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On the eighth episode of Urban Impact, English professor and director of the Master of Arts in Writing Studies program, Mia Zamora, Ph.D., discusses the potential impact of artificial intelligence in the classroom and why she believes a humanistic approach is critical to working with emerging technologies like A.I. Urban Impact is recorded and produced at Kean, New Jersey’s urban research university.

We’re not going to be able to resist GenAI, if we don’t understand it robot teacher No one knows how quickly Microsoft, Google, and Amazon will move from beta testing generative AI with…

🚨Generative AI has a serious problem with bias🚨Over months of reporting, @dinabass and I looked at thousands of images from @StableDiffusion and found that text-to-image AI takes gender and racial stereotypes to extremes worse than in the real world.🧵 1/13 pic.twitter.com/p17YxabZU8— Leonardo Nicoletti (he/him) (@Leonardonclt) June 9, 2023

How can we teach with AI? This week the Future Trends Forum focuses on creative AI pedagogy with Depauw University professor Harry Brown, who will describe and show his class experiments. https://www.depauw.edu/academics/college-of-liberal-arts/english/faculty-staff/detail/1590987639843/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aQm1ka0nXHk7E_kexrE3gsVvDzqiIsrGJF6eFRqBzCc/edit#slide=id.g2509e1ed078_8_75 The Future Trends Forum is a weekly discussion event created and hosted by Bryan Alexander.  Since 2016 we have addressed the most powerful forces of change in academia. Each week, this video chat brings together practitioners in the field to share their most recent work and experience in education and technology. The intent of the Forum: to advance the discussion around the pressing issues at the crossroads of education and technology. http://forum.futureofeducation.us/ https://bryanalexander.org/ This event is powered by Shindig, the video chat event provider. On Shindig, audiences all can see one another and engage in private video chats sharing and discussing the content of the presentation. Event hosts may also bring selected audience members to the stage to ask questions or otherwise interact with guest speakers. Shindig; the dynamics of in person events, online. Thumbnail by Roxann Riskin.

How to combine the power of AI + learning science to improve your efficiency & effectiveness as an educator

Higher education technology association Educause recently released the 2023 Teaching and Learning Edition of its annual Horizon Report, forecasting the trends, technologies, and practices that will shape the future of postsecondary education. AI is a significant theme throughout the report, both appearing in the top technological trends for 2023 as well as factoring into the key technologies and practices impacting colleges and universities going forward.

Google just dropped a 100% free learning path on Generative AI with 9 Courses 👇Intro to Gen AIIntro to LLMsIntro to Responsible AI Intro to Image GenerationEncoder-Decoder Attention Mechanism Transformers and BERTImage Captioning Gen AI Studio https://t.co/cyojw6P4Tm— Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller) June 4, 2023

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h/t Chronicle reporter You know something big is happening when the CEO of Open AI, the creators of ChatGPT, starts advocating for “regulatory guardrails”. Sam Altman testified to the US Senate Judiciary Committee this w…

Resources for teaching about artificial intelligence provided by the Stanford Graduate School of Education

There’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing.

Ignoring ChatGPT and its cousins won’t get us anywhere. In fact, these systems reveal issues we too often miss

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a $140 million investment in seven new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes on themes spanning trustworthy AI, next-generation cybersecurity, AI for decision-making, AI-augmented learning, and other important topics.

ChatGPT now supports plugins and internet access, if you pay up.

Seniors who have already graduated were denied their diplomas because of an instructor who incorrectly used AI software to detect cheating

Chat GPT-4 is DEAD.Bard is here.It's free. No waitlist.Here are 10 powerful things Bard can do that ChatGPT cannot: pic.twitter.com/Vg2AHZPMgL— Robin - The AI Guy (@heyrobinai) May 15, 2023

ChatGPT has been the AI darling.Not anymore. Bard is here.It's free. No waitlist.Here are 10 powerful things Bard can do that ChatGPT cannot: pic.twitter.com/dS7l1r9ia9— You Probably Need A Robot (@youneedarobot) May 14, 2023

No professor or software could ever pick up on it.

Only Google-approved testers can try it out for now, though.

AI could result in more inclusive and accessible classrooms, in which every student’s strengths and challenges are supported.

ChatGPT is your new productive (and encouraging) study buddy.