{"id":4304,"date":"2023-02-10T14:31:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/sescanet\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2023-09-26T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T08:19:12","slug":"sunsi-mora-students-practice-english-with-a-chatbot-and-reflect-on-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/sescanet\/portada\/sunsi-mora-students-practice-english-with-a-chatbot-and-reflect-on-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunsi M\u00f3ra students practice English with a chatbot and reflect on Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week our 3rd ESO students have chatted online with an American language teacher who talks with students about their interests and hobbies and at the same time corrects their grammatical errors.<\/p>\n

This is not an actual teacher but a virtual recreation, brought to conversation, if not quite life, by sophisticated chatbots on a website called Character.AI, which uses artificial intelligence to understand and generate human-like language.<\/p>\n

With this AI bot, founded by two former Google researchers, students could have picked almost anyone, live or dead, real or imagined, to chat with. At Character.AI, which emerged this summer, users can chat with reasonable facsimiles of everyone, from Queen Elizabeth or William Shakespeare to Billie Eilish or Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

In this AI project, carried out in the subject Social Studies in English, our students have ended up analyzing the potentials and dangers of chatbots and AI. On the one hand, there are many ways these tools could be used in the classroom (The teaching blog Ditch That Textbook has worked on a list<\/a> of possible uses for ChatGPT.) On the other hand, because these bots learn their skills from data posted to the internet by real people, they often generate untruths, hate speech, biases and toxic information.<\/p>\n

Like it or not, tools like ChatGPT and Character.ai are here to stay, and today\u2019s students will graduate into a world full of conversational A.I. programs. At Sunsi Mora, students are learning to accept the flaws of chatbots and develop a healthy distrust of what they say in order to work alongside them. As Kevin Roose argues in a New York Times news\u00a0 article<\/a>, \u201cto be good citizens, they\u2019ll need hands-on experience to understand how this type of A.I. works, what types of bias it contains, and how it can be misused and weaponized\u201d.<\/p>\n

See other Sunsi Mora Social Studies projects here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our CLIL projects work on a range of topics and perspectives in hopes of promoting constructive debate about consequential questions.<\/p>\n

Key words: Artificial Intelligence; AI; ChatGPT in the classroom; character.ai<\/a>; Social Studies in English, citizenship, CLIL<\/p>\n

Els alumnes del Sunsi M\u00f3ra practiquen l\u2019angl\u00e8s amb un chatbot i reflexionen sobre la Intel\u00b7lig\u00e8ncia Artificial<\/h4>\n

Aquesta setmana els nostres alumnes de 3r d’ESO han xatejat en l\u00ednia amb un professor de llengua nord-americ\u00e0 sobre els seus interessos i aficions mentre corregeix errors gramaticals.<\/p>\n

No es tracta d’un professor real, sin\u00f3 d’una recreaci\u00f3 virtual que conversa a trav\u00e9s de sofisticats robots de xat en un lloc web anomenat Character.AI, que utilitza la intel\u00b7lig\u00e8ncia artificial (AI) per entendre i generar un llenguatge semblant al de l’\u00e9sser hum\u00e0.<\/p>\n

Amb aquest bot d’IA, fundat per dos antics investigadors de Google, els estudiants podrien haver escollit gaireb\u00e9 qualsevol persona -viva o morta, real o imaginada- per xatejar. Amb Character.AI, que va sorgir aquest estiu, els usuaris poden xatejar amb facs\u00edmils raonables de tot tipus de personalitats, des de la reina Isabel o William Shakespeare fins a Billie Eilish o Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

En aquest projecte d’Intel\u00b7lig\u00e8ncia Artificial, realitzat a l’assignatura de Ci\u00e8ncies Socials en angl\u00e8s, els nostres alumnes han acabat analitzant les potencialitats i perills dels chatbots i la IA. D’una banda, hi ha moltes maneres d’utilitzar aquestes eines a l’aula (El bloc did\u00e0ctic Ditch That Textbook ha publicat una llista<\/a> de possibles usos del ChatGPT a l\u2019aula). D’altra banda, perqu\u00e8 aquests robots aprenen les seves habilitats a partir de les dades publicades a Internet per persones reals, sovint generen mentides, discursos d’odi, biaixos i informaci\u00f3 t\u00f2xica. Els alumnes han analitzat not\u00edcies en llengua anglesa per a ser conscients, tamb\u00e9, d\u2019aquests perills.<\/p>\n

Ens agradi o no, eines com ChatGPT i Character.ai han arribat per quedar-se, i els estudiants d’avui es graduaran en un m\u00f3n ple de programes d’IA conversacional. Al Sunsi Mora, els estudiants aprenen a acceptar els defectes dels chatbots i desenvolupen una desconfian\u00e7a sana del que diuen per treballar amb aquestes eines. Com argumenta Kevin Roose en un article al New York Times<\/a>, “per ser bons ciutadans, necessitaran experi\u00e8ncia pr\u00e0ctica per entendre com aquest tipus d’IA funciona, quins tipus de biaix cont\u00e9 i els mals usos que poden tenir\u201d.<\/p>\n

Consulteu altres projectes CLIL<\/a> del Sunsi M\u00f3ra aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Els nostres projectes CLIL treballen una varietat de temes i perspectives amb l’esperan\u00e7a de promoure un debat constructiu sobre q\u00fcestions d\u2019actualitat.<\/p>\n

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