Tag: tech/AI

FEATURED

• “Human Curiosity In The Age Of AI”

  • Ness Labs
  • 05/18/24
  “To understand the distinct roles of human and AI curiosity, I found it helpful to examine their unique characteristics through a comparative framework. This framework looks at three key aspects of curiosity—processing, perspective, purpose—and examines how humans and AI differ across these dimensions.”

ADMISSIONS

• Research: A.I. Shows Incremental Progress At Reading Admissions Essays

  • Science
  • 12/15/23

ASSESSMENT

• Reflections On Assessments In A Time Of A.I.

  • Rooted
  • 12/15/23
  “What all this means is that human thinking can be made explicitly visible if we invite students to do work complex enough to be worthy of our unique, organic cognitive capacities. Based on this research, I recommend the following indicators as a way to verify and evaluate an assessment or performance task’s level of complexity:”

CHARACTER

• “Human Curiosity In The Age Of AI”

  • Ness Labs
  • 05/18/24
  “To understand the distinct roles of human and AI curiosity, I found it helpful to examine their unique characteristics through a comparative framework. This framework looks at three key aspects of curiosity—processing, perspective, purpose—and examines how humans and AI differ across these dimensions.”

READING/WRITING

• Claude Shannon, Italo Calvino, Generative A.I. And The Future Of Reading

  • Hedgehog Review
  • 12/15/23

A.I. Updates

TECH/AI: FEATURED

• “43+ Must-Follow Women Leaders In Artificial Intelligence”

  • Wednesday Women
  • 07/12/24
  “As we first set out to do more generally for executive women leaders (the mission of Wednesday Women is to highlight executive women to celebrate their authentic leadership on more feeds, stages, and podcasts) I wanted to do something similar for women in the field of AI, And so we’re presenting here a list of […]

• The Open Empathic Project: Bringing Empathy To A.I.

  • TechCrunch
  • 12/15/23
  ““With Open Empathic, our goal is to create an AI that goes beyond understanding just words,” Schuhmann added. “We aim for it to grasp the nuances in expressions and tone shifts, making human-AI interactions more authentic and empathetic.””

• 180 Five-Minute Class Warmups To Get Students Thinking About A.I.

  • AI in Education
  • 12/15/23
  “AI Snapshots is an assortment of classroom warmups that will give your students a basic understanding of AI. In only 5 minutes of class time, students will learn to define, identify, and think critically about artificial intelligence.”

• “Everyone Knows Claude Doesn’t Show Up On A.I. Detectors”

  • Academic Platypus
  • 12/15/23
  “I was talking [with my son] about how bad AI detectors are, and that they should all be banned and I was complaining that one of my students told me that his professor was actually marking down students if their work showed up in the AI detector in TurnItIn when, out of the blue, he […]

• Beautiful Visual Essay Connecting — And Contrasting — Toddler Learning To A.I. Learning

  • New Yorker
  • 12/15/23
  “The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.”

TECH/AI

• “AI As A Cultural Technology”

  • Marc Watkins
  • 09/29/24
  “Generative tools are increasingly impacting how we access and view information in our digital spaces. As Alison Gopnik argues, “these models are “cultural technologies” like writing, print, pictures, libraries, internet search engines, and Wikipedia.” Cultural technologies increase our access to information but also transform how we view technology in our daily lives. Put simply, generative […]

• What Happens When Two AIs In Conversation Learn They Are AI?

  • Twitter
  • 09/28/24

• “71% Of Leaders Prefer Hiring Candidates With AI Skills”

  • Venture Beat
  • 09/03/24

• Procreate, The iPad Drawing App, Makes Anti-AI Declaration

  • Procreate
  • 09/01/24

• A Reminder That We Need To Keep Thinking, Despite AI’s Abilities

  • O’Reilly
  • 08/13/24

• “43+ Must-Follow Women Leaders In Artificial Intelligence”

  • Wednesday Women
  • 07/12/24
  “As we first set out to do more generally for executive women leaders (the mission of Wednesday Women is to highlight executive women to celebrate their authentic leadership on more feeds, stages, and podcasts) I wanted to do something similar for women in the field of AI, And so we’re presenting here a list of […]
• See 17 more

  • Getting Expert Outcomes From GenAI Requires Experts, For Now

    • One Useful Thing
    • 06/20/24
    “If making current AI systems work better is about expert guidance, then we need experts to share what they learn, or people will use AI in ways that don’t draw on latent expertise. For every student using our tutor prompt, tens of thousands of students are just asking the AI to explain something “like I […]

  • “The Rise Of The Teacherpreneur In The Age Of AI”

    • EdTechInsiders
    • 06/18/24

  • Introducing “Slop” — AI Generated Spam

    • New York Times
    • 06/11/24
    ““Society needs concise ways to talk about modern A.I. — both the positives and the negatives,” he said. “‘Ignore that email, it’s spam,’ and ‘Ignore that article, it’s slop,’ are both useful lessons.””

