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AI and College Writing: An Orientation for Students (Draft) by Anna Mills Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 license (CC BY NC 4.0) Contents Contents Request for comments Introduction Basics What is AI, and why are people talking about it so much? How do chatbots c...

We have two sessions on Artificial Intelligence in Education scheduled on February 13th and 14th. Ten Ways To Try AI in Your Classroom Right Now with Jon Ippolito Plenty of educators across the wor…

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize how humans work, and has already demonstrated promise in significantly improving human produc

In a discussion with CBS Professor Oded Netzer, the director of Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab offers reassurance on the technology’s dystopian risk and urges us to embrace its potential.

Professor Lipson discusses the latest developments in robotics and AI, the societal implications of technological advancement, and the role of business and industry in pushing the boundaries of innovation.

The danger of artificial intelligence isn't that it's going to rebel against us, but that it's going to do exactly what we ask it to do, says AI researcher Janelle Shane. Sharing the weird, sometimes alarming antics of AI algorithms as they try to solve human problems -- like creating new ice cream flavors or recognizing cars on the road -- Shane shows why AI doesn't yet measure up to real brains.

I’m away from the Substack until August, but until then - here are some items of interest.

Sarah Elaine Eaton facilitates the MYFest session held on 9 July 2024. In this session, Professor Eaton looks at the ethical implications of advancements in ...

Carolyn Ives, Paul Martin, and Shaun Longstreet facilitate the MYFest session held on 10 July 2024. Inspired by frameworks from Nan Wehipeihana (2019) and th...

Some are riding the AI wave. Others feel like they’re drowning.

Morehouse College hopes students will use the tool, which a handful of professors will debut this fall, to ask questions and even listen to lectures that they missed.

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AI will shape higher education in new and unforeseen ways, Meeker says.

The “queen of the internet” is full of something…

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Anna Mills facilitates the MYFest session held on 2 July 2024. This interactive workshop surveys a range of AI-enabled research assistance apps that aim to help us find and analyze sources. We’ll look at general-purpose ones like Perplexity, ChatGPT4o, and Gemini as well as apps geared to academic research such as Elicit, Consensus, Keenious, ResearchRabbit, SciSpace, Scite_, and Undermind. In what ways do they facilitate source retrieval and analysis, and how can they also mislead us? What does wise use of these tools look like? Session slides here: https://bit.ly/SkepticalAIresearch

Mark Merino facilitates the MYFest session held on 3 July 2024. How can we respond to the terror of AI? Laughter. Play. Let’s explore the possibilities and p...

Would you tango with a robot? Inviting us into the fascinating world of dancing machines, robot choreographer Catie Cuan highlights why teaching robots to mo...

Generative AI, including ChatGPT, has impacted education. It now incorporates image recognition, text-to-speech, and code generation. Three levels for using GenAI in education are outlined in this …

Jon Ippolito facilitates the MYFest session held on 26 June 2024. Sometimes caricatured as mere regurgitators of online content, tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are more like a growing child that is facile at fabricating fresh ideas and novel imagery. A peek under the hood of these models will equip participants to grasp their special brand of creativity, along with their limits in representing diverse perspectives and potential for disinformation.

Jon Ippolito facilitates the MYFest session held on 27 June 2024 with the full title: Thinking Machines? Or Lying, Cheating, and Stealing Machines? This interactive workshop encourages participants to critically examine how and why generative AI tools were designed and what that means for their use in education. Topics of exploration include: Bias, Hallucinations, Exploitation of Human Labor, Data & Privacy, Digital Divide, Academic Integrity, and Intellectual Property Rights. As participants explore each of these topics, they will consider how to bring these critical issues into their practice and how to help prepare students to become critical AI users.