Academic Scholarship

Google's new AI tool transforms dense research papers into accessible conversations - try it free - ZDnet 

Optimizing Large-Scale AI Model Pre-Training for Academic Research: A Resource-Efficient Approach – MarTech Post 

A group of experienced editorial board members struggled to distinguish human versus AI authorship – AHA Journals

AI can carry out qualitative research at unprecedented scale – London School of Economics  

Can AI be used to assess research quality? Chatbots and other tools are increasingly being considered, but people power is still seen as a safer option. – Nature  

Is AI the Answer to Peer Review Problems, or the Problem Itself? – Scholarly Kitchen 

Is Detecting genAI in Scholarly Research Beside the Point? – Clear Skies Adam

Unleashing the power of AI in science-key considerations for materials data preparation – Nature 

UK Research and Innovation tells reviewers they must not use generative AI – Research Professional News 

In which fields can ChatGPT detect journal article quality – ARXIV

Overcoming Skepticism Through Experimentation: The Role of AI in Transforming Peer Review – Scholarly Kitchen

If generative AI accelerates science, peer review needs to catch up - London School of Economics   

Some Thoughts on the Promise and Pitfalls of Innovation and Technology in Peer Review - Scholarly Kitchen

Is AI the Answer to Peer Review Problems, or the Problem Itself? - Scholarly Kitchen 

Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers? – Nature  

How Gen AI Could Transform Scholarly Publishing: Themes and Reflections from Interviews with Industry Leaders - Scholarly Kitchen

Our findings suggest that AI tools are not yet ready to take on the task of editing academic papers without extensive human intervention to generate useful prompts, evaluate the output, and manage the practicalities. - Science Editor

If AI-generated papers flood the scientific literature, future AI systems may be trained on AI output and undergo model collapse. This means they may become increasingly ineffectual at innovating. - The Conversation

In a set of 300 fake and real scientific papers, the AI-based tool, named 'xFakeSci', detected up to 94 per cent of the fake ones. - Deccan Herald

People will say, I have 100 ideas that I don’t have time for. Get the AI Scientist to do those. - Nature

There are signs that AI evaluations of academic papers could be corrupting the integrity of knowledge production. Up to 17 percent of reviews submitted to prestigious AI conferences in the last year were substantially written by large language models (LLMs), a recent study estimated. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add udm=14 to the search URL. - Tedium

It’s possible to switch back to an AI-free search experience. Google has added a new Web tab to its search engine page at the same time as introducing these new AI features. You can configure this kind of web search as the default. - PopSci

In a 2023 Nature survey of more than 1,600 scientists, almost 30% said that they had used generative AI tools to help write (academic) manuscripts. - Nature

The highest-profile research is heavily influenced by cultural forces and career incentives that are not necessarily aligned with the dispassionate pursuit of truth. To get your research published in high-impact journals it helps enormously not to challenge the predominant narrative. Scientific narratives can become entrenched and self-reinforcing. And that’s where we are in climate science. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

How big is science’s fake-paper problem? An unpublished analysis shared with Nature suggests that over the past two decades, more than 400,000 research articles have been published that show strong textual similarities to known studies produced by paper mills. - Nature

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the country's top science institute, on Tuesday published new guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific research, as part of its efforts to improve scientific integrity and reduce research misconduct, such as data fabrication and plagiarism. - Global Times

Do AI models produce more original ideas than researchers? - Nature

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats: A Comprehensive SWOT Analysis of AI and Human Expertise in Peer Review – Scholarly Kitchen

How Are AI Chatbots Changing Scientific Publishing? – Science Friday

New academic AI guidelines aim to curb research misconduct – Global Times

Generative AI-assisted Peer Review in Medical Publications: Opportunities Or Trap – JRIM Publications

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: preempting evidence manipulation – Harvard

AI Editing: Are We There Yet? - Science Editor – Science Editor  

AI tool claims 94% accuracy in telling apart fake from real research papers – Deccan Herald  

AI firms must play fair when they use academic data in training – Nature

AI Scientists Have a Problem: AI Bots Are Reviewing Their Work ChatGPT – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

A list of more than 500 papers with clear evidence of generative AI use - Academ-AI

