It might not even be cheating to use AI

How reliable is AI now? Will it ever be unshakable enough to not need fact-checking?

AI is already reliable enough for certain tasks, especially those with specific, well-defined goals. Technology is developing rapidly and we clearly see that reliability is constantly increasing. Therefore, I am convinced that we will soon reach the point where AI will make fact-checking completely unnecessary in some areas.

Of course, every technology has its limitations, but it can already be used in various professional fields where it would have been unthinkable before.

In your presentation at the AI ​​Summit, you talked about the differences between individual and group education. Could you elaborate on that a bit more? How do you see the role of AI in education?

In my presentation, I talked about Bloom’s Dilemma, which states that one-on-one tutoring is more effective than group instruction, as students perform better when they receive personalized attention.

The question Bloom raised was how one-on-one instruction could be scaled to make it more widely available while maintaining its effectiveness. At the time, there was no solution for this, but today AI offers an opportunity.

Current AI-based tutors – already familiar and only getting better as technology advances – are able to provide personalized support to students. Although current systems are not yet perfect, progress is clear. AI will be able to help anyone, even without a teacher, to properly prepare for a subject.

At the moment, of course, we cannot say that AI will replace teachers, as teachers and parents would rightly worry about this, but the idea that an AI instructor can help with learning is no longer a utopia.

Could this be the future at all educational levels?

Not necessarily. Children need teachers, that is not a matter of debate. But for example, in adult education, the future can clearly belong to AI. There are already plenty of systems like this without an instructor.

So, in the future, teachers will no longer be needed in adult education? In what timeframe can this change be expected?

We are already seeing signs of this. Even before AI, there were many educational platforms that didn’t require live teachers and still worked. A good example is Coursera, which is used by millions.

In addition, the biggest educational engine in the world, I think, is still YouTube. If someone wants to learn something quickly, they simply type “how to” into the search engine and get answers right away. Artificial intelligence in this context only accelerates this process.

Traditional teachers are no longer always needed in adult education, and this will be even more so in the future.

What if someone uses AI to create an entire essay or presentation? Isn’t that cheating?

It completely depends on the rules of the institution. In some places, AI writing essays is considered cheating, but there are also pioneering institutions that allow it and evaluate students’ knowledge using other methods.

In my opinion, if someone is able to use AI correctly and produce a well-written essay with deep thoughts, then that is also a skill worthy of recognition.

Using AI correctly, the so-called “AI prompting”, is not an easy task. Creating a truly meaningful and interesting essay using artificial intelligence still requires creativity and background knowledge. Therefore, I believe that such work can be appreciated if institutions are willing to be more flexible in teaching methods.

You mentioned the use of AI-based research software to help with academic literature reviews. How exactly does this work and how much can it support the work of researchers?

These are really useful tools, they can save academic workers a lot of time, which they can spend on more useful tasks.

In the scientific world, it is customary for a researcher to publish an article that is cited by others if it is relevant and successful. These AI tools are able to track these citations and collect the sources that have been cited.

It then analyzes the cited literature and creates a summary to help me decide if that study is useful for my research topic. Although there are paid resources that are not available to everyone, there are also many open access materials, giving researchers access to a wide range of information.