AI & the Future of Education | SXSW EDU 2025

章节 1：注意力的经济学与工具的本质

📝 本节摘要：

本节作为访谈正式开始前的引言，演讲者首先从宏观角度定义了技术的本质——无论是原始工具还是现代App，其核心都是解决问题的手段。接着，演讲者以多邻国（Duolingo）创始人Luis von Ahn为例，讲述了他如何巧妙地将验证码（reCAPTCHA）的人力投入转化为书籍数字化的生产力。最后，演讲者提出了一个深刻的观点：在当今这个斥资数万亿试图分散我们注意力的数字经济中，能够教会学生“单任务处理（Single-tasking）”而非多任务处理，将成为一种稀缺的超级力量和巨大的竞争优势。

[原文] [Speaker A]: As with any, well, I should say technology, whether it's an app on an iPhone or a stick that a chimp is using to fish out ants, it's it's a tool that helps you to solve, in an ideal case that helps you to solve some type of prevalent problem.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 正如任何技术一样——或者我应该说，无论是iPhone上的应用程序，还是黑猩猩用来钓蚂蚁的棍子——它都是一种工具，在理想情况下，它能帮助你解决某种普遍存在的问题。

[原文] [Speaker A]: There is a lot that can be automated, and whether it's machine learning or some form of deep learning. There are many ways technology can aid the learning process.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 很多东西都可以自动化，无论是通过机器学习还是某种形式的深度学习。技术有很多种方式可以辅助学习过程。

[原文] [Speaker A]: So I was one of the first investors in a company called Duolingo, which now has 100 million users. It's the largest free language learning platform in the world, and they have a lot more coming.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 所以，我是Duolingo（多邻国）这家公司的首批投资者之一，它现在拥有1亿用户。它是世界上最大的免费语言学习平台，而且他们还有更多计划即将推出。

[原文] [Speaker A]: It's incredibly powerful. And it is it. It was the byproduct of a number of founders, but one of one of those founders, Luis von Ahn from Guatemala, originally created CAPTCHAs and reCAPTCHA.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 它极其强大。实际上，这是一群创始人的成果，但其中一位创始人，来自危地马拉的Luis von Ahn，最初发明了验证码（CAPTCHAs）和reCAPTCHA。

[原文] [Speaker A]: So if you ever have to type in a bunch of weird characters to prove you're not a robot on a website, you have him to thank for it.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 所以，如果你曾经不得不在网站上输入一堆奇怪的字符来证明你不是机器人，那你得感谢他。

[原文] [Speaker A]: But he used that. You might have noticed back in the day, there were two fields and you'd fill one in the the the program knew the answer to that. That's how it would confirm that you weren't a robot.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 但他利用了这一点。你可能注意到过去有两个输入框，你填写其中一个，程序知道那个的答案。这就是它确认你不是机器人的方式。

[原文] [Speaker A]: And then the second was taken from books that they that machines couldn't transcribe accurately. So you're actually he was harnessing millions and millions and millions of people to transcribe books.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 而第二个输入框的内容则取自机器无法准确转录的书籍。所以实际上，他在利用成千上万、数以百万计的人来转录书籍。

[原文] [Speaker A]: Effectively so that people so that the blind could use them so that anyone could search them, etc.. And he's applied that to language learning in some really fascinating ways.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 有效地让人们……让盲人可以使用这些书，让任何人都可以搜索它们，等等。他以一些非常迷人的方式将这一理念应用到了语言学习中。

[原文] [Speaker A]: We live in a digital world where the economics of many of these businesses are dependent on distracting you as much as possible. They are very, very, very good at it.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 我们生活在一个数字世界中，许多这类企业的经济模式依赖于尽可能地分散你的注意力。他们非常、非常、非常擅长这一点。

[原文] [Speaker A]: They're putting billions of dollars, probably collectively trillions of dollars, into discovering new and better ways to distract you off of your chosen task, if you can.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 他们投入数十亿美元，甚至可能总计达到数万亿美元，用于发现更新、更好的方法来将你从既定任务中分散开来。

[原文] [Speaker A]: If you can teach yourself and your students to single task, not multitask to single task more effectively. That ability, which used to be par for the course, is becoming a superpower.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 如果你能教会你自己和你的学生更有效地进行“单任务处理（single task）”，而不是多任务处理。这种曾经习以为常的能力，正变成一种超级力量。

[原文] [Speaker A]: So if you can establish ways of blocking or blocking out distraction In rich technology for even short periods of time, you have a huge competitive advantage.

[译文] [Speaker A]: 因此，如果你能建立起即使在短时间内也能屏蔽或阻挡丰富技术干扰的方法，你就拥有了巨大的竞争优势。