Milton Keynes College say AI can be a useful tool in academia
At Milton Keynes College, AI is used by teachers to develop lesson plans.
Last updated 6th Nov 2023
With the world Summit on AI taking place in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Greatest Hits Radio caught up with a local college on how they view AI in education.
The Milton Keynes College's South Central Institute of Technology, based in Bletchley, right next to where the big talks were taking place, ran their own sessions on AI.
The Principal of the College, Alex Warner, spoke of how AI can be used in a positive light, and described himself as an 'AI optimist'.
From a teacher's perspective, Mr Warner described how artificial intelligence software are helping them develop lesson plans.
He said: "We're using a software based tool, this particular one is called 'Teachermatic', and it's one that I use in my sector."
"It's something we rolled out for new teachers, and it's not going to be the perfect and human solution, but what it is going to do is it's going to give them prompts and ideas."
"...the idea that over the next six months there's going to be robots that are going to replace us, quite frankly it's not going to happen."
At Milton Keynes College, they are seeing AI as the new technological advancement, just as computers were the 'new big thing' a few decades ago, followed by the arrival of smartphones.
Mr Warner said: "We need to understand that, as a society, we've developed with organic and human intelligence for hundreds of thousands of years, so actually, the idea that over the next six months there's going to be robots that are going to replace us, quite frankly it's not going to happen."
He assured AI would continuously need the human brain to control and develop its technology.
For him, just like washing machines revolutionised the way humans wash clothes, and how essential the machine has become in our everyday life, AI will, and has already, become an added tool.