As college students use ChatGPT to complete take-home tests, finish homework and write essays, professors are using blue books, or inexpensive, stapled exam booklets with a blue cover and lightly lined pages, to ChatGPT-proof the classroom.
For over 20 years, I’ve lived with peripheral neuropathy—a quiet background of constant numbness, tingling, and pain-causing supersensitivity in my feet that, until recently, stayed mostly contained.
"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.
"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.
What do all intelligent beings have in common? Four things, according to Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. At the AI Action Summit in Paris earlier this year, political leaders and AI experts gathered to discuss AI development.
PHOENIX — Arizona has consistently struggled in education rankings, coming in dead last in a 2024 nationwide survey. But one new online school hopes to change that – by combining artificial intelligence with practical life skills like financial literacy.
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As a new type of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT is becoming widely used in learning. However, academic consensus regarding its efficacy remains elusive.
The more I chat with large language models like Grok and ChatGPT—my go-to conversational partners these days—the less I fear a Skynet-style AI uprising.
As a new type of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT is becoming widely used in learning. However, academic consensus regarding its efficacy remains elusive.
An AI avatar made to look and sound like the likeness of a man who was killed in a road rage incident addressed the court and the man who killed him: “To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances,” the AI avatar of Christophe
In a rare and striking moment of candor, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic—one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) research labs—has publicly admitted that even the foremost experts do not fully understand how their own AI models work.
As dissatisfied American parents look for education alternatives in the wake of pandemic-era frustrations with the status quo, the role of the teacher is rapidly evolving, with some private schools redefining the human element inside tech-laden classrooms.
Comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI back in 2023, alleging pirated versions of their works were used without permission to train AI language models.
A disturbing new use of AI—to understand and manipulate our intentions through flattery and false friendship—has been identified in new research from the University of Cambridge.
Researchers have trained a new kind of large language model (LLM) using GPUs dotted across the world and fed private as well as public data—a move that suggests that the dominant way of building artificial intelligence could be disrupted.
The sun-baked flats of southern Peru hold a secret bigger than any signpost. From a low ridge, the landscape looks plain enough – just ocher earth and scattered stones.
OpenAI released a model that tells users they’re right — no matter what. That’s more dangerous than it seems. A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here!
In January 2024, we saw Microsoft begin to change gears. After sitting on the sidelines in the AI war, the company began to slowly, but surely, develop its Copilot assistant into an artificial intelligence using LLM technology.
Senior Contributor. Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at breakneck speed. The big question is how long it will take until technology dominates the job market. You should start thinking about your own career. Will you be caught up in the change? With the U.S.
The more I engage with large language models (LLMs), the more I’m convinced they’re doing something beyond statistical pattern-matching. These systems feel intelligent.
This story is part of the 2025 TIME100. Read Jennifer Doudna’s tribute to Demis Hassabis here. Demis Hassabis learned he had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry just 20 minutes before the world did.
If you’ve heard the term artificial general intelligence, or AGI, it probably makes you think of a humanish intelligence, like the honey-voiced AI love interest in the movie Her, or a superhuman one, like Skynet from The Terminator. At any rate, something science-fictional and far off.
Google DeepMind on Wednesday published an exhaustive paper on its safety approach to AGI, roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can. AGI is a bit of a controversial subject in the AI field, with naysayers suggesting that it’s little more than a pipe dream.
For three McGill professors in the Faculty of Arts, the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching took off in 2023. ChatGPT, an AI chatbot built on OpenAI’s foundational large language models (LLMs), had become popular one year earlier.
"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.
There is a line in Charles Handy’s The Age of Unreason where he quotes an anonymous Irishman: “How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?” (Others have said similar things.
Steve Hargadon joins as host of the 56,000-member Library 2.0 online community, for a discussion on the evolving role of artificial intelligence in libraries. Drawing from two years of hosting free large-scale mini-conferences on AI and libraries as well as paid webinars and workshops.
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A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?
"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.
On the TV show Cheers, Cliff Clavin was the character who worked very hard to say sophisticated sounding things but who most of the time was just making up facts. AI, specifically large language models (LLMs), have a Cliff Clavin problem.
In two demonstrations, Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab researchers showed their new open source R1-Omni inferring the emotional state of a person in a video while also offering descriptions of their clothes and environment.