As we are still in the early stages of this new era of Artificial Intelligence, many people have mixed feelings about the impact it may have. I am one of those who have mixed feelings, but this may just be because I haven't explored the full extent to which it can be used. Since AI has become more readily available, I have only used ChatGPT to generate ideas and structure papers, as well as image generator features on sites like Canva. I have also seen many AI-generated images on social media, so I feel confident that I would be able to pick them out of a lineup. So for this blog post, I am quite excited to try out various AI tools that I am less familiar with to determine their benefits in the world of education.
1. Google Quick, Draw!
Personally, I am a sucker for a fast-paced drawing game, so when I saw this on the list of AI to explore I knew I had to check it out. I was genuinely impressed with the results I received in this game. For some of the images I drew, the AI was able to guess what image I was drawing before I even completed it.
Image Source: Google Quick, Draw!
The only time the website struggled was with my photo of an owl, which could have been drawn better, so I can hardly blame it for being incorrect. When the AI was wrong, I really appreciated the fact that it showed other drawings from people who received the same topic to see how the AI was able to draw its conclusion. This shows me that the guesses aren't just baseless, and real data is being pulled to form an answer.
Image Source: Google Quick, Draw!
As music is a big passion of mine, I knew I had to explore some form of AI that can generate a song. On the website Suno, I input the prompt: "upbeat indie music about the library" and
received a result that I was pleasantly surprised by. While the lyrics were quite cheesy, they were on theme and the song's melody sounded like the prompt I had suggested. While I could see this tool being useful in a classroom setting to help students become more familiar with poetic writing styles, I think this platform is more just for fun. Personally, I will be showing this website to friends to see what other fun songs we can come up with.
With this website, I am putting what I said in the introduction on the line by taking a quiz to see how well I actually can tell the difference between real and AI-generated images. Unfortunately, I am not as much of a pro at this as I thought, since I only got 16/21 correct on this quiz. I got many questions correct as many of the photos had obvious distortions that I was able to notice, such as the dog's legs in the AI-generated photo on the left.
Image Source: NBC News
However, when I was wrong, I appreciated that there were insights as to what would have given the image away as being AI.
Image Source: NBC News
I definitely see the wonky ear now, but in the moment of taking the quiz, the first picture really fooled me. As for the second one, I believe the clarity of the image threw me off, but it makes sense that it wouldn't add much more detail to the photograph. Especially as AI continues to progress, I see myself using resources such as this to make sure I am still able to tell the difference between what is real and what is not.
Takeaways
There are quite a few more ways to utilize AI than I had initially thought. Some of the applications could make for interesting classroom activities, but I still have a fear of it reducing autonomous thought in younger generations. However, it is unlikely that AI will be going away anytime soon, so it is incredibly important to teach the drawbacks of this technology to students.
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