AI to students

Students treated large language models like ChatGPT as interlocutors that supported, rather than substituted for, original writing.

“AI really liberated them to dig deeper. It’s like a calculator: You can spend your time doing your calculations by hand. But if you have a calculator, then you can spend more time doing something else,” said Hinestroza, the Rebecca Q. Morgan ’60 Professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design in the College of Human Ecology (CHE).

They’re being used by other universities. So you have to train the students for the real world.

“I told them, ‘I’m learning as you are. And we’re going to experiment,’” Hinestroza said. “The students were incredibly patient and played along as we made mistakes and found ways to optimize the use of tools.”

‘A completely different game’: Faculty, students harness AI in the classroom | Cornell Chronicle