Listen to this podcast from Harvard by one of my favorite superstars in instructional technologies, Chris Dede. This really helps to put things into perspective. AI isn’t human. It can generate responses, but it doesn’t understand what it is saying. “Generative AI” can make the difference. According to Dede, we should consider “evidence-based modeling” where the AI can access multiple resources to help generate a forecast based on past behavior.

Is ChatGPT disruptive? Yes, without a doubt. But do we need to try to fight it? What’s the point in that? Embrace it. Adapt to it. Design with AI in mind.

“Raises the bar for human performance…”
“AI…helps us understand the kind of writing that we should be teaching versus the kind of writing that we are teaching.” 

 “Yeah, don’t be scared. AI is not smart. It really isn’t. People would be appalled if they knew how little AI understands what it’s telling you, especially given how much people seem to be relying on it. But it is capable of taking over parts of what you do that are routine and predictable and, in turn, freeing up the creative and innovative and the human parts that are really rewarding part of bork and life.”