The notion is absurd, because it not only asks that teachers be replaced by machines but creates an environment in which students must also become like machines in order to succeed.
This reminds me of a book I read on public school systems. Our public school system runs as it did from the industrial revolution. We deliver information and teach kids as if it were an assembly line. This worked at the time, because students were often working towards factory or manual labor jobs. Our world today is nowhere near this same dynamic and yet, the public school system has bsrely changed, as if studetns are still on an assembly line. This article poses an interesting question though, on the other extreme, we prepare students for the technological world we live in by treating them like technologies themselves. Once again, education is missing the mark of meaningful human learning!