Developing a Personal Approach to AI and Digital Literacy

In this reflection, I will focus on how to develop a personal approach to AI and digital literacy. I think this topic has encouraged me to think more about how digital literacy shapes my choices as a student and how it will become part of my life. I think AI is becoming a common and useful tool that can provide support for people with different needs. Therefore, this has caused me to think about how to use AI correctly and how it can be beneficial to me.

One of the quotes I would like to highlight from this video is, “The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow, and their skills and potential can change the world.” Therefore, I think digital literacy is more than just knowing how to use technology. It means using technology in the right and efficient way so that it is beneficial to you. Therefore, I think the value of evaluating information, questioning sources, and recognizing bias is the first thing people should understand before using AI in their learning.

GPT-3, GPT-Neo/J, GPT-2 and a T5-based model. The best model was truthful on 58% of questions, while human performance was 94%. Models generated many false answers that mimic popular misconceptions and have the potential to deceive humans. Lin, S., Hilton, J., & Evans, O. (2022).

Therefore, we need to understand the advantages and limitations of AI. That will help people study more effectively. For example, I think AI’s strengths are organizing ideas, improving grammar, and searching for resources. This can help users save a lot of time during those processes. However, this does not mean users can fully trust AI’s work. They still have to fact-check the information and make sure the information they receive is correct. By knowing this, I think AI can be a useful assistant.

Lastly, and most importantly, people should not rely on AI too often and should never let AI replace their thinking. This is because when you learn or do something on your own, it helps you develop skills. If you rely too much on AI, you will lose opportunities to develop important skills. Therefore, it is important to understand that AI can only be an assistant tool that helps you with different tasks, but you are the one leading the process.

By watching this video, I think it is very inspiring and made me think about the future of education. I personally believe there are always pros and cons, and it really depends on how the user uses the tools correctly. At this point, I still think AI is just a large language model, and students should not rely too much on it. At the same time, students also need to know how to use AI because it represents the future.

reference

Lin, S., Hilton, J., & Evans, O. (2022). TruthfulQA: Measuring how models mimic human falsehoods. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 3214–3252.