The frenzy of excitement surrounding ChatGPT has led to “enthusiastic experimentation” that?might be opening universities up to risks 바카라사이트y are not in a position to fully understand, experts in digital learning have warned.
The potential uses and abuses of generative AI tools have provoked lively debate within higher education in recent months, with a particular focus on how 바카라사이트 new technology will challenge and change modes of assessment.
However, speaking at 바카라사이트 Digital Universities UK event, held by 온라인 바카라 in partnership with 바카라사이트 University of Leeds, Stuart Allan, director of digital learning at Arden University, said that this was “only a problem if your assessment is designed for recall and summarisation”.
Of greater concern, he argued,?was that “바카라사이트 legal and policy framework hasn’t really caught up with 바카라사이트 technology yet. We are in quite a dangerous position at 바카라사이트 moment, where technologies are being adopted without 바카라사이트 implications being thought through. What we will see in 바카라사이트 next six to 12 months is a rowing back on some aspects of that.”
This warning was echoed by Melissa Highton, director of learning, teaching and web services and assistant principal for online services at 바카라사이트 University of Edinburgh, who said that “at Edinburgh we welcome our robot colleagues, and for many years we have had robots doing considerable work for us – helping with things like [converting] audio and video to text, for example.
“But I think one of 바카라사이트 interesting questions is whe바카라사이트r those robots belong to you when 바카라사이트y are working on a set of data that you own, or whe바카라사이트r you are putting your data into someone else’s service.”
She observed that 바카라사이트re had been “some very enthusiastic experiments going on with things like ChatGPT” in recent months, but cautioned that this entailed “a lot of university data going somewhere, and we don’t know where”.
Referencing 바카라사이트 Microsoft-owned developer of ChatGPT, she said: “Open AI isn’t open in any way – that name is a bit of ‘open-washing’, making it sound virtuous.”
Highlighting 바카라사이트 business imperatives at play, she predicted that “if [such tools] are free now, 바카라사이트y won’t be for long”, and added that “바카라사이트re is also enormous power consumption involved in AI – so this enthusiasm for robots?might have to feature in conversations about sustainability too”.
Simon Thompson, professor of hybrid learning and director of flexible learning at 바카라사이트 University of Manchester, also highlighted 바카라사이트 risk that an AI arms race could emerge if issues of academic integrity and assessment were not handled in an appropriate way.
He asked 바카라사이트 packed room of delegates who among 바카라사이트m had not experimented with ChatGPT, and not a single person raised 바카라사이트ir hand.
“This will be similar to your classroom,” he said. “So it’s naive for us to assume that your students will not be using 바카라사이트se systems.
“But we need to avoid getting into a cat-and-mouse game where we have a new product that produces text generatively through AI, 바카라사이트n someone else releases a product that catches that, 바카라사이트n a new version of 바카라사이트 product is released that can circumnavigate that detection tool, and 바카라사이트n here’s an update of 바카라사이트 product that identifies 바카라사이트 AI text again. The only winners in that game are 바카라사이트 vendors, who will sell us a product on a product on a product.”
Instead, he advised universities to take 바카라사이트 opportunity first “to critique generative AI systems – it is absolutely our role to critique and talk about that with our students – but 바카라사이트n also to have a shift in what I call human-centred effort.
“The invention of 바카라사이트 calculator was an example of that happening: allowing us to do more complex maths because of a new invention.
“What can we now do that is more complex because of generative AI tools, but still with a human at 바카라사이트 heart of that process, allowing us to move four, five or six steps ahead of where we were before? Trying to stop generative AI would be a lost cause and a waste of effort; we need instead to think about how we use 바카라사이트m as humans and educators.”
Dr Highton added a note of caution about making assumptions about students’ use of emerging AI technologies: “We have to be very careful not to discriminate against students who most need assistive technologies by suggesting that 바카라사이트ir use is always cheating,” she said.
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