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When I first asked ChatGPT to tell me about myself, it got a lot of stuff right. For instance, it’s true that I have “a particular interest in issues related to minority students and education equity,” and that I’ve “written extensively about the challenges facing students from low-income families.”
But ChatGPT also got a lot of stuff wrong. For instance, I don’t hold a bachelor’s degree in English, as the chatbot claimed. Nor do I hold a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park, although, oddly enough, I did begin teaching in the college of journalism at Maryland this fall.
What really made me lose confidence in ChatGPT is when I asked if the United States ever had a president with African ancestry, and it answered no, then apologized after I reminded the chatbot about Barack Obama.
Irrespective of the reliability of ChatGPT, or lack thereof, educators are experimenting to varying degrees with the use of AI in their classrooms. Numerous headlines have trumpeted concerns that students would use ChatGPT or products like it to cheat by having them write their essays for them. However, as English professors Daniel Ernst and Troy Hicks discovered in their survey of college writing instructors, cheating isn’t their biggest concern when it comes to ChatGPT. Rather, they’re more worried about people having to compete with AI for various jobs – including writing instructors.
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Jamaal Abdul-Alim
Education Editor
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Many educators say they are worried about being unable to keep up with advances in AI.
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Daniel Ernst, Texas Woman's University; Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University
A survey about college writing instructors’ fears and anxieties about AI demonstrates that student cheating isn’t their only concern. And in fact, many have embraced it as a teaching tool.
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Arts + Culture
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Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis
Innovations in AI seem to be spurring interest in what is or isn’t real, accurate and human.
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Economy + Business
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Marick Masters, Wayne State University; Raymond Gibney Jr., Penn State
Wooing those workers will be expensive and require a lot of creativity, since many of them are employed in ‘right-to-work’ states.
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Politics + Society
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Elizabeth Mack, Michigan State University; Edward Helderop, University of California, Riverside; Tony Grubesic, University of California, Riverside
Detroit residents with past-due bills are facing water shut-offs again after a reprieve during COVID-19. At the same time, providers are also raising rates.
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Education
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Denise E. Agosto, Drexel University
Researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 17 Philadelphia parents about how their family uses digital media. Here they offer tips to promote healthy, balanced media habits for kids.
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Health + Medicine
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Barret Michalec, Arizona State University
Research shows that when health care professionals work in a collaborative manner, patient satisfaction and outcomes improve.
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Mary L. Marazita, University of Pittsburgh; Bernard J. Costello MD, DMD, University of Pittsburgh; Seth M. Weinberg, University of Pittsburgh
Joaquin Phoenix has previously been mocked for a facial scar that some have assumed is a cleft lip. Two geneticists and a surgeon explain what causes this common birth defect.
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Science + Technology
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Mike Sori, Purdue University
Five of the Uranus moons might be ocean worlds − and if there’s water, there might be life.
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International
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Ilan Kelman, UCL; Ana Prados, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Brady Podloski, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology; Gareth Byatt, UNSW Sydney
We rarely see good news headlines when a cyclone, earthquake or wildfire does not turn disastrous.
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