Learning theorist gets Nobel Prize
Donald Clark,
Donald Clark Plan B,
Oct 10, 2024
I like the use of the term 'learning theorist' by Donald Clark here as it draws implicitly a sharp distinction between what people working in Education (properly so-called) call 'learning theories' with what those who design systems that learn call 'learning theories'. I think the main observation I would draw is that the theory we are offered in Education is so hopelessly vague it could never be used in any concrete sense. What is 'making meaning', for example? Nobody really knows. Clark also points out that there are numerous approaches at play in AI - it's not all pure neural networks and not all large language models. The Prize won by Demis Hassabis and colleagues for protein folding algorithms recognizes that.
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