Sebastian Thrun, chairman and co-founder of Udacity, and Sal Khan, CEO of the Khan Academy, join ‘The Exchange’ to discuss the influence of AI technology on the software engineering landscape, disrupting higher education with mentorship programs and an emerging blended …
Canada bans TikTok on government devices
The decision follows a review by Canada’s chief information officer, and the app “presents an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security”, a government spokesperson said in a statement.
What Is DALL-E and How Does It Create Images From Text?
You’ve probably already seen DALL-E’s creations blowing up online. How exactly does this generative AI model work?
https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-dall-e-ai-image-generator/…
Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research
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 …
Turnitin Integrating AI Writing Detector into Its Products
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 …
6 Chrome Extensions That Let You Listen to the Radio as You Browse
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.
Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements next month
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…
Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing
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…
Tech Trends Report 2023
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, …
‘I want to be human.’ My intense, unnerving chat with Microsoft’s AI chatbot
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 …
The 10 Best Harvard Courses You Can Take Online for Free
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/…
ChatGPT creator Sam Altman says the world may not be ‘that far away from potentially scary’ AI and feels ‘regulation will be critical’
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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Take your privacy back: How to remove your personal data from people search sites
Removing your personal information from people search sites is getting harder but can be done.
6 Ways AI-Powered Search Engines Will Change the Internet Forever
With AI-powered search engines starting to become more popular, how will they shape the internet? Here, we take a look at what might change.
https://www.makeuseof.com/ways-ai-search-engines-change-internet/…
What Are Microsoft’s New Learning Accelerators?
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 …