As artificial intelligence continues to innovate day by day, this technology will now enter the education system. One of the most prestigious Ivy League in the United States will be using AI-generated chatbots to teach students for a computer science coding class.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA - JUNE 4: Harvard University students at the School of Education hold up books as their degree is announced during commencement ceremonies June 4, 2009 in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Using AI-Powered Bots to Teach University Students
Harvard University revealed its plans to incorporate artificial intelligence tools to teach computer science coding classes as the university ventures into innovative technology. According to a report from Interesting Engineering, students will be able to use a class bot to learn the CS50 module using AI software described as an "evolution of that tradition."
As per Computer Science 50 professor David J. Malan through an email, this will potentially start this coming fall. "Students will be able to use AI to help find bugs in their code, give feedback on the design of student programs, explain unfamiliar lines of code or error messages, and answer the individual question." he added.
Course educators have been experimenting with the technology through both GPT models 3.5 and 4. Malan added that they are hoping that they can eventually approximate a 1:1 teacher-student ratio for every student in the class through AI. Through these software-based tools, students will have the support for learning 24/7 at their own pace and in a style that works best for them.
Technically, bots will have the ability to teach students to find errors in their coding, answer questions related to the course, offer genuine feedback to their works, and help them learn more about the process of coding in different ways. Bots' responses can be also reviewed by human staff members from time to time to ensure the technology's accuracy.
As Harvard costs $334,000 for a four-year degree course based on the rates from the school year of 2022-2023, students can most likely expect that CS50 will start incorporating AI by September at the latest without bugs and problems.
Raising Concerns for Education
Fox News reported that advancements in artificial intelligence through education have raised worries and concerns as it give students more reasons to become lazy and dependent on AI for their work and school tasks. In recent months, students have been using ChatGPT chatbots to complete their assignments which leads to plagiarism and ungenuine tasks.
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Outside of the university and educational setup, AI developers and software engineers have been struggling to incorporate OpenAI's new ChatGPT-4 into their workflow. This was called into question when the algorithm became deteriorated lately. Reports said that the tool generates more buggy code and results.
Daily Mail reported that the community from the industry described the skills of the newly-released version of ChatGPT as "significantly worse" compared to the previous versions as it is prone to superficial responses and lobotomized in its results to coding prompts.
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