A brief monologue by Tom Burton arguing that AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Perplexity) can help professors curate and update course materials, making higher-education teaching more service-oriented and relevant—provided instructors use AI well rather than lazily.
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But, you know, I think about it, I wish, I wish some of my professors in college had Chat GPT and were using that to curate data and present it to us from a class perspective. I actually would welcome it if they do a good job of curating it. Right. If they're just lazy and it's lazy AI, that's a different story. But if they're using AI and using ChatGPT or perplexity or whatever, and they're using that to take data, curate that data and make the content and the and the course materials more relevant and more up to date, I would welcome it. Right. Because now they're doing a service for me by curating that content and providing it to me. Yeah. Which I do believe is the future of especially higher education will be the more of the curation of content rather than just the, hey, here's what my course lecture is for today, right.