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Artists Give Formal Critique To A.I. Generated In His Own Style
New York Times - 9/22/23
What Is The Definition Of A.I.? Well, There Are Many (At End Of Link)
aiEDU - 9/22/23

“The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence (2014) includes, at different points, three different definitions of AI.”
Generative A.I. And Each Level Of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Learning On Purpose - 9/22/23
Reminder: A.I. Detectors Don’t Work Reliably
Twitter - 9/21/23
Six Questions For Schools To Ask A.I. Companies
AI for Education - 9/21/23

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A.I. In Education: A Helpful Overview With Prompts, Policies, And More
Education Next - 9/21/23

“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 means for ensuring that new ways of teaching and learning flourish alongside the applications of AI.””
A.I. Giants Are Hiring Poets And Writers
Rest of World - 9/20/23
A.I. Is Already In Politics. One Pres. Candidate Proposes A Plan
New York Times - 9/20/23
Khan Academy Introduces Their AI Chatbot Khanmigo In More Detail
Khan Academy - 9/20/23
Pennsylvania State Government To Start Using A.I. In Its Operations
Quartz - 9/19/23
Google’s Protein Folder Continues To Break New Ground
Ars Technica - 9/19/23
Survey Of CEOs About How Much Of Their Work Can Be Done By A.I.
EdX - 9/19/23
Reminder: A.I. Can Translate Videos, Including Mouth Movements
Twitter - 9/19/23
Tell A.I. To “Take A Deep Breath” And It Will Respond Better
Ars Technica - 9/19/23
A.I. And Organizational Leadership: Tech And Human Centered Approaches
McKinsey - 9/19/23

“Generative AI can empower people—but only if leaders take a broad view of its capabilities and deeply consider its implications for the organization.”
Luddites Weren’t Anti-Technology, They Were Pro-Labor
Washington Post - 9/18/23

“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 its warehouses. Google used its monopoly power to strangle competitors’ products. A suicide epidemic swept an iPhone factory... The Luddites would have had a problem with all of that.”
School Started. ChatGPT Usage Is Way Up Again.
Twitter - 9/18/23

“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.”
Math Teachers Reflect On How To Engage A.I. In Math Classes
EdWeek - 9/18/23
Generative A.I. Is Changing Productivity, Strengthening The Weakest
One Useful Thing - 9/16/23

“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 consultants still got a boost, but less of one. Looking at these results, I do not think enough people are considering what it means when a technology raises all workers to the top tiers of performance. It may be like how it used to matter whether miners were good or bad at digging through rock… until the steam shovel was invented and now differences in digging ability do not matter anymore.”
A.I. Will Change Work. Students Need To Learn About It.
One Useful Thing - 9/16/23

“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.”
“Why AI Can't Make Human Creativity Obsolete”
The Algorithmic Bridge - 9/15/23

“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 we rather see them play one another than face AlphaZero. We like to see them play well, and play not-so-well, and fail and recover and fight and earn a hard win—that’s attractive; that creates thrill and suspense and expectation for what will happen next.”
Wow. Translate Videos, Including Voice and Mouth Movements.
Kottke - 9/15/23
“An A.I. To-Do List For Educators”
eSchool News - 9/15/23
On The Evolution Of A.I. Detectors, And The People Behind Them
Wired - 9/14/23
Education’s Gray Area Year For Assessing And Implementing A.I.
EdTechInsiders - 9/13/23
Reflections On What Is Polarizing Faculty About A.I.
Inside Higher Ed - 9/13/23
U.S. Senate Hosts A.I. Leadership For Summit
New York Times - 9/13/23
“Trends From 280+ Generative A.I. EdTech Tools”
Reach Capital - 9/11/23
How States Are Using A.I. To Generate Misinformation. Already.
New York Times - 9/11/23

“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 first to use these new tools to bolster the aura of authenticity of a disinformation campaign.”
An Art Show Curated By A.I.
New York Times - 9/8/23
A.I. Pedagogy Through The Lens Of Competency Based Education
Learning On Purpose - 9/8/23
A.I. Pedagogy Through The Lens Of Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Academic DJ - 9/8/23
A JStor Reading List For AI And Education
JStor - 9/8/23
“6 Things Teachers Do That A.I. Just Can’t”
EdWeek - 9/7/23
How To Use A.I. As More Than A Thesaurus Or Grammar Checker
One Useful Thing - 9/5/23

“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:”
Reminder: Tools Cannot Reliably Assess Whether A.I. Wrote Something
Hechinger Report - 9/4/23
Founder Of DeepMind On The Threat Of Generative A.I.
Guardian - 9/2/23
“A.I. In Education: 7 Realistic Steps For The New Academic Year”
A.I. Educator - 9/2/23
Draftback: How To Use Google Docs To See Student Writing Processes
ASCD - 9/1/23