Is AI my co-author? The ethics of using artificial intelligence in scientific publishing – Taylor & Francis Online 

Is ChatGPT a Reliable Ghostwriter? – The Journal of Nuclear Medicine

A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem – The Conversation

Could science be fully automated? A team of machine-learning researchers has now tried. - Nature

How AI tools help students—and their professors—in academic research – Fast Company  

AI-Generated Junk Science Research a Growing Problem, Experts Say – PYMNTS  

Did a criminal Russian academic paper mill use AI to plagiarize a BYU professor and his student? – Deseret News

Our findings suggest that AI tools are not yet ready to take on the task of editing academic papers without extensive human intervention to generate useful prompts, evaluate the output, and manage the practicalities. - Science Editor

If AI-generated papers flood the scientific literature, future AI systems may be trained on AI output and undergo model collapse. This means they may become increasingly ineffectual at innovating. - The Conversation

In a set of 300 fake and real scientific papers, the AI-based tool, named 'xFakeSci', detected up to 94 per cent of the fake ones. - Deccan Herald

People will say, I have 100 ideas that I don’t have time for. Get the AI Scientist to do those. - Nature

There are signs that AI evaluations of academic papers could be corrupting the integrity of knowledge production. Up to 17 percent of reviews submitted to prestigious AI conferences in the last year were substantially written by large language models (LLMs), a recent study estimated. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add udm=14 to the search URL. - Tedium

It’s possible to switch back to an AI-free search experience. Google has added a new Web tab to its search engine page at the same time as introducing these new AI features. You can configure this kind of web search as the default. - PopSci

In a 2023 Nature survey of more than 1,600 scientists, almost 30% said that they had used generative AI tools to help write (academic) manuscripts. - Nature

The highest-profile research is heavily influenced by cultural forces and career incentives that are not necessarily aligned with the dispassionate pursuit of truth. To get your research published in high-impact journals it helps enormously not to challenge the predominant narrative. Scientific narratives can become entrenched and self-reinforcing. And that’s where we are in climate science. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

How big is science’s fake-paper problem? An unpublished analysis shared with Nature suggests that over the past two decades, more than 400,000 research articles have been published that show strong textual similarities to known studies produced by paper mills. - Nature

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the country's top science institute, on Tuesday published new guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific research, as part of its efforts to improve scientific integrity and reduce research misconduct, such as data fabrication and plagiarism. - Global Times

AI tools for researchers: Key insights for librarians to enhance academic support – Springer Nature

OpenResearcher: An Open-Source Project that Harnesses AI to Accelerate Scientific Research – Marktechpost

Has your paper been used to train an AI model? Almost certainly - Nature

Flood Of 'Junk': How AI Is Changing Scientific Publishing - Barrons

How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? - Modern Language Association

AI scientists are producing a host of new theories of how our brains learn – The Economist 

Should scientists be paid when AI chatbots use their work? – Chemistry World

Artificial intelligence in scientific medical writing: Legitimate and deceptive uses and ethical concerns – Science Direct  

Revisiting the ‘Research Parasite’ Debate in the Age of AI – Undark  

AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond? – Nature

Woefully Insufficient Publisher Policies on Author AI Use Put Research Integrity at Risk – Scholarly Kitchen  

Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI – The Bookseller 

Research findings strongly argue against the use of free AI detectors to detect fake scientific images - arXiv

Another paper with an anatomically incorrect image has been retracted – Retraction Watch 

Universities Don’t Want AI Research to Leave Them Behind – Wall Street Journal

AI Finds That AI Is Great In New Garbage Research From Tony Blair Institute – 404 Media  

Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary - arXiv 

AI threatens scientific research with fake papers – The Saturday Paper  

The role of ChatGPT in developing systematic literature searches: an evidence summary - Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries

A Look Under the Hood of Scopus AI: Elsevier’s search tool for scholarly testing – Scholarly Kitchen  

How to cite ChatGPT in APA Style –  American Psychological Association

10 Best AI Tools for Research – BeeBom

OpenResearcher: An Open-Source Project that Harnesses AI to Accelerate Scientific Research – Marktechpost

