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What we can say with certainty is that ChatGPT is a reliable writing assistant, provided you use it in the right way. If you have to put words in order as part of your job, here's how ChatGPT might be able to take your writing to the next level—at least until it replaces you, anyway.
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The best ChatGPT plugin was just released — code interpreter. This plugin allows us to upload data, write/execute Python code, do data analysis, generate reports, and even download the code and reports generated in .ipynb and pdf format respectively.
The best part? All this is done in seconds. It’s like having a junior data analyst that will do all your work 24/7.
Here’s everything you can do with ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter.
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When we finished eating, I got up and went to pay for breakfast at the cash register. Monica waited near the door, where two ladies were sitting having their own breakfast. Monica and I had already guessed they were both teachers, you can just tell, right?
Once I had paid, I could see that one of the ladies had engaged Monica in a conversation. The other lady, a trim, smartly dressed gal at 5 feet 2 inches in pressed jeans and western shirt, her white, short cut hair framing her bespectacled, slightly wrinkled face, approached me.
"Are you the person who bought our group breakfast the other day? I wanted to thank you...."
Google is constantly releasing new features, updates, and tools , which I try to share out each month in our GEG-Ohio virtual meetings a
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"Google Keep is a popular note-taking app you can install on your phone or access as a web app. But did you know it can do more than just take notes?
The note-taking app has several features that make it a powerful tool for enhancing productivity and staying organized. So, here are four ways you can use Google Keep to supercharge your workflow."
Google Bard was initially launched as a text-only chatbot. However, thanks to recent updates, the AI tool can be used to code, generate images and up-to-date content, and translate text, among other things.
To fully leverage Bard’s capabilities, it’s important that you’re aware of what it can do. Here are a few practical ways you can utilize Google Bard’s potential to improve your productivity and efficiency:
One question I get asked a lot is: as someone who designs learning experiences, has AI impacted your design & development process in the last few months?
The answer is yes.
My hypothesis, supported by a tonne of experimentation in the last few months, is that by leveraging the power of AI to increase the velocity of our processes, we can focus on where we bring most value.
For me, this is three-fold:
One great way to improve your experience with ChatGPT, for example, is with plugins and extensions. ChatGPT Everywhere is one fantastic example. It's a third-party extension that works like an AI assistant for any website you visit. It lets you access ChatGPT via its API, and it even comes with a few unique features. Keep reading to learn more about ChatGPT Everywhere, and how to best use it.
Education in 2030 is a free 60 page report that deep dives through the four drivers of the global expansion in education and identifies 5 Scenarios for the Future of Learning and Talent. Methodology for developing the scenarios is explained and over 100 charts and tables are provided with sources and references for further research. Jim Lerman's insight: I find this organization's research and reports to be very professional and highly informative -- especially in a worldwide view.
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Visual frameworks are patterns to help you think creatively, reframe challenging situations, and imagine possible strategies and solutions. Think of a situation or challenge that’s on your mind right now, and click an image below.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, with new AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT opening up new opportunities in higher education for content creation, communication, and learning, while also raising new concerns about the misuses and overreach of technology. Our shared humanity has also become a key focal point within higher education, as faculty and leaders continue to wrestle with understanding and meeting the diverse needs of students and to find ways of cultivating institutional communities that support student well-being and belonging. For this year’s teaching and learning Horizon Report, then, our panelists’ discussions oscillated between these seemingly polar ideas: the supplanting of human activity with powerful new technological capabilities, and the need for more humanity at the center of everything we do. This report summarizes the results of those discussions and serves as one vantage point on where our future may be headed.
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It seems like every other day we see new apps that use artificial intelligence or machine-learning technology to make complex tasks easier. OpenAI's ChatGPT and its many uses are impressive obviously, but there are several other AI models that take tools beyond just chat-based applications.
The rapid rate at which these AI tools are being released makes it hard to keep track of them all, and to find the right app quickly when you need it. A few fans of the technology are making this easier with AI app directories. Some build it themselves, others crowd-source it, and some even shun websites for simple Notion databases. No matter what, it's easier than before to find an AI tool with these free directories.
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Increasingly powerful AI systems are being released at an increasingly rapid pace. This week saw the debut of Claude 2, likely the second most capable AI system available to the public. The week before, Open AI released Code Interpreter, the most sophisticated mode of AI yet available. The week before that, some AIs got the ability to see images.
And yet not a single AI lab seems to have provided any user documentation. Instead, the only user guides out there appear to be Twitter influencer threads. Documentation-by-rumor is a weird choice for organizations claiming to be concerned about proper use of their technologies, but here we are.
I can’t claim that this is going to be a complete user guide, but it will serve as a bit of orientation to the current state of AI. I have been putting together a Getting Started Guide to AI for my students (and interested readers) every few months, and each time, it requires major modifications. The last couple of months have been particularly insane.
This guide is opinionated, based on my experience, and focused on how to pick the right tool to do things. I have written separately about the kinds of tasks you may want AI to do, which might be useful to read first.
Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved across multiple sectors of life, including education. As AI becomes more accessible to students, the question of whether using AI is cheating has become a growing debate in higher education. Opinions vary widely, with some educators arguing it supports efficiency and others claiming it undermines academic integrity.
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Much can be learned from embracing artificial intelligence in the teaching and learning process. Here, two professors share their experiences using ChatGPT freely in the classroom.