  • Reflections On The Weird, Uncertain State Of Silicon Valley

    • Benn Stancil
    • 06/07/24
    “Is it the end of something? Is some era dead? Are we getting getting eaten? Is it time to build? I don’t know. The ocean is changing too quickly; the weather is too unfamiliar. The moment betrays buzzy headlines and showy predictions. Whatever gets made now will likely be upended two or three times before […]

  • Why Was Sam Altman Fired?

    • Gary Marcus
    • 05/29/24

  • What’s In The Library At The OpenAI Offices?

    • New York Times
    • 05/15/24

  • Who Is Yann LeCun: Chief AI Scientist At Meta?

    • Perplexity
    • 05/10/24

  • “Hey Claude: ‘Garlic Bread’” - A Playful, Humorous AI Conversation

    • LinkedIn
    • 05/05/24
    “Well, this is quite the curious conundrum we find ourselves in! Here I am, an Al assistant, ready and willing to wax poetic about the wonders of garlic bread, and yet my human companion seems determined to stump me at every turn.”

  • “After AI Beat Them, Professional Go Players Got Better And More Creative”

    • Escaping Flatland
    • 01/23/24
    “Then, in May 2016, DeepMind demonstrated AlphaGo, an AI that could beat the best human Go players. This is how the humans reacted.. After a few years, the weakest professional players were better than the strongest players before AI. The strongest players pushed beyond what had been thought possible.”

  • What Are The Economic Implications Of Generative A.I.?

    • McKinsey
    • 12/15/23

  • What Are The Workforce Implications Of Generative A.I.?

    • McKinsey
    • 12/15/23

  • The Open Empathic Project: Bringing Empathy To A.I.

    • TechCrunch
    • 12/15/23
    ““With Open Empathic, our goal is to create an AI that goes beyond understanding just words,” Schuhmann added. “We aim for it to grasp the nuances in expressions and tone shifts, making human-AI interactions more authentic and empathetic.””

  • “Leading Novelists On How A.I. Could Rewrite The Future”

    • Guardian
    • 12/15/23
    “At present, AI is a tool. I doubt that will always be the case. An alternative intelligence will make art of all kinds – with us, and without us. I am ready for a different world.”

  • Bill Gates On The Future With A.I. Agents

    • Gates Notes
    • 12/15/23

  • Beautiful Visual Essay Connecting — And Contrasting — Toddler Learning To A.I. Learning

    • New Yorker
    • 12/15/23
    “The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.”

  • David Brooks: What’s It Like Inside OpenAI?

    • New York Times
    • 12/15/23

  • How Student Data Can Help Identify Students In Need Of Support

    • New York Times
    • 09/20/23

TECH/AI: EDUCATION

• California’ State Guidance On Learning With And About A.I.

  • California DoE
  • 12/15/23

• Sample Guidance On The Use Of A.I.

  • TeachAI
  • 12/15/23

• “Teachers: Don’t Use A.I. Detectors”

  • The Algorithmic Bridge
  • 12/15/23

• NYC’s About-Face: From Banning A.I. To Creating A.I. Policy Lab

  • EdWeek
  • 12/15/23

• Cheating Does Not Appear To Be Increasing With A.I.

  • Stanford
  • 12/15/23

• Teacher + ChatGPT Accelerates ChatGPT Capabilities

  • Dan Meyer
  • 12/15/23
• See 14 more

  • A.I. And Bloom’s Taxonomy: How Well Does It Perform?

    • Getting Smart
    • 12/15/23

  • Admissions Offices Explore GenAI For Their Work

    • Chronicle of Higher Education
    • 12/15/23

  • 180 Five-Minute Class Warmups To Get Students Thinking About A.I.

