Artificial Intelligence Now: ChatGPT + AI Literacy Toolbox: AI News + Research

An average user’s conversational exchange with ChatGPT amounts to dumping a large bottle of fresh water out on the ground, new research says.

The term generative AI refers to a relatively new field of AI that can create human-like content, from pictures and videos to poetry and even computer code. To achieve this, several different techniques are used. These have mostly evolved over the last 10 years, building on earlier work carried out in the fields of deep learning, transformer models and neural networks.

In 2023, generative AI emerged as the most rapidly adopted technology in history. All members of the higher education community, from students to administrators, are trying to determine what impact generative AI tools can, will, and should have on life, learning, and work. To make matters more complex, there is no consensus about how or even whether generative AI should play a role in the future of higher education.

The data is in: 2024 is the year AI at work gets real. Use of generative AI has nearly doubled in the last six months,1 with 75% of global knowledge workers using it.

Some amount of chatbot hallucination is inevitable. But there are ways to minimize it

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In a recent episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz sat down with Joe Glover, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at the University of Florida. The two discussed the university’s efforts to put AI to work across all aspects of higher education, including a public-private partnership with NVIDIA that has helped transform UF into one of the leading AI universities in the country.

This is the reality in higher education right now. In the 15 months since OpenAI released ChatGPT, generative AI — a type of artificial intelligence — has generated a mercurial mix of excitement, trepidation, and rebuff across all corners of academe.

OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?

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A new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails.

Publishers have long worried that artificial intelligence would drive readers away from their sites. They’re about to find out if those fears are warranted.

Several scientific articles have even been published in which ChatGPT appears as an author because text generated by him was used. The impact it had on technology is enormous and that is why many materials have been published on how to use it in different fields as well as in different usage scenarios.In this material, we carry out an analysis of the materials that were published in three months after the appearance of ChatGPT (December 2022, January 2023 and February 2023).

To harness the potential and avert the risks of OpenAI’s new chat bot, academics should think a few years out, invite students into the conversation and—most of all—experiment, not panic.

The AI chatbot has stoked fears of an educational apocalypse. Some teachers see it as the reboot education sorely needs.

ChatGPT, the OpenAI software currently being heralded as the future of everything, is the worst guy you know.

With the rapid developments in artificial intelligence, higher education is entering a second phase of digital transformation: Dx 2.0. Technology and other campus leaders can take steps now to help prepare their institutions.

Beyond the new technology’s implications for the classroom, what can ChatGPT teach academics about their own writing?

AI has permeated our lives incrementally, through everything from the tech powering our smartphones to autonomous-driving features on cars to the tools retailers use to surprise and delight consumers. As a result, its progress has been almost imperceptible. Clear milestones, such as when AlphaGo, an AI-based program developed by DeepMind, defeated a world champion Go player in 2016, were celebrated but then quickly faded from the public’s consciousness.

Artificial Intelligence or AI refers to the simulation human intelligence in machines or computers that are programmed to undertake tasks usually thought to require human cognitive processes and decision-making capabilities. AI has been in use in higher education for some time, but generative AI has emerged as a technology that is creating increased concern across the campus.

Generative AI is revolutionizing the way we create original text and images with computer assistance. The ramifications are many for both content creation and pedagogy in higher education.

Effectively integrating generative AI into higher education requires policy development, cross-functional engagement, ethical principles, risk assessments, collaboration with other institutions, and an exploration of diverse use cases.

The chatbot can help rehearse communication skills and for some provides a resource to turn to when life is tough.

From predicting and identifying disease to revolutionizing the way we work, the next few decades will tell the story of the rise of machine learning and intelligence. We're already having intelligent conversations with our AI equipped cell phones, and in the months and years to come, artificial intelligence will materially change our world. We’ll be here to track it as it happens.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to personalize education, so more students enter and graduate college.

Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history.

There are so many brilliant posts on GPT-3, demonstrating what it can do, pondering its consequences, vizualizing how it works. With all these out there, it still took a crawl through several papers and blogs before I was confident that I had grasped the architecture.

Informed by the recent findings of a campus committee studying generative artificial intelligence (AI), the IT leadership at University of Michigan confronted an interesting tension in July 2023.

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.

Although advances in artificial intelligence (AI)1 have been unfolding for over decades, the progress in the last six months has come faster than anyone expected. The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, in particular, has opened up new possibilities and heightened awareness of AI's potential role in various aspects of our work and life.

The buzz is we’re in the midst of an artificial intelligence spring. While previous cycles disrupted the labor of workers whose time and skill were less highly valued by owners and administrators, some believe the latest round of AI functions has the potential to replace labor performed by high-status workers like lawyers and researchers. One such tool is Elicit, which markets itself as a research assistant capable of greatly reducing the time it takes to conduct a literature review or write a research proposal.

ChatGPT has caught our attention in higher education. What will it mean in 2023?

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The public release of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked tremendous interest in how humans will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accomplish a variety of tasks. In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, we examine the performance implications of AI on realistic, complex, and knowledge-intensive tasks.

To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology.

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human.

University of Florida Provost Joe Glover recently sat down with NVIDIA’s AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz to discuss the university’s efforts to build the first AI university in the country. Central to that effort is UF’s push to apply AI teaching across the full breadth of curriculum at UF.

ChatGPT is attracting a cross-field interest as it provides a language interface with remarkable conversational competency and reasoning capabilities across many domains. However, since ChatGPT is trained with languages, it is currently not capable of processing or generating images from the visual world. At the same time, Visual Foundation Models, such as Visual Transformers or Stable Diffusion, although showing great visual understanding and generation capabilities, they are only experts on specific tasks with one-round fixed inputs and outputs. To this end, We build a system called \textbf{Visual ChatGPT}, incorporating different Visual Foundation Models, to enable the user to interact with ChatGPT by 1) sending and receiving not only languages but also images 2) providing complex visual questions or visual editing instructions that require the collaboration of multiple AI models with multi-steps. 3) providing feedback and asking for corrected results.

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." This quote, often attributed to the poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats, captures the essence of education. A timeless goal is to light a fire within the hearts and minds of learners. Today, a groundbreaking invention stands ready to fuel the fire and revolutionize the educational landscape forever: AI chatbots.

On March 17, 2023, Stochastic Parrots Day organized by T Gebru, M Mitchell, and E Bender and hosted by The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) was held online commemorating the 2nd anniversary of the paper’s publication. Below are the readings which popped up in the Twitch chat in order of appearance.