An Artificial Intelligence Talks about Itself in Self-Created Online Course

By Birgit Baustädter What can artificial intelligence achieve today? And how do you recognise AI-generated content? Driven by these questions, Martin Ebner and his team had an AI design an online course. . "The opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence are currently being discussed everywhere," says Martin Ebner , head of Educational Technology at TU Graz and a researcher in the field of technology-enhanced teaching, summarising the starting point for his latest MOOC project. "We wanted to temporarily suspend discussion and look at what is technically possible at the moment in practice." No sooner said than done - or rather: let an AI do it. The researchers used as a template the course "Societech: Society in the Context of Information Technology", in which experts talk about the influence of digitalisation on their respective fields - and which has been successfully running for years, and had a new edition of different online tools designed that are AI-supported and freely available. The online course "Societech: Society in the Context of Information Technology" can be found online on the iMoox platform from May 15. Right at the very beginning there was the question about the content of the course, which was of course also answered by the AI itself.