Prompt: Generate an image of what a middle school science classroom will look like in 5 years

Prompt: Now generate an image of what a middle school science classroom would look like in 15 years

Reflection:

When I assessed these images and compared them to what I imagined they would create, they were very different. The vastly futuristic design of these images in comparison to the average classroom, especially science classrooms, is fairly unrealistic in my opinion. While there may be more implemented technology in classrooms as tech like AR and VR become more accessible, I do not think that level of technological immersion is possible in only 5 years, not to mention that this would most likely be an example of how a brand new science room may look with adequate funding and access to the latest and greatest tech. If I were to consider how the AI was trained, I think the keywords in my prompt would be science and a time-related element pointing toward the future. I can assume that the training or data the AI used was that of the futeristic aestetic seen in media. Like when we think back to moves from the last half a decade when talking about the future, it’s all described, and even shown as, well, for lack of a better word, futuristic. Thinking about things like immersive technology and even the application of usable hologram technology in general science classrooms in 5 years’ time is a bit far-fetched; even 15 years may be pushing it. It seems more feasible, given the fast rise of VR and AI in the last decade. Seeing the results, I would think that the data used for “future” context training would be stereotyped and generalized based on popular media and ideas of how much technology will be involved and integrated into daily life in the future. Would being ultra-specific and providing images and background information about a specific classroom and school demographic change the AI’s response? I have used specifically engineered criteria and context-based chats in ChatGPT for a class before, so I wonder about the impacts and biases that something like this conversation with an AI would benefit from if used in this case.