Who Does the Thinking: The Role of Generative AI in Higher Education
Generative AI has taken the world by storm since OpenAI launched ChatGPT-3 in November 2022. Generative AI is characterized by its capacity to generate human...
Xavier Dagba on Instagram: "I am not an advocate of AI by any means. I rarely talk about it. When it comes to technology, I tend to be a "late adopter". But I can't help but notice the amplified level of concern that it generates. And it makes sense. That being said, I know that every single potential that seems frightening, very often carries a highest invitation. Being deeply aware of the potential dangers of something, while making the conscious choice to focus on and usher the highest potential associated to it, is the way of the alchemist. And in my opinion, this is what we are all invited to be at the moment when it comes to technology. We get to program it benevolently AND we also get to embrace the highest promise that it can bring. As much as I am not a big fan of the rapid rise of AI, I also know that it will cause more and more people to focus on the matters of the soul and spirit. And in my opinion this will spark even more consciousness evolution. Do you agree? These ar...
1,216 likes, 74 comments - Xavier Dagba (@xavier.dagba) on Instagram on June 30, 2023: "I am not an advocate of AI by any means. I rarely talk about it. When it comes to technology, I t..."
803: Greetings, People Of Earth — This American Life
Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them. Prologue: Ira has some thoughts about our country’s long history of alien invasion movies. (2 minutes) Act One: In this past year we’ve witnessed a revolution in A.I. since the public rollout of ChatGPT. Our Senior Editor David Kestenbaum thinks that even though there’s been a ton of coverage, there’s one thing people haven’t talked much about: have these machines gotten to the point that they’re starting to have something like human intelligence? Where they actually understand language and concepts, and can reason? He talks with scientists at Microsoft who’ve been trying to figure that out. (30 minutes) Act Two: A short piece of fiction from the perspective of aliens who’ve been scouting Earth, from writer Terry Bisson. It’s called “They’re Made Out of Meat.” It’s performed by actors Maeve Higgins and H Jon Benjamin. (5 minutes) Act Three: A species of massive, mysterious, highly intelligent beings have recently been…
How to UseChatGPT for Explainer Videos (with Prompt Cheat Sheet)
Download a free PDF loaded with prompts like the ones in this video: https://explaineracademy.com/p/chatgptLearn how to use ChatGPT to provide creative spark...
Should We Fight Artificial Intelligence or Embrace It? The Role of AI in Education - With Professor Mia Zamora, Ph.D. by Urban Impact
On the eighth episode of Urban Impact, English professor and director of the Master of Arts in Writing Studies program, Mia Zamora, Ph.D., discusses the potential impact of artificial intelligence in the classroom and why she believes a humanistic approach is critical to working with emerging technologies like A.I. Urban Impact is recorded and produced at Kean, New Jersey’s urban research university.
We’re not going to be able to resist GenAI, if we don’t understand it robot teacher No one knows how quickly Microsoft, Google, and Amazon will move from beta testing generative AI with…
🚨Generative AI has a serious problem with bias🚨Over months of reporting, @dinabass and I looked at thousands of images from @StableDiffusion and found that text-to-image AI takes gender and racial stereotypes to extremes worse than in the real world.🧵 1/13 pic.twitter.com/p17YxabZU8— Leonardo Nicoletti (he/him) (@Leonardonclt) June 9, 2023
How can we teach with AI?
This week the Future Trends Forum focuses on creative AI pedagogy with Depauw University professor Harry Brown, who will describe and show his class experiments.
https://www.depauw.edu/academics/college-of-liberal-arts/english/faculty-staff/detail/1590987639843/
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aQm1ka0nXHk7E_kexrE3gsVvDzqiIsrGJF6eFRqBzCc/edit#slide=id.g2509e1ed078_8_75
The Future Trends Forum is a weekly discussion event created and hosted by Bryan Alexander. Since 2016 we have addressed the most powerful forces of change in academia. Each week, this video chat brings together practitioners in the field to share their most recent work and experience in education and technology. The intent of the Forum: to advance the discussion around the pressing issues at the crossroads of education and technology.
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Institutions Must Plan for AI to Go Mainstream, Says 2023 Educause Horizon Report -- Campus Technology
Higher education technology association Educause recently released the 2023 Teaching and Learning Edition of its annual Horizon Report, forecasting the trends, technologies, and practices that will shape the future of postsecondary education. AI is a significant theme throughout the report, both appearing in the top technological trends for 2023 as well as factoring into the key technologies and practices impacting colleges and universities going forward.
Google just dropped a 100% free learning path on Generative AI with 9 Courses 👇Intro to Gen AIIntro to LLMsIntro to Responsible AI Intro to Image GenerationEncoder-Decoder Attention Mechanism Transformers and BERTImage Captioning Gen AI Studio https://t.co/cyojw6P4Tm— Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller) June 4, 2023
A new sheriff is coming to the wild ChatGPT west | EduResearch Matters
h/t Chronicle reporter
You know something big is happening when the CEO of Open AI, the creators of ChatGPT, starts advocating for “regulatory guardrails”. Sam Altman testified to the US Senate Judiciary Committee this w…
NSF Announces 7 New AI Research Institutes at Universities Nationwide -- Campus Technology
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a $140 million investment in seven new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes on themes spanning trustworthy AI, next-generation cybersecurity, AI for decision-making, AI-augmented learning, and other important topics.
Chat GPT-4 is DEAD.Bard is here.It's free. No waitlist.Here are 10 powerful things Bard can do that ChatGPT cannot: pic.twitter.com/Vg2AHZPMgL— Robin - The AI Guy (@heyrobinai) May 15, 2023
ChatGPT has been the AI darling.Not anymore. Bard is here.It's free. No waitlist.Here are 10 powerful things Bard can do that ChatGPT cannot: pic.twitter.com/dS7l1r9ia9— You Probably Need A Robot (@youneedarobot) May 14, 2023