The Data Revolution in Higher Education

How Conversational AI Is Going to Change Education and How We Can Embrace It!

11/08/2023

11:00am - 11:50am

Howard Holton

CTO & Analyst

GigaOm

ChatGPT is the fastest internet technology to ever reach 100 million users. It took Netflix 5 years to hit 1 million users, Spotify (much newer) took 7 months, Instagram took 2.5 months. ChatGPT took 5 days.

When education looks at AI what does it see? Does it see a new tool to make plagiarism easier? Or does it see the greatest opportunity to embrace new ways of thinking and learning?

We will also take a look at what AI can do, and what AI cannot do.

Learning objectives:

  • Gain a better understanding of the challenge in conversational AI
  • See the opportunities that AI presents in the classroom
  • See AI as something to embrace, as regulation does not work