AI tools for researchers: Key insights for librarians to enhance academic support – Springer Nature

Has your paper been used to train an AI model? Almost certainly - Nature 

Flood Of 'Junk': How AI Is Changing Scientific Publishing - Barrons 

How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? - Modern Language Association 

AI scientists are producing a host of new theories of how our brains learn – The Economist 

Should scientists be paid when AI chatbots use their work? – Chemistry World

Artificial intelligence in scientific medical writing: Legitimate and deceptive uses and ethical concerns – Science Direct

Revisiting the ‘Research Parasite’ Debate in the Age of AI – Undark  

AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond? – Nature  

Woefully Insufficient Publisher Policies on Author AI Use Put Research Integrity at Risk – Scholarly Kitchen

Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI – The Bookseller 

Research findings strongly argue against the use of free AI detectors to detect fake scientific images - arXiv  

Another paper with an anatomically incorrect image has been retracted – Retraction Watch  

Universities Don’t Want AI Research to Leave Them Behind – Wall Street Journal  

AI Finds That AI Is Great In New Garbage Research From Tony Blair Institute – 404 Media  

Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary - arXiv 

AI threatens scientific research with fake papers – The Saturday Paper 

The role of ChatGPT in developing systematic literature searches: an evidence summary - Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries

A Look Under the Hood of Scopus AI: Elsevier’s search tool for scholarly testing – Scholarly Kitchen  

How to cite ChatGPT in APA Style –  American Psychological Association 

10 Best AI Tools for Research – BeeBom

The advent of human-assisted peer review by AI – Nature

The Impact of AI on Academic Research and Publishing – Arxiv  

A Rapid Investigation of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content Footprints in Scholarly Publications – UTP Journals

Fake science in fraudulent papers is on the rise - The Week  

Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures – Wall Street Journal

Researchers warned against using AI to peer review academic papers – Semafor  

Guidelines for academics aim to lessen ethical pitfalls in generative-AI use – Nature

Artificial intelligence content detection in ASCO scientific abstracts from 2021 to 2023 - Journal of Clinical Oncology   

Software that detects ‘tortured acronyms’ in research papers could help root out misconduct | Science - AAAS  

Guidance needed for using artificial intelligence to screen journal submissions for misconduct – Sage  

Academic Writers on AI: An Oxford University Press Study – Publishing Perspectives  

Report: Most researchers use AI tools despite distrusting it – Inside Higher Ed 

With hallucinations waning, AI is diving deeper into scientific research – The Next Web

Fake Scientific Studies Are a Problem That’s Getting Harder to Solve – Bloomberg

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems – The Register

AI chatbots have thoroughly infiltrated scientific publishing. One percent of scientific articles published in 2023 showed signs of generative AI’s potential involvement, according to a recent analysis - Scientific American

The journey from research data generation to manuscript publication presents many opportunities where AI could, hypothetically, be used – for better or for worse. - Technology Network 

Is ChatGPT corrupting peer review? There are telltale words that hint at AI use. A study of review reports identifies dozens of adjectives that could indicate text written with the help of chatbots. - Nature

Should researchers use AI to write papers? This group aims to release a set of guidelines by August, which will be updated every year - Science.org 

Generative AI firms should stop ripping off publishers and instead work with them to enrich scholarship, says Oxford University Press’ David Clark. - Times Higher Ed 

Here are three ways ChatGPT helps me in my academic writing. Generative AI can be a valuable aid in writing, editing and peer review – if you use it responsibly - Nature 

New detection tools powered by AI have lifted the lid on what some are calling an epidemic of fraud in medical research and publishing. Last year, the number of papers retracted by research journals topped 10,000 for the first time. - DW News (video) 

Estimating the prevalence of ChatGPT "contamination” in the scholarly literature: It is estimated that at least 60,000 papers (slightly over 1% of all articles) were LLM-assisted - ArXiiv

AI-Generated Texts from LLM has infiltrated the realm of scientific writing? We confirmed and quantified the widespread influence of AI-generated texts in scientific publications across many scientific domains - BioRxiv 

Georgetown found that American scholarly institutions and companies are the biggest contributors to AI safety research, but it pales in comparison to the amount of overall studies into AI, raising questions about public and private sector priorities. - Semafor 

Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history. - 404Media 

The Association of Research Libraries announced a set of seven guiding principles for university librarians to follow in light of rising generative AI use. - Inside Higher Ed

Is AI ready to mass-produce lay summaries of research articles? – Nature  

The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles? – Scholarly Kitchen  

Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews - Arxiv

Peer Review and Scientific Publishing Are Faltering – Medscape

Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research - The Washington Post  

Generative artificial intelligence and scientific publishing: urgent questions, difficult answers – The Lancet   

Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive? The highs and lows of using AI – Nature

Authorship and ChatGPT: a Conservative View – Springer

AI-generated images and video are here: how could they shape research? – Nature  

Fake academic papers are on the rise: why they’re a danger and how to stop them – The Conversation  

Paul M. Sutter Thinks We’re Doing Science (and Journalism) Wrong – Undark

More published research should be debunked and retracted, watchdogs say – Wisconsin Public Radio  

How Science Sleuths Track Down Bad Research – Wall Street Journal

Could AI Disrupt Peer Review?  Publishers’ policies lag technological advances - Spectrum

The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Writing Scientific Review Articles - Springer  

‘Obviously ChatGPT’ — how reviewers accused me of scientific fraud - Nature

AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress - Economist

Researchers plan to release guidelines for the use of AI in publishing - Chemical & Engineering News

ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken - Nature   

Detecting fraud in scientific publications: the perils and promise of AI - Science Pod 

The Science family of journals is adopting the use of Proofig, an artificial intelligence (AI)–powered image-analysis tool - Science Magazine   

Can ChatGPT and Other AI Bots Serve as Peer Reviewers? - ACS Publishing

AI Use in Manuscript Preparation for Academic Journals - Cornell University  

As scientists face a flood of papers, AI developers aim to help New tools show promise, but technical and legal barriers may hinder widespread use - Science Magazine  

Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science? – Nature 

Affiliation Bias in Peer Review of Abstracts by a Large Language Mode - JAMA

AI copilots and robo-labs turbocharge research - Axios

Editing companies are stealing unpublished research to train their AI - Times Higher Ed

How journals are fighting back against a wave of questionable images - Nature

Can ChatGPT evaluate research quality? - Cornell University 

The JSTOR Daily Sleuth - Jstor

Generative AI – the latest scapegoat for research assessment – London School of Economics

How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing – Nature

Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal – Wiley Online  

Scientists prefer feedback from ChatGPT to judgement by peers – New Scientist   

Will ChatGPT Transform Research? It Already Has, Say Nobelists – Inside Higher Ed

‘We’re All Using It’: Publishing Decisions Are Increasingly Aided by AI. That’s Not Always Obvious. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written using the chatbot ChatGPT – Nature

Who Published It? – Asian Scientist  

Transparency in research: An analysis of ChatGPT usage acknowledgment by authors across disciplines and geographies - Taylor & Francis Online  

Science journals overturn ban on ChatGPT-authored papers – Times Higher Ed

AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers – Nature  

Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting- Retraction Watch

Spitting out the AI Gobbledegook sandwich: a suggestion for publishers - Dorothy V. M. Bishop blog

AI destroys principles of authorship. A scary case from educational technology publishing. - Marco Kalz blog 

Artificial Intelligence–Generated Research in the Literature: Is It Real or Is It Fraud? - Mary Ann Liebert Publishers   

ChatGPT used in peer reviews of Australian Research Council grant applications – itnews   

As scientists explore AI-written text, journals hammer out policies – Science.org  

Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect – Wired  

Draft law in China sets out penalties for AI-aided academic writing – University World News

Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers – Nature

AI poses risks to research integrity, universities say – Research Professional News

No, ChatGPT Can’t Be Your New Research Assistant – London School of Economics

Useful applications of AI in higher education – for which no specialist tech knowledge is needed – Times of Higher Ed 

Guidance for Authors, Peer Reviewers, and Editors on Use of AI, Language Models, and Chatbots – JAMA Network

