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Future of AI

News on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Libraries

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

I Will Never Use AI To Help Me With My Writing Again

Despite that, I always wanted to be a big writer. So, I started with personal blogs, moved to news, and this year, with books. My first book was a romantic fiction novel that I finished in March of this year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/practice-in-public/why-i-will-never-use-ai-to-help-me-with-my-writing-again-ac6c09009360

Friday, October 11, 2024

How to Say No to Our A.I. Overlords

Big tech brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Meta have all unleashed tech that they describe as artificial intelligence. Soon, the companies say, we’ll all be using A.I. to write emails, generate images and summarize articles. But who asked for any of this in the first place?

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/technology/personaltech/turn-off-ai-overviews-google-meta.html

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Big Tech’s experimental AI can’t beat old-school productivity gems

The “Chat” in ChatGPT’s name neatly encapsulates a major element of why OpenAI’s AI-infused assistant has had such epoch-shifting impact. We’ve been using PCs and phones to chat with humans for years—at least since the era of AOL Instant Messenger.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.fastcompany.com/91205083/chatgpt-canvas-notebooklm-bear-scrivener

Monday, October 7, 2024

I test ChatGPT features for a living, and this new one really did supercharge my productivity

OpenAI is constantly adding new features to ChatGPT to make it more functional for everyday needs and more essential in our workflows. The most recent of these updates is a new canvas feature -- unveiled last week -- that has left me beyond impressed. 

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-test-chatgpt-features-for-a-living-and-this-new-one-really-did-supercharge-my-productivity/

There are 3 signs that generative AI might be reaching peak market froth — and it's not just OpenAI

In years to come, Silicon Valley may view the events of the past few weeks as the moment the generative AI boom got too frothy. Investors spent the summer wondering if top AI stocks could continue to justify soaring valuations in the face of absent returns from their massive AI spending.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/generative-ai-market-froth-openai-cerebras-meta-2024-10

Friday, October 4, 2024

Writing with generative AI and human-machine teaming: Insights and recommendations from faculty and students

We share our experiences working with large-language model generative AI for a full semester in a professional writing course, integrating it into all projects. We discuss how we adapted our teaching, learning, and writing to using (or purposefully not using) AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461524000094