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OpenAI released a major change to ChatGPT-3.5 on Monday, paving the way for more widespread adoption globally and lower barriers to experimentation. But it could also have some concerning consequences for students.
A new study from academic researchers shows (again) that these tools are extremely unreliable, and when simple anti-detection techniques are deployed their limited accuracy collapses. What it means and how we should move forward.
Big news in the world of AI and Education as the Los Angeles Unified School District introduces a new AI platform and chatbot named "Ed," designed to assist parents and students as a personal aid.
From Google's Gemini issues to the recent news coming out of Microsoft, we know that GenAI image generators are problematic and deeply biased. Why the "move fast and break things" mentality is just not working for GenAI,
We recently ran our first school-wide “Prompt-a-thon” event at Summit Atlas High School in Seattle. The AI for Education team facilitated a day where students and teachers came together to solve community problems using generative AI, guided by the principles of both design thinking and liberatory design.
Ever been frustrated trying to get GenAI image generators to include specific words only to have it constantly misspell or mangle the letters? Well, we've been experimenting with a free text-to-image creator launched widely yesterday, Ideogram, that's really been delighting our team at AI for Education.
Our work got some air time on CNN this week! As a part of their segment on North Carolina's new AI guidance which features a number of our resources, they highlighted the EVERY framework AI for Education developed in collaboration with Vera Cubero. Watch the clip!
A recent study published in Science shows how babies can teach AI a thing or two about language. NYU researchers developed a machine learning model that mimics the way children learn language, utilizing 61 hours of first-person video and audio from an infant's perspective. The footage was gathered through a head-mounted camera worn by a child from 6 to 25 months (check out the adorable picture below).
This week featured one of the proudest moments for AI for Education. As part of our year-long collaboration with the NYC DOE's HE3AT program, we have been working with a group of 11th and 12th graders from South Brooklyn to help shape GenAI policy proposals as part of the DOE's AI Policy Lab.
Amanda recently spoke at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) 2024 AI+Education Summit on a panel focused on "What do Educators Need from AI." Her answer was: It’s a lot more than we think.
To commemorate an amazing 2023, we shared a selection of our Top 5's from the year: webinars, prompts, and resources.
How many school districts have an GenAI Policy in place? What about a specific budget for GenAI literacy? We had a chance to ask these two questions to a room full of district leaders when our CEO did the opening keynote for this year’s TECHSPO Conference.
Last week ASU announced it has become the first higher education institution to partner with ChatGPT Enterprise. We are excited to see a major milestone in the adoption of AI in education, which highlights key opportunities and current limitations to wide scale adoption.
Last Friday we hosted our first GenAI workshop for caregivers at Lexington High School in Massachusetts. It was an amazing experience that emphasized the importance of engaging caregivers in the conversation about AI in education. Here's what we learned:
GenAI has enormous potential to transform the education system, but ChatGPT-4 is just too expensive for schools. Here’s what we’d like to see from OpenAI and why it’s so important.
Edweek’s 2023 "Year in Charts" has done a great job highlighting the impact of Generative AI in education (we love data). Here are some of the key highlights from their research.
A U.S. university enrolls their first AI virtual students. Do you think they had to write an application essay?
North Carolina become the 4th state to publish guidance on AI adoption in schools. We had a chance to speak with Vera Cubero from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction who spearheaded its development. We talked about how this guidance came to be, key areas of focus, and their plan to build buy-in.
We love this article from the NY Times highlighting students’ push for AI literacy in their school. This article echoes so much of what we see when working with students on AI ethics and literacy. For those who run into the paywall, here are the key points:
A new report by McKinsey on the impact of Generative AI on Black communities highlights both the potential risks and opportunities of this transformational technology. It's a worthwhile read for anyone interested in ethical and equitable AI. Here's our summary.
There is still so much we don't know about how young people use GenAI, so it is great to see OfCom's 2023 Online Nation Report for the UK. Here were some of the key findings…
After a few delays and a lot of hype, Google just released Gemini, their new GenAI model. In this video I break down the 60 page paper they released in support of the launch, with highlights below…
Helping students develop inter- and intra-personal skills is an essential part of learning and plays a significant role in students’ overall well-being and academic success. GenAI tools can help teachers create highly personalized social-emotional learning (SEL) experiences. Here are our six favorite strategies for designing SEL lessons and activities with GenAI:
Try these 6 different mini-prompts to develop activities for exploring the holiday with your students.
OpenAI is about to launch multi-modal GPT-4 with expanded capabilities that were unimaginable even this time last year. Unfortunately, as with all new technology there are both amazing possibilities and enormous risks. OpenAI outlines these risks in a recent paper covering the early testing of their image to text generator: GPT-4V(ision). I break down the paper in this video with a TL:DW version.
We ran our first workshop for Higher Education faculty at Ramapo College of New Jersey with a packed house of engaged, thoughtful stakeholders from across the college. There were two things that we wanted to highlight from the session.
Open AI is making big moves with two announcements that are set to have major impacts in education. 1) The launch and integration of DALL-E 3 image generator into ChatGPT, which will allow people to use prompts to create and refine images. 2)The ability to talk to and share images with ChatGPT-4 when you are prompting, which makes ChatGPT a multi-modal GenAI tool. So what does this mean for the education sector? Teachers and students will now be able to…