Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT are things I know next to nothing about. The videos we watched this week were helpful for me. I decided to download the app on my phone and take it for a spin, just to see what the fuss was all about. I created a prototype of a letter of recommendation for a friend, however, it required a lot of editing to make it something that could be usable for me. I did not check to see if it registered as “AI generated”, but I think that would have been interesting to find out, having edited it a good bit. [1]<\/p>\n
I teach mathematics in the upper elementary level. Believe it or not, I have students that ask me all the time if they can get AI to do their homework for them. I tell them no – but for all I know, when they’re at home they could be using AI. I really have no idea. It’s not like a fifth grader has difficult math homework. They’re just looking for an easy way to get it done.<\/p>\n
What are the dangers, limits and possibilities of AI for your studies?<\/strong><\/p>\n I believe the dangers of AI lie in relying on it too heavily to do your thinking for you. You could even read less of the material, in theory, and depend more on the program and it’s knowledge of the topic at hand to produce a coherent essay or blog post. This is especially true if you use the newer version of AI that produces citations. [2]<\/p>\n Some of the limits of AI lie particularly in the realm of logic and mathematical reasoning. The program uses predicative abilities based on words used to create sentences. [3] It doesn’t really reason and answer questions.<\/p>\n My own personal feelings about it are that I understand it is advanced technology, and it’s here to stay. I do. It’s just going to get more and more advanced with time. However, there’s a part of the teacher in me that says it just doesn’t feel right using it to do my assignments. It feels like it lacks integrity. It feels like cheating to me. That’s for me personally. Now, I did use it that one time to try to write a letter of recommendation for a friend. But I ended up rewriting nearly the entire letter. So all that AI provided for that letter ended up being the format. Maybe in time, and with more familiarity with ChatGPT I will come to change my mind about it. I don’t know.<\/p>\n But then, I look it another way, and what really is the difference between using ChatGPT and downloading a form letter in Microsoft Word for a letter of recommendation? I don’t have all the answers. There seems to be a lot of gray area here.<\/p>\n I think for me, this is something I will have to dabble around with a little at a time to become more acquainted with. Perhaps by the end of the semester I will have changed my feelings concerning ChatGPT, and will have written a blog post using it.<\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________<\/p>\n Baud, David.\u00a0AssessmentAI<\/em>, Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n