Tomorrow Today, a German TV show highlighted German schools using AI (artificial intelligence) programs. Over two-thirds of students in Germany use AI in many classes from elementary to high school and universities since 2022. At the elementary level, students use the popular software program ChatGPT in creating simple essays and poetry and love doing it!
Bob Larson
Chat GPT was the first online software program to introduce generative AI program (a basic AI method) in 2020 to Internet users worldwide. Amazingly, after introducing their AI program, they had over one million users within a month. ChatGPT is a generative AI tool created by San Francisco based OpenAI developer that answers all types of questions and assists users with composing emails, essays, code, songs, poetry, photos, videos, and much more!
Since then, Microsoft, Google and others use generative AI in their web browsers to create answers to user’s questions. Microsoft helped to fund Open AI and uses their ChatGPT in their web browsers. Google uses a different AI method for their Gemini AI based browser.
German middle school students with the help of their teachers use ChatGPT for creating essays, solving math and chemistry problems, however doesn’t solve the math or chemistry problem intentionally, but gives a method to solve the problem for students.
Many German teachers praise the ChatGPT learning tool as it speeds up the learning process and gives students the ability to use computers and software in creating ideas and solving problems quickly. After all, many large businesses use computers to create new ideas and solve problems. AI is becoming very popular in the business, engineering, financial, and manufacturing sectors worldwide and hire graduate students with AI skills.
What are the US schools doing with AI? Interestingly, ChatGPT or similar AI programs were banned at most US schools including universities because of fear and plagiarism until now! Makes you wonder what happened to our innovation! Bob Larson is a technologist and Marketing Director for 50 Plus.