![]() ![]() As with the advent of the Internet, the noble goal must be to make these powerful tools available to all.Īs an optimist, I hope we use it for good. Nonetheless, contingency plans must also be made and practiced when such powerful systems are not available for whatever reason. Our library, school, examination, and review systems will change radically. Creativity, critical questioning of information and the knowledge of the possibilities to check the quality of information will increasingly come to the fore. However, the importance of being able to retrieve facts from the brain will recede even further into the background. Learning by heart is still important for information that must be retrievable without delay and is also good for brain jogging. The gathering and structuring of information is largely done by the machine. ![]() With solutions like chatgpt, the creativity of humans is required to conduct a smart, multi-faceted human-machine dialog. The first revolutionary step came with the World Wide Web (It took time to gather the relevant information in this huge data universe, to evaluate it and to put it into context with each other. The hours flew by roaming the shelves, endlessly searching through card indexes, or sifting through microfiche. In my secondary school and high school days, I spent hours searching in a single "open-stack library" and sometimes a "closed-stack library" for the relevant and hopefully not borrowed documents and text passages. Tools such as chatgpt will catapult learning and working into another sphere at work and in everyday life. ![]()
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