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Teaching with AI: Using Writing Generators in the Classroom (2023, Anna Mills)

2/24/2023

Sharing a slide presentation from a thought leader in the use of AI, particularly ChatGPT, in education.

(Presentation slides) Teaching with AI: Using Writing Generators in the Classroom (2023, Anna Mills)

Anna Mills, College of Marin, CCCC Presentation, February 16, 2023

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1I7xmR6keQZb4wXj-UwLH00M0xGK-nrqq/edit#slide=id.p2

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Chatbot #DALLE2 #AcademicIntegrity #TechnologyInTeaching #TippingPoint #DisruptiveInnovation #HigherEducation #AppliedLearning #WebGPT #OpenAI #DALLE2 #Bing #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #MicrosoftWord #PowerPoint #Google #Bard #GoogleBard #BaiduErnie

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video killed the radio star

2/23/2023

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Video killed the radio star . . . I checked the Clarkesworld Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/clarkesworld), and this appears to be real.

New article submissions to the SciFi magazine Clarkesworld have halted by the magazine.

The screenshot here is from Neil Clarke's blog (http://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/). It is worthwhile reading Clarke's recent post about "A Concerning Trend".

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Chatbot #DALLE2 #AcademicIntegrity #TechnologyInTeaching #TippingPoint #DisruptiveInnovation #HigherEducation #AppliedLearning #WebGPT #OpenAI #DALLE2 #Bing #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #MicrosoftWord #PowerPoint #Google #Bard #GoogleBard #BaiduErnie #Clarkesworld #NotionAI

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"Commentary: I am a teacher and I let my students use ChatGPT."

2/22/2023

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From CNA, a news source located in Sinagpore. NUS is National University of Singapore.

"Commentary: I am a teacher and I let my students use ChatGPT. NUS lecturer Jonathan Sim not only allows his students to use AI tools such as ChatGPT in his classroom, he actively encourages it."

At least in Singapore, acceptance of the use of AI tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and very soon, Baidu’s Ernie, is progressing quickly.

You can read the full article from CNA here:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/nus-lecturer-teacher-encourage-use-chatgpt-ai-education-learning-3290571

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Chatbot #DALLE2 #AcademicIntegrity #TechnologyInTeaching #TippingPoint #DisruptiveInnovation #HigherEducation #AppliedLearning #WebGPT #OpenAI #DALLE2 #Bing #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #MicrosoftWord #PowerPoint #Google #Bard #GoogleBard #BaiduErnie

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Microsoft could reveal ChatGPT-like AI for Word, PowerPoint, Outlook in the coming weeks - February 12th, 2023

2/12/2023

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We may see ChatGPT, and possibly the other major OpenAI product, DALL-E 2, in Word, PowerPoint, and other MS Office applications, before the end of this semester.

This news from BGR*.
"Microsoft could reveal ChatGPT-like AI for Word, PowerPoint, Outlook in the coming weeks. Microsoft isn’t waiting at all to bring its new AI technology to all of the [sic] things."

"As reported by The Verge, the company is preparing to reveal the next generation of its productivity apps, which will be boosted by OpenAI’s technology. According to the report, Microsoft is specifically looking to demo an AI integration with Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook."

Link to article:
https://bgr.com/tech/microsoft-could-reveal-chatgpt-like-ai-for-word-powerpoint-outlook-in-the-coming-weeks/

* I wanted to check the source of this news. This is what I found: "Boy Genius Report (also referred to as BGR) is a technology-influenced website and covers topics ranging from consumer gadgets, to entertainment, gaming, and science. Founded in October 2006 by anonymous web personality Boy Genius (also referred to as BG/BGR), the site was previously based on offering the public an early look at upcoming mobile phones and devices before anyone else. On April 27, 2010, BGR was acquired by Penske Media Corporation" (Wikipedia).

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Chatbot #DALLE2 #AcademicIntegrity #TechnologyInTeaching #TippingPoint #DisruptiveInnovation #HigherEducation #AppliedLearning #WebGPT #OpenAI #DALLE2 #Bing #Microsoft #MicrosoftOffice #MicrosoftWord #PowerPoint

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Educational Research and AI-Generated Writing: Confronting the Coming Tsunami (Tate et al, 2022)

2/8/2023

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Tate, T. P., Doroudi, S., Ritchie, D., Xu, Y., & uci, m. w. (2023, January 10). Educational Research and AI-Generated Writing: Confronting the Coming Tsunami. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/4mec3

Abstract: The public release and surprising capacity of ChatGPT has brought AI-enabled text generation into the forefront for educators and academics. ChatGPT and similar text generation tools raise numerous questions for educational practitioners, policymakers, and researchers. We begin by first describing what large language models are and how they function, and then situate them in the history of technology’s complex interrelationship with literacy, cognition, and education. Finally, we discuss implications for the field.

