New artificial intelligence technology makes it frighteningly easy for Norwegian students to cheat at school. A chatbot is a computer program intended to communicate with you. But ChatGPT, released by the company Open Ai last week, can do more. So much more. The computer program uses artificial intelligence to do everything from coding a complete app to analyzing poems by Henrik Ibsen. The text that is produced cannot be found anywhere else. BAKMANN: Elon Musk co-founded Open Ai, which is behind ChatGPT, in 2015. Here on a visit to Norway earlier this autumn. Photo: Josef Benoni Ness Tveit / news This is the big discussion in Norwegian teachers’ rooms during the day. On Monday this week, the cup ran over when the National Association for Norwegian Education sent a message of concern to the Storting politicians. “On behalf of the Norwegian subject (and others), I want to raise a big concern. Teachers, both in Norwegian and other subjects, are experiencing that students are increasingly making use of openly available artificial intelligence in their own written work”. The letter continues: “I am very concerned about the development and believe that in the long term it threatens the population’s writing and reading skills, democracy and the development of new ideas and knowledge. We have to insist that pupils acquire good reading and writing skills, which I hope the country’s politicians agree with.” Chat GPT artificial intelligence assistant, programmed to help answer questions and solve problems developed by Open Ai, founded by Sam Altman and Elon Musk in 2015 uses machine learning of language models to produce text has no information after 2021 speaks Norwegian Devaluation of the degree BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE: Morten Irgens is positive that students will be allowed to use artificial intelligence in school work. Photo: Kristiania/Jonatan Quintero Morten Irgens is project manager for research and artistic development work at Kristiania College, in addition to being part of several large international collaborative projects on artificial intelligence (CLAIRE, NORA, Adra) He has been working with artificial intelligence since the end of 80s, and shares the teachers’ concern about cheating in school. He actually takes it even further: – This technology can clearly undermine the integrity of all education. It is a devaluation of the degree you get from an education, says Irgens. Irgens has spent some time familiarizing himself with ChatGPT. It would probably be most correct to say that he has been talking to it for a while. – This chatbot made me think of the quote from Arthur C. Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” My old grandfather would think this was magic. Lazy, stupid and easy to exploit NORWEGIAN LEARNER: Erik Vassenden is afraid that artificial intelligence can make us lazy, stupid and easy to exploit. Another person who has spent the last few days sitting and talking to the new artificial intelligence is Eirik Vassenden. He is professor of Nordic literature at the University of Bergen. – It has the potential to make pupils, students and researchers lazy and stupid and easy to exploit, he says. – Do you think you will be able to expose cheating, if someone uses it to write Norwegian assignments for themselves? – I think it requires us to create tasks that are suitable for exposing such cheating. On a good day, an AI can write a fairly decent summary of a well-known novel, or an okay paragraph about a historical event. Therefore, we should avoid tasks that invite passive assembly of information. ChatGPT is really just a very advanced language model, so the blocks of text it produces are based on the intelligence “guessing” that you want letters in a given order. Ask him some follow-up questions and you will quickly see that he has no idea what he is talking about. It’s like talking to an extremely articulate parrot. – First of all, that you deceive yourself into believing that knowledge is information, and that it is perfectly fine to only collect ready-made material. It is incredibly naive to think that finding, organizing and putting together observations and pieces of information does not have value in itself. This is what it means to get to know a phenomenon! CHAT: Screenshot from Eirik Vassenden’s chat with ChatGPT. Fight or flight? The question for teachers is: should we fight against the new technology, or facilitate it? Vassenden believes regulation is necessary. – Here it’s not about either or, I think. It is important to find good ways to live together with the technology we have created – then regulations are necessary. But so is exploring possibilities and testing limits, says Vassenden. Ki expert Morten Irgens understands that teachers are struggling to deal with the new tool. – There are many people who are going to tear their hair out, but I won’t. As with all technology, we adapt. More emphasis on oral participation in class, oral exams, participation in group work, showing personally that you can do things. Students can then use chatbots and other advanced tools in the same way as they have used the library. The teachers’ union is not as positive. – As far as solutions are concerned, I currently see two. One is to let the students write by hand to a much more extensive extent, a solution which for obvious reasons is not very good. The second is to provide technology and resources that prevent the use of said AI tools. Perhaps future curricula should include guidance on how we can teach pupils the sensible use of technology in their writing work, but they must also learn the craft of writing! news has not been able to get in touch with Open Ai, which is behind the technology. CHAT: Screenshot from Eirik Vassenden’s chat with ChatGPT.
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