TU Delft lecturers discuss ChatGPT
Derek Lomas, assistant professor of Positive Artifical Intelligence (AI) at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, is setting up an ‘open community’ for TU teachers where they can share their experiences, ideas and concerns about ChatGPT and AI in education. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that can generate human-like text.
Lomas is collecting experiences of teachers using AI in academic writing. Students in his subject Entrepreneurial Thinking may use ChatGPT to help with brainstorming. With that experience under his belt, he runs workshops within the TU Delft Teaching Academy, for example on how ChatGPT can help when writing a paper. Questions such as “can we be proud of what we write with ChatGPT?”, “are we getting too lazy because of this programme?” and “what will be the new learning objectives for students if ChatGPT takes over many tasks?” are also discussed.
According to Lomas, ChatGPT will not take over all students’ tasks. During his workshop, for instance, several teachers told him that students were caught using ChatGPT because they referred to fictional sources. Lomas, therefore, sees ChatGPT not as a source of truth, but as a source of new perspectives, he says. “Many people see that ChatGPT can ‘lie’ and assume it, therefore, has no value. But coming up with counterarguments, brainstorming ideas or making the text more readable are all useful functions.” (TB)
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