Everyone is ready to learn new skills when it comes to artificial intelligence. But don’t expect to find a textbook on it anytime soon.
Teachers claim that any physical text would become outdated far too quickly.
“As soon as I started working with it, I knew immediately that AI would change education forever,” said Dan Jones, 7th and 8th grade social studies teacher.
He integrates a custom AI into his classroom.
“I can customize that chatbot so that it doesn’t write on behalf of my students.”
It is not a shortcut to every answer, but a conversation starter to explore and guide student knowledge.
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In another classroom, adults gathered to learn how AI can be used in their business.
James Sturtevant only started teaching AI to adults six months ago.
“Everything I look at and presented in September seems prehistoric,” he says.
And when it comes to consuming social media with more and more AI, Jeremy Carrasco is a teacher for the masses.
In just nine months, he built ShowtoolsAI into an online classroom to help others discover artificial intelligence and fake videos.
“The reason we want to identify AI is because we want to know who we can trust,” Carrasco says. “Once distrust in real videos reaches a breaking point, which I think we’re closer to than even the AI companies understand, just to be clear, that means a lot of our social interactions online become very fraught.”
“If we teach media literacy about how to identify sources you trust, how to even look at how old the account is and see if it’s realistic that they’re already that good at social media if they’ve only been posting for two months — there’s evidence that normal people can do it without being great at spotting AI videos,” Carrasco says. “I think it’s part of the toolkit that needs to be learned.”
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This story was originally published by Clay LePard with the Scripps News Group.
