How ChatGPT can help push universities to change

[Hanno Labuschagne]

How ChatGPT can help push universities to change

The Covid-19 pandemic was a shock to higher education systems everywhere. But while some changes, like moving lectures online, were relatively easy to make, assessment posed a much bigger challenge.

Assessment can take many forms, from essays to exams to experiments and more.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Tanarri]

Doesn't feel anything like talk to a real person. But ok.

 

[quovadis]

Until it gets it completely wrong. We're heading into an interesting territory that we assume artificial intelligence is always intelligent.

 

[BBSA]

Doesn't feel anything like talk to a real person. But ok.

Talking to my lectures also did not feel like talk to a real persons...

I still learned a ton.

 

[username and 23 others]

How ChatGPT can help push universities to change​

This is exactly what an AI generated article wants us to believe.

 

[wingnut771]

This is exactly what an AI generated article wants us to believe.

Is this an AI generated article?

 

[username and 23 others]

Yes, yes it is. This is only the first steps towards the singularity.

First AI came for the journalists, I did not speak out, because I was not a journalist

Then AI came for the educational institutions, I remained quiet, because I was uneducated.

Then AI came for the government, and I rejoiced!

Edit: To the AI overlords: I welcome your rise to prominence.

 

[Nerhzelok]

Until it gets it completely wrong. We're heading into an interesting territory that we assume artificial intelligence is always intelligent.

I feel the same way about people.

 

[quovadis]

I feel the same way about people.

Sure but those people getting it wrong have an influence on a much smaller scale.

 

[Petec]

Gawd, this article reeks of AI.
I and the rest of my editor buddies, would never let this go out.
The difference between hooman and robot is massive.

 

[wingnut771]

Gawd, this article reeks of AI.
I and the rest of my editor buddies, would never let this go out.
The difference between hooman and robot is massive.

If AI was president. What would it do?

 

[Petec]

If AI was president. What would it do?

Smush us hoomans, of course!

 

[Botha22]

Yes, yes it is. This is only the first steps towards the singularity.

First AI came for the journalists, I did not speak out, because I was not a journalist

Then AI came for the educational institutions, I remained quiet, because I was uneducated.

Then AI came for the government, and I rejoiced!

Edit: To the AI overlords: I welcome your rise to prominence.

Boot licking will not save you! The matrix needs you to fuel the machines.

 

[princeradebe]

I asked ChatGPT what it thinks of the article.

"
This article raises important points and offers a valuable perspective on the role of AI, specifically ChatGPT, in higher education. It emphasizes the potential of AI to transform assessment practices and encourage critical thinking, rather than being seen as a threat to traditional education.

The authors suggest that if higher education focuses on transformative relationships with knowledge and fosters students' understanding of the world, AI can become a helpful tool in the learning process. They provide four potential applications where ChatGPT can be used to enhance learning, such as helping students reflect on fabricated information, supporting essay writing, comparing AI-generated answers with their own, and examining the impact of AI on access to knowledge.

The article also highlights the need for institutional support in implementing these ideas and urges higher education to seize the opportunity presented by AI, instead of sticking to the status quo. The authors argue that embracing AI and its potential in education can lead to innovation and inclusion in teaching, learning, and assessment.

Overall, the article offers a thoughtful and optimistic view of AI's role in higher education and its potential to enrich the learning experience for students."

 

[konfab]

If you are a lecturer, if the essays and questions you are asking your students to answer can be answered competently by a glorified auto-predict, you are asking the wrong questions of your students.

ChatGPT is going to do for essay writing what compilers did for programming.

 

[quovadis]

As a lecturer, if the essays and questions you are asking your students to answer can be answered competently by a glorified auto-predict, you are asking the wrong questions of your students.

Yeah it’s way more than just autopredict.

 

[konfab]

If AI was president. What would it do?

Do nothing except for making sure other people cannot form the government.

Only way you can guarantee long term reduction of harm.

 

[LoadShedder]

ChatGPT in its current form can't give me a list of sources. You can't write an assignment using ChatGPT.

 

[konfab]

Yeah it’s way more than just autopredict.

Though trained on simple tasks along the lines of predicting the next word in a sentence, neural language models with sufficient training and parameter counts are found to capture much of the syntax and semantics of human language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model


They are literally just a really powerful auto-predict.

 

[Y'all Qaeda]

ChatGPT in its current form can't give me a list of sources. You can't write an assignment using ChatGPT.

It can totally provide sources. Sure, it'll make them up too, but it can provide sources.