Primary school students in Beijing are the first to open the "book" AIGC, and they must not lose at the starting line

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According to the OpenAI research report, in the future, a large number of jobs will be impacted by AI, and the first jobs will be writers, mathematicians, web designers, journalists, lawyers...

Since the advent of ChatGPT, the discussion that humans will be replaced by AI has been raging, and anxiety is everywhere. But more people believe that what AI replaces is not human beings, but human beings who have not mastered AI. Don't let children lose at the starting line, this may be the common aspiration of today's parents.

At the beginning of June, the AIGC Public Welfare Public Class jointly organized by Qingmoss Blossom Youth League and Unbounded AI was launched in Beijing. More than 50 primary school students from Zhongguancun No. 2 Primary School in Beijing listened to the AIGC course for nearly 3 hours. Created his first batch of AI paintings.

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More than 50 elementary school students in Beijing opened the "roll" AIGC on weekends. Is AI painting more fun than games?

The class titled "Application and Thinking of AIGC" was arranged on Saturday afternoon. Even so, more than 50 primary school students ranging from grade 3 to grade 6 came to the scene, plus accompanying parents, in the small classroom More than 100 people were squeezed in.

In 3 hours, the content of the course covers a lot of content related to AIGC, such as what is AIGC, the technical principles of AIGC, the application of AIGC, how to face AIGC, and the actual operation of "AI painting".

Are elementary school students interested in these?

According to the course instructor, Zhao Jiecheng, the head of the Unbounded AI Content Ecology Center, recalled that he designed an interactive link in the course that "everyone is an artist, and he can draw with creativity".

One task is to let the elementary school students on the scene input content by themselves, and create four types of AI paintings including architecture, characters, animals, and machinery. Another task is to provide a photo of your daily life, and then directly turn it into an anime picture of different styles through AI painting software.

Seeing that simple words and pictures quickly turned into beautiful patterns, the primary school students on the scene were "exploded". The scene was full of exclamations of "wow wow wow" and "it's amazing".

You can draw with the mobile phone webpage, so that there was a bit of "commotion" at the scene, and the children couldn't stop playing AI painting with their parents' mobile phones. Some parents feel that it is more "top" than games.

The reaction of primary school students to AI painting surprised the tutor Zhao Jiecheng. "Primary school students are naturally sensitive to AI painting, and they have a special feeling for the beautiful things made by AI painting. They are very interested in the technology of AI painting itself."

Children will pay attention to how AI painting is technically done, and how to draw "beautiful pictures". In contrast, parents who are also exposed to AI painting for the first time pay more attention to how AI painting can be combined with their own work.

When primary school students study AIGC, what are they learning?

Moss Blossom Youth League is a group of Zhongguancun No. 2 Primary School students and parents from Beijing. The origin of this "AIGC Public Welfare Open Class" is that a parent invited Unbounded AI to give a AIGC popular science lecture to the children.

"Recently, AI-related topics have become more popular, and we are also thinking about the far-reaching impact that AI will have on our children's life, study, and future career choices in five or ten years. Is it possible for us to The children introduced AI in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-accept scene, and we thought of AI painting, which gave birth to the idea of doing a public welfare AI science popularization for children." The parents of the students in charge of the docking told Babbitt.

Zhao Jiecheng said that he made a lot of preparations for this class. In addition to explaining the basic knowledge in an easy-to-understand way, he cares more about giving children more inspiration: when the wave of AIGC hits, how should we face and adapt to AI's impact on us? Changes in future life, including possible unemployment, and even whether to control AI and other issues.

"It's not teaching, but awakening, a kind of communication." Zhao Jiecheng said with emotion.

In fact, judging from the results of the course, most of the primary school students may have been exposed to comics and paintings, so their participation is relatively high, and they are more interested in making pictures. "After listening to this class, the children are really impressed by what kind of changes AI will bring in the future." A parent said.

What is very interesting is that some parents reported that children are still impressed by a "problem" brought about by AIGC: don't believe too much in what you see, it is possible that bad people use AI to defraud.

When AIGC enters the campus, it means that computers once entered the campus?

AIGC's entry into primary education is still new in the country, but AIGC's entry into campuses is an inevitable trend. Ge Jia, a well-known KOL in the field of science and technology, analyzed that this is equivalent to popularizing computer education in schools back then, and these students grew up and became the backbone of China's Internet era after 2000.

In March, the 2023 Zhejiang Digital Education Conference was held. The conference mentioned that AI will become a basic and compulsory course in primary and secondary schools, which means that subjects such as science and mathematics in primary and secondary schools will be integrated into AI teaching content in large parts.

Compared with Zhejiang's high-profile mention of AI, more schools have already quietly carried out various AI-related knowledge popularization and education work. According to media reports, in April this year, Xiwei Experimental Primary School in Xuhui District, Shanghai has begun to offer a pilot science course on metaverse creative design. The core content is to train students to use professional AI tools, so that AI can assist and empower design practice. Previously, there were numerous cases of AI programming and other related courses in primary and secondary schools.

In fact, after ChatGPT became popular, European and American schools did not reject AIGC in teaching. On the contrary, they encouraged students to contact and use AIGC tools such as ChatGPT.

Today, even though AIGC is still in the stage of weak artificial intelligence, it can already be regarded as a powerful teaching assistant, which can help teachers and students complete the work of "teaching" and "learning" more efficiently.

A very representative point of view is that the key to primary and secondary education is not to let students learn AIGC tools and skills, but to truly cultivate innovative talents and students' innovative thinking ability through the use of tools and the communication of ideas.