Since Ai has opened to the public people have been exploiting it to do their work. It’s a very common occurrence that students plagiarize their work with the use of AI. Using AI properly, by learning how to create strong prompts, can benefit students significantly. Since learning how to create strong prompts my performance in class has gone up. It helps summarize notes, spark ideas, and can even give helpful feedback on papers.

So, in class, one of our classmates presented Perplexity to us. As I was experimenting with it in class I realized how strong and beneficial this engine could be. I was able to give it a narrow topic for it to search and a broad topic to search. Each time it pulled reliable, scholarly, and primary sources for me. I started using it to find articles for one of my research assignments and it made an hour process of research in to a ~20-minute process. I showed my other professor the engine the next morning and he allowed me to use it for research, he also believed it was fascinating. So, I’m excited to experiment different types of prompts to see what method is the best to use. 

Going into Spring break Professor gave us a group presentation to work on. From the looks of it, all the group ideas are good. I’m excited to see what my group thinks and brings to the table. I think our idea was the best and I have my own opinion on it already. I believe AI should be implemented into education. But to do that we have to teach Ai ethics and learn how different students use and benefit differently from others. I think it’s a process long enough where I won’t be able to see the use of AI rules change in education but it’s something I have high hopes for.

I hope everyone’s break goes well. Stay safe!