Well, Sharp Literacy is doing its part to expose students
to artificial intelligence.
Steph Brown has been introducing us to several new Sharp
learning initiative.
She's here now with how students are using a new
artificial intelligence concept around a restaurant.
Staff break this down for us, OK?
Our continued connection with Sharp brings us to their first
ever AI art class.
While the Olympics were going on, I was still out
connecting this summer, so I was invited to the Journey
House on the South Side.
Students like Diego and his instructor Becky are building websites
using AI as a tool for images, text, menus and
so much more.
Take a look.
So did you learn how to put those pictures in
like that?
And then you came up with devil's fruit salad, Robin's
Archaeologist pasta.
Yeah, that's also AAI generated.
It may look real, but it was AI generated.
Yeah.
Wow, that one too.
AI is able to help them generate so many ideas
from the, the name of the restaurant to the tagline,
what kinds of menu items, the bio of the chef.
So they're using it really purposefully.
Yeah.
And this helps them because then they're able to see,
oh, when do I just do a regular Google search
as opposed to using ChatGPT or as opposed to I
need an image to communicate this.
So they're getting really good at doing this.
Who has questions about what they're supposed to be doing
with their website today?
Becky Olson, technology and innovation manager for Sharp guide students
in this six week immersive class with this program.
We have them coming up with some creative idea for
a restaurant that they would like to bring to Milwaukee.
And it needs to be experiential dining, something beyond the
food.
Some of the kids have come up with ideas like
a ping pong parlor where you can come and play
ping pong and order your everyone seems to be so
scared of AI now.
AI seems to be like this big bad monster that's
coming to take over our world and you've you're channeling
it in a positive way.
This is a part of their world.
It's not going away and they need to know that
it's a tool.
We are very clear when we start teaching these students
that AI is artificial intelligence.
They have the actual intelligence.
So they get to be really creative about coming up
with that idea, and they make the website for it.
Then they use AI to create the website.
All this was generated and helped by AI thanks to
ChatGPT and Firefly.
What we're trying to do is make sure these kids
have exposure to new technologies and that they feel that
they get enough training and exposure, that they're not afraid
to try something new and that they know I have
the capacity to do this.
They will be competitive.
Their goal really is to empower kids to use their
own intelligence to guide AI in a purposeful way.
They stress this is a tool to fuel ideas and
certainly not a replacement for original work.
So hopefully our kids will be exposed and competitive.
Thank you for explaining that at the end there, because
I have feelings about artificial intelligence.
You can't use it to replace your own imagination and
creativity.
It does wild, wild stuff, but so does this up
here and you need to engage this just as much
as you do this.
Exactly.
You are the intelligence.
You are then just guiding AI as a tool to
help you, but you are the intelligent person that is
artificial intelligence AI.
There you go.
And if you have a school story you want to
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