Questions about generative artificial intelligence.

Generative artificial intelligence is scary. This new tool has brought a wealth of new experiences to many people. I can only begin to imagine how this will affect society as we currently know it. I am quite terrified of these new tools which I have at my disposal. Image generation using DALLE, or other software can only be described as a visceral experience. I asked it to generate an image of a women conducting a chemistry experiment and it was able to spit out two incredible images of two unreal chemists holding a collection of flasks with colorful liquids inside. Other than image generative artificial intelligence, there are large language models which are now widely accessible. I pay for the privilege of getting faster response times with ChatGPT 4. Can these large language models complete my homework? Can they write my essay? Yes, yes they can. As an educator, I think about the threat to professional credentials. Will tests be more important now that students can use generative large language models to write their homework? Will professional accreditation become obsoletely useless as students use these models to complete their course work? How can educators incorporate these new tools into our classrooms? How can we embrace these new tools?

JLS