    • AI in Education
    • 12/15/23
    “AI Snapshots is an assortment of classroom warmups that will give your students a basic understanding of AI. In only 5 minutes of class time, students will learn to define, identify, and think critically about artificial intelligence.”

  • Princeton Prof Walks Through A Writing Assignment Using ChatGPT

    • EdSurge
    • 12/15/23

  • Excellent Walkthrough Of A College History Assignment With ChatGPT

    • e-Literate
    • 12/15/23

  • Some Schools Are Using Permission Slips For ChatGPT

    • EdWeek
    • 12/15/23

  • “Everyone Knows Claude Doesn’t Show Up On A.I. Detectors”

    • Academic Platypus
    • 12/15/23
    “I was talking [with my son] about how bad AI detectors are, and that they should all be banned and I was complaining that one of my students told me that his professor was actually marking down students if their work showed up in the AI detector in TurnItIn when, out of the blue, he […]

  • Generative A.I. And SEL Are On A Convergence Course

    • EdWeek
    • 12/15/23
    “Why do the hard work of having a friendship when I have this very supportive chatbot?”

  • Common Sense Media Starts Ranking A.I. Products

    • Common Sense Media
    • 12/15/23
    “Our assessment of how well this product aligns with each AI Principle : People First, Fairness, Trust, Kids’ Safety, Learning, Social Connection, Privacy, Transparency & Accountability”

  • "How To Use Generative A.I. For Historical Research”

    • Res Obscura
    • 12/15/23
    “Being a historian, I’m interested in how this technology might be used to augment primary source research: the act of reading, organizing, and analyzing the data to be found in historical texts, images, and other media. The rest of this post describes four case studies of how generative AI could be used in this way. […]

  • “Should Universities Build Their Own Custom AI Tools in House?”

    • Government Technology
    • 12/15/23

  • Khanmigo Adds Writing Tool For Offering Feedback On Essays

    • EdWeek
    • 12/15/23

  • “Schools ‘Can’t Sit Out’ A.I., Top U.S. Education Dept Official Argues”

    • EdWeek
    • 12/15/23

  • Harvard metaLAB’s A.I. Pedagogy Project

    • A.I. Pedagogy
    • 12/15/23

TECH/AI: ETHICS AND RISK

• “An Overview Of Artificial Intelligence Ethics”

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • 12/15/23

• USAID: “A.I. Ethics Guide”

  • USAID
  • 12/15/23

• On "Encoding Societal Values Into Social Media A.I.s”

  • Stanford
  • 12/15/23
  “Values centered on individual experience, such as personal agency, enjoyment, and stimulation, are undeniably important and central requirements for any social media platform. It shouldn’t be surprising that reward hacking only on individual values will lead to challenging societal-level outcomes, because the algorithm has no way to reason about societies. But then, what would it […]

• Max Tegmark Describes The Tech Industry’s Fear Of A.I. Driven Extinction

  • TED
  • 12/15/23

• Hackers Are Leveraging A.I. To Enhance Phishing Attacks

  • The Messenger
  • 12/15/23
  “Microsoft is already seeing cyber criminals and government hackers “using AI to refine the language that they use in their phishing attacks … and make them somewhat harder to detect,” Tom Burt, the company’s corporate vice president of customer security and trust, told reporters during a recent briefing.”

• How Real Are The Greatest Fears About A.I.?

  • Business Insider
  • 12/15/23
• See 2 more

  • U.K. Hosts 1st International A.I. Safety Summit

    • Quartz
    • 12/15/23

  • US And China Agree To Keep A.I. Out Of Nuclear Control Systems

    • Business Insider
    • 12/15/23

TECH/AI: GOVERNMENT AND LAW

• Artist Lawsuits Against A.I. Companies Struggle To Gain Traction

  • Reuters
  • 12/15/23
  “U.S. District Judge William Orrick dismissed some claims from the proposed class action brought by Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz, including all of the allegations against Midjourney and DeviantArt. The judge said the artists could file an amended complaint against the two companies, whose systems utilize Stability’s Stable Diffusion text-to-image technology. Orrick also […]

• White House Issues Executive Order On A.I. Regulation/Adoption

  • New York Times
  • 12/15/23

• Official White House Fact Sheet On The Executive Order On A.I.

  • Whitehouse.gov
  • 12/15/23

• Full (Very Long) Text Of The White House Executive Order On A.I.

