Guest Lecture "What Does AI Mean for Education?"
CWAJ November General Meeting (Online)
Guest Speaker: Professor Tom Gally of the University of Tokyo
Special presentation: SIG Committee
Summary
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are creating both opportunities and challenges for education, learning, and personal development. In this talk, Professor Gally will demonstrate a few ways in which people can use AI tools like ChatGPT to acquire knowledge, deepen their critical thinking skills, practice foreign languages, and even do original research. I will also offer ideas on how educators, schools and universities, and people in general can adapt to this powerful—and sometimes frightening—new technology.
Profile
Born in 1957 in Pasadena, California, Tom Gally studied linguistics and mathematics at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Chicago before moving to Japan in 1983. After learning Japanese and working for twenty years as a freelance translator, writer, and teacher, in 2005 he joined the faculty of the University of Tokyo, where he developed and managed an English academic-writing program for undergraduates and supervised research on language education and related subjects. Now semiretired, he spends his days following AI developments, doing occasional translation, and playing with his four-year-old grandson. More information is at https://www.gally.net/
RSVP: by November 12
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General Meeting Team:
Director: Mio Ikenaga
Program Coordinators: Emi Doi and Ko Iwata
Meeting Managers: Shigeko Nagaoka and Chamodi Withana
