Artificial Intelligence
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Alpha School, which opened in Austin, Texas, in 2014, is set to open a K-8 location in Chicago. It charges $55,000 a year in tuition and uses "guides," in lieu of teachers, to motivate kids to complete online lessons. -
A survey of 386 global experts suggests governments, businesses, educators and communities must act together to counter dangerous overreliance, displaced workers, mental health problems and other risks from AI.
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The document outlining the Trump administration’s approach to AI signals less regulation and more innovation. To plan for it, state and local governments must understand what it includes — and what it omits.
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For families and students who lack home Internet or personal devices, the introduction of technologies like artificial intelligence in schools may only exacerbate digital inequities.
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To append what students learn about AI in school, developers should produce guidelines on how to use their products in a way that’s readily understood by people with varying degrees of “traditional” and digital literacy.
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Deepfake audio, authentic-sounding but false recordings built from short snippets of a subject talking, have become so realistic that they present painfully obvious potential for underhanded political tactics.
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The company will soon require election advertisers to disclose when messages have been altered or created by artificial intelligence tools. The change is meant to alert viewers when ads contain content from generative AI.
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The university kicked off a series of panel discussions this week about research into how AI tools could be used to solve problems, for example to "read" results of MRIs or detect warning signs of an aneurysm.
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Now quite acquainted with generative AI tools, educators at several U.S. universities have found them most helpful for guiding class discussions, fleshing out lesson plans and teaching about AI as an emerging technology.
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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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