A professor that actually *requires* students to use AI.
Plus, Roblox is using AI to allow players to create and modify in-game objects.
In today’s email:
A Wharton professor requires his students to use AI in schoolwork.
Roblox is using AI to allow players to create and modify in-game objects.
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🤓 2 Big Stories About AI
1. A professor required students to use AI tools, and so far it’s a success.
A professor at Wharton created an AI policy for his students, requiring them to use AI to assist them in their work. He’s coaching the students in using tools like ChatGPT to write better essays, seeing the best results when students use the tool to co-edit.
The 🥩 of it:
A professor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania required students to use AI tools in various ways across different entrepreneurship and innovation classes.
The AI tools used included generating ideas, producing written material, creating apps, and generating images.
The professor observed that many students initially used AI tools incorrectly, resulting in poorly-written essays…so he provided students with guides on writing and generating ideas with ChatGPT.
He assigned an essay task that required students to use multiple prompts to improve their output.
He identified three different approaches that students took when using AI tools: minor variations, adding restrictions and user knowledge, and co-editing. The co-editing approach yielded the best results, as students collaborated with the AI tool to refine their writing.
The professor believes that the introduction of more advanced AI tools, such as Bing AI, will further accelerate the integration of AI into teaching.
More of this, please. We know AI isn’t going away, so we’re doing a disservice if we try to prevent the use of AI in work and classrooms.
2. Roblox is adding generative AI capabilities to its gaming universe.
Roblox is testing a tool that uses generative AI to allow players to create and modify in-game objects without any complex coding.
The 🥩 of it:
Roblox is testing a new tool that uses generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to write the code necessary for creating and modifying in-game objects such as terrain, buildings, and avatars.
Users can type what they want to achieve in natural language rather than complex code, and the AI generates the code required.
The tool has been developed for Roblox's community of game creators, ranging from studios to 12-year-olds.
Microsoft and Amazon already offer tools that can auto-write useful blocks of software, but Roblox's announcement shows how companies can adapt code-writing capabilities to create their own generative AI products aimed at people who may not be experienced coders.
Generative AI could potentially cause games to misbehave, and game developers may require more guarantees about the quality of player experience. Julian Togelius, an associate professor at New York University who works on AI and video games, thinks that more use of AI will require rethinking game development and game design.
Roblox is being careful not to use the creations of its users in the generative AI algorithms without their consent.
Some Roblox makers have already been dabbling with generative AI tools, with Supersocial using MidJourney to test out new designs for in-game objects.
If I could get a generative AI version of Hogwarts Legacy right now, that would be great.
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