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Cal State Monterey Bay. (David Kellog – Monterey Herald)

The California State University System facing an estimated budget shortage of $ 428 million to $ 1 billion next year due to state and delay cuts, this week announced a partnership with large technology companies, including Openai, Google and Microsoft to bring their artificial intelligence products in their products in artificial intelligence products to bring their artificial intelligence products into artificial intelligence products to bring their artificial intelligence products into their artificial products in the field of artificial Intelligence to bring their artificial intelligence products into higher education.

The 23-school, 460,000 CSU student system, including Cal State Monterey Bay, advertised the program as a “remarkable initiative” to become the “first and largest AI university system” in America. Some call it expensive and harmful educational wrong steps.

Bay Area’s News Group talks with Deputy Vice-Cantzler of Academic and Student Affairs of Cal Evans and Chief Information Officer Ed Clark, who defended the initiative and anthropology of San Francisco Martha Lincoln, which prohibits their students from using their students General AIs attacked him in his class work. The comments are directly cited in quotes.

In: How much do you pay Openai for Chatgpt Edu?

Ed Clark: $ 16.9 million for an 18-month term

Martha Lincoln: “It’s so deeply disturbing. It’s absolutely shocking. For a while, we didn’t even have regular paper in our copier: everything was a three -hole blow. We don’t have enough advisers in our campus. When students have concerns about mental health, they are listed weeks, if not months. “

In: What other costs will CSU lead to these partnerships?

CSU: The additional costs are not quantified.

In: What technological tools will students get?

Clark: CSU bought an education -specific version of Openai’s Chatgpt Chatbot, called “Chatgpt Edu” for all employees, teachers and students. Other applications of corporate partners technology may be the development of personalized “AI teachers” for students.

Nathan Evans: The initiative will help to provide “more just access” to technologies in the CSU system. “A number of our campuses have already come down on this route individually, but not all of our campuses have the immediate resources so that they can do so.” Technology can also be hired to help students navigate educational and administrative processes.

Lincoln“This has some signals of an attempt to restore the public image of CSU, which makes us look like a leader. There are real risks associated with early adoption. It seems a little naive to jump on this tape first. The perceived value of the diploma may change. This will be a less distinction mark, such as having an online university degree. “

In: What is different about the Chatgpt Edu from the regular version that anyone can access?

Clark: The data is contained inside the CSU system and cannot be available or used by Openai or other external training for AI models or for other purposes.

Lincoln: “These are not very transparent entities. I don’t think CSU has a lot of leverage in this agreement. “

In: Does it replace CSU AI for human teachers?

Evans: “Regardless, no. This is about increasing and adapting to the market right now and the expectations of employers. “The faculty can receive grants to work with AI products and share findings throughout the system.

Clark: “We can help form the future of artificial intelligence.”

Lincoln: “There are real questions about how these products will be used that … are not addressed. Higher education and the training process are areas where automation is very problematic. “

In: CSU won’t use these staff replacement technologies?

Evans: “This is not the place we start. It’s about “How to use this technology to be more adaptive to different styles of training?”

Lincoln: “We do not know if this will become faculty abbreviations or other staff reduction, but it could certainly. CSU is in very deep water financially. I will still see the promise of CSU that work or work responsibilities will not be reduced by this development. “

In: How does the promotion of chat GPT and AI use in school settings does not encourage cheating?

Evans: “Our campuses in real time adapt their own expectations for academic integrity and behavior of students to reflect the current time and realities of these instruments. This technology is also arising and changes daily, so that the attachment of exactly the limits of what may seem is constantly evolving. “

Clark: The birth of the world network led to concerns about infidelity. “We will have to figure out ways in which we will have to maintain an academic integrity (but) to think about whether we are sitting on the Internet.”