Historical dialogue and machine learning: ChatGPT
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During our first meeting, professor Wulf Kansteiner from Aarhus University (Denmark) gave a presentation about the dialogical potential of a new player within the media: ChatGPT. In his talk, professor Kansteiner explains how large language models work, explores the opportunities and challenges within artificial intelligence and machine learning, and what this technology implies within the history classroom.
You can watch highlights from his presentation here:
This talk took place on March 12th, 2023. At that moment, this tool was in its third version. Two days later, on March 14th, ChatGPT-4 was launched, confirming our colleague’s predictions that this technology is advancing at gigantic leaps.
Not only is the sphere of technology going through a revolution since the launch of these tools, this also impacts us as teachers and as historians. One of the biggest problems we face is the use of ChatGPT by our students. Is it plagiarism to turn in a paper written by ChatGPT? How can we adapt to the presence of this technology? Do we forbid its use or do we incorporate it?
The American Association of Psychology (APA) published this last april an article analysing these questions and suggesting a possible way to cite the “conversations” we have with ChatGPT. It can be accessed here.
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