Here are 4 ways AI is already impacting higher education
Alcino Donadel
May 15, 2023
While phishing attempts could once be easily detected by grammatical and spelling errors and an awkward tone, communication written by ChatGPT appears more natural and, by extension, easier to trust.
Artificial intelligence is finding evermore creative ways to interweave within our everyday lives, and it’s no different in higher education. When OpenAI released ChatGPT in November, administrators clamored to adapt curriculum around AI-powered students. Little did they realize that college professors are among the most prominent professions affected by AI language modeling.
As quickly as artificial intelligence models develop, so, too, their impact across different facets of higher education. It may be dizzying, but here are some of the most prominent ways AI affects your school.
Admissions
Artificial intelligence is poised to streamline the workload of both the applying student and the receiving admissions officer.
Students today can ask ChatGPT to create a 500-word response to an open prompt that they’d otherwise feel paralyzed to complete themselves. They can direct the bot to write a dramatic story about an adolescent overcoming a significant life event that includes references to a city of the student’s liking. Admissions officers already struggle to detect college applications’ authenticity, and the prevalence of AI language modeling will make plagiarism that much more difficult. While new software aims to combat applications littered with AI, some leaders believe the next step forward is introducing video prompts instead.
