Artificial Intelligence

Three Norwalk schools will incorporate virtual reality, 3D printers, artificial intelligence and other tools from their Verizon Innovative Learning Labs into other subjects, giving students experience with emerging tech.

Artificial intelligence's potential in the public sector has grown exponentially, as have questions around appropriate guardrails. We interviewed the ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI to see what it had to say.

Educators acknowledge that writing is thinking, and therefore remains an indispensable skill, and college admissions staff may rely on unscripted interviews, short videos and proctored writing samples in lieu of essays.

Ed-tech developers have released a slew of programs in recent weeks to detect AI-generated writing, hoping to address widespread concern among educators about students plagiarizing answers from AI chatbot programs.

The North Dakota University System is recruiting leaders and planning seminars to combat the negative effects of artificial intelligence and discuss the potential for further applications in curriculum development.

Like most schools, the University of Texas at San Antonio has yet to clearly define how students can use AI chatbots that can answer essay prompts and math problems, but professors hope the strategy isn't a simple ban.

Hoping to avert potential harm caused by the rise of artificial intelligence, state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, on Monday introduced legislation aimed at increasing consumer protection and privacy.

Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and optimizing it for the classroom will require a careful accounting of its implications, both good and bad: for tutoring, assessments, data security and other functions.

In Massachusetts, the latest piece of technology to take the Internet by storm — ChatGPT— helped craft a bill aimed at regulating AI. But, the lawmaker behind the bill says the tech isn't ready to write laws without help.

Responding to concerns about students using chatbot programs like ChatGPT to do their homework for them, OpenAI developed a classifier tool that can, with limited accuracy, identify text generated by an AI chatbot.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has begun a one-year pilot project to deploy smarter technology at the Lincoln and Holland tunnels and the George Washington Bridge to help improve traffic operations.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology’s newly released framework provides organizations a pathway to use artificial intelligence technology in a way that reduces risk.

While they acknowledge concerns about an AI tool that can write essays for students, professors from the University of Hartford, University of Connecticut and Yale also see its limits and a need to redesign assessments.

Some school districts have already blocked access to the AI chatbot ChatGPT for its potential to facilitate academic dishonesty, but some English teachers say it might still become a useful part of the writing process.

ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot created by OpenAI. So what are the opportunities and risks with using this technology across different domains?

Having given ChatGPT a "B to B-" on its answers to questions from his final exam in operations management, Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch remains optimistic about AI's potential use in the classroom.

When tasked with writing a poem, an explanation of how to train a puppy, an explanation of string theory and an email to a parent, the AI chatbot ChatGPT produced imperfect but coherent responses.

As teachers and school districts race to catch up with the implications of an essay-writing chatbot, a 17-year-old private high school student in Oakland, Calif., is trying to communicate its potential value.