AI is in Your Classroom – Even if You Didn’t Know It!
Professor Alexa Alice Joubin spoke at a roundtable on artificial intelligence and higher education. From AI that write papers, essays, and poems, to those that create art or write computer code, these technologies are quickly impacting on many aspects of higher education.
Here is an except from GW Today‘s news story: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, such as ChatGPT, brought GW faculty together for the first of many planned looks at the challenges—and opportunities.
In her presentation, Alexa Alice Joubin Joubin sees both danger and opportunity in the new software — one of the dangers being the way ChatGPT can encourage mistaking synthesis for critical thinking.
On the plus side, it can encourage students to apply high-level editorial and curatorial skills to material generated by ChatGPT.
“AI text is actually very repetitive at this point in time,” Joubin said, while noting that it can be expected to improve. ChatGPT may also not be reliable for current events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But the technology is not going away, and the discussion of its use in the classroom will be ongoing. Read the full story in PDF form.
Happy new year!
Join colleagues from across George Washington University to learn more about how recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies (such as, chatGPT) are now being used in university classrooms, labs, and offices.
From AI that write original papers, essays, and poems, to those that create art or write computer code, these technologies are quickly impacting on many aspects of higher education.
In this initial faculty conversation, we will discuss what each of us should know about these recent advancements, and how we can grapple with the multiple implications for our teaching, research, and service.
The event is a collaboration of colleagues in humanities, social sciences, and STEM disciplines, and will focus on the promises and perils of AI in higher education as the first of an on-going series at GW.
