In today’s digital age, AI and machine learning are becoming more prevalent in everyday life. The tasks that these programs can complete are becoming increasingly complex Shattering what was previously thought possible.
With new technologies, the question can be asked of how they will affect education. A single AI robot is at the forefront of these conversations right now, and its future in education is far from clear.
chat he Great language model It was developed by OpenAI which was created to understand human language and generate natural responses. The bot was trained from the internet, so its library of information and data is just as limitless as the internet itself.
People all over the world – including the University of Nebraska – Lincoln – use ChatGPT for various purposes such as Get out of a parking violationAnd Writing speeches and providing assistance in an academic environment.
“I use it a few times a week for coursework and learning new things,” said Malcolm Saltzman, computer science major at UNL. “I think it’s really useful to help learn concepts taught in class and can be a really good resource to go to.”
While some students use it to learn concepts, others rely on the bot to help brainstorm ideas.
“I use it mostly to get ideas for writing papers,” said Conor Streville, senior specialist in actuarial science. “I think it can be a great way to get an idea of what you want.”
Hamid Bagheri, an associate professor in UNL’s School of Computing, has a similar opinion about how bots are treated in academia, and the effect they have on students.
“I think it can really help students improve their understanding of a concept,” Bagheri said. “We need to adjust academic standards in a way that we can use these technologies to help students learn more.”
Bagheri knows the limitations of an AI bot like ChatGPT but still sees the benefits of using it as a guide, he said.
“There are a lot of benefits to having something like this. Although we can’t totally rely on this technology, you can consider it as a kind of friend who can give you some suggestions,” Bagheri said.
While ChatGPT can be a useful resource, its use in academic settings has triggered some debate.
ChatGPT can write anything the user requests, including Whole college essays. That’s enough to give universities and K-12 schools everywhere a goosebumps at the idea of cheating on assignments with an AI bot.
“If students use bots to create entire articles, they simply don’t learn anything. Rachel Azema, Associate Professor of English Language Practice, said, “I don’t think this is a good use of an investment in a college education.
Azima believes it is important for teachers to inform their students about the AI bot and how to use it properly.
“Teachers need to have candid conversations with students. Where are bots useful? Where are they not? What can they do and what can they not do? What will students miss out on by relying on them?” Azima said.
According to a student, UNL may have already begun to take this approach to learning with ChatGPT.
Leopoldo Hernandez said, “I’ve heard in one of my classes that they’re really thinking about actually implementing it so they can teach students how to use it instead of having students use it themselves and get cheated.” Second year majoring in Computer Science.
The risk of being caught cheating on tasks with ChatGPT may be increasing, especially now Turnitina software application used by many teachers around the world and at UNL to detect plagiarism, has methods for this Detect if the requester has used ChatGPT to write tasks.
Turnitin can Detection of writing generated by artificial intelligence By looking for patterns in the text that may indicate that it was generated by a computer program rather than by a human being.
However, the system does not appear to be faultless, as such An innocent student has already been falsely reported To use ChatGPT in ca.
With all the controversy surrounding the use of ChatGPT in schools, students are better off using a bot as an aid, Bagheri said.
Azima agrees that bots can be used for brainstorming and similar ideas, but argues against anything beyond that.
“They cannot replace the human insight and intellectual work that goes into developing and formulating one’s ideas,” she said.
Using a bot for anything other than informative writing or brainstorming can have a greater impact on a student than getting caught in cheating, said Marco Appel, professor of English and Film Studies and chair of the Department of English.
“The purpose of higher education is actually to train people how to think, not what to think but how to think,” he said. “Before writing can be anything, it is a tool for thinking, and the university should have that.”
According to Abel, ChatGPT and other AI programs like it affect one’s ability to think.
“Yes, you can use a robot. But you’re actually depriving yourself of something you’re paying for, which is to be trained to think,” Abel said. “The more we rely on AI to do the writing for us, no matter how good it is, the less we think.”
Abel summarized where he believes the AI bot has a place in academia.
“I think writing is best understood as a tool for thinking. Whereas the best way to think about an AI bot is probably as a tool for getting rid of stalkers in an informative way.”
Abel and his colleagues agree that AI bots such as ChatGPT They don’t go anywhere It is something we have to learn to live with.
“I think it would be foolish for any major not to think seriously about new technological inventions like the AI robot, it won’t go away,” Abel said. “We have to figure out how to use this product productively instead of fighting it because we are not going to win that battle.”