How A.I. systems can accelerate scientific research – New York Times

Publishers seek protection from AI mining of academic research – Times Higher Ed

Artificial-intelligence search engines wrangle academic literature – Nature

AI can crack double blind peer review – should we still use it? –  London School of Economics

Fabrication and errors in the bibliographic citations generated by ChatGPT – Nature

Scientific authorship in the time of ChatGPT - Chemistry 

AI could rescue scientific papers from the curse of jargon – Free Think

Science journals ban listing of ChatGPT as co-author on papers – The Guardian

ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove – Nature (subscription req)  

Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists – Nature (subscription req)

The World Association of Medical Editors has created guidelines for the use of ChatGPT and other chatbots - Medscape (sub req)  

ChatGPT: our study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals – just as some ban it – The Conversation 

It’s Not Just Our Students — ChatGPT Is Coming for Faculty Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed

As scientists explore AI-written text, journals hammer out policies – Science  

AI writing tools could hand scientists the ‘gift of time’ – Nature

ChatGPT Is Everywhere Love it or hate it, academics can’t ignore the already pervasive technology– Chronicle of Higher Ed

Academic Publishers Are Missing the Point on ChatGPT – Scholarly Kitchen

AI Is Impacting Education, but the Best Is Yet to Come – Inside Higher Ed 

AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot – The Guardian 

How to Cite ChatGPT – APA Style  

Researchers claim to have developed tool capable of detecting scientific text generated by ChatGPT with 99% accuracy – University of Kansas

ChatGPT: five priorities for research – The Journal Nature

Science, Elsevier and Nature were quick to react, updating their respective editorial and publishing policies, stating unconditionally that ChatGPT can’t be listed as an author on an academic paper. It is very hard to define exactly how GPT is used in a particular study as some publishers demand, the same way it is near impossible for authors to detail how they used Google as part of their research. Scholarly Kitchen 

An app I have found useful every day is Perplexity. I am most taken with the auto-embedded citations of sources in the response, much like we do in research papers. This is most useful for deeper digging into topics. Inside Higher Ed

Tools such as Grammarly, Writeful, and even Microsoft grammar checker are relied upon heavily by authors. If an author is using GPT for language purposes, why would that need to be declared and other tools not? What if authors get their ideas for new research from ChatGPT or have GPT analyze their results but write it up in their own words; might that be ok because the author is technically doing the writing? I believe that self-respecting researchers won’t use GPT as a primary source the same way they don’t use Wikipedia in that manner. However, they can use it in a myriad of other ways including brainstorming, sentence construction, data crunching, and more. The onus of responsibility for the veracity of information still falls on the researcher but that doesn’t mean we should run to ban because some might use it as a way to cut corners. Scholarly Kitchen 

An academic paper entitled Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT was published this month in an education journal, describing how artificial intelligence (AI) tools “raise a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in relation to academic honesty and plagiarism”. What readers – and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication – did not know was that the paper itself had been written by the controversial AI chatbot ChatGPT. The Guardian

An application that holds great potential to those of us in higher ed is ChatPDF! It is what you might imagine, a tool that allows you to load a PDF of up to 120 pages in length. You can then apply the now-familiar ChatGPT analysis approach to the document itself. Ask for a summary. Dig into specifics. This will be a useful tool for reviewing research and efficiently understanding complex rulings and other legal documents. Inside Higher Ed

If you’ve used ChatGPT or other AI tools in your research, (for APA) describe (in your academic paper) how you used the tool in your Method section or in a comparable section of your paper. For literature reviews or other types of essays or response or reaction papers, you might describe how you used the tool in your introduction. In your text, provide the prompt you used and then any portion of the relevant text that was generated in response. You may also put the full text of long responses from ChatGPT in an appendix of your paper or in online supplemental materials, so readers have access to the exact text that was generated. If you create appendices or supplemental materials, remember that each should be called out at least once in the body of your APA Style paper. APA Style 

Outside of the most empirical subjects, the determinants of academic status will be uniquely human — networking and sheer charisma — making it a great time to reread Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

The US journal Science, announced an updated editorial policy, banning the use of text from ChatGPT and clarifying that the program could not be listed as an author. Leading scientific journals require authors to sign a form declaring that they are accountable for their contribution to the work. Since ChatGPT cannot do this, it cannot be an author. The Guardian 

