How Colleges are Navigating the New World of AI Chatbots

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🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Next month will mark one year since the public release of ChatGPT, the AI-enabled chatbot. The technology immediately sent shockwaves across college campuses: Would it revolutionize higher education, or simply lead to widespread cheating and plagiarism? We’ll look at how chatbots and AI are impacting higher ed, from college essays to classroom teaching. Guests: Francesca Caparas, professor of english, De Anza College Beth McMurtrie, senior writer, The Chronicle of Higher Education Jenae Cohn, executive director, UC Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning Andrew Yu, senior, UC Davis Jennifer Tran, sophomore, UC Berkeley; student representative, Committee on Teaching, Academic Senate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0	Next month will mark one year since the public release of ChatGPT, the AI-enabled chatbot.
0:58.1	The technology immediately sent shockwaves across college campuses.
1:02.3	Could it revolutionize higher education or simply lead to widespread cheating and plagiarism?
1:07.1	We'll look at how chatbots and AI are impacting higher ed from college essays
1:11.7	to classroom teaching. That's coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Leslie McClurg. I'm in today for Alexis Madrigal. The school year is well
1:42.9	underway at Bay Area Colleges and
1:44.9	universities. And while some things like homecoming and cramming for midterms never changes,
1:50.5	campuses are grappling with something very new, chat GPT. When it came out last November,
1:55.9	the new AI-enabled chatbot raised some alarming questions like will everyone just cheat will students learn anything
2:02.9	in this hour we're going to look at how artificial intelligence and chatbots are influencing higher ed
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