Artificial Intelligence

Despite initially blocking access to ChatGPT on district devices shortly after its release, a school district in Washington state has convened a committee of 16 teachers to develop policies for using it.

Scammers could use artificial intelligence or AI — basically, the simulation of human intelligence by machines, particularly computers — to clone the voice of a loved one.

The online learning platform has developed a slew of new AI-powered functions for grading, student feedback and lesson planning, as well as activities that focus on teaching students about machine learning.

The Amazon Web Services unit on Thursday announced two of its own large-language models, one designed to generate text, and another that could help power web search personalization, among other things.

Government Technology’s Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer Dustin Haisler breaks down the present landscape with a comparative look at the latest tools, like ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Bing AI chat.

The promise of the AI future is efficient and abundant content, but AI models have proved time and again that they perpetuate biases, misunderstand cultural context and prioritize being convincing over telling the truth.

Colleges and universities are convening working groups, rewriting academic integrity policies and preparing to use plagiarism checkers while professors think of ways to integrate generative AI into their curricula.

Plus, the New York Public Library has won an innovation award for tackling the digital divide, Nevada is the latest state to launch a high-speed Internet outreach tour, and more.

While it's too soon to say what the lasting impact of ChatGPT will be, many educators see its transformative potential as an inevitability, something to be embraced and experimented with rather than fought.

A newly released report from the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute highlights just how disruptive the quickly evolving technology is — and will continue to be — in our daily lives.

San Francisco-based Edthena's AI Coach has been sold to school districts in Texas, Colorado and Washington state, where educators can customize the tool for staff development purposes.

There are still far more questions than answers about what the rapidly evolving technology will mean for the lives of everyday people when it comes to how we work, learn and use the Internet.

A recent budget proposal from the Biden administration to increase federal support for education research efforts could lead to an 'ARPA-Ed' and the discovery of new use cases for AI-driven tools like ChatGPT.

An open letter calls for a six-month break on powerful AI training efforts. The idea is to develop safety and oversight systems and otherwise allow time for consideration of the tech’s rapid development.

School officials told the township board of education that the district's policy against plagiarism would cover misuse of ChatGPT, although they warned teachers to be ready for the technology to evolve quickly.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said there is potential for nefarious actors to use artificial intelligence to fool their victims, pointing to several recent examples of the technology being misused.

An 18-year-old at the Woodlands College Park High School in Texas won $50,000 from the Regeneron Science Talent Search for a semantics model and syntax assessment that can use daily diary entries to gauge suicide risk.

Cubic Transportation Systems and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, have partnered to form the Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence and Smart Mobility to further develop AI and machine learning in traffic management systems.