Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion

11:00 am

Photo of Mairéad FarrellMairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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That is interesting. It is hard enough to correct everybody's homework without also having to think about that. I was interested in AI not yet having the ability to copy one's own speech and how one would write.

Obviously, if you are correcting 20 or 30 sets of homework, it will be really hard to think every time about how different students do their homework, and that takes a lot of effort. My understanding, however, from what the witnesses said is that they believe that is only a matter of time. WhatsApp nearly predicts what you are going to say write next or how you would structure a sentence. The witnesses believe it will be just a matter of time before AI is used more often. Do they mean that if I started using it now to write speeches, the more I used it, the more it would understand me, or do they mean that it will just take time in a broader sense?