Artificial Intelligence, the ability for a system to predict behavior based on a set of rules and data, has been around for a while. Examples include search engines, voice assistants like Alexa and Siri and games you play against a computer opponent. Generative AI is much newer and refers to systems that create original text, images, music, etcetera based on predictive algorithms and data.
We are just beginning to wrap our head around all the issues that revolve around the use of Generative AI in education, and as was true when the internet and mobile devices because part of our classrooms, the uncertainty often overshadows the possible benefits. I challenge us to maintain a healthy balance of looking for ways we can use it for learning and evaluating the risks and challenges.
And the best way to do that... is to TRY IT! If you prefer to learn more before diving in, check out the ChatGPT & Education Slide Presentation by Torrey Trust. You can scroll through at your own pace. For a more formal tutorial, try the Free Intro to ChatGPT Course (Lessons are free; Quizzes require 7-day free trial). The section on Engineering ChatGPT Prompts is particularly helpful.
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Free Intro to ChatGPT Course (Lessons are free; Quizzes require 7-day free trial)
ChatGPT & Education Slide Presentation by Torrey Trust PhD - Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst
Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast
Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age (Derek Bruff)
How to help students better understand generative AI Chronicle of HIgher Ed Oct. 5, 2023
Perspectives in Generative AI: College Leaders Assess the Promise and the Threat of a Game-Changing Tool. Chronicle of HIgher Ed. Sept. 25, 2023
Sentient Syllabus Project - Rethinking Teaching in the Age of AI (Sentient Syllabus Substack Newsletter)
ChatGPT and the college curriculum Future Trends Forum by Dr Bryan Alexander w/ Dr. Maria Andersen
AI and the Future of Undergraduate Writing by Beth McMurtrie Chronicle of Higher Ed
15 Ways to Use ChatGPT as an Instructional Designer, Instructor, and Teacher by Dr. Luke Hobson
'Everybody is cheating': Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy (NPR)
Dave Stuart Jr. ChatGPT: No Thing But a Chicken Wing
Wonder Tools 7 ways to Use ChatGPT and Try these AI writing tools in 2023
5 ways to use Google Docs' New AI (Apparently Google AI is not as good as ChatGPT yet.)
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4 New Ways to use Bard AI (Google's Chatbot has new features and flaws)
Fact Check your AI Queries, Query your Google Docs, Find helpful YouTube videos
After completing this module, you will be able to:
Identify and describe Generative Artificial Intelligence and how Generative AI Detectors work.
Understand the academic, equity and social justice issues surrounding Generative AI.
Articulate how Generative AI could be used to increase learning in Higher Ed.
Begin to define how use of Generative AI in the classroom is and is not aligned with your teaching philosophy.
"GPTZero [attempts to] detect AI-generated text by measuring two properties of text called “perplexity” and “burstiness.”
“Perplexity is a measurement of randomness,” Tian says. “It's a measurement of how random or how familiar a text is to a language model. So if a piece of text is very random, or chaotic, or unfamiliar to a language model, if it's very perplexing to this language model, then it's going to have high perplexity, and it's more likely to be human generated.”
On the other hand, text that is very familiar and has likely been seen by the AI language model before will not be perplexing to it and is more likely to have been AI-generated.
"Burstiness” refers to the complexity of sentences. Humans tend to vary their sentence length and write in “bursts,” while AI language models are more consistent. This can be seen if you create a chart looking at sentence variability. “For a human essay, it will vary all over the place. It will go up and down,” Tian says. “They’ll be sudden bursts and spikes, versus for a machine essay, it will be pretty boring. It will have a constant baseline.”
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