While much of the education world is worried about the growing popularity of ChatGPT among students, the University of Arizona decided to take the problem from another angle. Indeed, it now gives courses to learn how to use AI correctly, arguing that it is better to embrace change than to fight against it.
ChatGPT has not even been available for a year and everyone already agrees that the tool is the next great revolution for humanity. Many fields are also concerned about how quickly AI has been adopted by its users. That of education, in particular, is struggling to know how to react to the tidal wave. For some, the answer is clear: we must firmly refuse the use of the chatbot among students.
But for others, the nuance is in order. If the takeover of ChatGPT and generative AIs is inevitable, why not rather learn to use them to better tame them? This is the reflection of Andrew Maynard, professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS), a university in Arizona, who now gives courses to learn how to use ChatGPT correctly.
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In Arizona, you can now learn how to use ChatGPT well
His course, called “Basic command engineering”, aims to provide students with good practices for writing quality prompts, allowing them to optimize the results obtained on ChatGPT, but also to raise awareness about artificial intelligence and the possibilities offered. by this technology. “We got to a point where I clearly realized there was a lot of panic, a lot of questioning and things were moving fast,” explains the teacher.
“People say, ‘Generative AI will steal your work.’ If so, we better do something about it and make sure students innovate and succeed”says Jules White, director of the Future of Learning and Generative AI program at Vanderbilt University, citing a widespread fear that OpenAI does not hesitate to confirm openly.
Source: Inside Higher Ed