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I know a lot of people view artificial intelligence (A.I.) only as being used for bad things, which can be the case, but in this article, I’m going to show you how it can be utilized for good and bad things.
Pros: The first good thing A.I. can be used for is that it can be a tool for disabled people. Another thing that it can be used for good is it can be used for education and learning. Cons: The data centers that run A.I. use up a lot of materials and are terrible for the environment. Also, instead of doing their work themselves, many students are using A.I. to do it for them.
As reported by Forbes, “Huawei used AI and augmented reality to create StorySign, a free mobile app that helps deaf children learn to read by translating the text into sign language.” This shows that A.I. can help some disabled people and be a tool for their everyday lives.
Cubefabs, an AI company that develops technology for the manufacturing industry, says, “For example, intelligent tutoring systems offer students personalized teaching instructions and study strategies.” This means that if a student needs extra help, they can get it for free, and it can be a lot more accessible, too.
Those are some good uses for A.I., but it has its downsides, too.
MIT Technology Review reports that, “Given the direction AI is headed—more personalized, able to reason and solve complex problems on our behalf, and everywhere we look—it’s likely that our A.I. footprint today is the smallest it will ever be. According to new projections published by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in December, by 2028 more than half of the electricity going to data centers will be used for A.I.” Even though data centers are already using up lots of energy it’s going to get even worse in just two years.
Along with that, students are relying on A.I. way too much. Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, says in an article by the Harvard Gazette, “if a student uses AI to do the work for them, rather than to do the work with them, there’s not going to be much learning. No learning occurs unless the brain is actively engaged in making meaning and sense of what you’re trying to learn, and this is not going to occur if you just ask ChatGPT, “Give me the answer to the question that the instructor is asking.” This shows that students are depending on A.I. too much, and instead of them actually learning the material, A.I. just does the assignment for them.
Now that you’ve read my article, I hope you can now view A.I. in new ways.
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