ChatGPT isn’t going to make us slaves; uninspired education might | Opinion
The new open artificial intelligence chatbot called ChatGPT is either the most helpful tool to come to academia in decades or a threat to human learning and higher education. Many schools aren’t waiting for this to play out and are outright banning it from classrooms while hurriedly retooling assignments and exams to prevent its use.
Discounting events and information generated after 2021, or never digitized, it already knows more than the most knowledgeable professor on campus or all of them put together. Regarding ChatGPT’s ability to generate new knowledge, it can create a list of essay topics or questions for an exam. And it can write those essays and answer those questions. It can even place these topics and questions in the larger body of such issues and queries and determine historically which were more or less important to people in the past.
The challenge here for academics is that the kind of objective knowledge and analysis which has been the Enlightenment/Modern ideal of learning is quickly produced by ChapGPT and AI more generally. As long as essays and tests are objective, ChatGPT will master them. But if they require that the student bring their subjective experience into play, then ChatGPT will fail. It has no personal experience, only reports of the emotional experiences of others.
AI-assisted language models challenge schools and universities to refocus on their students as humans in the sense of being conscious and continuously engaged with their physical and social surroundings. Humans gain discernment regarding particular fields of study, but more importantly, about their fellow humans. Humans bring the value of their subjectivity to developing new knowledge and solving new problems.
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