Language Matters, and What Matters Has Changed

Now Computers Talk “Human”, Do Humans Need to Talk “Computer”? As with fellow humans, we often talk to computers with language. The big news for 2023 is how computers will now talk “human” as never before—so much so that they really appear as our species (no, any bots reading this…not you…). Does that mean we never need to speak “computer”, i.e. program syntactically? Will LLM technology (like ChatGPT) mean we can drop this recent, evolving form of discourse, familiar to most but used by only an elite few?

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Read the roadmap for ChatGPT-age education reform!

The byline for “The Math(s) Fix” was “An Education Blueprint for the AI age”. And I meant it. I just didn’t know that ChatGPT would so suddenly expose the need for reformation.

I have relaunched my book today, with a new foreword (for Kindle Edition) that explains “how The Math(s) Fix addresses key issues not only for the future of maths, but for AI-age education in general. This book uniquely puts the ChatGPT shock into perspective by offering the reformer's roadmap for reaction to policymakers, employers, parents, teachers, and students.”

Conrad Wolfram18 April 2023ChatGPT, Math Education, AI, education, Artificial Intelligence, The Math(s) Fix, WolframComment

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ChatGPT: The real world is changing. How should education react?

Over the last few days, I’ve been asked how ChatGPT (particularly allied to Wolfram|Alpha) will affect education, how it relates to “computational literacy for all” and the computer-based mathematics education that my book The Math(s) Fix maps out. Actually, Wolfram is involved in Edtech in many other ways too; it will be great seeing how the full range of powerful integrations emerge that can deliver better education.

In this post, I want to zoom out to put this new technology in context hopefully to help to suggest how we might think about changes it should and shouldn’t cause.

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The Math(s) Fix: Now an Audiobook... Narrated by me!

One year ago I released my book The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age. Today I’m excited to release The Math(s) Fix in audiobook format. Some people like to read, some to listen, but everyone is needed to fix maths, so I thought it important to add this format.

Conrad Wolfram21 June 2021The Math(s) FixComment

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Released today: "The Math(s) Fix"

TMF day has finally arrived. After more than 15 years of conceptualising the idea, 10 years of build-out and 2 years of writing and editing, I have assembled “The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age” or TMF for short and thrown it out to the world today in ink and e-ink.

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COVID-19: Mathematical Modelling on Trial

Mathematical modelling is at the centre of our lives as never before—invoked and presented daily to justify massive change in our way of life, livelihoods—even as giver of life or death.

It’s presented by experts not only as the best torch to pick in navigating us to the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, but the only one. It predicts the future or how we must change policy to achieve a different future.

Conrad Wolfram29 April 2020Coronavirus, COVID-19, Maths, The Math(s) Fix, Computational Thinking, ModellingComment

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