Generative Artificial Intelligence and college professor. The unavoidable date and the dilemma of starting a new relationship
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Generative Artificial Intelligence, college teaching, researchAbstract
The aim of this essay is to contribute to the reflection on the practice of teaching and research in this scenario that is often described as eclectic.
Every new relationship involves uncertainty –a coin dropped into de air– and can generate bonds ranging from the noblest of feelings, such as love, to emotional attachments. What does it mean for a university professor to form a connection with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenIA)? It implies a transformation of beliefs, knowledge, and values, and the emergence of opportunities or dependencies.
University teaching –in the fourth industrial revolution– represents, as in other revolutions, the possibility of adapting and deeply reflecting on teaching and learning processes, especially in an era where generations are converging, from baby boomers to centennials, the latter being digital natives. The university must still be the breeding ground for ideas, discussions, the discovery of truth, but also for thought.
Thinking has become the luxury and privilege of this age of hyperproductivity and multitasking. Time, one of the most precious resources for fostering thought, seems to find its perfect ally in the various tools that GenIA so attractively presents. This cannot happen without the filter of academic honesty and ethics.
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