Can we use AI for our Master thesis? The answer to that is no but is that a good thing or should we be allowed to use AI?
I came across this video on YouTube that had some pretty interesting insights about this topic.
At the beginning not everyone knew where to use AI chatbots for. But for students it was pretty obvious to use it for school assignments to give answers to questions and even with .4 versions of ChatGPT AI can analyze data, read images files, and write at the college level.
What does this mean for education?
How do we know that students have learned?
Banning AI
To ban AI, schools have to block AI websites, they need to use AI detecting software to detect Ai generated texts and shifting more work into class hours and onto paper.
But there are a lot of pros and cons for banning AI completely. Teachers don’t want to be policing measures like this. The detection software is really imperfect and can cause false positives. How can teacher accuse a student of using AI when they are not 100% sure.
Does it make sense to ban chatbot when tech companies are inserting them everywhere else.
Grammerly, Notion, Google Docs have a “help me write” and other functions that are considered AI. Do we now have to cite all the AI we are using?
Allowing AI
Allowing AI in school can be helpful for students to understand how to use AI and how future generations are using it. It will become part of our everyday lives such as spelling checkers, translation software and calculators.
But ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are still not perfect. There are a lot of flaws and you can’t just copy and paste. But how do you know when something it correct when you don’t know anything about the subject. But we have that problem with humans as well.
The risk with AI is that we are not learning enough from it because it’s a passive way of gaining information. Learning it not about having the right/correct answer but it is about the struggle and the growth. It’s for students to realize “this” is where I use ChatPGT for and “this” is where I don’t need to use ChatGPT for.
I think for highschoolers it would be better to ban ChatGPT since they didn’t choose to study and would use AI to quickly get rid of their homework. But College and University Student choose to study for a curtain topic and they want to learn and that hopefully makes them smart enough to use AI in a responsible way. As a Master student you choose to be in university and why would you waste an opportunity to let AI make all your assignments and learn nothing from it.
Vox. (2023, 12. Dezember). AI can do your homework. Now what? [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEJ0_TVXh-I
