Illinois State University’s ArtificiaI Committee on the Responsible Use of Intelligence (AI) is launching a new initiative to study the impact of AI at Illinois State University. The AI Brown Bag series provides a platform for faculty to engage with how AI is being used across different units on campus and to discuss the role of AI in research and teaching.
As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into everyday technology, this series aims to share the opportunities and challenges we encounter through our research and teaching experiences. Advances in generative AI are seen regularly, and historically new technologies adopted have often exhibited similar trends in their impact. Research by Dr. Emily Bender et al. (“On the dangers of probabilistic parrots: Can language models be too big?”) states that a larger dataset does not necessarily mean it is more diverse.
As discussed in their paper, there are growing concerns about equity, diversity, inclusion, and access to these technologies, as well as their environmental impact. In the words of Abeda Birhane and Vinay Uday Prabhu (inspired by Ruha Benjamin): “AI We give a system the beauty, the ugliness, and the cruelty of the world, but expecting it to reflect only the beauty is an illusion.”However, we invest valuable resources in teaching and research time and effort. We need to consider “staying human in the loop” as an important way to continue working in parallel with new technologies that can support a certain level of efficiency. Integrating AI into workflows to brainstorm, iterate, and create variations within constraints can help, for example, with “page dirt” to support task initiation.
These informal sessions provide a space to discuss ethical considerations, share experiences implementing AI in various settings, and develop strategies for understanding, evaluating, and implementing AI tools on Illinois State campuses. Create.
The first session will feature presentations by two faculty members. Dr. Nariman Ammar is an assistant professor of computer science specializing in health informatics, knowledge representation, and AI. Dr. Mi-Kyung Shin, assistant professor of special education, specializes in mathematics, special education, technology, meta-analysis, and artificial intelligence.
Their presentations will be followed by an open discussion on the applications of AI in research and education.
The first meeting will be held on Friday, November 15th from noon to 1pm in Williams Room 307. Participants may bring lunch to the session. There is also a zoom option.
For more information on the AI Brown Bag Series, please visit the Provost Office for more information on AI at ISU and each session.
If you have any questions or inquiries, please contact Kristin Carlson at kacarl1@IllinoisState.edu.
