Big Tech offers AI tools to students in California. Will he save jobs?

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As artificial intelligence replaces jobs in the elementary level, Universities in California and Colleges in Community offer a glimmer of hope for students: free training of AI, which will teach them to master the new technology.

“You see in certain coding spaces significant downturns when hiring obvious reasons,” Gavrin News said on Thursday during a press conference from the seventh floor of Google’s office in San Francisco.

Encouraged by leadership by higher education systems in California, he drew attention to the latest abbreviations in Microsoft, at the company of the mother of Google, Alphabet and Salesforce Tower, just a few blocks, the home of the technology company, which is still the largest private employer in the city.

Now some of these companies – including Google and Microsoft – will offer a set of AI resources for free for schools and universities in California. In return, companies can gain access to millions of new users.

State Colleges of the Community and its campuses at the State University of California are “the basis of our workforce and economic development,” said Newsom, just before the leaders of education and technical leaders to sign AI agreements.

The new deals are the most rage developments in November 2022, when Openai publicly released the free Chatgpt artificial intelligence tool, forcing schools to adapt.

Los Angeles University Quarter implemented only AI chatbot last year, to cancel it Three months later, without revealing why. San Diego University Teachers have started using AI software that suggests what grades to give to students, Calletatters reportedS Some of the members of the area were without knowing that the area has purchased the software.

Last month, the company that runs Canvas, a training system popular in schools and universities in California, said it would add “interactive conversations in an environment similar to Chatgpt” In his softwareS

To fight the potential infidelity associated with AI, many K-12 and college regions use a new feature from the TURNITIN software company to detect plagiarism, but an investigation into Calletatters found that the software software defendant Who did a real job instead.

Mixed signals?

These deals send mixed signals, said Stephanie Goldman, President of the Association of the Faculty of California Colleges in the Community. “The areas are already spending a lot of money on AI discovery software. What do you do when embedded in the software they use?”

Don Davs-Rugga, a senior councilor of the College System in Community, acknowledged the potential contradiction, but said it was part of a broader effort to keep up with the rapid pace of changes in AI. He said the college college system would often re -evaluate the use of Turnitin along with all other AI tools.

The California Community System is responsible for the greater part of job training in the state, although it receives the least funding from the state of a student.

“Often, when we have these conversations, we see ourselves as a smaller system,” said Davs-Rogge. The 116 colleges in the country collectively train approximately 2.1 million students.

In the deals announced on Thursday, the College System will partner Google., Microsoft., Adobe and IBM To deploy extra AI training for teachers. Daves-Rougeaux said the system has also signed deals that will allow students to use exclusive versions of Google’s Chatgpt, Gemini and AI Research Tool’s AI, Notebook LLM. Daves-Rougeau said these instruments will save on colleges in the community “hundreds of millions of dollars”, although it cannot provide an accurate figure.

“This is a difficult situation for teachers,” Goldman said. “AI is super important, but it appears again and again: how do you use AI in the classroom, while ensuring that students who still develop critical thinking skills are not just to use it as a crutch?”

One concern is that the faculty can lose control of how AI is used in their classrooms, she added.

The K-12 system and the CAL State University system form their own technological transactions. Amy Bentley-Smith, a Cal State spokesman, said he works on his own AI programs with Google, Microsoft, Adobe and IBM, as well as on Amazon Web Services, Intel, LinkedIn, Open AI and more.

Angela Musalam, a spokesman for the State Operations Agency, said high schools in California are part of the Adobe deal that aims to promote “AI literacy”, the idea that students and teachers should have basic skills to find and use artificial intelligence.

Like the college college system, which is managed by local regions, Musallam said the individual areas of the K-12 will have to approve each transaction.

Will the transactions be for students, teachers?

Experts say it’s too early to say how effective AI training will be.

Justin Reich, an associate professor at MIT, said such rage took place 20 years ago when teachers were trying to teach computer literacy. “We don’t know what AI’s literacy is, how to use it and how to teach it. And it probably won’t be many years,” Reich said.

The new state deals with Google, Microsoft, Adobe and IBM allow these technology companies to hire new users-benefits for companies-but actual lessons have not been tested over time, he said.

“Technical companies say,” These tools can save teachers time, “but the recording is really bad,” Reich said. “You can’t ask schools to do more right now. They are maximal. “

Erin Mot, CEO of a non -profit purpose of education called Innovateedu, said he agreed that state and educational leaders should ask critical questions about the efficiency of the instruments offered by technology companies, but schools still have to act.

“There are many steps on the career ladder that disappear,” she said. “The biggest mistake we can make as teachers is to wait for a pause.”

Last year, the office of the California Chancellor office signed an agreement with NVIDIA, a technology infrastructure company to offer AI training similar to the types of lessons that Google, Microsoft, Adobe and IBM will provide.

Melissa Villarin, a spokesman for the chancellor of the Chancellor, said the state would not share data on how the NVIDIA program flowed, as the cohort of participating teachers is still too small.

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