{"id":5317,"date":"2024-11-30T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2024-12-22T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T12:39:09","slug":"embracing-the-new-age-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/embracing-the-new-age-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing the New Age of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5317\" class=\"elementor elementor-5317\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8853468 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8853468\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3a3141c\" data-id=\"3a3141c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a3bdbc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7a3bdbc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><span class=\"intro\">At UBalt, we believe that AI is not a threat, but an opportunity. \u00a0Under the direction of the Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Technology (CELTT), the University is ensuring that the technology complements education rather than overshadowing it.<\/span><\/p><p>BY POORNIMA APTE<br \/>ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARIO WAGNER<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7048 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.willettassociates.com\/ubalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AI-Opener-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p><p><strong>For a long time, higher education has moved at a predictable pace with educators adopting new technology tools gradually. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) feels much more disruptive, especially because its pace of evolution is so rapid.<\/strong><\/p><p>Since news of the impressive capabilities of generative AI\u2014ChatGPT is its most familiar variation\u2014broke in November 2022, the technology has been making systematic inroads in higher education. A 2024 Turnitin survey of college students in the fall 2023 term found that more than half used generative AI in some manner.<\/p><p>The post-AI landscape is entirely new\u2014and unprecedented. With respect to AI, \u201cwhat I would offer is that The University of Baltimore, as other universities, is in the midst of what might be similar to the Cambrian explosion in prehistory, when you had so many life forms in such a small time and such accelerated evolution\u2014when you\u2019re in the middle of something that dynamic, it\u2019s unclear where you are relative to others,\u201d said Dr. Alan Lyles, Henry A. Rosenberg Professor of Government, Business and Nonprofit Partnerships at the College of Public Affairs.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/embracing-the-new-age-of-ai\/#more-5317\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Embracing the New Age of AI\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At UBalt, we believe that AI is not a threat, but an opportunity. \u00a0Under the direction of the Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Technology (CELTT), the University is ensuring that the technology complements education rather than overshadowing it. BY POORNIMA APTEILLUSTRATIONS BY MARIO WAGNER For a long time, higher education has moved at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions\/7816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}