How Sarasota County is keeping up with the tech [Video]

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Ready or not, artificial intelligence is coming.

Sarasota County is trying to get out in front of it as the school board tries to make sure its rules keep up with the technology.

“Artificial intelligence is just a way for computers to try to think the way we do,” Artificial Intelligence Consultant Joey de Villa said. “Students could theoretically use AI to do their work because AI simply knows how to copy the way we write and it’s been fed all kinds of information.”

But, what would that look like?

Here’s an example. Say you’re a student working on a history paper on the founding of the United States of America.

You could ask Chat GPT: How was the USA formed?

In this case, AI responded with a paragraph giving background information that could be useful for the paper.

But you could also ask Chat GPT to write a paper about how …