Author: Rafael Scapin

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI regulation will be critical as the nascent industry forges ahead.

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-world-not-far-potentially-scary-ai-2023-2

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Plagiarism detection company Turnitin announced that the AI writing detection tool it teased in January will be available as a feature of its existing products as soon as April. According to the company, the tool detects ChatGPT- and GPT 3.0-written …

This trend report aims to help us understand the technological developments that are going on around us, to make sense of our observations, and to inspire. We have chosen the technology perspective to provide an overview of signals and trends, …

AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient.

https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test…

Removing your personal information from people search sites is getting harder but can be done. 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2023/02/19/how-remove-your-personal-information-people-search-sites/11258006002/…

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. A group of professors …

That’s an alarming quote to start a headline with, but it was even more alarming to see that response from Bing Chat itself. After signing up for the lengthy waitlist to access Microsoft’s new ChatGPT-powered Bing chat, I finally received …

Harvard is one of the most prestigious schools, but did you know it offers some online courses you can take for free? Here are ten of the best.

https://www.makeuseof.com/best-free-harvard-courses-online/…

If you want to tune in to the radio while you search the web, you can do so straight from your browser. Here are six Chrome extensions to use.

https://www.makeuseof.com/chrome-extensions-radio-browse/…

Microsoft has rebuilt Teams from the ground up to improve its performance on PCs and laptops.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/20/23607037/microsoft-teams-performance-improvements-less-cpu-memory…

In an interview with the host of YouTube channel EduKitchen, Chomsky explained: “For years there have been programs that have helped professors detect plagiarized essays,” Chomsky says. “Now it’s going to be more difficult, because it’s easier to plagiarize. But …

Google’s mobile app Socratic allows students to scan questions with their phone’s camera, and a few seconds later get an answer. It’s a powerful studying tool that could help students double-check their homework, or get across the last hurdle if …

Hoping to better connect with disengaged students, some professors are experimenting with TikTok in their teaching.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-02-02-professors-try-teaching-with-tiktok-but-it-s-not-for-boring-lecturing-things…

Announcing a host of new tools, Microsoft seeks to accelerate learning and reporting in the classroom. These tools expand on their ongoing effort to reimagine education with technology. Their tools seek to empower teachers and students with coaching and progress …