Artificial intelligence, with all its growing power and influence, is still not a replacement for rational human judgment.
That important point emerged on Wednesday in a panel discussion at Augusta University about Generative AI, the system of algorithms with which computers can produce concepts and ideas and even help solve problems with or above humanity.
The great language model programs that are used to train AIs, such as Chat GPT, Churn through huge data sets to learn how to express concepts such as real people.
Knowing the difference, panel members said, will help users use AI with the most success.
Dr. Trent Kays, a university teacher and director of the composition of the university at AU, helped the point illustrate by extracting an icy milkshake from an isolated bag and giving it to Au vice -provost Zach Kelehear.
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The printed photo of Kays of the same Shake showed an accurate image but less than accurate taste.
“We have to determine a concept of what is real and what is not real,” he said.
Dr. Candis Bond is interim chairman of AU’s Department of English and World Languages. Students in her first -year writing courses are not allowed to use Chat GPT, especially in a learning phase when they still control critical thinking.
“It is not because I am not in any way anti-technology or even anti-AI, but it is because I don’t really have the confidence that most students have the skills in a first-year writing course that is needed to do even the things we do,” she said. “I want them to get the chance to actually learn how to do those things for themselves.”
If you have used AI to make a travel schedule or a presentation overview, you are working on ‘cognitive offloading’, the term describing that continuing less analytical tasks to AI to AI, while the employee focuses on tasks that require the nuanced involvement of a human brein.
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Cognitive offloading can create a seductive and smooth slope in the direction of a transmission on AI. That is dangerous territory, according to panel member Ernesto Cortez, a 27-year-old American army veteran with military and private sector experience with information collecting through cyber warfare.
“There is a risk to skip the work,” he said. “So we immediately jump to a perfect essay, a completed essay where we get an A-plus, but you didn’t do the work.”
With AI as an improvement instead of a replacement, users can discover how they can maintain their creativity and originality and at the same time tease extra inspiration.
“Embrace those things. Use them. Absolutely experiment with it, so that you don’t stay in the digital gap,” Cortez said. “Experiment with those things to see how it makes a part of your work better.”
This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: What is the best Navigator for AI? Human judgment, says au panel
