Artificial intelligence (AI) is an incredibly powerful tool. It can create content, answer questions and serve as an interactive learning partner.
The rapid pace and confident tone sometimes give the impression that every AI-generated answer must be 100% correct. This expectation is understandable, but it is important to realistically assess how AI works and its current limitations.
As a general rule, AI-generated content requires critical and conscious handling, just as is the case with websites or social media posts.
AI is powerful, but not (yet) perfect
Advances in AI technology are enormous and the quality of results is improving rapidly. Today's AI models are masters of pattern recognition and language generation.
However, they do not ‘think’ like humans and have no real knowledge or consciousness. Their answers are based on complex statistical probabilities calculated from huge amounts of data. This makes them incredibly useful, but not infallible.
Quality assurance in content creation
AI as a tool
If you, as a teacher, use AI to create learning content, such as quiz questions, this can significantly reduce your workload. AI often provides a good first draft.
However, the final responsibility and content expertise lie with you.
- Active review: Before releasing content to students, check the factual accuracy of all questions and answers generated by AI.
- Didactic adaptation: Ensure that the wording and level of difficulty are appropriate for your learning objectives and target audience.
- Use AI as a co-pilot: View the generated suggestions as a basis that you can review, adapt and refine. Brian's functionalities allow you to generate new answers and save time in the process.
When creating fixed content such as a quiz, you as a teacher can ensure 100% quality by treating the AI suggestions as drafts and editing them yourself. Here you can read how you can contribute to ensuring that the AI behaves as correctly as possible in AI dialogues.
Challenges with interactive chats
In formats with live interaction, such as AI dialogues, AI tutors, or chatbots, students receive answers in real time. This means that it is not possible to check all possible AI responses in advance.
In these situations, errors can occur. The AI may misinterpret information, overlook connections, or, in the worst case, ‘hallucinate’ – i.e. invent information that sounds plausible but is factually incorrect.
We are continuously working to limit these potential errors by using the latest and best models. However, there are also ways in which you yourself can help to ensure that the AI behaves as correctly as possible.
- Precise instructions & context: In addition to precise instructions, we also recommend providing the AI with all the necessary information and/or the correct answers. This way, the AI does not have to ‘think’ for itself and can refer to the material provided or the answer key.
- AI-generated answer key: If no answer key is available, one can be created using AI (e.g. when creating an AI dialogue via chatbot) and anchored in the instructions.
- Modern ‘reasoning’ models: For complex tasks, e.g. mathematical or grammatical tasks, you can also switch to advanced models. These are slower, but they hallucinate less frequently.
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