Ai participated in composition counseling, man-machine collaborative painting, intelligent evaluation of children's learning quality and reading ability, physical simulation laboratory ... and many intelligent education achievements appeared at the 20021World Artificial Intelligence Conference. When more and more AI "teaching assistants" are hired, will teachers be replaced by AI in the future? At the education theme forum of "Digital Transformation of AI Empowerment Education" 202 1 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, experts unanimously gave a negative answer: the digital transformation of education needs man-machine cooperation, not man-machine opposition.

"Although we have been exploring how to make' AI+education' play a greater role, we need to realize that technology is only a tool and the role of teachers is irreplaceable. Especially in encouraging students to cooperate with each other and make continuous progress, only teachers can play such a role. " Zhou Lidong, executive vice president of Microsoft Research Asia, has a mother who works in the front line of education. "All along, my dream is to provide a tool for front-line teachers like my mother to free them from the tedious and repetitive work of teaching and let them have more time to pay more attention to educating people. The application of AI to educational scenes requires not only technology but also a' people-oriented' soul. "

According to Yuan Zhenguo, president of Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Education and professor of East China Normal University, even with artificial intelligence, teachers are still the main force in shaping a perfect educational environment. It is very important to cultivate teachers' ability to understand artificial intelligence and apply intelligent education, which is helpful to promote teachers to become masters of technology and experts in man-machine cooperation. When he released the Global Report on the Development of Intelligent Education (202 1), he pointed out that although intelligent education has developed rapidly in China in recent years, and many gratifying AI+ education application scenarios have appeared, intelligent education is still a kind of "cold intelligence" at present, with many limitations, such as attaching importance to the application of technology, ignoring human development, attaching importance to technical functions, and ignoring educational laws. "But just like AI can't replace teachers, education is essentially different from artificial intelligence applications in other industries, and its core and object are always people. Therefore,' developing artificial intelligence with temperature' should become the direction of deep integration of world education and artificial intelligence. "