“The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.”
“Fifty social dilemma questions were randomly selected from 10 well-known advice columns. In a pre-registered survey, participants (N = 404) were each shown one question, along with the corresponding response by an advice columnist and by ChatGPT. ChatGPT’s advice was perceived as more balanced, complete, empathetic, helpful, and better than the advice provided by professional advice columnists.”
“Four in 10 parents say they know a “little general information” about artificial intelligence, and about six in 10 say they have heard little to nothing about how AI can be applied in education… Even so, the majority of parents—more than two thirds—believe that the potential benefits of AI to K-12 education either outweigh or […]
“One big problem for Ross Intelligence is that it was apparently using Thomson Reuters’ content with the hopes of competing directly with the company. Ross shut down operations in 2021, after it was sued. “If your work is directly competing in the same market with the work that you’re using, that’s a huge factor weighing […]
“Users report that interactive task elicitation requires less effort than prompting or example labeling and surfaces novel considerations not initially anticipated by users.”
“He shared with me how Chat GPT had become an integral part of his daily life. “Dad,” he began, “Chat GPT is like my co-pilot. I always have it open and I use it whenever I have any doubts about something I am working on.” As our conversation flowed, he shared anecdotes of how Chat […]
“The authors… interviewed leaders at some 40 organizations around the world that are investing in large-scale reskilling programs. In synthesizing what they learned, they became aware of five paradigm shifts that are emerging in reskilling: (1) Reskilling is a strategic imperative. (2) It is the responsibility of every leader and manager. (3) It is a […]
“So I think the challenge for the next century is going to be what we don’t do rather than what we do. And in the history of our species so far, progress has been a function of what we do. Progress has never been a function of what we say no to. And now the […]
“The most valuable skills are no longer the ability to memorise reams of knowledge, historical facts, or scientific formulae. Instead, they consist of learning where to find this knowledge and how to use it; becoming more sceptical and vigilant for hallucinating AI, misinformed humans, or obsolete paradigms; or simply how to focus in a distracting […]
“To help you explore some of the ways students can use this disruptive new technology to improve their learning—while making your job easier and more effective—we’ve written a series of articles that examine the following student use cases: 1) AI as feedback generator 2) AI as personal tutor 3) AI as team coach 4) AI […]
“The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence (2014) includes, at different points, three different definitions of AI.”
“The fundamental task of policymakers and education leaders is to ensure that the technology is serving sound instructional practice. As Vicki Phillips, CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy, wrote, “We should not only think about how technology can assist teachers and learners in improving what they’re doing now, but what it […]
“Generative AI can empower people—but only if leaders take a broad view of its capabilities and deeply consider its implications for the organization.”
“Apple made gadgets cool. Google let me summon far-flung information. Amazon brought hard-to-find books to my doorstep… The Luddites would have had few, if any, problems with all of that. And neither did I… By the 2010s, however, there were plenty of signs of the costs. As Amazon grew, stories emerged about grueling conditions in […]
“Now that it’s September, we can put our June hypothesis to the test. And… it checks out perfectly. ChatGPT in blue, Minecraft in red. Kids are doing homework again and ChatGPT search interest is back up.”
“We also found something else interesting, an effect that is increasingly apparent in other studies of AI: it works as a skill leveler. The consultants who scored the worst when we assessed them at the start of the experiment had the biggest jump in their performance, 43%, when they got to use AI. The top […]
“For 18 different tasks selected to be realistic samples of the kinds of work done at an elite consulting company, consultants using ChatGPT-4 outperformed those who did not, by a lot. On every dimension. Every way we measured performance.”
