Per una Pedagogia della Singolarità: intelligenze artificiali e tecnologie digitali a supporto dell’educazione alla scrittura, un quasi-esperimento con il modello linguistico GPT-3

With the advent of artificial intelligence models like Generative Pre-training Trans-former 3 (GPT-3), there has been an increase in the interest in using these tools to support writing learning. However, there have also been concerns about the potential impact of these systems on the creativity and the individuality of students in the Z and Alpha generations. Fu-turist Ray Kurzweil’s prediction suggests orienting the future of education towards a Singularity Pedagogy as a response to a civilizing adaptation in view of an increasingly digital society that calls for strictly human qualities like responsibility, wisdom, and ethics. Working collaborative-ly with artificial intelligences in the field of education, using them as tools to support learning and problem solving, will give us the opportunity to adopt a technocritical and ethical attitude towards technological progress. For example, this quasi-experiment has shown the possibility of supporting writing learning in an alternative way with the development of artificial intelli-gence models. In particular, GPT-3 is able to generate human-like texts and to understand the context in which they are used: this makes it possible to use it as a writing teaching support tool, providing personalized feedback and suggestions based on individual needs.