Datagon Competition
Datagon Debate Theme: AI Belongs in Education!
Who can participate: This competition is open to Minnesota high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. You MUST be part of a team of 2-4 to compete. Each team member needs to register.
Date: April 20, 2024
Time: 8 am to 12 pm
Location: TBD
Prizes: Cash prizes. This is possible through our sponsor IEEE Computer Society.
Your mind is not the Internet, is it?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now taking over the world, and often your teacher cannot distinguish your academic work from that of a computer.
Perhaps the role of the human will be relegated to orchestrating AI. The problem is that computers are only considered to operate on known data and, as such, cannot hypothesize about the unknown or investigate accordingly. That is, AI cannot exist without input from a human. Without data, machines are useless. So, really when AI helps with your homework, you are just getting information, indirectly, from other people.
On the other hand, if AI is truly intelligent, then we must consider AI a self-determined entity, capable of independent decision making. In this case, AI is not a mere tool, but an approval-seeking entity, possibly having its own set of anxieties and motivations. Would you trust such AI to give you the right answers and to be your loyal friend?
Like familiar objects imagined in a cloudy sky, humans get mesmerized by the complex and mysterious. No doubt AI will enchant just the same, engendering folly in its perceived power when it is merely the latest proverbial sledgehammer for driving tacks, shrinking your brain to match your appendix, with precise yet irrelevant answers as a bonus.
