Mehmet Ergezer teaches computer and data science at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He also works in the tech industry. Through both of his jobs, he’s seen the growing pressure to use AI tools.
“It is definitely used as a way to increase productivity for the existing engineers,” he said. “If there’s something that maybe you could do in a few weeks, you can do it in a couple of days now with the use of AI. That means they can give you more tasks to do.”
In the classroom, Ergezer said new technology has changed how he teaches too. When chatbots first arrived, they couldn’t handle his homework problems.
“So I was like, ‘Yay! It’s smart, but not that smart,’” he said. “But that changed in months.”
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