  • Whitehouse.gov
  • 12/15/23

• Government Memo For Applying A.I. To Government Functions

  • AI.gov
  • 12/15/23

TECH/AI: INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT

• How Does ChatGPT Work? An Excellent Longread

  • Stephen Wolfram
  • 12/15/23

• Beyond Prompt Engineering: Interactive Task Elicitation

  • Arxiv
  • 12/15/23

• Adding Emotion To Prompts Seems To Impact Outcomes

  • Arxiv
  • 12/15/23

• David Wiley: The Impact Of Generative A.I. In One Sentence

  • Open Content
  • 12/15/23
  “Generative AI greatly reduces the degree to which access to expertise is an obstacle to education… We haven’t even started to unpack the implications of this notion yet, but hopefully just naming it will give the conversation focus, give people something to disagree with, and help the conversation progress more quickly.”

• Two Kinds Of A.I. Prompts: Conversational And Technical

  • One Useful Thing
  • 12/15/23

• Game-Changer: Customize Your A.I. With Documents, Principles, Data

  • OpenAI
  • 12/15/23
  “We’re rolling out custom versions of ChatGPT that you can create for a specific purpose—called GPTs. GPTs are a new way for anyone to create a tailored version of ChatGPT to be more helpful in their daily life, at specific tasks, at work, or at home—and then share that creation with others. For example, GPTs […]
• See 10 more

  • How to Build A Personal, Custom GPT In Four Minutes [Video]

    • OpenAI
    • 12/15/23

  • OpenAI Now Enables You To Make Your Own Custom GPTs

    • OpenAI
    • 12/15/23

  • You Can Customize Your Own GPT For Your Own Classes And Teaching

    • One Useful Thing
    • 12/15/23
    “While everyone benefits from feedback on their writing, not everyone has access to an expert editor or teacher, and many students get feedback only rarely. So we created a GPT to provide specific, actionable feedback… Then, rather than just writing the essay for the student, the GPT returns an edited, marked in red copy of […]

  • “Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here”

    • New York Times
    • 12/15/23
    “They differ from the regular ChatGPT in a few important ways. First, they are programmed for specific tasks. (Examples that OpenAI created include “Creative Writing Coach” and “Mocktail Mixologist,” a bot that suggests nonalcoholic drink recipes.) Second, the bots can pull from private data, such as a company’s internal H.R. documents or a database of […]

  • On The Costs Of Training Your Own LLM

    • Brev
    • 12/15/23

  • On Testing OpenAI’s Make-Your-Own GPT

    • Biblioracle
    • 12/15/23

  • Google Makes Bard Appropriate For Teens

    • Google
    • 12/15/23
    “Before launching to teens, we consulted with child safety and development experts to help shape our content policies and an experience that prioritizes safety. And organizations like the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) advised us on how to keep the needs of teens and families in mind.”

  • An Excellent Summary Of How LLMs Work

    • e-Literate
    • 12/15/23

  • A Summary Of The Sam Altman Firing And Shakeup

    • New York Times
    • 12/15/23

  • An Excellent Governance Review Of The Altman/OpenAI Moment

    • Exponential View
    • 12/15/23

TECH/AI: USES AND APPLICATIONS

• People Are Speaking With A.I. For Hours

  • Ars Technica
  • 12/15/23
  “Starhaven recently wrote, “My new morning driving routine involves chatting with ChatGPT through my car speaker/Airplay, as if I were hanging on the phone with my mum.” He talked about working through ideas vocally. “Sometimes you just wanna share your unhinged thoughts with a friend—though, maybe not at 7 in the morning,” he wrote. “So […]

• Process For Adopting A.I. In Health Care Needs Attention

  • New York Times
  • 12/15/23

• “A.I. Twice As Accurate As A Biopsy At Grading… Some Sarcomas”

  • Institute for Cancer Research
  • 12/15/23

• Senegalese Student Uses A.I. To Help Eradicate Malaria

  • New York Times
  • 12/15/23

• “GenAI: A Guide For CFOs”

  • McKinsey
  • 12/15/23

TECH/AI: GENERAL

• “AI As A Cultural Technology”

  • Marc Watkins
  • 09/29/24
  “Generative tools are increasingly impacting how we access and view information in our digital spaces. As Alison Gopnik argues, “these models are “cultural technologies” like writing, print, pictures, libraries, internet search engines, and Wikipedia.” Cultural technologies increase our access to information but also transform how we view technology in our daily lives. Put simply, generative […]

• What Happens When Two AIs In Conversation Learn They Are AI?

