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Artificial Intelligence & Higher Education

This guide focuses on resources to help students, faculty, and staff navigate the new reality of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and to understand the impact they will have on teaching, learning, and scholarly research.

AI Hype and Issues

ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused : The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence
The Washington Post, 4/5/2023
It takes a body to understand the world – why ChatGPT and other language AIs don’t know what they’re saying
The Conversation, 4/6/2023
Decoding the Hype About AI: A conversation with Arvind Narayanan
The Markup, 1/28/23
You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this
Intelligencer, New York Magazine, 3/1/23
A checklist of eighteen pitfalls in AI journalism
from personal university website of Arvind Narayanan (professor of computer science at Princeton University)
9/30/22
ChatGPT hype in the Washington Post
Emily Bender, Medium, 12/15/22
The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking: The human brain could explain why AI programs are so good at writing grammatically superb nonsense.
The Atlantic, 1/31/23
Generative AI Won’t Revolutionize Search — Yet
Harvard Business Review, 2/23/23
ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think. Treat it like a toy, not a tool.
The Atlantic, 12/7/22

Additional AI Resources

Pew Research Center Topics: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence: Background, Selected Issues, and Policy Considerations
Congressional Research Service, 5/19/21

Last Updated: Apr 28, 2024 1:34 PM
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Subjects: Computer Science, Education, Technology

Tags: ChatGPT, generative AI