This is a nice set of metaphors to illustrate the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. The 'miracle' is, of course, the "mind-blowing demos with these tools." We'e been having a lot of that recently. The 'grind' is the work it takes behind the scenes to produce these miracles. I cover this in my ethics course, outlining the decisions we make. It's not just writing software and collecting data. Finally, the 'wall' is, according to Feldstein, "the limit of what your tech can do for you." There are different ways of reading this. One way is to see it as the limit of what current tech can accomplish, and those are the examples Feldstein offers. Another way is the limit of what any tech can accomplish, which is what Feldstein seems to suggest he's talking about. Another way is to define the limit as whatever we can't imagine tech can do, which is what I think Feldstein is actually describing.
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