To bot or not to bot
This week, we carried on with our 'Bot or Not' chatbot activity at ESF South Island School. It was awesome to see the students having conversations with Kuki and working in teams to test the chatbot's 'humanness.' Students then practiced spotting bots and learnt about natural language processing and the two processes that it involves: natural language understanding and natural language generation. We also taught the students about the conversational user interface for chatbots and delved into the future of AI to link with students' MYP Individual and Societies lessons and Philosophy.
We were thrilled to hear the student's unique opinions and perspectives on philosophical questions including:
- What is consciousness?
- What is personhood?
- Can a machine think? Can it convince a human through conversation that it is actually human?
- Where does computing end and thinking begin?
- Is a bot a creative work expressed in code by the programmer or is it its own being, capable of forming its own expressions?
It was great to teach the students about the the Turing Test and Alan Turing's imitation game as well as get into an eye-opening discussion about AI and the law and whether bots should be granted personhood!
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