AI in education

AI in Education

AI improves learning/education

• Mollick, Ethan R. and Mollick, Lilach and Bach, Natalie and Ciccarelli, LJ and Przystanski, Ben and Ravipinto, Daniel, AI Agents and Education: Simulated Practice at Scale (June 17, 2024). The Wharton School Research Paper. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4871171
  • Can enable personalized education.
• Generative AI for Programming Education: Benchmarking ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Human Tutors
  • GPT4 can out-perform human tutors.

AI harms learning

• A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study ** Current grading systems cannot detect AI.
• Bastani, Hamsa and Bastani, Osbert and Sungu, Alp and Ge, Haosen and Kabakcı, Özge and Mariman, Rei, Generative AI Can Harm Learning (July 15, 2024). The Wharton School Research Paper.doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4895486
  • Access to ChatGPT harmed math education outcomes.

Software/systems

• GPTutor (code)

AI/human

AI out-performs humans

Tests

• 2024-06: A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A “Turing Test” case study
  • AI scores higher than median students.

Creativity

• 2023-09: Best humans still outperform artificial intelligence in a creative divergent thinking task
  • Best humans out-perform AI at creativity. (By implication, median humans may not.)
• 2024-02: The current state of artificial intelligence generative language models is more creative than humans on divergent thinking tasks
• 2024-02: Felin, Teppo and Holweg, Matthias, Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Causal Reasoning (February 24, 2024). doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4737265
  • Argues that human "theory-based" creativity is better than AI "data-based".
• 2024-07: Pron vs Prompt: Can Large Language Models already Challenge a World-Class Fiction Author at Creative Text Writing?
  • Top human (professional author) out-performs GPT4.
• 2024-09: Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas? A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
  • LLMs can be creative

Professions

• 2024-03: Influence of a Large Language Model on Diagnostic Reasoning: A Randomized Clinical Vignette Study
  • GPT4 improves medical practitioner work; surprisingly, GPT4 alone scored better than a human with GPT4 as aid (on selected tasks).

AI improves human work

• TBD

Uptake

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