Monday, January 22, 2024

Don’t just chat(GPT): turn on critical interrogation - Giuseppe Cimadoro, Times Higher Education

Students are exposed to the positive use of AI: learning how to optimise prompts and create interrogative dialogues tied to curiosity. Also, the interrogation exercise will frequently lead students to discover the limitations of AI, including hallucinations and incorrect claims. As a result, they become aware of the areas in which AI falls short. Because the bot generally offers the option to save conversations, it can easily be used either as a drafting tool to create a new independent piece of work to be submitted as an assessment or as a standalone assessment where the prerequisites of critical thinking are assessed. Pause critical thinking, enter critical interrogation!