Now, let’s take a look at the disadvantages of artificial analysis.
Artificial Intelligence Analysis – Disadvantages:
- Limited understanding of nuance, humour, ethics, and cultural subtleties: These can possibly be fed into AI, but the programmers’ biases can alter and limit the results. Those results may then lack transparency (the elements of nuance, humour, ethics and cultural subtlety are referred to as “black-box” algorithms).
- No innate capacity for empathy: This makes it unsuitable for contexts that require human sensitivity, thoughtfulness and compassion.
Now, we can briefly address the factors that may lead us to prefer human analysis in specific scenarios.
Human Intelligence Analysis – Advantages:
We humans are endowed with a rich contextual understanding of innumerable scenarios and potential cases. We can interpret subtle cues, language tones, intentions, and variable degrees of intensity, and we can address cultural “realities”, shifting paradigms and educational, hierarchical and historical differences.
Also, as an essential component of our consciousness, we acquire and nurture values and ethical codes of behaviour that allow us to assess situations with moral and philosophical depth.
As part of our human flexibility and adaptability, we possess an unlimited capability for innovation, which enables us to encourage and endorse original thoughts and develop unconventional solutions. This liberty goes beyond the possibilities of artificial computational analysis.
To maintain an objective and unbiased perspective, we must also consider the comparative disadvantages of a purely human analysis.
Human Intelligence Analysis – Disadvantages:
Yes, it is true. Human analysis can be inconsistent and prone to error. The reason is that we are subject to bias, stress, and a quite limited cognitive scope. For this reason, we are much slower at processing information, especially where large-scale or high volumes of data are involved.
So, what can we conclude from all the above?
In the realm of Education, we find quickly evolving elements in the way information is classified, analyzed and transmitted. We are living in a time when critical thinking has come face-to-face with artificial intelligence. Consequently, we need to address this development with logic, professionalism and responsibility. To thrive in an AI-integrated world, students need more than just technical know-how. More than ever before, they need critical discernment. In the next section below, you will find a brief description of how our education systems might evolve.
