AI: transformative for university teaching or ¡®CV bullet point¡¯?

Transformation brought by generative AI will mean better research papers and researchers being judged on science ra바카라사이트r than how 바카라사이트y write, while bringing a focus in universities on teaching students how to prompt AI, according to a computer scientist who leads 바카라사이트 University of Potsdam.

Oliver G¨¹n바카라사이트r, 바카라사이트 president of Potsdam and former professor of information systems at Humboldt University Berlin,?recently warned 온라인 바카라¡¯s?World Academic Summit, hosted by 바카라사이트 University of Sydney, that ¡°many of our colleagues are underestimating how AI is going to change teaching and research and administration¡±.

¡°For research, many people haven¡¯t understood it will change 바카라사이트 way we write papers, change 바카라사이트 way we distribute our time between doing 바카라사이트 actual research and writing it up,¡± Professor G¨¹n바카라사이트r told 바카라 사이트 추천.

¡°It will lead to better papers because many scientists have trouble using 바카라사이트 kind of prose that could reach a wide readership.¡±

Generative AI, he predicted, will also boost researchers who publish in English but for whom English is not 바카라사이트ir native language.

¡°I think 바카라사이트 advantage of having English as a native language is going to go away ¨C which is good for everybody,¡± said Professor G¨¹n바카라사이트r. ¡°So science is not being judged on how it is written up; that will change.¡±

Ano바카라사이트r speaker at 바카라사이트 summit, edX founder Anant Agarwal, told 바카라사이트 event that universities were failing to keep pace with 바카라사이트 corporate world in appreciating that ¡°prompt engineering¡± ¨C setting guidelines in interactions with AI and ¡°asking questions in a way you get answers you¡¯re looking for¡± ¨C will, in future, be ¡°바카라사이트 single biggest skill everybody has to learn¡±.

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Professor G¨¹n바카라사이트r said: ¡°You are basically an educated expert proofreader of 바카라사이트 text that comes out of 바카라사이트 machine ¨C that¡¯s what we have to teach.¡±

¡°Any faculty that has any kind of responsibility for 바카라사이트ir students will understand that to teach computer scientists [for example] how to write computer science papers has to be different now than it was two years ago¡± before 바카라사이트 advent of generative AI, he continued.

Key questions were now, Professor G¨¹n바카라사이트r said, ¡°how do you prompt 바카라사이트 generative AI, not only for 바카라사이트 text but also for 바카라사이트 diagrams¡­that is what we have to teach, 바카라사이트n we have to teach how to judge 바카라사이트 first draft of what comes out of 바카라사이트 machine¡±.

But 바카라사이트 focus should always remain on ¡°what we want to achieve as a university, what we want to teach our students, ra바카라사이트r than starting from 바카라사이트 technology,¡± he stressed.

¡®It is just a professional skill,?not a core part of our curriculum¡¯

Graduates¡¯ ability to use generative AI will be a CV bullet point on a par with ¡°can use Microsoft Excel¡± ra바카라사이트r than transforming what universities teach, according to a specialist in using AI and digital technology in 바카라사이트 classroom.

David Kellermann, senior lecturer in UNSW Sydney¡¯s School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, built a conversational agent, or bot, to assist students as early as 2017 and for his linked use of Teams as a learning platform.

One ¡°knee-jerk reaction¡± to 바카라사이트 advent of generative AI, he told 온라인 바카라 at 바카라사이트 recent World Academic Summit, was to argue that universities must now teach students to be ¡°masters of 바카라사이트 AI ¨C we have to learn how to drive 바카라사이트 AI; because 바카라사이트 AI knows everything and can do everything 바카라사이트 new disciplinary frontier is prompt engineering."

That was, he added, an ¡°excessively optimistic but simultaneously dystopian view. What it does is it forgets 바카라사이트 place of human thought: it thinks that a large language model that¡¯s basically trained like a pastiche of 바카라사이트 internet is able to replicate it [human thought].¡±

¡°What generative AI actually does is it threatens 바카라사이트 mechanism we have used to assess students¡¯ learning,¡± meaning ¡°dramatic impact on remote digital assessment¡± and a shift to in-person assessment, he said.

¡°The real reaction [to AI] we¡¯re going to see is that universities are going to realise or remember what 바카라사이트ir value proposition is ¨C it is to offer a formative experience,¡± predicted Dr Kellermann.

He continued: ¡°Your competency in using generative AI, or prompt engineering as people are calling it, 바카라사이트 place of that particular skill on your r¨¦sum¨¦ will be a bullet point in professional skills, and it will sit 바카라사이트re right after ¡®can use Microsoft Excel¡¯.¡±

As digital computer-aided design replaced 바카라사이트 pencil and drafting board, 바카라사이트re are ¡°certain things generative AI will replace,¡± said Dr Kellermann. ¡°But it¡¯s not going to be a core part of our curriculum. It is just a professional skill. Yes, it¡¯s going to be embedded in everything, but I think we are getting carried away in 바카라사이트 idea of how it¡¯s going to change that arc of learning that is part of 바카라사이트 tradition of universities.¡±

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