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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis

The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

More than 160 new AI data centers have been built across the US in the past three years in regions already grappling with scarce water resources, a Bloomberg News analysis finds.

The recent wave of achievements in artificial intelligence has understandably generated tremendous enthusiasm and optimism. From language models like

And no one knows why it is happening

I believe that nature has incontrovertibly told us that diversity survives, and monocultures fail. Same with scientific method: diverse thinking and approaches gets us to closer to quality truth; and…

Roughly 60% of searches now yield no clicks at all, as AI-generated answers satisfy them directly on the search results page. Here are some insights to gain back traffic.

Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.

Big tech’s theft of creative work is not inevitable, it is a political choice. Britain must stand with artists, not surrender to Silicon Valley.

A whole lot of people – including computer scientists who should know better and academics who are usually thoughtful – are caught up in fanciful, magical beliefs about chatbots. Any su…

Ignoring their own well-publicized calls to regulate AI development and to pause implementation of its applications, major technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta are racing to fend off regulation and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their platforms. The weight of the available evidence suggests that the current wholesale adoption of unregulated AI applications in schools poses a grave danger to democratic civil society and to individual freedom and liberty. Years of warnings and precedents have highlighted the risks posed by the widespread use of pre-AI digital technologies in education, which have obscured decision-making and enabled student data exploitation. Without effective public oversight, the introduction of opaque and unproven AI systems and applications will likely exacerbate these problems. This policy brief explores the harms likely if lawmakers and others do not step in with carefully considered measures to prevent these extensive risks. The authors urge school leaders to pause the adoption of AI applications until policymakers have had sufficient time to thoroughly educate themselves and develop legislation and policies ensuring effective public oversight and control of school applications. Suggested Citation: Williamson, B., Molnar, A., & Boninger, F. (2024). Time for a pause: Without effective public oversight, AI in schools will do more harm than good. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ai

Meta stole millions of books to build its AI empire—then declared them worthless, profited from every word, moved to silence the whistleblower, and is now trying to outlaw the very theft it perfected. Meta’s Great AI Heist Meta scraped over 7 million pirated books to train its LLaMA models—including

The sci-fi series takes aim at a very familiar target in its new season.

inTouch says on its website "Busy life? You can’t call your parent every day—but we can." My own mum said she would feel terrible if her child used it.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Whether it’s a private email or a public LinkedIn post, we need to admit that using AI to write is simply poor etiquette.

If you’ve been scrolling social media over the past week, you may have noticed miniature action figure versions of friends, family, or colleagues neatly wrapped in a blister pack. These ...

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are expanding data centers in areas already struggling with drought, raising concerns about their use of local water supplies for cooling massive server farms.Luke Barratt and Costanza Gambarini report for The Guardian.In short:The three largest cloud companies are buil...

For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

We need to build a better web. A web by and for humans.

Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern faculty feel their leaders haven’t done enough to curb the crisis.

This viral trend of asking ChatGPT to generate a map of Europe is the perfect visual example of what it means to use a large language model for complex topics. If you have no idea about geography, it’s an ok map. Next time you’re tempted to rely on a LLM as a lawyer, doctor, or scientist, think of that map as that’s the kind of output you’re getting. #AI #Tech | 69 comments on LinkedIn

The IEA forecast indicates a sharp rise in the requirements of AI, but said threat to the climate was ‘overstated’

OpenAI and Anthropic launch higher education initiatives ahead of finals week.

S&P Global Market Intelligence ran a survey last month, “Voice of the Enterprise: AI & Machine Learning, Use Cases 2025.” They spoke to 1,006 businesses in Europe and North America. [Teleco…

You receive a photo of your child bruised and distressed. Moments later, a voice message arrives. It sounds exactly like them. They’re crying. Begging for… | 22 comments on LinkedIn