Why Artificial Intelligence?: AI Tools in Information Technology and Foreign Language Education at the Tertiary Level

This monograph addresses the question ‘Why Artificial Intelligence?’ and is dedicated to the research of possibilities to use AI in tertiary education. Aiming to answer this question, this scholarly work examines AI tools to prove why AI is pedagogically expedient. The study presents a thoroughgoing analysis of the AI tools: Microsoft Copilot, which assists with searching for information, collaborating on ideas, and creating content, and Speechify, a text-to-speech technology. The work provides an examination of AI-powered English language tutors and the AI language learning platform, the Cathoven Language Hub. Through a bibliometric analysis, the authors concentrated precisely on publications related to the research topic and conducted a detailed review of scientific sources and research trends on AI technologies and their relevance to enhancing information technology and foreign language education. The findings shed light on the application of AI tools in educating future specialists in the field of information technology and in providing foreign language training to economics students.