This blog post will focus on Week 6, which covers Artificial Intelligence, Academic Integrity and Copyright. This post will cover the two lectures from Dr. David Wiley and Lucas Wright and the article titled “Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)”.
Dr. David Wiley – Open and AI
Wiley begin his lecture by speaking on the influence of the overreach of copyright in the modern technology based world relating to sharing materials.
Wiley speaks on Open Licensing, which essentially means that the content, such as textbooks, articles, academic sources open and available for anybody to use. Wiley said this was positive because it allowed people to use, share, and create content which created a more accessible and legal framework for education.
Open’s original problem with copyrighting everything in the world created issues because of the mass amount of content that is created and only about 1% of that content would actually need to be protected with copyright law due to commercialization. In context of educational resources, Open was created to allow access and sharing of these materials without dealing with the complications of copyright material when there is no context of commercialization.
Lucas Wright – Generative A.I.
Lucas Wright spoke on generative A.I. which includes tools such as ChatGPT and it’s influence on day-to-day work. Wright showed the example of a custom GPT where you can upload different documents and customize the commands to the bot. One example showed was the email responder, in which the bot will summarize and respond to emails. Creating different agents creates different methods to efficiently and accessible methods for time consuming tasks. One interesting point brought up by Wright was questioning if A.I. will evolve and/or change how we communicate. For example, if we are all using A.I. to respond to email and people are using A.I. to respond, then it brings up questions such as why we are using these forms of communication.
Another tool Wright provided was NotebookLM, which is a product by google that takes articles and creates content based on commands and prompts provided by the user. Wright’s example was uploading academic articles and using it to create exercises for students, based on the compilation of articles provided.
One research tool provided by Wright was called Gemini, which is another product created by google. By providing the search engine a prompt, it scans academic articles and provides information based on the prompts. Wright says that it provides reliable sources and more in-depth searches when compared to ChatGPT.
Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This paper by the “Asian Journal of Distance Education”, focuses on the role of Artificial Intelligence and its role in education in the present and the future. This paper highlights that A.I. has made signigicant stride in completing tasks on behalf of educators and because of the lack of quality control, educators should reevaulate how A.I. and people should collaborate in an educational setting.
The paper suggests that with the new development of A.I. there should be an established literacy that helps educators understand the advantages and limitations of A.I. For example, A.I. is excellent for responding to emails and completing mundain taks, such as summarizing and simple responses, but limitations should be set because there are still errors in A.I. and the influences of ethics and sustaiblity should be considered.