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Google's Bard, an answer to Microsoft's ChatGPT, delivered a factual error in a search demo that the company shared widely. That sent Alphabet's market value plummeting this week.

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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

Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself

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

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Beautiful.ai launches a generative tool to help PowerPoint users overcome writer's block and the daunting confrontation of a blank presentation.

Seeking out appropriate technology.

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

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

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...