The 'perfect' teaching assistant? Universities find new uses for AI

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Whether channeling Shakespeare, building rubrics for teachers or helping students know when they're being duped by a deepfake, the new wave of artificial intelligence tools is being embraced by educators at universities this fall — and not just in the computer science labs where they were developed.

UBC student Olivia How, right, works with the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT with her professor, Patrick Pennefather, in Vancouver on March 2. Pennefather is says AI can be a powerful brainstorming aid for theatre and film students.

"I'm interested in understanding, 'Hey, what does Macbeth, the historical Macbeth, think about how they were represented in the playGenerative AI has raised concerns in academia over its potential for plagiarism — writing code for computing assignments, or even entire essays. They'll tweak it further, and put more material into the AI to produce visuals — for example a background to fit the setting — or might use AI and motion-capture technology to create material for an animated version.in the ongoing strikes of Hollywood writers and actors.

A group of former content moderators in Nairobi working on behalf of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, have reportedly called for an investigation into what they termed exploitative conditions.The development those generative AIs has also been potentially problematic, says Ebrahim Bagheri, who leads an inter-university research program on the responsible development of AI.

"Students need to reflect and think 'Well, this feedback, does it align with my thinking and what I want to do with the project?' And they do the same with peer feedback," she said.

 

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