Perspectives on the place of AI in College education

Abstract

"In recent years, the uses of artificial intelligence (AI) have transcended the context of research in educational sciences and have been implemented in CEGEPs. For example, we can cite the conversational robot ALI from the Cégep de Chicoutimi and the Collège de Rimouski, aimed at providing psychosocial support to students, or Cégep à distance’s Tableau de bord [Dashboard, Ed.] which guides students in their success. More recently, ChatGPT has demonstrated the possibilities of AI to automatically generate new text with a level of complexity approaching what humans are capable of doing. This is a breakthrough that provides a glimpse of a wide range of uses at the college level, touching all disciplines, for better or for worse. We have chosen to exchange on the topic in order to identify more precisely the potential and the challenges of AI in the college system, by confronting our perspectives—one from the world of research, rooted in scientific literature, and the other from the field, oriented toward practice." -- AQPC