Category: Artificial Intelligence

No-one working in higher education over the past six months will have been able to escape the frantic discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and what it means for the future. It’s not my background, and I’m certainly no expert.  One …

“So this can really give some incentives to both companies and artists just to work together on this thing, right? Rather than just a company taking everything from artists because they can.”

Meet Nightshade, a new tool empowering artists to

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Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.

https://bigthink.com/thinking/students-calculators-math-chatgpt-writing-essays…

A primary school teacher admits using AI and ChatGPT saves him hours every week – but he can’t see robots taking over anytime soon. David Grant, 27, reckons using technology has stopped him ‘taking the job home’ – and given …

OpenAI have released a new “assistants” function. Put simply, this development means that it’s now possible for anyone who can use ChatGPT to “build a chatbot”.Since its release, I’ve spent some time digging into the new assistants feature to ask: …

The edtech industry aims to advance the responsible use of AI to enhance learning, while also protecting privacy and promoting educational equity.

7 principles for AI in education

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YouTube is testing out two generative AI features for Premium users that will answer user questions about the video they’re watching and summarize a video’s comment section, Google announced Monday.

https://gizmodo.com/youtube-ai-chatbot-google-bard-reads-comments-1850998925…

With the help of Shiksha copilot, a teacher in Bengaluru, India, reports reducing her lesson-planning time from hours to minutes.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-microsofts-ai-teaching-assistant-helps-generate-classroom-materials…

In this post, I’m going to show you one easy solution that solves the problem of assuming students will use generative AI by incorporating it into assessments. Keep in mind this is just a sketch using naked ChatGPT. If we …

We can’t yet know if we have a full taxonomy of ChatGPT-enhanced mischief, or whether certain uses should be classed as mischief at all, writes Tom Muir.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/will-chatgpt-change-our-definitions-cheating…

The GPT platform is a no-code way to make custom AI agents for all sorts of tasks, and it’s available exclusively for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948957/openai-chatgpt-gpt-custom-developer-platform…

The publication offers concrete recommendations for policy-makers and education institutions on how the uses of GenAI tools can be designed to protect human agency and genuinely benefit students, teachers and researchers.

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000386693…

This resource includes both an annotated slide deck with text and resources as well as a Prompt Guide with different examples of prompts to try out. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h4KAaVk3nxu6DVXW1_J9Aeoa2_lndbkusquYdoTacEc/edit…

In the last year or so the future arrived with a flourish as the latest advance in artificial intelligence, large language models, took the world by storm. But if AI is the unstoppable force, education seems sometimes to be the …

Lance Eaton has launched a brand new Substack and this three part series (part 1, part 2, part 3) launches us into its main theme as he discusses what he learned about AI and education at Educause.

https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-at-educause-about…