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Tens of millions of individuals have seen Google’s Gemini advert that has run in the course of the Olympics (should you haven’t seen it, I’ve embedded it under).
In it, a mother or father asks AI to jot down a letter for his little lady to her monitor idol.
I believe this can be a horrible manner to make use of AI! The truth is, it’s so horrible that I’ll be incorporating the advert into my week-long unit on AI in my Principle of Information class this yr (see A NEW WAY I’M INTRODUCING MY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT TO STUDENTS – WITH HANDOUT).
If college students are going to make use of AI, we wish them to make use of it to boost their very own voice, not use AI’s voice (see HERE’S THE AI GUIDANCE I’M GIVING TO MY TOK STUDENTS THIS YEAR.).
As you’ll be able to see within the steering I give, college students must do the first writing and, then, in the event that they select to make use of AI, use particular prompts to assist them make it higher.
Apparently, the few college students who used AI final yr and submitted each variations (theirs and the AI-enhanced one) have been as stunned as I used to be how a lot worse the AI variations have been than their non-AI assisted ones.
So, at this level, I’m undecided it’s attainable for AI to really improve an essay other than discovering punctuation and spelling errors. Nonetheless, college students appear to get the significance of the thought of utilizing it to boost their voice as a substitute of the opposite manner round, and might usually see when it normally isn’t profitable in doing that.
This Google advert can be good to display that time.
By the best way, the opposite new addition to my AI unit might be speaking in regards to the have an effect on of AI on local weather change.
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