The arrival of ChatGPT software has revolutionized the world of artificial intelligence, but has consequences in the world of education, forcing players in the political sphere to ask themselves how they should regulate its use.
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For now, educational institutions and teachers are left to themselves to establish rules related to its use.
The lecturer in marketing and analysis at Laval University, Stéphane Hamel, decided to allow the technological tool within a specific framework.
“I opened the door in my courses to say: you can use ChatGPT, but you have to indicate how you use it and you don’t have to use it to do the whole job,” shares the tutor. education.
The Minister of Higher Education, Pascale Déry, welcomes this kind of test, but wonders about it.
“I see it as a tool that severely shakes up the education community,” said the minister. It’s a tool that arrived quickly and took everyone by surprise. [Il faut] take the time to look at it, be careful and vigilant and then see the impacts.”
It will also hold the Day on Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education on May 15.
“I’m not an expert in this,” she continues. I absolutely want to be inspired by everything that will be exchanged that day to be able to make up my mind and then possibly to be able to position ourselves on it. But I think it’s too early.”
Professor at the School of Social Innovation at Laval University, Jonathan Durand Folco, believes that experts should be consulted in the process of implementing legislation.
“We can’t do it without thinking about it and consulting different experts in the sciences of education, in the humanities and social sciences to see what the impacts are at the economic, environmental, social and legal levels,” he says.
For its part, Ottawa has already begun its reflection, and is proposing the first legislation.
“In C-27, we have a whole chapter, indicates the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne. We will be the first country in the world with the European Union to regulate artificial intelligence. So now is the time to act.”
Quebec seems less in a hurry.
“There are still things that have been done in Quebec, evokes the Minister of Cybersecurity and Digital, Éric Caire. Quebec’s legislative framework cannot be compared to what is done elsewhere. But there are still things to do.”
However, AI has already entered the National Assembly, while this week a first document was made with the help of ChatGPT.
Québec solidaire used it to write a request for a parliamentary commission on this conversational software.
“I did not expect something so good, says the digital spokesperson for Quebec solidaire, Haroun Bouazzi. I have to tell the truth.”
Earlier this week, more than 1,000 experts united to call for a six-month break from framing this new technology.
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