Hello all!!
A.I. What an idea. Honestly, I always thought it was going to stay science fiction. I remember watching the Terminator with my uncle and thinking how wild of an idea it was. The scene in the beginning of Terminator 2 when it mimics the voices perfectly on the payphone seemed surreal to me when I saw it as a kid. Now, people talk to their phones daily. things as simple as “Hey Siri” and “OK Google” would have been completely wild 20 years ago. A.I pushes this so much further, to the point of doing really whatever we ask it to within the acceptable parameters.
I chose to use ChatGPT for this blog post since it is a very common one, and I have actually never used it, or anything other A.I like it, before.
I wanted to see exactly what it could do, so I took the question prompts and actually asked it. It was kind of like an interview with chatGPT.
It had lots to say on the topic!
I personally don’t think I would ever use A.I for much, as I enjoy doing my research myself in order to make sure I get information that clicks with me. I learn in very specific ways, and if A.I was just giving me random stuff like the list it gave above, I need to know where that information came from. Does that make sense? I hope so!!!!
I do know a few teachers that use A.I for things like rubrics, and I can see the appeal there. Rubrics suck. Plus if the rubric is done and the teacher makes sure it covers what they need it to, and alter it where needed, I can understand that. It gives more time to create more intriguing lessons for the kids.
– Dallas
I was surprised at the many ways ChatGPT suggested it could help, the most interesting to me being the analyzing student trends through data. It seems like a neat idea to feed ChatGPT result data from students over a semester and asking where the students are needing assistance on average. A use I think of for using AI would be to create false answers on a multiple choice quiz as it could save me time creating the quizzes in the future. At the end of the day, AI is a tool and as you said in your post, it may be hard to confirm whether the information it found is true as it rarely provides where the information came from.