Nationwide, colleges are still working out how to fold AI into the classroom. Since ChatGPT launched almost three years ago, students have used it as a study partner, a research tool and at times, a shortcut for cheating.
GAINES: Yeah, I know. It’s crazy how much it’s already changed the world and the economy. But, you know, this technology is a huge deal. People have compared it to the invention of the internet or even as big a change as the industrial revolution. So anyway, back in 2023, there’s this student, Max Moundas. He’s a senior at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and he’s a computer science major. So after ChatGPT was released, Moundas starts freaking out about the power of this new invention, generative AI.
MAX MOUNDAS: I couldn’t focus ’cause I was experimenting with ChatGPT and a lot of these tools, and I could watch them generate code in any coding language at the time and generate them extremely quickly, like, nearly instantaneously.
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