On February 19th, the Faculty of Information Technology – VNUHCM-University of Sciences held a seminar with the topic: “ChatGPT and AI: Challenges and Opportunities in Universal Education”, with the participation of many education and artificial intelligence experts, including:
– Assoc. Prof. Dr Trần Minh Triết, VNUHCM-US;
– Assoc. Prof. Dr Đinh Điền, VNUHCM-US;
– D. Sc. Đinh Bá Tiến, VNUHCM-US;
– D. Sc. Giáp Văn Dương, Independent Expert;
– D. Sc. Lâm Quang Vũ, VNUHCM-US;
– D. Sc. Nguyễn Trường Sơn, VNUHCM-US;
– D. Sc. Ma Nam, Director of TrueID, VNG Corp.
Opening the program, Assoc. Prof. Dr Đinh Điền – Deputy Head of the Knowledge Technology Department, Director of the Central for Computational Linguistics, gave an overview of ChatGPT. He evaluated that ChatGPT’s influence in education is significant because it can search and synthesize information very quickly and efficiently and help users with tasks related to editing and composing content. However, ChatGPT currently has a limited corpus, unable to answer correctly with corpus specific to the nation or culture, history, and documents related to Nôm writing. Regarding the development of ChatGPT in the future, Assoc. Prof. Dr Đinh Điền said that it would connect more audio and graphics, helping to increase the accuracy of the answer. It will also learn more about the listener’s facial expressions, helping it better understand their condition.
At the discussion, in response to the question about the negative impact of ChatGPT on people, DSc. Giáp Văn Dương believes that ChatGPT can affect our values, perceptions, beliefs, and even our memories. In that context, as students and users, to use and exploit the potential of the application effectively and not fall into the negative, we should develop self-control and creative thinking. DSc. Lâm Quang Vũ added that ChatGPT could support teachers in preparing lectures and tests. Of course, teachers prepare the lessons, but they can use ChatGPT to check if the field is up to date. When teachers update their knowledge and learners’ role, if they use ChatGPT, their behaviour will have to change. One of the weaknesses of ChatGPT is that it has not have updated knowledge. If teachers raise a problem about ongoing and current issues, ChatGPT cannot help.
In addition to assessing the substantial impacts of ChatGPT in particular and Artificial Intelligence in general on many fields, especially education and training, experts also proposed changing solutions to adapt to the new era.
With the “heat” of the topic, the program attracted more than 200 spectators to attend live at Lecture Hall 1, and more than 500 viewers watched online via the Zoom platform.
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