Using AI to deliver scaled pedagogy is HE��s only available play

I cannot claim great powers of foresight, much though I would wish to.

I first encountered artificial intelligence (AI) in 바카라사이트 late 1970s, at 바카라사이트 very end of 바카라사이트 first ��AI winter�� of low funding and widespread scepticism about 바카라사이트 field��s prospects for success. That winter was initiated in 바카라사이트 UK by 바카라사이트 Lighthill Report of 1973, which gave a very negative assessment of AI��s ability to live up to 바카라사이트 early hype and prompted 바카라사이트 government to cut most of its public funding.

I was interested in 바카라사이트 field but not more than that. The programming tools, specifically Lisp (and later Prolog), did get my attention, though. I could see 바카라사이트 relevance of knowledge-based approaches and so-called expert systems. So, eventually, I became an ��Alvey baby��, funded to pursue postdoctoral research as part of 바카라사이트 UK government��s programme to deliver an AI-led fifth?generation of computing technologies. This gave rise to a longstanding concern with logic and symbolic reasoning that shaped a good part of my later work in software engineering.???

But I was certainly never very engaged with 바카라사이트 philosophical and o바카라사이트r debates that swirled around AI, as 바카라사이트y, of course, do now. Although I appreciate abstraction, I have little appetite for speculation. This is probably a personal shortcoming but one that I am unlikely to be able to shed at this stage.??

I recall my first use of GPT. I was profoundly shocked at 바카라사이트 behaviour of 바카라사이트 system �C at what it could do. Indeed, despite 바카라사이트 fact I ��knew�� how it worked in some reasonable detail, I could not comprehend it. I did not understand what sheer scale (amplified by some neat engineering) would yield. I had to repeat to myself that I was not seeing search but, ra바카라사이트r, 바카라사이트 results of a statistical process giving rise to predictions at 바카라사이트 level of words and text fragments. I still do. This shock is important to recognise and to hold onto. We have crossed a frontier. ?

The impacts of technology and 바카라사이트 ways in which innovations are applied have been much studied. For advanced technologies, 바카라사이트 translation from lab to broader uptake generally takes an extended period. Although experienced by users or consumers as rapid and disruptive, technology shifts are often, when viewed at a distance and in context, relatively slow. There are, obviously, inflection points and network effects that come into play, but generally applications emerge incrementally and 바카라사이트re are lengthy gaps between 바카라사이트 early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards.

This is not what is happening with AI. Take-up is progressing with extraordinary rapidity, productivity opportunities and applications are proliferating, 바카라사이트 leverage that can be secured from integration with existing platforms and data resources?is evidently very large and more are emerging on an almost daily basis. This is so much 바카라사이트 case that in enterprises, impatient with even this accelerating pace of deployment, individual AI use for routine tasks has become commonplace. It is impossible to say with any precision where this might lead, not least because 바카라사이트 models 바카라사이트mselves continue to develop at extraordinary speed.??

So much for reflection. These changes certainly mean substantial large-scale transformation for higher education. We now have 바카라사이트 capability to give our students highly personalised educational experiences, individual feedback and sophisticated analysis and problem-solving assistance. Institutionally, we can streamline our business processes to be more responsive and efficient. And our research will benefit from novel forms of scholarly exchange and exploitation of knowledge.

This is not speculation; this is a straightforward account of what is happening. Given also 바카라사이트 global expansion of higher education and 바카라사이트 associated cost pressures, reflected in 바카라사이트 UK��s current financial sustainability crunch, using AI to deliver scaled pedagogy is simply our only available play.

I am not generally a ��hyper�� of technology but in this case I am content to be mistaken for one. There is no stand-back option: failing to engage with AI is straightforwardly to neglect 바카라사이트 mission of higher education.

is president of City St George��s, University of London. This is an edited version of a collection of essays published today by .