“One explanation is that we like imperfection. AI may not be foolproof (yet) but it lives in an always-optimizing state that drives it toward a kind of flawlessness—too alien, too artificial—out of reach for us always-flawed humans. And we happen to like flawed humans do stuff: Carlsen and Kasparov, however brilliant, still make mistakes, yet […]
“The disaster was not natural, they said in a flurry of false posts that spread across the internet, but was the result of a secret “weather weapon” being tested by the United States. To bolster the plausibility, the posts carried photographs that appeared to have been generated by artificial intelligence programs, making them among the […]
“Forget synonyms of words, find synonyms for paragraphs. I asked GPT-4 to Give me 20 vastly different variations on this [the paragraph above]. Make them as different as possible in style. label each style. Some of the more exciting examples of what it came up with:”
“Draftback does a few helpful things for Google Docs. Most importantly, it turns a document’s revision history—which we normally have to click through piecemeal—into a video that can be played at controllable speeds. When we watch it, we can actually see a student’s every keystroke on a document. Draftback also provides a detailed breakdown of […]
“Districts are responding in divergent ways to artificial intelligence’s potential to reshape teaching and learning, and most have refrained from defining a districtwide stance for schools to navigate AI… it’s clear that this technology will evolve faster than districts can develop formal training and guidance for staff. Leaders need to respond by thinking through how they train […]
“If the last great tech wave—computers and the internet—was about broadcasting information, this new wave is all about doing. We are facing a step change in what’s possible for individual people to do, and at a previously unthinkable pace… These AIs will organize a retirement party and manage your diary, they will develop and execute […]
“We hope this collection offers something for teachers with all levels of comfort with technologies—from teachers seasoned with digital writing technologies to teachers approaching the entire domain with trepidation. To that end, we have made the teaching resources in this collection as accessible as possible.”
“We’re sharing a few stories of how educators are using ChatGPT to accelerate student learning and some prompts to help educators get started with the tool. In addition to the examples below, our new FAQ contains additional resources from leading education organizations on how to teach with and about AI, examples of new AI-powered education […]
“If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns that and who gets paid? This is a completely new problem that we’ve been arguing about for 500 years.”
“If you are already trying AI, show students what you’re doing. Ask them what they think. Tell them what you think. Your willingness to show your work models vulnerability and offers implicit permission to talk openly about using AI for learning… If you show your work, students are more likely to show theirs.”
“On August 18, 2023, the US District Court for the District of Columbia (the Court) ruled in Thaler v. Register of Copyrights that an AI-generated work “absent any guiding human hand” is not protected by copyright, explaining that “[h]uman authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.” …This said, the Court was mindful of AI-focused questions that are sure […]
“Create a curriculum that is process-oriented, not product-oriented. AI should not be used to replace the “thinking” or ability to recall facts that product-oriented learning often asks of students. Rather, Dede and Cao suggest developing process-oriented learning approaches that encourage students to find answers with their own logic and reasoning. “We need to equip students […]
“It has been nine minutes on this video, I now have ideas for an activity, a lesson plan connected to my standards, and a presentation, all setting students up.”
“First, I encourage educators — especially those who teach in high schools and colleges — to assume that 100 percent of their students are using ChatGPT and other generative A.I. tools on every assignment, in every subject, unless they’re being physically supervised inside a school building… My third piece of advice — and the one […]
“As the school year begins, their thinking has evolved.”
“Nearly 4 in 10 teachers expect to use AI in their classrooms by the end of the 2023-24 school year. Less than half as many say they are prepared to use the tools.”
