🤖Generative AI (GenAI): what is it? 🖥️

🎓As a university, we are taking an approach to GenAI that is educative, not punitive.
❓What’s Educative? To save you from opening a new tab and doing a search, ‘Educative' means 'learning with and about'.
🌟Using GenAI tools cannot replace your learning, but it can complement it.
👀Have a look at our web page to learn more and see how you can use it positively!
👉 https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/our-students/ug-current/libraries-and-study-support/study-support/welcome-to-your-generative-ai-guidance

AI is far from great; it still has a long way to go. I find the results when it is used for creative writing very peculiar!
This is where critical thinking and evaluation are so important when using it. Regarding maths, I have found it can create a 'word ∧ ∨ number salad'. (I know, a bad maths joke)...
As a tool to assist, well, it can be good at spotting spelling mistakes 😀
This, as you demonstrated so well, is why we have to engage and understand AI 🙂
Liz ✒️

I think the point is its probably harder to spot an error when you have a plausible looking solution (AI) than it would be to do the work by yourself in the first place. Using AI, you also miss the effort in setting up the problem/solution, so when you find gen ai is wrong, you dont give yourself a mental kick to learn from your mistake. Its prevalent in numerical subjects, so maths/physics, and maybe it should be emphasised in these cases that (gen) AI often causes more problems than it helps, i.e. dont use it in general.

Our web page provides tips and information to help navigate AI and how to engage with this new technology:
https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/our-students/ug-current/libraries-and-study-support/study-support/welcome-to-your-generative-ai-guidance