Artificial intelligence has been a massive influence on the students of PHS, ranging from giving ideas to writing entire essays. Since the beginning of this school year, ChatGPT has been blocked for all students, yet that hasn’t stopped its use.
ChatGPT has been used by a large number of students to do their assignments. Entire essays would be written in little to no time to earn a good grade, yet technology does exist that can help teachers detect AI.
“I don’t like AI, period,” English teacher Colin Brown said. “It keeps people from thinking for themselves and using their own minds and their own intelligence. Yeah, it can do things faster and quicker, but just because something happens faster and quicker doesn’t mean it’s good.”
Google’s AI mode, Gemini, also factors in for the use of AI. A simple Google search gives answers across multiple websites, and an explanation of said answer in no time. It usually appears during almost every Google search, and may give false answers because of bias and/or the lack of transparency in an AI’s answer.
“I think AI is a very useful tool for very specific things,” video game design instructor Jeremy Kincaid said. “I think that the fear behind AI is not really warranted and there’s a lot that things that AI can’t really do yet. I think that Google’s AI mode is very useful when you’re just looking for quick responses for things that don’t matter much, but for the most part I kind of ignore it and I go to the sources that are linked afterwards.”
While AI can be useful, using AI for an extended amount of time may make one more dependent on it, causing them to forget how to do certain things without the use of AI.
“AI can be used for coming up with new ideas, new designs, concepts, but I believe there is also a downside to AI that many in the programming field experience right now,” senior Jack Holden said. “One of those is the loss of coding techniques that can be experienced after not coding for a few weeks and only using AI, you will eventually lose the grasp of how to code. I’ve seen this happen many times from programmers I’ve seen online.”
Edited by Emily Logan, Kate Duncan and Trisha Panicker
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