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Delcie Bean says AI promises to disrupt not only administrative and computer careers, but law, medicine, and a wide range of other fields.
Liu, assistant professor and director of Applied Data Science at Bay Path, has been using ChatGPT in her classes, helping students fin- ish programming projects.
“She gives them a start, and then they have to finish it; they use Python or whatever to finish it,” Loper explained. “Now, she’s let- ting them use ChatGPT, and they’re finishing it in seconds. And it’s very accurate, very fast. She’s excited about that. That’s an example where ChatGPT uses large language learning to help it finish some- thing that you started without you giving it much guidance at all, other than the start of the program.”
Loper noted that ChatGPT also gives different answers to ques-
tions based on who’s asking and in what way.
“The algorithm, for whatever reason, is drawing on what it
thinks is ideal, but your past references influence the way that it searches. The type of question you ask generates a certain type of format and answer. So if you’re asking a business question, you get an answer in a business format. If you’re asking a question for a lit- erary magazine, you get a different format.”
And that raises issues with academic plagiarism, Loper noted, because professors can no longer throw a chunk of a student’s work into Google to get a definite take on whether something was lifted, verbatim, from another source.
He has experimented with generating presentations from Chat- GPT based on a series of prompts, and recognizes the ramifications for students. “It was logically laid out and put in a format that, if
a student gave it to me, I would say, ‘damn, that’s good. You really learned this material.’”
When it comes to cracking down on plagiarism, Wilson added, “we might have to abandon ship on that in a way, because it’s not so much about being original anymore as being creative in your inqui- ry and critical in your understanding of it.”
Wilson called up other AI tools as well during his talk with BusinessWest, from Butternut AI, which can build a website in 20 seconds, to Pictory AI, which generates videos, to Wondercraft AI, which asks for discussion prompts and will generate a full podcast, featuring multiple voices.
“I teach a business-analytics class, where it was all research, research, research. I don’t think it’s about research anymore,” he said of the way AI will affect academia. “I think it’s about asking the right questions. It’s about the right inquiry. It may not be about writ- ing anymore. It may be about editing and getting a draft from the AI expert and then adjusting it. The amount of content that can be cre- ated is staggering.”
Even classroom lectures can benefit, he added. “I can put in a few prompts, and it generates an entire lecture. I can go in and change the text, which will then
be re-narrated through AI. Sud-
denly, all my content is better AI
“AI has the ability to be as impactful as the internet
— possibly even as impactful as electricity — on the way business is conducted. We all knew this day was coming for
a long time, but now it’s here, and by the end of this decade, the only businesses that will still be in business are the ones that embrace the change.”
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