“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 the document's history that includes the overall number of revisions, the number of "distinct writing sessions" (which Draftback defines as moments when there wasn't more than a 10-minute gap between revisions), the time and duration of each of those writing sessions, and which user made them!”
This Tech Wave Is Of An Entirely New Sort
Time - 9/1/23

“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 business strategies, whilst designing new drugs to fight cancer.”
“A.I. Should Be High Up On School Districts’s Priority Lists”
EdWeek - 8/31/23
How Might A.I. Issues Play Out In The Courts?
Stanford Law - 8/31/23
How Teachers Are Using ChatGPT, From The Makers Of ChatGPT
OpenAI - 8/31/23

“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 tools, and answers to frequently asked questions from educators about things like how ChatGPT works, its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.”
Another Great Overview: “An Introduction to Teaching with Text Generation Technologies”
Colorado State - 8/31/23

“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.”
Conversation with OpenAI About “Alignment” - Ensuring Human Safety With A.I.
IEEE - 8/31/23
US Open Developing A.I. Commentary
Emerging Tech Brew - 8/29/23
Change Often Takes Longer But Is More Significant Than Expected
New York Times - 8/29/23
School District Goes All In On Teacher Use Of ChatGPT, GenAI
EdWeek - 8/29/23
"More Students Are Seeking An A.I.-Powered School Year”
eSchool News - 8/29/23
Generative A.I. And The 500 Year History Of Intellectual Property
Benedict Evans - 8/27/23

“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.”
More On A.I. And The Recent Copyright Case
Guardian - 8/26/23
“A.I. Vs. Humans: Which Performs Which Tasks Better?” [A Timeline]
Visual Capitalist - 8/25/23
“Talk With Students About A.I.”
Learning On Purpose - 8/25/23

“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.”
How Is Copyright Law Handling A.I. Generated Material?
Goodwin Law - 8/24/23

“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 to arise (and may arise more quickly given this ruling). The Court noted that “[t]he increased attenuation of human creativity from the actual generation of the final work will prompt challenging questions regarding how much human input is necessary to qualify the user of an AI system as an ‘author’ of a generated work, the scope of the protection obtained over the resultant image, how to assess the originality of AI-generated works where the systems may have been trained on unknown pre-existing works, how copyright might best be used to incentivize creative works involving AI, and more.”
“How Teachers And Students Feel About A.I.”
New York Times - 8/24/23

“As the school year begins, their thinking has evolved.”
NYT On A.I. Success This Fall
New York Times - 8/24/23

“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 that may get me the most angry emails from teachers — is that teachers should focus less on warning students about the shortcomings of generative A.I. than figuring out what the technology does well.”
Leveraging A.I. For Better Decision Making - Future Case Studies
Harvard Business Review - 8/24/23
Four Guidelines For Academic Resilience In An Age Of A.I.
Harvard Graduate School of Education - 8/24/23

“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 for a world full of uncertainties and challenges and prepare them to do the complex work of problem-solving,” they write. “Embracing a messy process rather than becoming good at following “cognitive recipes.””
Meta Releases Open Coding Language Model
Meta - 8/24/23
Teacher Workflow For Several Gen A.I. Tools
A.J. Juliani - 8/24/23

“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.”
A.I. Helps Stroke Victim Speak For First Time In 18 Years
New York Times - 8/23/23
Survey: Are Teachers Ready For A.I. This Fall?
EdWeek - 8/21/23

“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.”
Is The A.I. Boom A Mirage?
Dezeen - 8/21/23
Ethan Mollick On How To Generate Strong Prompts
One Useful Thing - 8/20/23

“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 small tricks (I will get to those shortly). No, I mean the prompts of experts - prompts that encode our hard-earned expertise in ways that AI can help other people apply. Prompts that we can use to do our work easier, or, if you are inclined, to gift others with your own abilities.”
How Do We See Shulman’s Seven Areas Of Teacher Expertise With A.I.?
The Academic DJ - 8/18/23
A.I. 101 For Teachers (From Code.Org, ISTE, And Khan Academy)
code.org - 8/15/23
How Might A.I. Classroom Observations Support Teachers?
EdWeek - 8/14/23
Eric Hudson Offers Reflections On How Educators Can Use A.I.
Learning On Purpose - 8/11/23

“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 medicine and technology and business, but they also have simple and practical applications in our day-to-day lives. Open up a chatbot like ChatGPT or Bing or Bard or Claude and give a few of the below ideas a try. All of these tools are free to use (sometimes with limits).”
“A.I. Could Save School Districts Time And Money”
EdWeek - 8/10/23
Stanford Starts Curating Resources For Teaching Kids About A.I.
Stanford - 8/10/23
Hattie Et Al: A Deep Dive Into The Future Of A.I. In Education
EdArXiv - 8/9/23

“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 the paper. In Part Two, we explore four different scenarios for humanity and in particular, what each of these scenarios might mean for the future of learning and education. Finally, in Part Three, we present 13 recommendations that we think will help to ensure that AI becomes our greatest success, rather than a tangled mess.”
A.I. Luminary Andrew Ng Says That A.I. Does “Understand The World”
Deep Learning.AI - 8/9/23

