The world feels in many ways like it is changing right before us, but we also have had other parallel technological advances that have happened. The sky has not fallen when the typewriter existed or when publishing when you could actually publish in mass and those kinds of advances. I think another thing is when people go into play with chat GPT, often what you'll get is good, surprisingly good, but not great.
Cynthia Alby discusses how artificial intelligence (like ChatGPT) is impacting higher education on episode 448 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If AI can do it well, it is possible that we could hand things over to AI that would allow us to do other things that we wouldn’t have had time to do.
-Cynthia Alby
When students are doing work that matters to them, they don’t turn to AI for anything other than a little help.
-Cynthia Alby
How can we ask students to do things that are worth doing?
-Cynthia Alby