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How the rise of AI has reinforced inequity in education (and what we need to do to reverse it)

Use this comprehensive glossary of AI terms to understand the language of artificial intelligence.

Dr. Francine Berman permitted her students at UMass to use ChatGPT to help them write. Despite limitations, she found there were ways it could help edit student work.

Much can be learned from embracing artificial intelligence in the teaching and learning process. Here, two professors share their experiences using ChatGPT freely in the classroom.

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...

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..."

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…

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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. http://forum.futureofeducation.us/ https://bryanalexander.org/ This event is powered by Shindig, the video chat event provider. On Shindig, audiences all can see one another and engage in private video chats sharing and discussing the content of the presentation. Event hosts may also bring selected audience members to the stage to ask questions or otherwise interact with guest speakers. Shindig; the dynamics of in person events, online. Thumbnail by Roxann Riskin.

How to combine the power of AI + learning science to improve your efficiency & effectiveness as an educator

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

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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…

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There’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing.

Ignoring ChatGPT and its cousins won’t get us anywhere. In fact, these systems reveal issues we too often miss