Business Intelligence and Analytics professor Greg Dyche hosted an educational workshop in the Reinert Alumni Library regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. The event on Tuesday, which took place at 5:30 p.m., was part of a three-workshop series.
The goal of the workshops is to inform members of the Creighton community of the endless possibilities AI has to offer. In his talk, Dyche emphasized the ability to harness the power of AI rather than abusing it.
“[We’re] not in interested in cheating, that’s boring. We’re interested in [AI] being a tutor, an assistant, a summarizer, a coach. Oh my gosh, where do you want to go?” Dyche said. “The questions changed from ‘How do I do that? to ‘What do you want to do?’”
Dyche went over several different Open AI sources, focusing mainly on Google Gemini and Google AI Studio.
“This one makes me lose sleep. It’s amazing,” Dyche said about Google AI Studio.
Throughout the talk, Dyche showed several examples of the types of work AI can produce. A few of these examples included writing code for an app, creating interactive graphs for data visualization and making videos from scratch.
Dyche also shared some of the unique ways that he has cultivated AI for the enhancement of his teaching. One example he gave was how AI can be used to create metaphors in order to simplify the explanations of complex topics. The prompt used in the workshop asked the AI to explain quantum computing using soccer terms.
In addition to informing the audience, Dyche invited attendees to interact with the lesson by sharing their ideas for AI prompts. The group experimented with some of the ideas, testing and learning the limits of AI first-hand.
As the participants realized how intricate the AI generated content could be, questions were raised about the challenges that come with advanced technology. One audience member asked about how to decipher real content from AI generated content.
“What do you trust, right? So that’s something we need to start teaching more [in] a world where everything can be made up. What do I do?” Dyche said. “…So, you start looking at credibility of sources. You start looking at consistent presentation of information. You know, like, ‘has Greg always been saying this or is today [out of] left field, you know? [Does] this person [have] research and years in the field, or are they just some talking head influencer? You’re going to have to really start looking at that.”
The final workshop of the three-part series will take place at the same time next week. According to Dyche, this series has acted as a trial run for another series next semester. Dyche stressed the importance of staying up to date on AI tools and education.
“It’s changing so fast. And if you don’t get in the game, you’re going to be left behind,” Dyche said.