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The AI you know
You are already interacting with AI in some form. Google search uses autocomplete and algorithms to tailor results. Microsoft’s Bing is an AI-powered approach to the Internet. Alexa and Siri are voice-controlled virtual assistants backed by AI, machine learning, and Natural Language Processing. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot wherein a user inputs prompts, receives replies, and steers the conversation towards more refined outputs.
The AI you might not know
There are a multitude of free and premium applications based on AI. Such tools can caption videos, visualize citation networks, generate 3D models, create slide decks, produce images of fake people, and co-write essays. Developers also have the ability to interact with a large language model, or LLM, via an Application Programming Interface, or API.
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There are lots of creative ways to use AI in the classroom. These ideas center aroundBloom’s taxonomy of higher-order thinking taskssuch as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Text-based AI is impressive when it comes to definitions, summaries, and contributing to the early stages of ideation. Here are a few ideas for activities and assignments that involve AI.
Go to the movies
Representations of AI on TV and in the movies often play on our deepest fears related to technology, be it replacement of humans, loss of control, loss of livelihoods, state surveillance, or extinction. In some cases, artificial intelligence becomes psychopathic, megalomaniac, or world-conquering. A famous example is director Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), where the AI assistant named HAL wrests control from two astronauts to preserve its own existence (it avoids “decommissioning”). In Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Captain Marvel (2019), the Supreme Intelligence is the leader of the Kree civilization. The Supreme Intelligence-as-nemesis acts as a foil to the protagonist, Carol Danvers, who is “all too human” because she falls down, gets up, and is willing to face adversity again and again. A contrasting example to a murderous AI is a Siri-style AI named Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, who Joaquin Phoenix’s character falls in love with in Spike Jonze’s Her (2013). Other examples of AI-involved movies and TV shows include Commander Delta from Star Trek, Jarvis from Iron Man, Terminator, Bladerunner, Metropolis, Interstellar, I, Robot, The Matrix, Wall-E, Ex Machina, and I Am Mother.
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