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It is one thing to treat AI as a tool when it has no scope for emotion. It is quite another when AI has a full suite of emotional responses.
Some critics have claimed that artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has “killed the essay,” while DALL-E, an AI image generator, has been portrayed as a threat to artistic integrity.
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Rather than seeing artificial intelligence as the cause of new problems, we might better understand AI ethics as bringing attention to old ones.
ChatGPT has the fastest-growing user base of any technology in history.
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New technologies are often surrounded by hopeful messages that they will alleviate poverty and bring about positive social change. History shows these assumptions are often misplaced.
Could ChatGPT be the technological tool that will, finally, radically change higher education?
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The irruption of ChatPT has had impact everywhere, including higher education. But can it be a greater impact than expected?
‘ChatGPT, please give me a 1,000 word article on how to stop you from making workplaces worse.’
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Journalists, policymakers and academics are among those whose worlds could be turned upside down by AI chatbots.
That students can cheat more efficiently with ChatGPT does not warrant claims about the death of the student essay.
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We ought to want student essays to reflect understanding, judgment and caring, something beyond ChatGPT.
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Some fear ChatGPT will increase student cheating. But education academics say it can also save time preparing lessons and create new opportunities for learning.
Teachers and university professors have relied heavily on ‘one and done’ essay assignments for decades. Requiring students to submit drafts of their work is one needed shift.
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Educators need to carefully consider ChatGPT and issues of academic integrity to move toward an assessment system that leverages AI tools.
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Users are having a blast getting creative with AI generators – but your output is only ever as good as your prompt.
Educational software has a long history, but chatbots could help students excel like never before.
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ChatGPT could lead to substantial learning gains if it’s used as a tutor, an online learning specialist says.
AI can be like having a high-level personal assistant.
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Early adopters have started using ChatGPT to assist with mundane tasks like writing sick certificates and patient letters.
VR headsets are key to realising the Metaverse.
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Here are the trends on the cusp of transforming the online world.
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Confident chatbots could undermine trust and romance - but probably won’t. They may even enhance online dating.
A savvy ChatGPT user needs to master two sciences: prompting and evaluating the software’s response.
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Many view ChatGPT as a death sentence for homework. But beyond all the alarm, could it be the software offers students unprecedented chances to hone their language awareness skills?
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There won’t be an easy tech fix for the questions about authorship raised by ChatGPT and other text generators.
Google’s dominance in search is undisputed, but could it come under fire?
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Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?
But if students misrepresent or omit sources, including generative AI, that’s a problem.
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Research about both social and technical aspects of work can guide critical thinking about when and how business leaders and MBA students might use generative AI.
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With a rapidly expanding ‘edtech’ market, it’s easy for teachers and parents to be confused about what’s on offer, how to use it and whether it will help students learn.
Days numbered?
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Google botched its Bard launch, but that’s not why investors dumped shares in the company.
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ChatGPT threatens to change writing as we know it. But the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago in modern-day Iraq, went through this kind of seismic change before us, when they invented writing.