google_teaching_responsible_ai.pdf
Sam Altman says how people use ChatGPT reflects their age – and college students are relying on it to make ‘life decisions’
An AI reliance?
There's this other thing where they don't really make life decisions without asking ChatGPT what they should do. It has the full context on every person in their life and what they've talked about."
Spotify’s DJ Now Takes Requests, Enhancing Real-Time Music Discovery — Spotify
People all over the world love DJ. At the gym, at home, whenever and wherever you want a deeper experience with great music, DJ is the answer. In fact, DJ listener engagement has nearly doubled over the past year—it’s like having a personal musical friend who just gets you. We also know that listeners have...
Podcasting in Elementary School
Podcasts can be powerful tools for elementary school students to express their thoughts and opinions while exploring new ideas.
I Thought ChatGPT Was Killing My Students’ Skills. It’s Killing Something More Important Than That.
Trust between teacher and student was tricky way before A.I. hit us.
ChatGPT's Deep Research tool can now output detailed PDFs - and I'm impressed
Now you can share your AI-generated reports more easily with anyone. See how easy it is.
ChatGPT's Deep Research tool can now output detailed PDFs
Empowering teens: Microsoft 365 Copilot availability for students | Microsoft Education Blog
Learn about Microsoft 365 Copilot availability for students aged 13 and up. Enhance learning with AI, enterprise protection, and IT controls.
Good answers are not necessarily factual answers: an analysis of hallucination in leading LLMs
A Blog post by David Berenstein on Hugging Face
AI Shows Racial Bias When Grading Essays — and Can’t Tell Good Writing From Bad
Smith: Study finds ChatGPT replicates human prejudices and fails to recognize exceptional work — reinforcing the inequalities it's intended to fix.
That’s why schools and educators must carefully consider when and how to utilize AI for scoring. Rather than replacing grading, they could provide feedback on grammar or paragraph structure while leaving the final assessment to the teacher.
Essay challenge: ChatGPT vs students
Researchers have been putting ChatGPT essays to the test against real students. A new study reveals that the AI generated essays don't yet live up to the efforts of real students. While the AI essays were found to be impressively coherent and grammatically sound, they fell short in one crucial area -- they lacked a personal touch. It is hoped that the findings could help educators spot cheating in schools, colleges and universities worldwide by recognizing machine-generated essays.
New COPPA Rule to take effect in June
The Federal Trade Commission’s amended final rule expands parental control over companies that collect children’s data.
An Entire Company Was Staffed With AI Agents and You'll Never Guess What Happened
An experiment by researchers at Carnegie Melon University staffed a fake software company with AI Agents, and the results were dismal.
Perspective | Halfway there
Teaching students to read the words on the page is only half the battle. Students must also comprehend what they are reading.
Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value"
Accused of illegally using copyrighted books to train its AI, Meta argues that those books are individually worthless.
The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
Nvidia launches fully open source transcription AI model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 on Hugging Face
An attractive proposition for commercial enterprises and indie developers looking to build speech recognition and transcription services...
Google Plans to Roll Out Its A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13
The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.
Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women
Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.
Chegg to lay off 22% of workforce as AI tools shake up edtech industry
Chegg said on Monday it would lay off about 22% of its workforce, or 248 employees, to cut costs and streamline its operations as students increasingly turn to AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT over traditional edtech platforms.
China issues guidelines to promote AI education in primary and secondary schools
China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) has recently issued two guidelines to promote artificial intelligence (AI) education in primary and secondary schools by building a tiered, progressive and spiraling general AI education system, prohibiting students from independently using open-ended content generation at primary schools and banning teachers from using generative AI as a substitute for their core teaching responsibilities.
Implicit Bias in Large Language Models: Experimental Proof and Implications for Education
We provide experimental evidence of implicit racial bias in a large language model (specifically ChatGPT) in the context of an authentic educational task and discuss implications for the use of these tools in educational contexts. Specifically, we presented ChatGPT with identical student writing passages alongside various descriptions of student demographics, include race, socioeconomic status, and school type.
What Students Are Saying About Using A.I. for Schoolwork
Is it a useful tool? Is it cheating? Is it hindering students’ ability to think? Here is what teenagers told us.
Generative AI like ChatGPT is at risk of creating new gender gap at work
Artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT can be a boon for productivity, but when it comes to adopting the technology, a significant gender gap exists.
But when researchers looked at the demographics, they discovered that women were 16 percentage points less likely than men to use ChatGPT for job tasks, even when comparing workers within the same occupation and with similar job responsibilities.
Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students' Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don't Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete
A new study is revealing just how horrible AI is at grading student homework, and the results are worse than you think.
Forget Audio Overviews — NotebookLM's next big feat could be generating Video Overviews
Audio Overviews are easily the best part of Google's NotebookLM research assistant, and now it could get even better with Video Overviews.
Agatha Christie, Who Died in 1976, Will See You in Class
An avatar of the long-dead British novelist is “teaching” an online writing course. But do we want to learn from a digital prosthetic built by artificial intelligence?
Meta’s new AI glasses could have a ‘super-sensing’ mode with facial recognition
Facial recognition on your face.
Why Toronto Police Didn’t Lay Charges Against a Teen Who Created AI-Generated Porn – The White Hatter
Intimate Images Protection Act,
Demo - Scientific Discovery with the FutureHouse Platform
Andrew White, Michael Skarlinski and Michaela Hinks introduce the new FutureHouse Platform.