  • Twitter
  • 09/28/24

• “71% Of Leaders Prefer Hiring Candidates With AI Skills”

  • Venture Beat
  • 09/03/24

• Procreate, The iPad Drawing App, Makes Anti-AI Declaration

  • Procreate
  • 09/01/24

• A Reminder That We Need To Keep Thinking, Despite AI’s Abilities

  • O’Reilly
  • 08/13/24

• “43+ Must-Follow Women Leaders In Artificial Intelligence”

  • Wednesday Women
  • 07/12/24
  “As we first set out to do more generally for executive women leaders (the mission of Wednesday Women is to highlight executive women to celebrate their authentic leadership on more feeds, stages, and podcasts) I wanted to do something similar for women in the field of AI, And so we’re presenting here a list of […]
• See 17 more

  • Getting Expert Outcomes From GenAI Requires Experts, For Now

    • One Useful Thing
    • 06/20/24
    “If making current AI systems work better is about expert guidance, then we need experts to share what they learn, or people will use AI in ways that don’t draw on latent expertise. For every student using our tutor prompt, tens of thousands of students are just asking the AI to explain something “like I […]

  • “The Rise Of The Teacherpreneur In The Age Of AI”

    • EdTechInsiders
    • 06/18/24

  • Introducing “Slop” — AI Generated Spam

    • New York Times
    • 06/11/24
    ““Society needs concise ways to talk about modern A.I. — both the positives and the negatives,” he said. “‘Ignore that email, it’s spam,’ and ‘Ignore that article, it’s slop,’ are both useful lessons.””

  • Reflections On The Weird, Uncertain State Of Silicon Valley

    • Benn Stancil
    • 06/07/24
    “Is it the end of something? Is some era dead? Are we getting getting eaten? Is it time to build? I don’t know. The ocean is changing too quickly; the weather is too unfamiliar. The moment betrays buzzy headlines and showy predictions. Whatever gets made now will likely be upended two or three times before […]

  • Why Was Sam Altman Fired?

    • Gary Marcus
    • 05/29/24

  • What’s In The Library At The OpenAI Offices?

    • New York Times
    • 05/15/24

  • Who Is Yann LeCun: Chief AI Scientist At Meta?

    • Perplexity
    • 05/10/24

  • “Hey Claude: ‘Garlic Bread’” - A Playful, Humorous AI Conversation

    • LinkedIn
    • 05/05/24
    “Well, this is quite the curious conundrum we find ourselves in! Here I am, an Al assistant, ready and willing to wax poetic about the wonders of garlic bread, and yet my human companion seems determined to stump me at every turn.”

  • “After AI Beat Them, Professional Go Players Got Better And More Creative”

    • Escaping Flatland
    • 01/23/24
    “Then, in May 2016, DeepMind demonstrated AlphaGo, an AI that could beat the best human Go players. This is how the humans reacted.. After a few years, the weakest professional players were better than the strongest players before AI. The strongest players pushed beyond what had been thought possible.”

  • What Are The Economic Implications Of Generative A.I.?

    • McKinsey
    • 12/15/23

  • What Are The Workforce Implications Of Generative A.I.?

    • McKinsey
    • 12/15/23

  • The Open Empathic Project: Bringing Empathy To A.I.

    • TechCrunch
    • 12/15/23
    ““With Open Empathic, our goal is to create an AI that goes beyond understanding just words,” Schuhmann added. “We aim for it to grasp the nuances in expressions and tone shifts, making human-AI interactions more authentic and empathetic.””

  • “Leading Novelists On How A.I. Could Rewrite The Future”

    • Guardian
    • 12/15/23
    “At present, AI is a tool. I doubt that will always be the case. An alternative intelligence will make art of all kinds – with us, and without us. I am ready for a different world.”

  • Bill Gates On The Future With A.I. Agents

    • Gates Notes
    • 12/15/23

  • Beautiful Visual Essay Connecting — And Contrasting — Toddler Learning To A.I. Learning

    • New Yorker
    • 12/15/23
    “The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.”

  • David Brooks: What’s It Like Inside OpenAI?

    • New York Times
    • 12/15/23

  • How Student Data Can Help Identify Students In Need Of Support

    • New York Times
    • 09/20/23