A chatbot was deemed capable of generating quality academic research ideas. This raises fundamental questions around the meaning of creativity and ownership of creative ideas — questions to which nobody yet has solid answers. Our suspicion here is that ChatGPT is particularly strong at taking a set of external texts and connecting them (the essence of a research idea), or taking easily identifiable sections from one document and adjusting them (an example is the data summary — an easily identifiable “text chunk” in most research studies). A relative weakness of the platform became apparent when the task was more complex - when there are too many stages to the conceptual process. The Conversation 

Already some researchers are using the technology. Among only the small sample of my work colleagues, I’ve learned that it is being used for such daily tasks as: translating code from one programming language to another, potentially saving hours spent searching web forums for a solution; generating plain-language summaries of published research, or identifying key arguments on a particular topic; and creating bullet points to pull into a presentation or lecture. Chronicle of Higher Ed

For most professors, writing — even bad first drafts or outlines — requires our labor (and sometimes strain) to develop an original thought. If the goal is to write a paper that introduces boundary-breaking new ideas, AI tools might reduce some of the intellectual effort needed to make that happen. Some will see that as a smart use of time, not evidence of intellectual laziness. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

The quality of scientific research will erode if academic publishers can't find ways to detect fake AI-generated images in papers. In the best-case scenario, this form of academic fraud will be limited to just paper mill schemes that don't receive much attention anyway. In the worst-case scenario, it will impact even the most reputable journals and scientists with good intentions will waste time and money chasing false ideas they believe to be true. The Register 

Many journals’ new policies require that authors disclose use of text-generating tools and ban listing a large language model such as ChatGPT as a co-author, to underscore the human author’s responsibility for ensuring the text’s accuracy. That is the case for Nature and all Springer Nature journals, the JAMA Network, and groups that advise on best practices in publishing, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics and the World Association of Medical Editors. Science

Just as publishers begin to get a grip on manual image manipulation, another threat is emerging. Some researchers may be tempted to use generative AI models to create brand-new fake data rather than altering existing photos and scans. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that sham scientists may be doing this already. A spokesperson for Uncle Sam's defense research agency confirmed it has spotted fake medical images in published science papers that appear to be generated using AI. The Register

Bias in AI

ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters – Scientific American

Gender Bias 'alive and well' across gen-AI platforms – Computing.co 

AI 'red teams' race to find bias and harms in chatbots like ChatGPT - The Washington Post

AI should be assumed prejudiced until proven otherwise – The Atlantic  

Because of their opacity, it's very hard to tell whether they're judging humans in a discriminatory manner - Axios

AI is biased. The White House is working with hackers to try to fix that – NPR

Racially biased AI can lead to false arrests, warns expert – Interesting Engineering

AI was asked to create images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go? – NPR

Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism – Washington Post

‘Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist’: Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing - Politico

How to mitigate bias from AI tools in the hiring process – Fast Company

In an analysis of thousands of images created by Stable Diffusion, we found that image sets generated for every high-paying job were dominated by subjects with lighter skin tones, while subjects with darker skin tones were more commonly generated by prompts like “fast-food worker” and “social worker.” Most occupations in the dataset were dominated by men, except for low-paying jobs like housekeeper and cashier. Bloomberg 

Eight years ago, Google disabled its A.I. program’s ability to let people search for gorillas and monkeys through its Photos app because the algorithm was incorrectly sorting Black people into those categories. As recently as May of this year, the issue still had not been fixed. Two former employees who worked on the technology told The New York Times that Google had not trained the A.I. system with enough images of Black people. New York Times

MIT student Rona Wang asked an AI image creator app called Playground AI to make a photo of her look "professional." It gave her paler skin and blue eyes, and "made me look Caucasian." Boston Globe 

We have things like recidivism algorithms that are racially biased. Even soap dispensers that don’t read darker skin. Smartwatches and other health sensors don’t work as well for darker skin. Things like selfie sticks that are supposed to track your image don’t work that well for people with darker skin because image recognition in general is biased. The Markup

AI text may be biased toward established scientific ideas and hypotheses contained in the content on which the algorithms were trained. Science.org 

