Manjeet Rege, software engineering and data science professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering, recently spoke with KARE 11 about AI in education.
He and Kraus-Anderson CIO Tony Peleska, a member of the school's Software Strategic Advisory Board, were a part of a panel discussing thoughts and concerns about the use of AI in education. (segment starts at 1:13:47.)
From the interview:
"You have AI getting better; the content that is getting generated is getting better and better, more human like and then you have AI software trying to detect (what is AI) and even those are getting much better. So, right now there is no foolproof way of knowing whether somebody has used AI or not. Unfortunately, that is where a lot of the attention is always about. But I see a number of possibilities with AI, where AI can enhance the learning experience. You can have much more personalized lessons. You can have 24/7 tutoring through AI. You can have a customized educational plan based on how you've been performing as a student. You can have an AI agent monitoring what is going on in the industry and kind of feed that information to, as a learner. So this could be an ongoing thing where we need to embrace AI as learners as well.
“There are a number of tools which are browser plug-ins and as an educator, you can basically decide the level of proctoring. Is it an open notes exam or is it completely closed? You basically have to develop a machine learning model based on a data set, in three hours. Then you know it’s the student who is taking the exam, and not someone else.”
