Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are a new tool that I have not explored or really been exposed to until this week. ChatGPT has been a hot topic of conversation in my classes this semester, yet I have been hesitant to explore it until this week. With many different consequences being implemented regarding the use of ChatGPT by professors and the university wavered me away from using it, until this week. After completing this week’s content on AI tools and ChatGPT I can see how it can be a beneficial tool in any person’s everyday life.
I can see myself using AI tools to my benefit as I continue through my educational career and in the real world once I have graduated and moved on to whatever job I end up in. As you can see in the image inserted below, I tried ChatGPT for the first time and asked it a question regarding my blog prompt for the week, “what can AI tools be used for?” ChatGPT responded with eight different beneficial ways that AI can be used: automation, prediction, personalization, natural language processing (NLP), image and video analysis, healthcare, marketing, and cybersecurity. It then finished off by stating, “Overall, AI tools have the potential to improve efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making across a wide range of industries and applications” which I agree with. AI, I think can be a very beneficial tool for anybody no matter what their profession is. For my own learning, I can see myself using ChatGPT and other similar AI tools to help me brainstorm ideas, develop and edit my first draft of essays and projects, and simplify explanations for complex topics that I am struggling to understand. With hopes of becoming an elementary school teacher, I too can see ChatGPT being of use to me. As mentioned in ChatGPT and The Professionals Guide to Using AI I could use it as a tool to help grade and generate feedback on my student’s work, generate lesson plans and activities, create fake essays for the students to edit and review, and so much more. With all of this being said there are some tasks for that I would not use AI tools. For instance, I would not use ChatGPT to write an essay for me as it has proven to have issues with some of the content it produces since it just processes the language used and does not actually understand it, as well as it cannot discriminate between different sources, leading to the use of reliable and non-reliable sources.
Overall, I believe that AI can be a beneficial tool if used for the right reasons. No matter what field of study, profession or daily task one involves themselves, ChatGPT and other AI tools can provide a form of assistance, even for the simplest tasks such as figuring out what to get someone as a Christmas present.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e00HZY1vjK0qd72cdkRUbwuiT9RcQy8kcXfBedduSpM/edit
Hey Megan, I really enjoyed reading your blog post on ChatGPT and how you can see AI tools being beneficial in your educational or professional career. I appreciate how you used images to support your exploration of ChatGPT and how you explained the benefits of AI tools in general. I enjoyed how you incorporated ways to use ChatGPT when you become an elementary school teacher, such as by generating feedback on students’ work or constructing lesson plans and activities. Great job!
Hey Megan,
I too had many reservations about exploring AI tools due to the possibility of plagiarism and or other academic integrity issues. I appreciate you dedicating time to research the different uses of AI tools . I never thought about how AI could be uses outside of writing essays for school. Your example of using AI tools for teaching, such as grading and generating lesson plans encouraged me to try using ChatGPT to generate flash cards to help me practice active recall while studying for the exam session.
As technology becomes more and more advanced, a lot of Artificial Intelligence tools start to be widely used, and ChatGPT is also as one of the most popular AI tools recently. I agree with your idea and I also think ChatGPT can effectively help us deal with our concerns at work. Like you said, it can help you “grade and generate feedback on student’s work, generate lesson plans and activities”, I believe that in a sense it is very convenient. However, I will neither use ChatGPT to write an essay because it is using the big data to put together an essay, but it’s not a personal idea. Therefore, I would not like to completely rely on ChatGPT in my life. Thank you for sharing your ideas of Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT.
Megan, I really like how you explained the many benefits of using AI tools like ChatGPT in your future educational career. I agree with the idea that this tool can be powerful in that it can grade and provide feedback on a student’s work, and even generate lesson plans. I think that using AI for educational purposes (as mentioned above) can generate a variety of interesting ways to brainstorm and to think of new ideas that one might have never thought of before. I also agree with your idea that AI can be used as a form of assistance, in that it comes up with ideas that can spark our curiosity. Overall, I agree with your thought that AI is a very beneficial tool that allows anyone from any type of profession to receive potentially helpful and informative ideas.