No doubt AI-powered writing tools have shortcomings. But their presence offers educators an on-ramp to discussions about linguistic diversity and bias. Such discussions may be especially critical on U.S. campuses. Inside Higher Ed

Major companies behind A.I. image generators — including OpenAI, Stability AI and Midjourney — have pledged to improve their tools. “Bias is an important, industrywide problem,” Alex Beck, a spokeswoman for OpenAI, said in an email interview. She declined to say how many employees were working on racial bias, or how much money the company had allocated toward the problem. New York Times

As AI models become more advanced, the images they create are increasingly difficult to distinguish from actual photos, making it hard to know what’s real. If these images depicting amplified stereotypes of race and gender find their way back into future models as training data, next generation text-to-image AI models could become even more biased, creating a snowball effect of compounding bias with potentially wide implications for society. Bloomberg

AI generated images are biased, showing the world through stereotypes - Washington Post

Team develops a new deepfake detector designed to be less biased - Techxplore  

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The Bigger Questions & AI

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Conscious? – Psychology Today

What Does It Really Mean to Learn? – The New Yorker 

There’s no way for humanity to win an AI arms race – Washington Post  

Three key misconceptions in the debate about AI and existential risk – The Bulletin

Is AI Really an Existential Threat to Humanity? – Mother Jones 

AI Chatbot Credited With Preventing Suicide. Should It Be? – 404 Media  

Who will control the future of AI? – Washington Post 

The big AI risk not enough people are seeing – The Atlantic  

ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind - Every

Here’s why AI like ChatGPT probably won’t reach humanlike understanding – Science News Explores  

AI's flawed human yardstick - Axios

“AI” as shorthand for turning off our brains. (This is not an anti-AI post; it’s a discussion of how we think about AI.) – StatModeling

If we ignore AI explainability, we will be throwing ourselves to the mercy of algorithms we don’t understand. – Fast Company

Scientists Gave AI an "Inner Monologue" and Something Fascinating Happened – Futurism

Opinion: A.I.’s Benefits Outweigh the Risks – New York Times

End-of-life decisions are difficult and distressing. Could AI help? – MIT Tech Review  

Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail – Medium

Is AI an Existential Threat to Humanity’s Future? – AI Wire

Generative AI is currently very good at replicating parts of software programs that have been written many times before. But what if you want to create something new? This is where smart human coders will still be needed. - BusinessInsider

I think the rise of AI is going to result more in-person sales. If everyone can do it, people will not listen or read any emails or anything like that they just stop because it’s all generated. It means every email they got is amazing. They won’t believe any of it unless somebody looks them in the eye and says, ‘I’m a real person and here’s why this is true.’ - Ronan Perceval CEO of Phorest

Given that we don’t know what the lay of the land is going to be in five, ten years there are two crucial things for publishers to focus on: what do we do that’s irreplaceable? What do we do that a machine can’t do? - Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker 

Studies this year of ChatGPT in legal analysis and white-collar writing chores have found that the bot helps lower-performing people more than it does the most skilled. On a task that required reasoning based on evidence, however, ChatGPT was not helpful at all. Here, ChatGPT lulled employees into trusting it too much. Unaided humans had the correct answer 85 percent of the time. People who used ChatGPT without training scored just over 70 percent. Those who had been trained did even worse, getting the answer only 60 percent of the time. In interviews conducted after the experiment, “people told us they neglected to check because it’s so polished, it looks so right.’ - David Berreby writing in the New York Times

Like an episode out of Black Mirror, the machines have arrived to teach us how to be human even as they strip us of our humanity. Artificial intelligence could significantly diminish humanity, even if machines never ascend to superintelligence, by sapping the ability of human beings to do human things. “We’re seeing a general trend of selling AI as ‘empowering,’ a way to extend your ability to do something, whether that’s writing, making investments, or dating,” AI expert Leif Weatherby explained. “But what really happens is that we become so reliant on algorithmic decisions that we lose oversight over our own thought processes and even social relationships.” What makes many applications of artificial intelligence so disturbing is that they don’t expand our mind’s capacity to think, but outsource it. - Tyler Austin Harper writing in The Atlantic