“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 an earlier letter. This makes the question of understanding a matter of philosophy rather than science. But with this caveat, I believe that LLMs build sufficiently complex models of the world that I feel comfortable saying that, to some extent, they do understand the world.”
“The Creative Ways Teachers Are Using ChatGPT in the Classroom”
Time - 8/8/23
ChatGPT Custom Instructions Is Now Free To All Users
OpenAI - 8/8/23
“How Nations Worldwide Are Dealing With A.I. [In Schools]”
The 74 Million - 8/7/23
A.I. Is Changing Unexpected Industries, Like HVAC Systems
Twitter - 8/7/23
A.I. Can Learn To Use Tools By “Reading” The Manual
Twitter - 8/5/23
“Rachels Don’t Run” - Short Film Explores A.I. Call Center Companionship
New Yorker - 8/2/23

“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 Svetlana, Siobhan, and Rachel—a few of the various personas of artificial-intelligence companions that Iris provides.”
A.I. Development Is Accelerating Still. See Four Graphs.
Time - 8/2/23
Generative Audio A.I. Is Also Here: Text To Sound, Text To Music
Twitter/Meta - 8/2/23
“AI Adoption Roadmap for Education Institutions”
AI for Education - 8/1/23
Survey: Large Shifts Already Underway In Industry From A.I.
McKinsey - 8/1/23

“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 for work and outside of work. Seventy-nine percent of all respondents say they’ve had at least some exposure to generative AI, either for work or outside of work, and 22 percent say they are regularly using it in their own work.”
Poll: The Public Is Concerned About A.I.
The AI PI - 8/1/23
Five Maxims For Understanding A.I. And Plagiarism
LinkedIn - 8/1/23
Wharton: Five-Part “Practical A.I. For Instructors And Students” Video Series
YouTube/Wharton - 7/31/23

“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 teaching easier and more effective, with example prompts and guidelines, as well as how students can use AI to improve their learning.”
“Deception Ability Emerged In Large Language Models”
Arxiv - 7/31/23
Should I Use A.I.? An Infographic Guide For Students
AI for Education - 7/31/23
Opportunity: Students Needed For Youth A.I. Issue Advisory Council
Twitter/Encode Justice - 7/30/23

“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 months and advise stakeholders including @WhiteHouse and members of Congress. We are specifically seeking youth to serve as advisors on Criminal Justice and Policing, Climate and Sustainability, Labor, National Security, Democracy, and Health.”
“Med School Instructors Are Using ChatGPT In Training Exercises”
New York Times - 7/22/23

“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 engine.””
Train Your Own Machine Learning Model With Google - For Beginners
Teachable Machine - 7/21/23

“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.”
AI-Detection Tools Do Not Work. They Shouldn’t Be Part Of Your Plan.
Arxiv - 7/21/23

“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).”
50+ Crowdsourced Classroom Policies For Generative AI Tools
Lance Eaton - 7/21/23
Korean Music Labels Release Album In 6 Languages, Via AI
Reuters - 7/19/23
Professor Tests Using AI To Update His Textbook
Adam Croom - 7/19/23
Cornell’s GenAI Committee Report For Pedagogy Is Excellent
Cornell - 7/18/23

“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 different learning domains; and make recommendations for both faculty and administration.”
Recent Walton Survey Suggests Teachers Are More Bullish Than Students On A.I.
EdWeek - 7/18/23
Summary Landscape Of Text AI Companies And Capabilities
Threads/Ethan Mollick - 7/16/23
Lesson Plans From ai.EDU For Helping Students Understand A.I., Including Ethics
aiEDU - 7/15/23
Data: Teachers Recognize A.I.’s Importance, But Need More Understanding
EdWeek - 7/14/23

“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.”
Google Duet AI Puts The AI Writing Tool Right Into Google Docs
Android Police - 7/14/23
Eric Schmidt: A.I. Will Change How Science Is Done
MIT Technology Review - 7/5/23

“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 the single protein structures that AlphaFold could originally handle.”
A.I. Now Has Eyes And Ears — It Can Read Pictures And Parse Audio
One Useful Thing - 6/23/23

“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. One-by-one, these assumptions have changed. Connecting AI to the internet made it much more powerful. Giving AI the tools to write and execute code made it much more powerful. And, now the capabilities to watch and listen are going to do the same.”
Consider Hosting An A.I. Hackathon At Your School
Berkeley - 6/13/23
People Are Finding Friendship In A.I. Chatbots
CBC - 6/5/23
Can AI Have EQ? HeyPi Tries It Out
Dataconomy - 5/25/23
Yuval Noah Harari: A.I. Is A Turning Point In Human Civilization
Economist - 4/28/23

“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 opinions of an ai bot, while the ai could hone its messages so precisely that it stands a good chance of influencing us.”
Generative A.I. Is A Great Leveler: Strengthening The Weakest
MIT - 3/10/23

“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.”

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