Category: Studies in AI
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Hypertext: “The Expanded Mind”
I’ve been thinking a lot about the history of technology, and how much of what we use today has roots in theories from the mid-twentieth century. I already wrote about how artificial intelligence got its start back in the 1950’s. Another piece of technology that finds its beginning before the…
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Pedagogical Recommender Systems
One of the “rabbit holes” I’ve fallen into during my PhD studies is an interest in pedagogical recommender systems (PRS). From what I have studied so far, these became popular in the earlier 2000’s. I have read several articles where researchers developed their own PRS for faculty use. But in…
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The 20th Century Path to Artificial Intelligence
I think many of us likely take it for granted that technology, such as artificial intelligence, exists for our use today. We are reaping the benefit of many decades of research in the field of cognitive science, brought to us by individuals such as Herbert Simon and Allen Newell (Doroudi,…
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Creating blue bird art with DALL-E
This week I decided to play around with DALL-E on the StudyAid platform. I have a real love for the Eastern Blue Bird, so that was my subject in this creative endeavor. I hope you enjoy my AI art! This was my very first image: blue bird, field, sun. I…
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Using AI for course design: The future of pedagogy
I look forward to the day when AI pedagogical tools will be more accessible to teachers who might not have the budget to pay for a monthly subscription to develop GPTs for course design. While many larger schools have instructional design teams and access to more digital tools, smaller schools,…
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Sharing the load: Achieving balance between humans and LLMs
When I think about finding the right balance between users and computers, especially large language models (LLMs), I think of being assigned to a group in school: there is always the one person willing to do all of the work because they want a good grade. The trade off is…
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Exploring GenAI in Higher Education
I recently attended Cengage’s virtual event, Exploring GenAI in Higher Education. There were many interesting sessions, but the session which made the most lasting impression on me was Dr. Phillip Olla’s talk, BloomAI: Creating AI Prompts for Research and Learning. He explained how he had developed a model in ChatGPT4…
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Can AI be used to enhance human reasoning abilities?
One of the concerns surrounding the increased use of AI is that human beings will rely too heavily on it to think for them. Studies show that when people receive a response from an AI app, such as ChatGPT, they are likely to accept the response without questioning the information.…
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Should we trust the algorithm?
I am intrigued by human cognitive interaction with technology. Specifically, how humans respond to content that is generated by a human versus an algorithm. Some recent research shows that when people know something has been generated by a machine, such as a piece of art or advice, they are less…
Cana Fuest, PhD Candidate 