Talia Konkle (Department of Psychology)
First-Year Seminar 74F (Fall Term) Enrollment: Limited to 12
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In what ways can generative AI models, like ChatGPT, be a useful educational tool to accelerate and enhance your learning? We’ll overview how these models work, and the surprisingly simple principles underlying their remarkable capacities. We’ll dive into impact of AI on student learning right now, drawing on psychological and neuroscience insights into how we humans learn and remember things. We’ll think through the ethical considerations of AI use in education going forward. In parallel, each week we will all try out different generative AI tools for enhancing academic skills–from synthesizing written material and writing to coding–and share these in group discussions and presentations. By the end of the class, you’ll have a deeper understanding of how these AI systems are working, a suite of techniques and tools that you can use to enhance your own learning, and some broader ideas about how human learning might change in the era of large language models and generative AI.