Racing against time: integrating AI into education is inescapable

Illustration by Freepik.com The world cannot continue to stay the proverbial ‘pigeon with eyes closed’ to avoid adapting to artificial intelligence (AI), which has been a driving force behind innovation that permeates all fields today including agriculture, economy, tech, health, and education. Imagine the innumerable comforts that AI-enabled tools have rested on the palms of humans. For the technically uninitiated, the invention of OpenAI, particularly the generative AI, has opened up many fronts to reap benefits from this advancement. Is AI a new phenomenon? If you fear AI, often creating an image of a ruthless and powerful robot in one’s mind, will be the ultimate enemy of humans forcing them to surrender , you may have consumed a lot of content watching science-fiction movies. Frankly speaking, AI tools, like computers, are fed with a massive volume of algorithms and text called Large Language Models (LLMs). This method of feeding machines, generally computers, dates back...