ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM: PROMISING APPLICATIONS, POTENTIAL EFFECTIVENESS AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

The 21st century has been regarded as the era of information and technologies and also proving it very much through the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As a technological tool AI has changed the faces of society and markets a lot. Siri, Alexa, chatbots and so on, the promising tools of AI, are being used in deducting the customers’ preferences in making choices in on line shopping based on their past actions and experiences. Queries support system of banks, airlines, telecom companies and so on are being handled by AI enabled system too. Similarly, education sector has also become one of the subject matters of AI. It is a computer programme also known as machine learning system that can think, act, recognise the faces, deduct the objects and images, and follow the instructions as a human being can do. Many of the scientists are opined that AI is the future of education system and days are not far away when the entire educational activities including teaching-learning process may fall dependent on AI driven education system. Considering the potential applications and effectiveness of AI in education system, present article posits to explain the meaning, concepts, potential applications, effectiveness and challenges of AI with respect to Indian education system. Like any technology, AI also has some pros and cons in regard to its applications. AI driven education system may have some negative impacts like deterioration of values, threat to human civilisation, potential health risk of learners and staff, reduction in employment opportunities for traditional teachers, complete dependency on technology, learning gap, issues of data management and cyber securities and so on.