Arizona State University is OpenAI’s first higher education (ASU) customer. Today, ASU announced its collaboration with OpenAI to provide university researchers, staff, and faculty members access to ChatGPT, the AI-driven chatbot.
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ASU will launch an open competition in February, inviting staff and faculty to submit ideas for using ChatGPT with a student success focus—fresh directions for investigation and streamlined internal procedures.
Lev Gonick, the chief information officer at ASU, told TechCrunch via email that “as OpenAI begins to explore how to market or align a business for universities, they’re looking for a design partner, a thought partner, and I think that’s a significant measure of why we’ve come together today to make this announcement.” “ASU will be able to actively participate in defining new uses of artificial intelligence in higher education thanks to our collaboration with OpenAI.”
With technology advancing faster than curricula, attitudes toward artificial intelligence in education are changing, as seen by the OpenAI-ASU partnership.
Schools and universities hurried to outlaw ChatGPT last summer because of concerns about plagiarism and false information. Since then, some have lifted their prohibitions, while others have started holding seminars on the educational potential of generative AI technologies.
Unsurprisingly, ASU fully favors using AI as a teaching tool.
“The broad invitation extended to academics, employees, and researchers guarantees that we can offer continuous and significant assistance that establishes the groundwork for our groups to fully utilize these technologies to enhance human education and inventiveness rather than supplant it,” Gonick stated. This strategy is a component of our larger objective to set an example for our students and make sure that the university’s use of AI grows responsibly and scalable. Our goal is to create an atmosphere where AI resources are applied morally and successfully, laying the groundwork for a more widespread adoption of these tools within our academic community.
In specific, ASU will give its full-time staff members access to ChatGPT Enterprise accounts. ChatGPT Enterprise was introduced in August and can carry out the same tasks as ChatGPT, including sending emails, debugging computer code, and creating essays. However, it also enhances performance and customization possibilities and adds data analysis and privacy features to the standard ChatGPT.
As an illustration, ChatGPT Enterprise provides an admin panel with capabilities to control ChatGPT usage within an enterprise. Users can utilize ChatGPT to develop internal workflows using shareable conversation templates, and companies can create unique ChatGPT-powered solutions by using credits for OpenAI’s API platform.
Furthermore, ChatGPT Enterprise offers unrestricted access to Advanced Data Analysis—a ChatGPT tool that lets users have the AI analyze data, make charts, solve arithmetic problems, and more—as well as priority access to ChatGPT and submitted files.
According to Gonick, ASU will manage its ChatGPT Enterprise accounts and work on projects related to the “effective use” and support of AI in a “dual role.”
“Our goal in this first phase is to give priority access to our AI tools to ASU faculty, staff, and researchers,” he continued. “Our primary goal is to give our knowledge core control over ChatGPT Enterprise so they can lead the way in discovery and implementation.”
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