Vol. 2, Issue 2 | September 2024
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Welcome to September’s issue of the Teaching and Learning AI Digest. Below are exciting stories about the evolution of AI in our classrooms, labs,
campus community and around the world, all curated by the team at Purdue University’s Innovation Hub.
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For Spanish professors Lori Czerwionka and Lourdes Barranco-Cortes,
their biggest struggle teaching the language was convincing students not to use Google Translate. Now, ChatGPT has made it obsolete. These two professors see the new technology not as a threat but as a tool to teach languages more effectively.
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AI @ Purdue
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driver required: Indy Autonomous Challenge is AI racing at its best“Drivers, start your engines!” is the traditional call at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But what if the drivers were replaced by computers?
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Raising robots: Teaching robots things humans learnPurdue computer scientist Aniket Bera works to teach robots the things humans learn, like navigation, movement, dance and spatial reasoning.
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Autonomous vehicles could understand passengers better with ChatGPTImagine telling your vehicle, “I’m in a hurry,” and it takes you on the most efficient route. Purdue engineers have found this is possible with the help of ChatGPT.
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Research Worth Reading
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Purdue scholars use LLMs to aid in clinical diagnosis of aphasia
Learn how researchers developed predictive models to
diagnose aphasia with archived data and LLMs and yielded promising results during clinical trial.
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LLM-aided student inquiry reduces cognitive load at the cost of analytical depth Discover how students using LLMs for research report lower cognitive load but instructors observe weaker reasoning compared to those using traditional
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