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ai, ai, ai: critical thinking and literacy won’t save you

Here’s the underlying problem. We have an operating image of thought, an understanding of what thought is and how to…

3 days ago

A.I. ‘Completes’ Keith Haring’s Intentionally Unfinished Painting

After learning of his AIDS diagnosis, artist Keith Haring created the work, "Unfinished Painting" (1989), which is mostly a blank…

7 days ago

This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?

Some 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato wrote a dialogue featuring his mentor Socrates, who argued that the ability…

3 weeks ago

Duke stops assigning numeric values to essays, test scores

This story is about the admissions process, not about academics. Duke University is no longer assigning numerical ratings to applicants’…

2 months ago

Horrifying deepfake tricks employee into giving away $25 million

No names in this single-source anecdote out of Hong Kong, credited to "Senior Superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching." The employee joined…

3 months ago

AI researchers find AI models learning their safety techniques, actively resisting training, and telling them ‘I hate you’

Researchers had programmed the various large language models (LLMs) to act in what they termed malicious ways, and the point…

3 months ago

New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re…

3 months ago

What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?

I'm sad thinking of all the students whose academic careers and personal intellectual growth will suffer because they depend on…

9 months ago

How to Keep Students Writing in the Age of AI Tools

In a writing-intensive class, students need to write extensively to the point that the teacher cannot possibly grade all of…

9 months ago

ChatGPT answers more than half of software engineering questions incorrectly

The results showed that out of the 512 questions, 259 (52%) of ChatGPT's answers were incorrect and only 248 (48%)…

9 months ago

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

OpenAI has already taken a toll on human workers. It's chilling to contemplate that students and creatives are comfortable with…

9 months ago

How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? | MLA Style Center

We ask students to cite encyclopedia articles, dictionaries, news interviews with experts, and in-person conversations. A generative text-generation tool that…

9 months ago

Bing’s AI chatbot helped me solve a technical problem, then showed me manatees, then denied showing me manatees

I was searching for how to change the default font in the WordPress editor, but the answers I was getting…

10 months ago

ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.

“In every previous automation threat, the automation was about automating the hard, dirty, repetitive jobs,” said Ethan Mollick, an associate…

11 months ago

An English professor tries to help ChatGPT write and revise a sonnet

Shortly after my online AmLit survey began, I received two obviously AI-generated submissions. The responses did not address the prompt,…

11 months ago

ChatBot Helps Crack the Case of the Missing 45GB

The other day I got a last-minute request to video a show. I usually like to watch a dress rehearsal…

12 months ago

The AI revolution is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour

Students who cheat with ChatGPT can look forward to these $15/hr jobs training the AI that they relied upon to…

12 months ago

RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye

I am curious enough about cockatoos that I might click a link to read an article about people who own…

12 months ago

I ditched Google for Bing with ChatGPT for a month — here’s what happened | Tom’s Guide

Occasionally, when I don't know exactly what to search for, I have found it somewhat useful to describe a problem…

1 year ago