Dr. Jacob Riyeff, pictured, is the Academic Integrity Director at Marquette University. Riyeff has little patience for anyone who would justify the use of Artificial Intelligence technology (A.I.) as a way to "learn."
Recently, a brief and abbrievated statement of Riyeff's views appeared in one of the little "Daily Digs" sent out by Plough Magazine. Click that "Daily Digs" link if you'd like to subscribe. It's free.
I agree with Riyeff. See if you agree, too. You can click the link at the bottom of the indented excerpt for a much more extensive presentation of Riyeff's essential point:
Cheating with Chatbots
JACOB RIYEFFI’ll admit it: I’m getting tired. Tired of pushing against the current of “AI” hype. Tired of explaining that having a chatbot produce answers for you is not education. Tired of explaining that, indeed, taking ideas and words you didn’t make and submitting them as your own work (without attribution) is plagiarism. Tired of arguing that thinking for ourselves and not pursuing cognitive offloading to massive for-profit companies are genuine human goods.Whatever, I sometimes say. If students want to stifle their own social, intellectual, and, dare I say, spiritual growth and have chatbots do their work, just let them. Like I said, I’m tired. I’m tired of flailing to explain how what I find precious in life is in fact precious. Maybe I’m just being a stick-in-the-techno-progress-myth mud. But then I see what some students submitted as their own work this term, academic work that dedicated instructors would have to read and evaluate, and I once again feel like I cannot give up on saying all this.
Again, click that link at the bottom of the indented material to get a more extensive argument in support of Riyeff's position. I'll just add this, as a former college instructor. Each one of us is unique, and we need to celebrate, and elevate, and appreciate our own and unique selves. We are each worth it!
But to demonstrate that we're "worth it," that "each of us has his own special gift," as Bob Dylan says, we need to do the work, ourselves, to discover who we are. We need to do the work, ourselves, to find out what we know. Once we have discovered these things, once this has been revealed to us, we will then know, each one of us, what we think, what we believe, what we are uncertain about, what we know is true, and what we think might be true....
We need to reveal ourselves, to ourselves, and then to each other, in all our glory and our shame. No high-tech computer program can accomplish this on our behalf.
That work, discovering our own special gifts, and no "Chatbot," is the path to wisdom and the hope of the world!*
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*No chatbots are ever consulted as these daily blog postings are prepared. In fact, as I noted several blog postings back, the reason I have been writing these daily blog postings for fourteen years is to make myself think about the "Two Worlds" that we call home. I am really very sorry for anyone who believes that "truth," and "reality" exists independently of those living, breathing (and acting) human beings now alive, and that "intelligence" is somehow available without an individual doing the work to discover it, and (even more importantly) to create it!
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