Many universities are scrambling to address the potential pitfalls from text-generating AI, like ChatGPT. We spoke to several professors, who are each taking a different approach in how to handle it.
RALEIGH, N.C. — There’s a new frontier in the world of higher education: artificial intelligence, specifically AI that can generate text, like ChatGPT. It’s capable of writing whole essays just by asking it a question or specifying a topic.
However, it can sometimes be hard to detect when it’s used, because the AI creates individual responses each time; no two are identical. It all raises real questions about how students complete some class assignments.English professor Paul Fyfe at North Carolina State University: “We think about AI in the wrong way.”Caleb Husmann teaches political science at William Peace University: “The bottom line is I want them to learn.”“Nobody's got the answer at this point.
That’s partly because what the AI generates can be vague or just plain wrong, as it’s based on information from all kinds of online sources, some with incorrect information. “To pretend that it doesn't exist, I don't think is the right approach,” said Lee Tiedrich, a distinguished faculty fellow at Duke Law School, with a focus on ethical technology.“I think we need to have a national learning moment about artificial intelligence, which is something I've been saying for a while because students need to understand how it works,” Tiedrich said.
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