The UTS Health Faculty’s GenAI-ENHANCE Summit provides an annual snapshot of the leading edge applied research that’s testing the potential of GenAI to deepen learning in their diverse health programs, as well as how GenAI is changing professional practice.
CIC’s Simon Buckingham Shum was honoured to give the keynote, painting a broader contextual picture, before the program deep-dived into specific contexts. Continuing the theme of his recent work, he explored the intersection of 3 concepts: the polycrisis, education and GenAI, with particular interest in GenAI’s potential as a conversational thinking partner. He used health-specific examples to illustrate these concepts, and introduced a range of chatbots tuned to engage in very different kinds of dialogue to stretch one’s thinking, each grounded in contrasting worldviews. Stepping back from these specific examples, Simon proposed that a new human/AI sensemaking ecosystem is emerging.
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