Are you attending the #QMConnect conference in Chicago this year? Mark your schedule to attend Steven R. Crawford Penny Ralston-Berg Eddie Andreo & me in our session - "Lesson from the Trenches: A Fireside Chat with the Fantastic Four" 11/5/24 8:30-9:20am #QualityLearning Quality Matters

Comparing the creativity of a representative human sample to GPT-4 finds "the creative ideas produced by AI chatbots are rated more creative than those created by humans... Augmenting humans with AI improves human creativity, albeit not as much as ideas created by ChatGPT alone."

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Alibaba introduces MIMO New AI that creates realistic character videos from simple inputs like character, motion, and scene. 10 demos 1. Interactive Scene Control

Entire communities in the western regions of my state are truly devastated and suffering. If you can find even a small amount to donate to relief efforts in NC - or in other states impacted by #Helene, please do so.

I'm facilitating a workshop on our hidocmodel.com free design docs and resources. Please register and join the fun!

It’s not too late to get in on the #QMConnect conference: join us virtually! Livestreamed sessions will focus on AI in online education—this is a great chance to dive into this pressing topic from the comfort of your computer screen. ow.ly/X2NT50TTnT5

“It was so important for me to stand with a candidate who understands that we, as #America—we are a quilt. And I could never stand with a candidate who wants America to be a sheet.” - Tyler Perry, quoted in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

"This quarter has seen new partnerships between universities and companies, significant developments in online education and edtech companies, the release of important data on online enrolments." buff.ly/3zP2QTq

What Trump's Victory Means for Higher Ed - Liam Knox, Inside Higher Ed #highered #Trump buff.ly/4fcT2Ck

Educause ’24: University of Michigan's Journey With Generative AI - Abby Sourwine, GovTech #highered #AI govtech.com/education/high…

Exploring the future of higher education through student perspectives - MSN.com #highered buff.ly/3AB4w3d

I have discussed the untapped potential in current LLM models, and how we will see a burst of use case innovation as corporate development labs start digging in Here is a nice example from Walmart, showing how you can combine multimodal approaches for product recommendations

I just read the paper in full; it is even more spectacular than I initially thought. A short thread about the results and their significance.

The Role of Writing in Communicative Language Teaching: An Investigation of an AI-Integrated Classroom Activity - Faculty Focus #highered buff.ly/3YJ4IFT

OpenAI o1 and o1-Pro models released 2 days ago. People are already sharing many successful tests and crazy use cases with it. 10 wild examples:

Opinion: 4 Keys to Unlocking the Power of GenAI in Higher Ed - Chad Bandy and Saravanan Subbarayan, GovTech #highered #AI buff.ly/3CDPJpo

TOPcast ep175 At least in American online higher education, 2024 was filled with concerns about potential federal regulation changes. It *appears* that those changes may be moot w/ the new presidential administration, but we're not sure what is next in 2025.

OpenAI has been lying to us this whole time! We’ve been dreaming about it for months, hoping it would solve problems and be the game changer. But instead, it loses in every way, most of the clips not usable and it doesn’t even follow prompts properly. On top of that, they’re

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