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Plus, OpenAI hits its 1 millionth paying user, a new app analyzes speech energy patterns to predict hypertension, and Americans used over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023.
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One Kentucky city is proving that generative AI projects are within reach for even small municipalities. At a cost of less than $200, Covington has launched a quirky LLM-powered chatbot to boost economic development.
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As increasingly sophisticated education tools use AI to do cognitive labor, some professors are concerned that new features are making it harder for teachers to encourage students to use AI in helpful ways.
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Up to 40 percent of global students have to learn in a second language, limiting their educational outcomes. AI translators, chatbots and multilingual text-to-speech tools can help bridge the gap.
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Tech-savvy San Diego high school teacher Jen Roberts takes a proactive approach to showing her students the ins and outs of AI, which she said can prepare them for the future while improving their writing.
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While interactions with AI bots can be helpful and even life-affirming for anxious teens and 20-somethings, some experts think tech companies are running an unregulated psychological experiment with millions of subjects.
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According to recent data from the education research organization foundry10, about a third of college applicants in 2023-24 acknowledge using an AI tool for help in writing admissions essays.
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Rasmussen is the latest of several institutions to partner with the online resume builder and job-search company Hiration to give students and alumni a tool for real-time feedback on job interview skills.
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Researchers at the University of Missouri say the automation and speed of large language models could be useful in cyber defense, but they can’t yet replace human cybersecurity experts.
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Educators should welcome new conversations about academic integrity, and the chance to teach the concept as a positive, desirable principle to strive toward, rather than a litany of rules with negative consequences.
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A survey from the tutoring company Superprof found differences among students, parents and tutors in their optimism — or lack thereof — about the future capabilities of artificial intelligence.
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AI tools excel at generating content, but knowing what to do with that content is the skill that human users must bring to the table. Students tend to learn it best when trying to solve problems they care about.
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A recent summit hosted by St. Cloud Area School District 742 put educators, business leaders and lawmakers in the same room to discuss the future of education policy in light of artificial intelligence.
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Teachers are redesigning assignments, administrators are revisiting policies, and students are still finding their footing as they navigate the new frontier of yet another disruptive technology.
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A study by anti-plagiarism platform developer Turnitin, which reviewed over 200 million student papers worldwide since April 2023, found that over 22 million of them used AI to generate at least 20 percent of the writing.
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Almost everyone has heard of ChatGPT. But Jeff Brown, CISO for the state of Connecticut, shares his concerns on some of the other “dark side” apps that have emerged with generative AI.
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Mason City Community School District has moved on from the early catastrophizing about artificial intelligence to testing various use cases and defining how AI tools should be used by students and staff.
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From creating discussion boards, to making syllabuses and annotated bibliographies, to simulating different personas with mental illnesses for psychology students, professors are exploring their own uses for AI.
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New generative AI tools are poised to make an even bigger impact in state and local government in the year ahead. Jurisdictions need to understand their potential uses and how they will impact resident services.
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Addressing the subject of artificial intelligence at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland last week, panelists said students will need to learn how to identify truth, have meaningful conversations and think critically.
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More than a decade before ChatGPT, computer scientists at IBM spent years on an AI system hoping it could one day power a generalized tutor. Some say tutoring is a deeply human process that AI will not soon replicate.
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