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Generative A.I. has created some very real challenges with academic integrity. Schools have been scrambling to create systems and policies that address the potential for cheating. In the past, I've written about how we might
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These awesome apps can transform any ordinary photo into a work of art. Works on your selfies, too!
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The most time-consuming part of shopping for many is the research process: poring through review sites and plucking out the item that’s right for you, whether it’s coffee equipment or a hotel room that is both convenient and affordable.
I’ll cover what A.I. can do to help make informed purchasing decisions quickly and efficiently. For this exercise, I’ll focus on using chatbots, including Microsoft’s Bing, Google’s Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to do product research. I’ll also explore how to use ChatGPT plug-ins, a more recent development, for creating grocery lists and planning travel.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming education, in both worrisome and beneficial ways. On the positive side of the ledger, new research shows how AI can help improve the way instructors engage with their students, by way of a cutting-edge tool that provides feedback on their interactions in class.
A new Stanford-led study, published May 8 in the peer-reviewed journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, found that an automated feedback tool improved instructors’ use of a practice known as uptake, where teachers acknowledge, reiterate, and build on students’ contributions. The findings also provided evidence that, among students, the tool improved their rate of completing assignments and their overall satisfaction with the course.
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Image generators are trained on billions of images, which enable them to produce new creations that were once the sole dominion of painters and other artists. Sometimes experts can’t tell the difference between A.I.-created images and actual photographs (a circumstance that has fueled dangerous misinformation campaigns in addition to fun creations). And these tools are already changing the way that creative professionals do their jobs.
Compared to products like ChatGPT, image generating A.I. tools are not as well developed. They require jumping through a few more hoops, and may cost a bit of money. But if you’re interested in learning the ropes there’s no better time to start.
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Last week, I told you how to use creative A.I. tools that generate and edit stunning images. Now let’s move on to automating some time-consuming, sometimes tedious, parts of many office jobs.
Yes, I’m talking about meetings. I’ll go over how to speed through tasks like preparing for presentations, writing talking points and writing out the minutes using generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT.
A common-sense warning before we begin: Anything you do using an online service can potentially be seen by the company that runs it, whether it’s a big tech company or an A.I. startup. So if your meeting covers sensitive topics like trade secrets or personnel issues, this may not be the best time to experiment with these new tools.
Gartner has identified six critical areas where the use of large language models such as ChatGPT can present legal or compliance risks that enterprise organizations must be aware of — or face potentially dire consequences. Organizations should consider what guardrails to put in place in order to ensure responsible use of these tools, the research firm advised.
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Today, many priorities for improvements to teaching and learning are unmet. Educators seek technology-enhanced approaches addressing these priorities that would be safe, effective, and scalable. Naturally, educators wonder if the rapid advances in technology in everyday lives could help. Like all of us, educators use AI-powered services in their everyday lives, such as voice assistants in their homes; tools that can correct grammar, complete sentences, and write essays; and automated trip planning on their phones. Many educators are actively exploring AI tools as they are newly released to the public. Educators see opportunities to use AI-powered capabilities like speech recognition to increase the support available to students with disabilities, multilingual learners, and others who could benefit from greater adaptivity and personalization in digital tools for learning. They are exploring how AI can enable writing or improving lessons, as well as their process for finding, choosing, and adapting material for use in their lessons. Educators are also aware of new risks. Useful, powerful functionality can also be accompanied with new data privacy and security risks. Educators recognize that AI can automatically produce output that is inappropriate or wrong. They are wary that the associations or automations created by AI may amplify unwanted biases. They have noted new ways in which students may represent others’ work as their own. They are well-aware of “teachable moments” and pedagogical strategies that a human teacher can address but are undetected or misunderstood by AI models. They worry whether recommendations suggested by an algorithm would be fair. Educators’ concerns are manifold. Everyone in education has a responsibility to harness the good to serve educational priorities while also protecting against the dangers that may arise as a result of AI being integrated in EdTech. To develop guidance for EdTech, the Department works closely with educational constituents. These constituents include educational leaders—teachers, faculty, support staff, and other educators—researchers; policymakers; advocates and funders; technology developers; community members and organizations; and, above all, learners and their families/caregivers. Recently, through its activities with constituents, the Department noticed a sharp rise in interest and concern about AI. For example, a 2021 field scan found that developers of all kinds of technology systems—for student information, classroom instruction, school logistics, parent-teacher communication, and more—expect to add AI capabilities to their systems. Through a series of four listening sessions conducted in June and August 2022 and attended by more than 700 attendees, it became clear that constituents believe that action is required now in order to get ahead of the expected increase of AI in education technology—and they want to roll up their sleeves and start working together. In late 2022 and early 2023, the public became aware of new generative AI chatbots and began to explore how AI could be used to write essays, create lesson plans, produce images, create personalized assignments for students, and more. From public expression in social media, at conferences, and in news media, the Department learned more about risks and benefits of AI-enabled chatbots. And yet this report will not focus on a specific AI tool, service, or announcement, because AI-enabled systems evolve rapidly. Finally, the Department engaged the educational policy expertise available internally and in its relationships with AI policy experts to shape the findings and recommendations in this report.
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At Google's I/O 2023 event, the search giant made several exciting AI-related announcements. One such announcement was Search Generative Experience (SGE), a collection of AI-driven enhancements aimed at revolutionizing Google Search.
At the event, Google promised a gradual rollout of the AI features. Now, Search Generative Experience is getting pushed to users. Here's a guide on how to access the feature, how to turn it on, and how to use it.
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