How One Professor Teaches Students to Use AI Effectively in Research
By
Erik Ofgang
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
University of Central Florida professor Humberto López Castillo discusses the challenges and opportunities of using AI in education, sharing an anecdote about a student who cited a hallucinated paper attributed to Castillo himself. Despite this cautionary tale, Castillo advocates for teaching students how to use AI effectively as a research tool, emphasizing that AI should augment rather than replace human critical thinking and the human element in learning and scientific research.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIt was a hallucination.
The student had clearly used AI, and Castillo shares the story as an example of how not to use AI in the classroom.
Still, he has plenty of counterexamples.
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