An expert Computer Science/ Digital Society Institute talk delivered by Professor Mike Sharples and hosted by Keele University.
Speaker
Professor Mike Sharples
Agenda
14:00 - Event start with talk followed by Q&A
15:00 - Event close
Synopsis
An expert talk by Professor Mike Sharples: Abstract: Development of Generative Artificial Intelligence has been following the same path as for the World Wide Web: research, breakthrough, integration into workplace tools, development of apps. For the Web, the next major development was social media and services. We are now seeing the rise of “social generative AI” – AI agents interacting with humans and with other AI tools in complex social networks. Social generative AI will have profound implications. In education it will offer new roles for AI as a conversational partner and collaborator; it will mediate online discussions, break down language barriers and connect people across cultures. However, social generative AI may also spread disinformation in social media and create networks of interacting machines beyond human control. I will propose we develop AI for education that is not only effective and ethical but also caring and founded on good pedagogy. An optimistic result could be future global education that merges human empathy and experience with social artificial intelligence.
About the speaker
Mike Sharples is Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK. He gained a PhD from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh. His expertise involves design of new technologies and environments for learning at scale. As Academic Lead for FutureLearn.com he led the pedagogy-informed design of its open learning platform. He now provides consultancy on policy, pedagogy and practice with generative AI for institutions worldwide including UNESCO, UNICEF, universities and companies. He is author of over 300 publications in educational technology, learning sciences, science education, human-centred design of personal technologies, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. His recent books are: Practical Pedagogy: 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn and Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers both published by Routledge, and An Introduction to Narrative Generators, published by Oxford University Press.
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