Artificial Intelligence
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As demographics change, bilingual public-sector workers can’t always keep up with all the “new” languages spoken by constituents. A Wordly report and client offer an inside view of the changes.
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An expansion to its IT operating budget is enabling investment in AI tools to create efficiencies and solve challenges. The city’s technology agency plans to hire a chief AI officer and support staff this year.
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AI has the ability to impact numerous areas of the public sector, from government to education, tech officials said during the yearly Link Oregon meeting. They are preparing for its possibilities and challenges alike.
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Tools like ChatGPT are being heralded as a critical underpinning of a 21st-century education or feared as the death knell of creativity. Either way, educators increasingly realize they can’t ignore AI.
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A San Francisco company's new online note-taking program uses artificial intelligence to help students capture key moments in lectures across subjects and concentrate on listening instead of transcribing.
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Advances in artificial intelligence represent an opportunity to get students thinking about how to use the technology to solve problems, and what skills are disposable versus essential for the future.
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Google’s cloud clients will be able to access Meta’s Llama 2 large language model, as well as AI startup Anthropic’s Claude 2 chatbot, to customize with enterprise data for their own apps and services.
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With generative AI models such as DeepMind's AlphaCode having roughly the same coding abilities as a novice programmer with a year of training, students wonder if fast-track coding programs are still worth it.
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ZeroEyes, a Montgomery County firm that created an AI-based gun detection video analytics platform, has secured $23 million in capital — following growth over the last year that has surpassed 300 percent.
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Many educators and college faculty are OK with students consulting ChatGPT for help on admissions essays, but chatbots can't be a replacement for a student's own voice, subjective experience and thoughts.
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Rather than simply adding language about ChatGPT to her syllabus, a media-history professor at Cal State Northridge is teaching students about AI chatbots by incorporating them directly into interactive lessons.
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Research published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports found that ChatGPT got a similar or higher average grades than students in 12 of 32 courses, with students outperforming AI in math and economics.
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Researchers will use artificial intelligence to analyze the tone and word choice that Los Angeles Police Department officers use during traffic stops, the department announced Tuesday.
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Language model AIs seem smart because of how they string words together, but in reality they can’t do anything without many people guiding them every step of the way.
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What began as a project to monitor the health of tunnel ventilation systems within the rail network of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, has evolved into a citywide upgrade of building infrastructure.
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Staff from several county school districts received training at the Ashtabula County Technical and Career Campus on how to use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and Bard to develop and personalize lesson plans.
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As the 2023-2024 academic year begins, a partnership of ed-tech nonprofits is launching a free crash course to bring educators up to speed on how AI works, what it can do for learning and how to use it responsibly.
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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced yesterday that she has directed executive branch agencies to adopt a statewide policy on generative AI that outlines how the technology can be used safely.
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Some educators at both the high school and college levels are torn between the need to incorporate AI into their lessons and the need to be skeptical about its reliability, security and other trade-offs.
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Colleges and universities spent much of the past year adopting ad-hoc approaches to generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, and uncertainty remains about how to use it most effectively and where the constraints should be.
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Absent specific guidance from the state school board association and education department, Oregon school districts are crafting their own AI policies with input from faculty, students and cybersecurity experts.
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