Bad things happen when AI is trained on synthetic data.
Source: Model collapse explained: How synthetic training data breaks AI
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ChatGPT Co-Creator, Greg Brockmanformer speaking at the University of North Dakota on AI and Higher Education on 9/26 – Streamed event.
ChatGPT Co-Creator, Greg Brockmanformer speaking at the University of North Dakota on AI and Higher Education on 9/26 – Streamed event.
Source: ChatGPT Co-Creator, former UND Student Greg Brockman coming to campus – UND Today
Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2023
Created through a survey of 2,022 participants.
Source: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2023 – Results of the 17th Annual Survey published 4 September 2023
Guide on the use of Generative AI for federal institutions in Canada
Preliminary guidance to federal institutions on their use of generative AI tools in Canada. Seems like the language would be easy to apply by a number institutions.
Teaching History with ChatGPT
Benjamin Breen writes about teaching history with AI – hallucinations and all. The article includes the prompts that Breen used for a number of class activities including a Medieval Plague Simulator.
The MIT Technology Review offers suggestions for what parents should discuss with their children about AI
Suggestions go beyond generative AI to include recommender systems like TikTok. It offers advice about the limitations of AI, search engines, school and teachers, and safe and responsible uses of AI.
Source: MIT Technology Review
Open AI published guide for teachers
Open AI has published a guide for teaching with ChatGPT that includes sample prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations including bias.
Source: Open AI Teaching with AI
AI-Supported Academic Advising: Exploring ChatGPT’s Current State and Future Potential toward Student Empowerment
This study by Akiba and Fraboni assessed the responses by the free version of Chat GPT to common advising questions. The authors concluded the AI gave high quality answers that were, “written in an authoritative yet supportive tone”.
Identifying AI-generated images with Google’s SynthID
SynthID is a new tool from Google for watermarking and identifying AI-generated images. While the watermark can’t be seen with the human eye, SynthID can scan an image to see if it was created with generative AI.