On Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, we had our first in-class debate on the impact of AI on education. The debate prompt is: “Will ChatGPT and other similarly powerful AI tools have positive or negative impacts on higher education? In your opinion, what Andrew Abbott’s criticisms in 2016 […]
Continue reading →Hsu and Myers write of society’s concerns that AI-generated images could lead to fake news and misinformation, but they furthermore point out that even some convincing AI-generated images have inaccurate details that can tip people off. Within the article they include some examples, like how dancing Boris Johnson has the wrong number of fingers, or […]
Continue reading →I resonate with the New York Times’ article regarding the potential dangers of misinformation fueled by new AI developments like DALLE-3. Recently, I’ve observed a surge in the use of DALLE-3 or mid-journey products for news imagery. This trend is apparent on various social media platforms and forums I frequent, making it increasingly challenging to […]
Continue reading →Maybe the abyss was already there Last Wednesday, two groups from my class debated the following question: Will ChatGPT and other similarly powerful AI tools have positive or negative impacts on higher education? Certainly, the debate on artificial intelligence’s role in higher education is a pressing one. It is, after all, one big elephant in […]
Continue reading →The first debate centers on whether ChatGPT and other AI tools have positive or negative impacts on higher education. Having listened to the entire discussion, my personal view is that while we might perceive certain negative impacts on higher education, ChatGPT and other AI tools’ positive influences will become evident over time, and we should […]
Continue reading →Griffiths’ paper urges for a change in the field of cognitive behavior to not only use computers as an assistive tool in cognitive research, but to implement computers altogether as an aspect of cognitive science to study. The sorts of changes Griffiths describes aptly compare to current trends of using extremely large corpuses and feeding […]
Continue reading →Hello everyone, Firstly, a big round of applause to both teams for their commendable efforts in the debate! The depth and sophistication of the discussions were enlightening, and I personally also gained many new insights from your exchanges and performances. Thank you! The debate was a great commencement to the latter half of our course. […]
Continue reading →– Introduction of knowledge: For analysis; For utilization; Outside of domain – “Chain-of-thought” reasoning – Counterfactuals/hypotheticals – Recursive phrasing – Constraints/lists – Adjusting prompt phrasing to test the result – Ethical scenarios – Language – Cherry-picking – Logic – Translation – Summarization – Training the model to ignore irrelevant deviations (e.g. typo) – Prompts pp. […]
Continue reading →Objective of the Debate The primary objective of the debate is to foster open discussion and collaborative thinking, rather than focusing on competition or a win-lose outcome. While participants will adopt and defend particular positions, the ultimate goal is to explore and comprehend the rationale behind differing reasoning and perspectives. Focus on Clarity, Not […]
Continue reading →I agree with Roose’s point in “How Schools Can Survive (and Maybe Even Thrive) With A.I. This Fall”, that generative AI should instead be understood and not banned in classrooms. I think that for many people, especially those who are not experienced in working with AI or do not know much about how models like […]
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