ORONO – With the rise of artificial intelligence, Maine's educators work together to determine both the advantages and disadvantages of the way technology is used – and what it means for the future.
This month, the University of Maine organized its second annual conference Maine AI bringing together experts, educators and others from the whole state to weigh on the subject and to find out more about this.
Some of the dishes to remember from the conference, including reflections on biases and the environmental cost of AI, can be Online.
Umaine professor of new media Jon Ippolito, who was also a facilitator of the panel “AI for teaching and creativity” at the conference, said in an interview with Spectrum News that an AI way could be used is to combine it with the work done by humans.
“We also work with students and teachers to say” hey, what is an appropriate use of the tool, and what is inappropriate? ” And is it possible to outsource something in which it is really good, while keeping what humans are good in the loop, “said Ippolito. “For example, a mission I give is the” AI sandwich “, where you have the AI ​​that does the things in which it is good, but you have humans who do interviews like this, nobody to anyone. Which, you know, robots cannot speak to people yet.
However, Ippolito said that a potential drawback of AI in education is that it could remove the strengthening of skills that accompanies traditional class work.
“AI brings both promise and danger for educators and students. You have the advantage of “Wow, suddenly, students can create things that they could not create before,” said Ippolito. “On the other hand, there is also the danger that you have this kind of experience in trigger, that you lose this feeling of strengthening skills or personal growth that you get from a traditional classroom.”
Ippolito said it is important for people to continue to examine how to use AI appropriately.
“There is a real false idea that (Ai) is like a calculator:” Oh well, we had calculators, and they were disruptive, and now we incorporate calculators “. (But) If you ask a calculator to multiply 12 by 69, that will not give you the wrong answer, “said Ippolito. “But sometimes, Chatgpt, or Gemini or Claude will give you the bad answer. So you need to know how these things work enough to know when using them and when not doing it.”
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“There is a lot of research at the University of Maine on AI, but in terms of impact that he has on the courses – it's a kind of class by class,” said Ippolito. “Some teachers are always a bit like” I'm not sure it's good “, and others go in everything. And what we are trying to do is support everyone in their growth by exploring the advantages or disadvantages of these technologies. ”
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