“Now, I need to be very clear here: I don’t mean expert prompts, produced through elaborate “prompt engineering.” I have written before that prompt engineering is overrated. For most uses, you can build a good prompt mostly by asking the AI to do something in back-and-forth dialogue, combined with trial and error, and a few […]
“For me, the best way to make sense of AI is to use it. These tools are powerful, but they are imperfect. They have enormous potentials and pitfalls for our world, but the tools available to most of us are accessible and easy to use. They are already doing amazingly sophisticated work in fields like […]
“To discuss these issues we think it is helpful to begin with a short explanation of how the Large Language Models… work; what they are capable of; how they are similar/different to human brains; and what the implications might be for human learning and motivations to learn. This is the focus of Part One of […]
“Do large language models understand the world? As a scientist and engineer, I’ve avoided asking whether an AI system “understands” anything. There’s no widely agreed-upon, scientific test for whether a system really understands — as opposed to appearing to understand — just as no such tests exist for consciousness or sentience, as I discussed in […]
“It is wise to be skeptical of new technologies that claim to revolutionize learning. In the past, prognosticators have promised that television, the computer, and the Internet, in turn, would transform education. Unfortunately, the heralded revolutions fell short of expectations. There are some early signs, though, that this technological wave might be different in the […]
“The film takes place entirely in an empty office, late at night, some time in the near future. Leah (Sera Barbieri), a customer-support agent for an A.I.-companionship company called Iris, sits alone at a sparingly lit desk, monitoring calls and dealing with frustrated clients. She helps them navigate the high-tech service and fields feedback about […]
“The findings from the survey—which was in the field in mid-April 2023—show that, despite generative AI’s nascent public availability, experimentation with the tools is already relatively common, and respondents expect the new capabilities to transform their industries. Generative AI has captured interest across the business population: individuals across regions, industries, and seniority levels are using gen AI […]
“In this introduction, Wharton Interactive’s Faculty Director Ethan Mollick and Director of Pedagogy Lilach Mollick provide an overview [of generative A.I. models]… They take a practical approach and explore how the models work, and how to work effectively with each model, weaving in your own expertise. They also show how to use AI to make […]
“This opportunity is open to students passionate about researching and analyzing the impact of AI on society and who have expertise in at least one key issue area. Members of the AI Issue Advisory Council will interface closely with our executive team, with opportunities to contribute to major U.S. AI policy projects in the coming […]
“Researchers have tried for more than half a century to design computer programs to make medical diagnoses, but nothing has really succeeded. Physicians say that GPT-4 is different. “It will create something that is remarkably similar to an illness script,” Dr. Rodman said. In that way, he added, “it is fundamentally different than a search […]
“Train a computer to recognize your own images, sounds, & poses. A fast, easy way to create machine learning models for your sites, apps, and more – no expertise or coding required.”
“Detection tools for AI-generated text do fail, they are neither accurate nor reliable (all scored below 80% of accuracy and only 5 over 70%). In general, they have been found to diagnose human-written documents as AI-generated (false positives) and often diagnose AI-generated texts as human-written (false negatives).”
“The model will consider the instructions every time it responds, so you won’t have to repeat your preferences or information in every conversation. For example, a teacher crafting a lesson plan no longer has to repeat that they’re teaching 3rd grade science… Grocery shopping for a big family becomes easier, with the model accounting for 6 […]
“As I’ve been thinking about making over assignments in this new age of AI, I’ve been using a set of six questions to help me think through this task:”
“To address the risks of GAI while maximizing its benefit, we propose a flexible framework in which instructors can choose to prohibit, to allow with attribution, or to encourage GAI use. We discuss this framework, taking into consideration academic integrity, accessibility, and privacy concerns; provide examples of how this framework might be broadly relevant to […]
“Most telling is how few educators say they have received any professional development on how to incorporate AI into their work in K-12 education: Eighty-seven percent said they had received no such PD at the time of the survey.”
“Thanks to open-source resources, we’re beginning to see a pattern where industry hits certain benchmarks and then academia steps in to refine the model. After DeepMind’s release of AlphaFold, Minkyung Baek and David Baker at the University of Washington released RoseTTAFold, which uses DeepMind’s framework to predict the structures of protein complexes instead of only […]
“Over the past seven months, AI has come to mean chatbots… We got used to AI that was restricted in what it could know about the world. Its knowledge was limited to before 2022. It couldn’t surf the web. It could only know what you typed into a chatbox. And it could only produce text. […]
“Forget about school essays. Think of the next American presidential race in 2024, and try to imagine the impact of ai tools that can be made to mass-produce political content, fake-news stories and scriptures for new cults… The catch is that it is utterly pointless for us to spend time trying to change the declared […]
“Inequality between workers decreases, as ChatGPT compresses the productivity distribution by benefiting low-ability workers more. ChatGPT mostly substitutes for worker effort rather than complementing worker skills, and restructures tasks towards idea-generation and editing and away from rough-drafting. Exposure to ChatGPT increases job satisfaction and self-efficacy and heightens both concern and excitement about automation technologies.”
“Team processes will need to be managed effectively and this will have to be done by a human. For humans to align the strengths and weaknesses of man and machine, they will need to be educated to understand how AI works, what it can be used for and decide — by means of the judgment […]