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November 22, 2024
Symposium prepares lecturers for AI future
Atereano Mateariki
Posted On November 22, 2024
Download AudioA symposium is talking about how to prepare university and polytechnic lecturers for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Tūwhitia Symposium 2024, held at the Unitec Mount Albert campus, featured speakers like Peter-Lucas Jones, CEO of Te Hiku Media, who is using AI to create a te reo Māori transcription tool. Professors Jessica Vanderlelie and Adam Bridgeman from Australia are using AI to improve learning outcomes.
Paora Ammunson, Deputy Chief Executive of the Tertiary Education Commission, compares the rise of AI to the rise of newspapers in the 1800s, which were useful tools but also needed to be used carefully.
He says experts believe we can’t avoid AI, so educators are trying to figure out how to assess students who use it.
“These kinds of technologies can accentuate the existing inequalities. So if you’ve got a bit of money, you can pay for the flasher version of Chat GPT or whatever it is. But on the other hand, this will speed up processes. This will enable learners to have access where you can enter a question into a generative AI machine, and it will produce you the PhD thesis in 10 minutes flat,” says Ammunson.
The symposium finishes later today.
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