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AI & Education: Navigating the New Wave with OpenAI, ASU, and More
Niel de Kock
February 01, 2024
Educational AI News:
OpenAI and Common Sense Media Partnership for AI Education
OpenAI and Common Sense Media have joined forces to foster AI understanding and safe use among teens and families. Here's an overview of their initiative:
Partnership Announcement: Collaboration between OpenAI and Common Sense Media.
Focus Group: Aimed at teens and families for better AI education.
Objective: Create guidelines and educational content for responsible AI use.
Family-Friendly GPT: Developing GPT models that meet Common Sense's safety standards.
Funding Support: Craig Newmark Philanthropies contributed $3 million to the initiative.
Educational LLMs: Exploring AI's educational potentials and applications.
Deepfake Awareness: Strategies to counter AI misuse and promote discernment.
Overall Goal: Ensure beneficial and safe AI engagement in educational contexts.
Embracing AI in Education: A New Era
Education experts are gearing up to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into educational frameworks more effectively than before. This year marks a significant shift from the initial panic to proactive adoption in schools and universities.
Arizona State University (ASU) Partnership: ASU has announced a partnership with OpenAI to embed AI deeply into the academic experience of professors and students, highlighting AI's role in future job markets and learning environments.
ASU's Proactive Approach: ASU aims to actively participate in defining the future of AI technology in education, emphasizing the importance of being prepared for its evolving role.
K-12 and AI Education Groups: Some K-12 administrators are collaborating with AI education groups to provide teachers with the knowledge to harness AI technology effectively.
Legislative Support for AI Literacy: The end of 2023 saw the introduction of the "Artificial Intelligence Literacy Act," enabling schools to use federal funds to boost AI literacy.
Overcoming Initial Hurdles: Unlike last year's struggle to adapt to AI, schools and teachers are now better positioned to leverage AI for enhancing student learning, with guidance being developed on AI use in classrooms.
Positive Impact Anticipated: A report from Imagine Learning suggests a significant number of administrators believe AI can support personalized learning and save teachers time, with a majority viewing AI's impact on education positively.
Guidance and Training for Teachers: Experts stress the importance of preparing teachers through guidance and training for a smooth transition to AI-enhanced teaching, underscoring the need for professional development and IT support.
State Guidelines for AI Implementation: States like North Carolina have issued best practices for AI integration in education, offering tools and resources for responsible implementation.
Ongoing Concerns: Despite the growing comfort with AI, challenges related to automating decisions and potential biases in training data remain areas of concern.
(https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4437852-education-ai-chat-gpt-artificial-intelligence/)
AI News:
AI in Health Policy Conference Highlights
Event Focus: Collaboration between developers, medical professionals, and regulators on AI in healthcare.
Key Insight: Urgency for clear regulations to ensure AI tools are safe and effective in healthcare settings.
Personal View: You believe AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by improving treatments and accelerating the development of drugs and vaccines, highlighting the transformative role of AI in bettering patient care and preparing for future health crises.
(https://news.mit.edu/2024/what-to-do-about-ai-in-health-0123)
ChatGPT's Privacy Concerns in Europe
Issue: Investigation by Italy's data protection authority into ChatGPT for potential GDPR violations.
Context: Reflects broader challenges AI faces with privacy regulations.
(https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/29/chatgpt-italy-gdpr-notification/)
The Impact of AI on Workforce Dynamics
Concern: AI's role in workforce changes, including potential job displacements.
Observation: Efficiency vs. impact on employment.
Personal Mission: Embracing AI to remain ahead in a changing workforce, highlighting the importance of adapting to AI advancements. You foresee AI initially affecting white-collar jobs, with potential future impacts on blue-collar roles due to robotics advancements. This emphasizes the need for ongoing AI monitoring and skill development as a proactive career strategy.
GPT Mentions: Transforming Workflows
Feature: "GPT Mentions" allows for the integration of custom GPTs into conversations for a personalized experience.
Innovation: Demonstrates the adaptability and potential for specialized interactions within conversational AI.
User Experience: As a ChatGPT Plus user, you've found the service transformative, particularly with the "GPT Mentions" feature enhancing how you work and access information. This tool, along with AI's ability to consolidate multiple GPTs, opens new possibilities for efficiency and creativity in your daily tasks, moving beyond traditional search methods.
AI TOOLS:
PI
Pi is an AI tool by Inflection AI, designed for emotional support and wellness. It engages in empathetic conversations, helps organize thoughts, and aids in planning and action. Unlike typical AI chatbots, Pi offers a human-like interaction, aiming to complement rather than replace human relationships. As a digital companion, it emphasizes personalization for a more effective support experience.
Curipod:
Curipod is an educational platform using AI to help teachers create engaging, interactive lessons that foster curiosity and critical thinking. It offers personalized learning experiences in a safe, inclusive space for student interaction. Designed based on learning sciences, Curipod aims to make students active learners and thinkers.
Getting the Best Out of ChatGPT 3.5 : A Simple Guide:
Using ChatGPT, a powerful AI tool, can be super helpful, but it's important to use it right. Here’s a quick guide to help you out:
Know Your Goal: First, be clear about what you want ChatGPT to do for you. Are you looking for help with writing, solving a problem, or something else? Knowing this helps you use it more effectively.
Understand ChatGPT's Abilities: ChatGPT is like a super-smart helper, but it has its limits. It's important to know what it can do and how big or complex the tasks it can handle.
Make It More Focused: Sometimes, you might need ChatGPT to be extra good at a specific task. This is where ‘fine-tuning’ comes in. It's like training ChatGPT on a special diet of information to make it better at a particular job.
Use It Responsibly: Remember, ChatGPT is smart, but it's not perfect. It can sometimes give biassed or incorrect answers. So, it's important to use it thoughtfully and be aware of these limitations.
Continuing from last week:
Last week we used ChatGPT to start to focus on practicing the skills you have learned in Python.
This week we will focus on building not project but actual larger projects that will combine all the skills you have learned and practiced into one big project.
Prompt:
Act as a hiring manager at a company that is in need of a python programmer. The in person interview has gone well and now you need to test the persons skills out. Provide an outline of a project the person will have to be working on at your company. The person only has about 6 months experience with python so some guidance maybe necessary. Your company mainly focuses on {projects} Project = data analysis.
You will now have an outline of a project you might have to do at a company in the future. You can change the project as you want if you want to work in a different field of python programming.
I hope this weeks AI news and AI news in education and the new breakdown on the news has been helpful. Please provide feedback on how the newsletter can be improved.