History of modern media

1784 Newspaper 1896Radio

e Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser was the nation’s rst daily newspaper. e publication ran from 1784 - 1790.

1983 Internet

2007

Guglielmo Marconi invented “telegraphy without wires” to allow people to communicate overseas. In the year he applied for a patent, Marconi sent a 12-mile broadcast which kickstarted mass communication.

Defense Data Network merged communication channels, creating the internet. Shared IP addresses promoted global communication, which was only the beginning of the internet phenomenon.

2004 Facebook

Television 1876

Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell acquired the rst U.S. patent for his invention of the phone in 1876. Within the span of a few years, his invention revolutionized communication.

e rst electronic television was invented in 1927 by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Farnsworth’s invention would soon make way for the modern television as his electrical system is still used today.

Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerburg while he was studying at Harvard. It quickly became one of the rst widley-used social networking sites in the United States.

iPhone 2016

e iPhone was introduced in 2007 by Apple headed by Steve Jobs. It included a touchscreen display, a microphone, headphone control and much more, all of which can be seen in the modern iPhones that we still see today.

TikTok

TikTok rose in popularity shortly a er it took over the popular app Musical.ly. Users could create short videos and share content with people all over the world. To this day, TikTok still contributes greatly to an increase in social media content creators.

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The paragraph above is what ChatGPT, a chatbot program made to respond to prompts with natural language, created when asked to write lead for an article on ChatGPT in a college newspaper.

Here is the real lead, written by this real human staff writer: On a college campus, it is seemingly inevitable that you have heard, extensively, about Chat Generative Pre-trained

Transformer, better known as ChatGPT, from professor warnings in regards to honor codes and plagiarism, to mentions of its legitimacy or accounts of personal experience from peers and even the whispers swearing that this is doomsday — the beginning of robotic take over.

On nearly all fronts, artificial intelligence is a contentious topic in the sphere of media and academics.

From books to articles, websites and everything in between, ChatGPT is able to sift through its catalog of intelligence and provide you an answer to any question within seconds. You can ask the robot to write you an essay on an obscure topic or solve your math homework.

The precision, detail and human-likeness by which it is able to answer some questions is one side of concern for educators. The vagueness with which it responds is the other.

On Feb. 9, more than 100 faculty attended a discussion hosted by the Office of the Provost titled “The Power and Peril of Emerging AI in Education.” There, faculty shared their experiences with AI, deliberating on policy and concerns, as well as discussing the pos-

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sibility of its place in the future and the excitement that comes with new and emerging technologies.

A ChatGPT Taskforce Steering Committee of students and faculty has formed in order to inform and help the UT community in navigating the changing fronts of teaching and learning.

Making the jump from the flurry of concerns surrounding the changing climate due to the emergence of AI, UT programs are in place to turn the anxious energy into research and into a policy plan.

The next listening session was held via Zoom on Tuesday, Feb. 21 from 4-5 p.m. The topic of discussion was called “The Power and Peril of Emerging AI in Education: Developing our Campus Plan.” Meetings will continue to take place biweekly.

Melanie Faizer, senior lecturer of journalism and electronic media, discussed the way that she sees AI, and ChatGPT specifically, developing the state of the media.

“There are a lot of things that AI can be really useful for. In journalism, to free up human capital to do the other kinds of reporting, I think it’s great. We can spend our time