ChatGPT
The debate about AI
Is AI knowledge?
If knowledge is gained through experience and education, and AI learns and adapts (first line of third paragraph), isn’t this knowledge?
…there’s the learn and adapt again.
Here’s an example of the learning.
TASK – Use ChatGPT yourself or in groups. What questions can you develop about knowledge? You can use some of the KQ’s or Exhibition prompts. What do you think of the answers? Does ChatGPT appear knowledgeable?
ChatGPT ‘argues’ that it is not knowledge because it does not understand. So how is knowledge different to understanding?
TASK – How is knowledge different to understanding? What is the difference between the information given by ChatGPT and knowledge?
How is the human mind different to ChatGPT?
The article above criticises AI, it will be/is unable to move beyond identifying patterns to develop an answer or conclusion.
ChatGPT can answer the questions with the answers that you want. If you believe that ‘we’ have an online profile (via search engines and social media the AI will know what you read and how often) it should not be too challenging to think of what answer you want.
Can AI know the intricacies of language?
Words and phrases can have different meanings in one language, let alone different cultures and countries.
To what extent can AI replace human expertise?
Do you agree with the judgement below?
Can AI know more than an expert?
Can AI reduce human knowledge?
How ChatGPT Is Redefining Human Expertise: Or How To Be Smart When AI Is Smarter Than You.
ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution
A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision
6 Ways That Humans Are Different Than AI (And Why it Matters to Schools)
Robo-debt disgrace shows why AI cannot replace important jobs
ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think
If you allow AI to do more of the jobs you used to do yourself, is knowledge lost, or replaced?
Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, argues that AI could be very dangerous to humanity.
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘I don’t know if humans can survive AI’
The Social Dilemma
Social Dilemma Fails to Tackle the Real Issues in Tech
- How do you know you know something?
- How do you know it was your decision to know something, to have an opinion?
- How do you decide how technology should be used?
Scope
To what extent is the Internet changing what it means to know something?
Perspectives
To what extent do social networks reinforce our existing perspective rather than boosting our engagement with different perspectives?
Methods and Tools
How do the tools that we use shape the knowledge that we produce?
Ethics
How should we hold people responsible for the applications of knowledge they create?
Watch the Social Dilemma from 12 to 22 minutes. What questions does it raise?
22 to 31 minutes – psychology
37 to 43 minutes – Impact on the younger generation.
45 to 46 – the power of technology
46 to 52 – algorithms
Choose one of the KQs from above and develop both a claim and counter claim to answer it. You should also include at least one perspective for each argument too.
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