Abstract:The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT has raised many challenging questions about the nature of teaching, learning, and assessment in every subject area, including science. Unlike other disciplines, natural science is unique because the ontological and epistemological understanding of nature is fundamentally rooted in our interaction with material objects in the physical world. Generative AI, powered by statistical probability arising from a massive corpus of text, is d… Show more
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