I would love to be at #ISTELive24 to see some friends, share some tech I love, and counter some AI hype, but it may not be in the cards this year. Oh well. I might submit some AI ethics proposals for #ISTELive25 .

Asna’s voice deserves to be heard. She earned it with her hard work and academic excellence.

We cannot tolerate bigotry in any form—on college campuses, social media, or the halls of Congress.

Was playing around with ChatGPT tonight and found a completely made up tornado!

When I boil it down, I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains.

New: Facebook's AI chatbot told a parent in a group asking for advice that it has a gifted, disabled child who attended school in New York City

404media.co/facebooks-ai-t…

spotted by Aleksandra Korolova

I'm VERY excited to launch a new project today! Rest of World's AI Elections Tracker will track incidents of AI being used around elections globally - for campaigning, misinformation, and memes. Check out our entries so far - restofworld.org/2024/elections…

Spent a good chunk of today reading through Rest of World's AI elections tracker, which documents how AI is influencing elections. Very good use of my time. Recommend.

Another banger about #AIinEDU from Dan Meyer. danmeyer.substack.com/p/khanmigo-wan…

Please do not use chatbots to access information. Chatbots will not replace Google (or any search) because that's not what LLMs do. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

If teachers tell students to use AI as a thought partner & ask it for feedback on their writing, won't students experience The Eliza Effect?

'We know LLMs aren't intelligent. They are just text predictors based on probability. Now ask it for ideas.'

tommullaney.com/2024/02/20/ped…

This is a somewhat unserious approach to attracting LeBron. However, as a Knicks fan often critical of Dolan, and a Sopranos fan, I kind of love it🤷🏻‍♂️ They put themselves out there. They probably didn't need another 10 minutes after this but whatever. #Knicks #GoNYGo

“Where is the great burning need for more content?
There isn’t. For the real purpose of AI is to put creative artists out of work.”
—Stephen Carlisle saying it plain

David Newhoff Carlisle is exactly right. What we see as hugely problematic (not paying creators) isn’t a bug—it’s the main attraction!

Wow - time flies ⏰ In just under 6 months, #Jamboard will become 'view only' - but we've got you covered with our Jamboard importer!

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Agreed. And I can't emphasize this enough: There are real AI Harms: bias, inaccuracy, immense resource use, theft of creative work, misinformation, etc. In that context 'students cheating' is trivial.

I’m testing AI chatbot apps for a story and it’s funny that their privacy policies now force you to acknowledge you’re talking to a computer that does not understand you

When Weizenbaum first developed ELIZA (in the 1960s), one of the things he found must disturbing was the way that people projected understanding onto the program even when they knew that the program could not actually understand them.

'this seems to be based on an article of faith...that all that is needed to create superintelligent machines is (a) infinitely more data & (b) infinitely more computing power...strange thing is...the world seems to be taking these fantasies at face value'
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The drop-down function in Google Docs is fantastic! You can use it when Ss conferencing, selecting a status for a project or task, picking a menu item, and so much more. Tom Mullaney has an excellent video tutorial shorturl.at/tU136 ♥️My ex. shorturl.at/jno25 #vbits

Agreed, @katief! Let's create ethical, flawed, authentic content that doesn't steal from creatives! #Creativity createdontscrape.com