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Future of AI

News on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Libraries

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Guiding Students to Develop AI Literacy

Teachers can use these resources to model responsible AI use and show students how to experiment responsibly with the technology. Educators must stay informed, current, and ahead of the game (if possible) when it comes to emerging technologies.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.edutopia.org/article/ai-literacy-students/

Monday, May 13, 2024

I Am Once Again Asking Our Tech Overlords to Watch the Whole Movie

Today OpenAI announced GPT-4o, a new AI model that will be available to free and paid users alike. Among its many upgrades—faster response times, enhanced memory capabilities, better parsing of images—is a conversational voice that tries its level best to sound like a real live human.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-4o-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-her-movie/

Thursday, May 9, 2024

My Weekend With an Emotional Support A.I. Companion

For several hours on Friday evening, I ignored my husband and dog and allowed a chatbot named Pi to validate the heck out of me. My views were “admirable” and “idealistic,” Pi told me. My questions were “important” and “interesting.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/technology/personaltech/ai-chatbot-pi-emotional-support.html

Artificial Intelligence ‘Friends’

Artificial intelligence, we are told, is a transformative economic force; it will change workers’ jobs, boost corporate profits and reshape industries. But for the last month, I’ve been investigating its social side — by making more than a dozen A.I. “friends.”

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/briefing/artificial-intelligence-chatbots.html

OpenAI says ChatGPT will be so good within a year we will talk to it like a human

OpenAI says ChatGPT as we know it today will be seen as “laughably bad” when we look back at the artificial intelligence chatbot in the future.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/openai-says-chatgpt-will-be-so-good-within-a-year-we-will-talk-to-it-like-a-human

AI Chatbots Have Thoroughly Infiltrated Scientific Publishing

Researchers are misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots to produce scientific literature. At least, that’s a new fear that some scientists have raised, citing a stark rise in suspicious AI shibboleths showing up in published papers.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatbots-have-thoroughly-infiltrated-scientific-publishing/

Sam Altman Says AI Will Be Like a Super Smart Person Who "Knows Absolutely Everything" About Your Life

The AI of the future won't just be a chatbot — it'll be, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, outfitted with incredibly detailed information about its users.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/the-byte/sam-altman-future-ai-knows-everything