Perspectives on AI
Here’s a quick read about AI in the education system. John Naugton writes for The Guardian, and here the focus is on tertiary education. Some interesting thoughts on why we needn’t panic, but how we will have to change, especially in the assessment arena. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/24/ai-cheating-chat-gpt-openai-writing-essays-school-university Two quotes: “AI is a ‘cultural technology’, like writing, print, libraries, internet search… a tool for human augmentation, not replacement. “ “Reliably detecting the output of generative AI systems without an embedded watermark is beyond the current state of the art, which is unlikely to change in a projectable timeframe.” As is so often the