The California State University System, faced with an estimated budget defense of $ 428 million as much as $ 1 billion Next 12 months, on account of cuts and activities on the state level, a partnership with large technology firms announced this week, including Openaai, Google and Microsoft to bring their products for artificial intelligence into university formation.
The 23-school, 460,000-student CSU-MIT CAMPUS in San Jose, Hayward, San Francisco, Vallejo and Rohnert Park-observed, this system as a “Landmark initiative” to turn out to be America's “first and largest AI-Operated university system” . Some call it a costly and harmful image of education.
This news organization spoke to the deputy deputy vice chancellor for educational and student affairs Nathan Evans and Chief Information Officer Ed Clark, who defended the initiative, attacked. Comments which are cited directly are in quotation marks.
Q: How much do you pay Openai for Chatgpt Edu?
Ed Clark: $ 16.9 million over a term of 18 months
Martha Lincoln: “This is so deeply worrying. It's absolutely shocking. For a while we didn't even have regular paper in our copier: everything was three-hole. We don't have enough consultants on our campus. If the students have psychological concerns, they will be on the waiting list for weeks, if not months. “
Q: What other editions do CSU arise from these partnerships?
CSU spokesman: Additional costs were not quantified.
Q: What kind of technology tools do the students receive?
Clark: CSU bought an educational version of Openais Chatgpt Chatbot entitled “Chatgpt Edu” for all employees, faculties and students. Among other things, the technology of company partners could be the development of personalized “AI tutors” for college students.
Nathan Evans: The initiative will help to make sure “fairer access” to technologies in the entire CSU system. “Some of our locations have already driven this route individually, but not all of our campus have the immediate resources to do that.” The technologies is also used to assist students cope with educational and administrative procedures.
Lincoln: “This has some signals if you try to regain CSU's public image and make us appear like a guide. There are real risks with an early introduction. It looks a little naive to jump on this train first. The perceived value of the diploma could change. It will be a sign of less distinction, like an online university degree. “
Q: What is different about the Chatgpt Edu version from the regular version that someone can access?
Clark: The data are included within the CSU system and cannot be accessed or used by Openai or other external entities to train AI models or for other purposes.
Lincoln: “These are not very transparent units. I don't think CSU has a lot of influence in this agreement. “
Q: Does CSU replace the AI for human educators?
Evans: “Braid, no. This is about expanding the expectations of employers to the market at the moment and adapting to the market. “The faculty could receive grants to work with AI products and share results throughout the system.
Clark: “We can shape the future of artificial intelligence.”
Lincoln: “There are real questions how these products are used, which are not treated. University formation and the learning process are domains in which automation is very problematic. “
Q: The CSU will not use these technologies to replace employees?
Evans: “This is not the place we start. It is about: “How do we use this technology to be more adaptable to different learning styles?”
Lincoln: “We do not know whether this is reflected in faculty saws or other personnel reductions, but it could be sure. CSU is financially in very deep water. I have not yet seen the promise of the CSU that jobs or jobs are not reduced by this development. “
Q: How does the advertising for Chat -GPT and AI do not promote the fraud in the school environments?
Evans: “In real time, our locations have adapted their own expectations of academic integrity and the behavior of the students to reflect the current times and realities of these tools. This technology is also emerging and changes every day. Therefore, the limits of the boundaries of what this could look like continues to develop. “
Clark: The birth of the worldwide web led to worry about fraud. “We have to find out how we have to maintain academic integrity (but) about whether we have sat from the Internet.”
Lincoln: CSU adopted Chatgpt, unfortunately, “sends” the news to the students that we do not invest personally in them, and we are not interested in their authentic learning. “
Q: Are you concerned that you will rely on this technology if you affect the students' brain performance?
Clark: “We will judge our students differently. In every personnel environment, it will be an expectation that you know how to use these tools. “
Evans: The CSU will work with campus and faculty for course design and redesign. “I see an opportunity to model how critical thinking would look like in the Age of AI.”
Lincoln: “This is deeply opposed to the mission to develop critical thinking. It takes great effort to become a good critical thinker, and it requires a lot of effort to become a good writer. This requires time and iterative feedback: human interaction, which is expensive. Chatgpt writes badly. “
Q: Do you think these technology companies have the students' interests of education instead of just maximizing the profit?
Clark: “Investing in companies does not mean to support their policy or current points of view. We have to be part of the design of the future. “
Lincoln: CSU has become an “economic engine for California” by offering the students of minorities and working class opportunities for meaningful jobs. “It is very worrying, … to convert so much power in the educational process” to companies that are mainly affected by profit.
Q: These generative AI models are notorious to achieve false results. Are you worried?
Clark: The students must have a critical eye with the answers that they get back from artificial intelligence or Google search. There are so many misinformation out there. “
Lincoln: “We cannot (students) give these inaccurate tools that bake in errors, confusion and incorrect information.” Since KI models are trained on information that is scraped off from the Internet, it opens in education “Really the Door to recycling problematic attitudes and problematic language without supervision, context or correction ”.
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