TeachAI - Education and Tech Leaders Come Together to Offer Guidance on Integrating AI Safely into Classrooms Worldwide
TeachAI,
2023/05/03
The news here is that a number of industry groups and corporate partners have gotten together to launch TeachAI to provide "leadership" on how to use AI to teach people about AI. "TeachAI aims to integrate AI education into primary and secondary curricula worldwide through new reports, policy recommendations, and public engagement opportunities."
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Mr. Ranedeer AI Tutor
JushBJJ,
GitHub,
2023/05/03
This only works in GPT-4 (therefore, not the chatGPT available to me) but the concept is fascinating. The idea is that you submit the JSON object from this GitHub repository to create an an AI tutor named "Mr. Ranedeer". Inside the JSON, you can define features related to depth of content, learning style, communication style, tone style, and reasoning frameworks. More documentation here. See more: Reddit,
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The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion- Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Joseph LeDoux,
Philosophical Psychology,
2023/05/03
While I'm not sure I agree with anything in this paper (13 page PDF), I have no doubt of Joseph LeDoux's credentials, which means I have to take it seriously whether I agree or not. Here are the important bits: first, "My multistate hierarchical representation model," he writes, "makes memory and conceptualization an essential underpinning of higher-order consciousness." Next, "three forms of mental state consciousness in humans. These are autonoetic (explicit self-awareness of one's existence over time), noetic (explicit awareness of facts and concepts about the world or one's self), and anoetic (implicit awareness of the world)... conscious experience, whether emotional or not, is always preceded by non-conscious (pre-conscious) cognitive processing." Finally, "Autonoetic consciousness is the basis of the conceptions that underlie our greatest achievements as a species – art, music, architecture, literature, science – and our ability to appreciate them (but) it is the enabler of selfishness and greed, mental features that could be our undoing." See more commentaries on LeDoux's paper.
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Chegg shares drop more than 40% after company says ChatGPT is killing its business
ArticleHeader-author,
CNBC,
2023/05/03
Nobody is crying for Chegg, which says it "provides homework assistance and online tutoring". In more exciting AI news: a modder has wired ChatGPT into Skyrim VR "so NPCs can roleplay and remember past conversations" (thread). Also, researchers have employed an AI model similar to ChatGPT "to reconstruct human thoughts with up to 82% accuracy from functional MRI (fMRI) recordings." A research study shows publications in 2021 and 2022 on artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education (HE) rose nearly two to three times the number of previous years (thank goodness we now have the research to show this!).
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What's Next for AR/VR and Immersive Learning
Contact North,
2023/05/03
"Augmented and virtual reality (are) now engaging learners by connecting them to a vivid, multisensory and powerful real-time virtual experience," according to this article. Notwithstanding the cost and cumbersome headsets, "The technology is delivering." So what does the future hold? "AR/VR and their combined use in immersive learning experiences will continue to grow, with market forecasts seeing the sale of equipment and software growing from $22.1 billion in 2020 to $161 billion by 2025, fuelled by new technologies, AI-related developments and better design," according to a market report (I'm not sure whether I believe that). This article also looks at skills development needs to support this new industry: "One solution being explored in a variety of continuing education units and trades programs is to modularize apprenticeship and to offer both AR/VR training alongside work-based learning and support from a journeyman." Related: the predictive metaverse. Also: design for collaborative learning in the metaverse.
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CPUs, GPUs, and Now AI Chips
William G. Wong,
ElectronicDesign,
2023/05/03
We begin this post with an article from 2017 and a background report from 2020 but reference a story that is breaking now in 2023: AI computer chips. Today we're looking at a veritable alphabet soup of specialized processors: Graphical Process Unit (GPU), Associative Process Unit (APU), Tensor Processing Unit / AI Chip (TPU), Field Programmable Gate Array (FGPA), Vision Processing Unit (VPU), and more.
The market leaders in this new hardware are companies like Alphabet (Google), Apple, ARM, Intel and Nvidia. They are contributing to AI chipsets for phones and laptop computers. In-phone AI manages everything from power management to image recognition to real-time translation. Some developments of note: AMD has developed a huge data centre APU and also its Ryzen 7040 puts an AI processor in a consumer CPU; Microsoft is developing its own AI-chips (called Athena), but lags behind market leaders. Related: AI Glossary.
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The incredible shrinking future of college
Kevin Carey,
Vox,
2023/05/03
This is a very clever but deeply flawed article from an author who, it must be remembered, opines from a hard-right perspective. Yes, it's true that college enrollment in the United States is on the decline, especially at the smaller institutions that dot the rural countryside. There will be a lot of change and the sector will be transformed. But does it follow that "College-educated Democrats will increasingly congregate in cities and coastal areas, leaving people without degrees in rural areas and towns?" Well of course not; this trend would completely ignore the impact of online learning and remote work, both factors that will tend to reduce the urban-rural divide, not strengthen it. I live and (mostly) work in a small rural eastern Ontario village because I can, something that wasn't true even a decade ago, but was predicted in 1981 by Alvin Toffler.
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