Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Google will let
schools turn off AI, but they may also lose Search
Before it integrated
generative AI, Google Search operated primarily as a search engine and presented
the most relevant web pages to the user's query. Users were required to search for
relevant information and compare, organize, and summarize it to accomplish the
task. Nowadays, when users ask a question or task to AI-integrated Google
Search, it ranks and displays relevant websites, images, and videos, and creates
a summary. Unless you ask further questions or clarifications, the task is
completed, but you’ll learn little or nothing through the process. School
teachers and educators are concerned that students learn less if they don’t
work through problems and questions, and try to limit or even prohibit the use
of AI for schoolwork. Then Google has come up with an option for schools to
turn off AI. However, since today’s search engines are integrated with AI, Google's
search engine will also be turned off if AI is opted out. It seems that while AI
is revolutionizing workplaces, it hasn’t been effectively integrated into school
education yet. Will AI solve this problem?
Read the article
and learn about Google’s response to AI usage at schools.
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