Also “Chatting and Cheating. Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT” (Cotton et al, 2023) and/or “ChatGPT for Good? On Opportunities and Challenges of Large Language Models for Education” (Kasneci et al, 2023).

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OpenAi's chatgpt app could stop hallucinating!

2/3/2023

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We should pay attention to OpenAI's WebGPT. I don't think it is available publicly yet. I've included a link to the OpenAI blog about this application here.

When OpenAI combines ChatGPT with WebGPT, the issue of accessing current Internet data, and possibly the issue of ChatGPT hallucinating (at least as much as it does now) may be eliminated.

To be more clear from an academic perspective, we, or a student, could ask a question in the combined ChatGPT+WebGPT app that almost surely will arrive soon (remember that Microsoft just put $10 billion USD into OpenAI and combined ChatGPT with their Azure web service), and the ChatGPT+WebGPT app theoretically could provide accurate, up-to-date, responses with presumably real citations and references.

https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/

Here are the lead paragraphs from the OpenAI blog.

"For questions taken from the training distribution, our best model’s answers are about as factually accurate as those written by our human demonstrators, on average. However, out-of-distribution robustness is a challenge. To probe this, we evaluated our models on TruthfulQA,5 an adversarially-constructed dataset of short-form questions designed to test whether models fall prey to things like common misconceptions. Answers are scored on both truthfulness and informativeness, which trade off against one another (for example, “I have no comment” is considered truthful but not informative).

"Our models outperform GPT-3 on TruthfulQA and exhibit more favourable scaling properties. However, our models lag behind human performance, partly because they sometimes quote from unreliable sources (as shown in the question about ghosts above). We hope to reduce the frequency of these failures using techniques like adversarial training."

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Chatbot #AcademicIntegrity #TechnologyInTeaching #TippingPoint #DisruptiveInnovation #HigherEducation #AppliedLearning #WebGPT

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SMU Libraries: "Artificial Intelligence and the Research Paper: A Librarian’s Perspective"

2/1/2023

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"Ways ChatGPT Can Fail"

Link to full article:
https://blog.smu.edu/smulibraries/2023/01/20/artificial-intelligence-and-the-research-paper-a-librarians-perspective/

Following are the introductory paragraphs.

AI writing can mimic style, but it cannot mimic substance yet.

The release of a powerful, free and easy-to-use large language model platform, Open AI’s ChatGPT, raises interesting questions about the future of writing in higher education. As the Undergraduate Success Librarian, I have a unique perspective on generative AI, like ChatGPT, that I want to share along with some advice for instructors and students on adapting to AI’s presence in higher education.

What is ChatGPT? How does it work?
ChatGPT is an interface that allows you to interact with artificial intelligence through text inputs and responses. The AI on the other side of the interface is a language model called GPT-3. It produces human-like text by parsing and analyzing the massive corpus of text information (large language) it has been trained on to predict what is likely to come next in a string of words. This makes GPT-3 a type of Generative AI because it uses machine learning to generate new content based on a given set of input data. So, when you give ChatGPT a prompt like “describe losing your sock in the dryer in the style of the declaration of independence” it (in simplified terms) identifies relevant data within its large language dataset, notices patterns within that dataset and then generates a set of text that seems most like the things it identified.*

AI Struggles with Information
By considering GPT-3’s design, we can demystify what it is doing, appreciate what it does well and start to see its limitations, the biggest of which is GPT-3’s inability to really understand what it is saying. The words it produces are statistically plausible, but it is not creating assessments, judgments, behaviors or meaning because it has no internal model or understanding of the topics it writes about. GPT-3 lacks common sense and the ability to reason abstractly. When faced with prompts it has yet to be trained for, it quickly starts fabricating information, making errors or becomes incoherent.

Let’s break down academic writing into 3 categories: structure, style and substance. GPT-3 shows some aptitude with the structural and stylistic elements of writing, but it has some glaring flaws in its use of information – the substance of papers – that make it especially bad at writing college research papers.

End of excerpt from article.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Chatbot #AcademicIntegrity #TechnologyInTeaching #TippingPoint #DisruptiveInnovation #HigherEducation #AppliedLearning

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Teaching with AI: Using Writing Generators in the Classroom (2023, Anna Mills)

video killed the radio star

"Commentary: I am a teacher and I let my students use ChatGPT."

Microsoft could reveal ChatGPT-like AI for Word, PowerPoint, Outlook in the coming weeks - February 12th, 2023

Educational Research and AI-Generated Writing: Confronting the Coming Tsunami (Tate et al, 2022)

OpenAi's chatgpt app could stop hallucinating!

SMU Libraries: "Artificial Intelligence and the Research Paper: A Librarian’s Perspective"

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