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Preparation for Life and Artificial Intelligence
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ndless information is at our fingertips. Can’t remember that famous actor’s name? Google it. Need the weather forecast? Check your app. Need driving directions? Apple Maps. Waze. Want to do all of this hands-free? Alexa? Hey Siri? State-of-the-art technology using artificial intelligence is not new. It is around us every day. Our smart phones don’t require a password because they unlock through facial recognition. When we text, the autocomplete function suggests words and sentences to help us quickly and efficiently send our message. Netflix makes recommendations of movies or documentaries we might like based on what we watched last weekend. Amazon gives us a robust list of recommended items based on our searches. But lately, there’s a lot of buzz about artificial intelligence AI for short. OpenAI, a research and deployment company, launched ChatGPT just last year, and the discussion has gone to fever pitch ever since. What exactly are these new applications? What are the implications of AI in education? Will AI take over the world?! Data scientist Cal Al-Dhubaib met with members of Hathaway Brown’s administrative team and the alumnae Head’s Council to help explain and demystify all the chatter around AI. “I want to create an understanding of AI, but then I want to make it boring,” he explains. “Let’s see it for the pattern recognizing and reacting system that it is. I want people to come away from an AI discussion knowing how AI tools work, but also understanding they are not perfect.”
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