CofC Podcast: ChatGPT and Conversational A.I. Explained
In the past, we’ve seen science fiction movies where people have conversations with robots. This is no longer fiction. With the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI, chatbots have become a topic of excitement and concern around the world due to their ability to mimic human intelligence. On this episode of Speaking of … College of Charleston, computer science professors Navid Hashemi and Sarah Schoemann delve into the use of artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT and what the rise of the conversational chatbot means for higher education, work and life in general.
Hashemi finds this development revolutionary and compares it to the Industrial Revolution when machines replaced muscles. Here, systems are trying to help the brain make better decisions and make life easier. He believes that we are going to see a lot of advancement in different fields like drug discovery, music, art, robotics, social living, driving and self-driving in the next few years.
An important question and debate around this AI tech is how these language models will change higher education and whether it should be embraced or banned outright from classrooms.
Schoemann thinks that this technology needs a nuanced approach and states that banning it outright will fail as students are savvy. She, however, is not sure that it needs to become the center of the classroom.
AI expert Timnit Gebru talks to 60 minutes about bias in large language models like ChatGPT. Refik Anadol is an artist who uses AI to create wall-sized generative art, using only “ethically sourced data” as training data. To learn more about ChatGPT, visit their official website at https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt.
