Footnote: Enjoyable and video games with AI | Pitt Med Journal

Amid the explosion of generative synthetic intelligence (GenAI), Pitt Health Sciences educational designers Katherine Senko and Ashley Stewart got here up with a playful approach to encourage productive dialogue in regards to the new know-how: a card sport referred to as GenAI for Humanity.

It’s impressed by the favored sport Cards Against Humanity—although right here, the phrase “against” is crossed out and changed with “for” on the emblem. (Unlike its inspiration, their sport can also be acceptable for the office.)

The sport is designed to be performed by a bunch of 4 or extra folks, utilizing bodily playing cards. Players fill within the blanks of prompts on black playing cards—for instance, “I trust AI like I trust ________”—with a white card that includes a phrase or phrase they assume matches greatest.

GenAI for Humanity can be used as an icebreaker at subsequent 12 months’s Vanscoy Winter Academy, an annual occasion for Pitt alumni and mates that options shows from Pitt Health Sciences researchers. This 12 months, the theme is AI in medication. “It’s a fun way to get people talking about it,” Senko says, permitting for natural conversations about AI with out requiring a lot technical talent of the sport. With the quantity of public give attention to the destructive results of GenAI, Stewart believes the sport shines mild on assorted views.

The undertaking, which started in the summertime of 2024, is a part of a broader program to help conscious GenAI use in well being sciences schooling at Pitt. “It’s still just one piece,” Stewart says, “but the conversations are going to be key.”

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