Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.

Google’s Sundar Pichai said its new chatbot will soon be released to a group of trusted testers outside the company.

Introducing: ChatGPT Edu-Mega-Prompts -- from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr. Philippa Hardman; with thanks to Ray Schroeder out on LinkedIn for this resource How to combine the power of AI + learning science to improve your efficiency & effectiveness as an educator From DSC: Before relaying some excerpts, I want to say that I get the gist

What if ChatGPT were a cat? h/t cogdog

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Some instructors seek to craft assignments that guide students in surpassing what AI can do. Others see that as a fool’s errand—one that lends too much agency to the software.

OpenAI is calling on educators to give their feedback on how the tool is used, amid rising concerns around AI-assisted cheating at universities

What to Do About AI Text Generators? Next Steps for Educators January 27, 2023 Anna Mills, College of Marin Presentation shared under a CC BY NC 4.0 license. Follow along at https://bit.ly/WhatToDoSlides

“ChatGPT is learning, and ChatGPT is an infant. In a month, it will be smarter.”

Digital Detox version 6 is focused on different digital futures.

A bunch of apps promise to detect ChatGPT. That's great! But before you go uploading student assignments to them, here are a few questions to ask yourself...— Phillip Dawson (@phillipdawson) January 17, 2023

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

Here's the list of sources: https://t.co/fJd4rh8kLy. The larger resource area at https://t.co/bN7CReGIEC has sample ChatGPT essays, strategies for mitigating harm, and questions for teachers to ask as well as a listserv. — Anna Mills, amills@mastodon.oeru.org, she/her (@EnglishOER) January 11, 2023 ChatGPT Creator Is Talking to Investors About Selling Shares at $29 Billion Valuation -- from wsj.com

Seeking out appropriate technology.

John Warner on what AI can teach us about how we teach writing.

Uncanny, creepy and bland: Brian Strang reflects on his chat with the artificial intelligence language model ChatGPT and the threat it does (or doesn’t) pose to writing instruction.

College Unbound - AI Generative Tools Policy Development Plan Updated 1/9/2022 The development of policy around the use of artificial intelligence generative tools in education at College Unbound will include several different actions. They are laid out here in a rough-timeline. For more info...

Teaching: Will ChatGPT Change the Way You Teach? -- from Chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie Excerpt: Want to get involved in the conversation around AI writing tools? Here are a few resources you might find helpful. Anna Mills has put together several documents: AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry How do we

9 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day, and why you'll never outcompete those who use AI effectively. -- from linkedin.com by Santiago Valdarrama Excerpts: A list for those who write code: Explaining code... Improve existing code... Rewriting code using the correct style... Rewriting code using idiomatic constructs... Simplifying code... Writing test cases...

Edward Tian said more than 20,000 users — many of them teachers — have already tested his app.

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for writing (including ChatGPT) can quickly create coherent, cohesive prose and paragraphs on a seemingly limitless set of topics. The potential for abuse in academic integrity is clear, and our students could be using these tools already. Furthermore, it is likely that this is…

Between ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, AI suddenly feels mainstream.

A guest post from Marc Watkins of the University of Mississippi, the second in a likely series on freaking out about ChatGPT.

Including 10 AI-ready assignment and activity ideas.

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I’m frustrated by the conversation around ChatGPT in higher education. So far, the conversation has been largely about using the tool as a text generator and fears around how students can use it fo…