As machines like A.I. eliminate routine tasks what gets left behind are the human skills we deem soft. - Jane Thier writing in Fortune

While AI is very powerful at human level or even superhuman level for many tasks, there are many other things where humans continue to have a big advantage, and that's going to continue to be true for quite some time. - Kate Whiting writing in WeForum

“Prompting AI systems is no different than being an effective communicator with other humans. The same principles apply in both cases. This makes me bullish on reading, writing, and speaking as the 3 underlying skills that really matter in 2024.”  - An Open AI employee Tweet

The Big Questions About AI in 2024 – The Atlantic 

AI and Trust - Bruce Schneier Blog 

‘Where does the bot end and human begin?’: what the legendary @Horse_ebooks can teach us about AI – The Guardian

AI’s Present Matters More Than Its Imagined Future – The Atlantic

Are we entering a new age of AI-powered narcissism? – Dazed Digital

The one job AI should actually replace: CEOs – Business Insider

A strong placebo effect works to shape what people think of a particular AI tool – Axios

Why ChatGPT isn’t conscious – but future AI systems might be – The Conversation 

AI girlfriends are ruining an entire generation of men – The Hill

People are behind everything that ChatGPT or AI "does" - Axios

AI is closer than ever to passing the Turing test for ‘intelligence’. What happens when it does? – The Conversation

Getting Beyond the AI Existential Crisis  - Medium

No, AI Machines Can’t Think – Wall Street Journal

If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know - Nature  

AI & Internet’s Existential Crisis – OM

Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they were. - MIT Tech Review

Author Talks: In the ‘age of AI,’ what does it mean to be smart? - McKinsey

Why humans will never understand AI - BBC

Does an AI poet actually have a soul? - Washington Post 

Is AI Eroding Our Ability To Think? – Forbes

The future of accelerating intelligence - The Kurzweil Library

M.F.A. vs. GPT How to push the art of writing out of a computer’s reach - The Atlantic

What Stephen King — and nearly everyone else — gets wrong about AI and the Luddites - LA Times  

How the AI Revolution Will Reshape the World – TIME   

The ‘Manhattan Project’ Theory of Generative AI - Wired

56 percent of respondents think ‘people will develop emotional relationships with AI’ and 35 percent of people said they’d be open to doing so if they were lonely - The Verge 

What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have? – The New Yorker

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Business & AI

How AI is Affecting Jobs

Job-seeking AI will apply to thousands of positions for you - Boing Boing

These jobs are most at risk to be replaced by AI - New York Post

Zoom will let AI avatars talk to your team for you – The Verge

DJs are debating whether AI can replace them – Semafor

LinkedIn is rolling back its use of artificial intelligence – NPR

Will AI Make Job Recruiting More Efficient—but Less Fair? - Wall Street Journal

Busting through Linkedin’s resume screening with AI Tools – Semafor

How AI Is Helping ‘Fake Candidates’ Land Jobs - Wall Street Journal

AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient – ABC News

Video game actors go on strike over AI protections – Semafor

Rise in AI-Generated Resumes Overwhelms Recruiters with Low-Quality Applications – AllWork  

Will A.I. Kill Meaningless Jobs? – New York Times

Neurodivergent workers' AI edge – Axios  

In the age of AI, there's no future for workers content with being code monkeys — and they know it – Business Insider 

AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers - Wall Street Journal

Will A.I. Upend White-Collar Work? Consider the Hollywood Editor. – New York Times

Even if you have zero AI skills, these 3 tactics can give you an edge – Fast Company

Two-thirds of small businesses say hiring employees with AI skills could save them money - Ipsos

The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants – New York Times

AI Work Assistants Need a Lot of Handholding - Wall Street Journal 

How to use LinkedIn AI tools to find a job – Popular Science

OpenAI CTO: AI Could Kill Some Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn't Exist Anyway - PCMag

How will AI affect productivity? - Brooking 

How AI Could Change the Odds of Landing a Job - Wall Street Journal

On Handshake, a job-search platform for college students, the share of job descriptions that mention ChatGPT and other generative-AI tools has tripled in the past year. While about one-quarter of those roles are tech-related, 16% are in marketing and 12% are in art and media. - Wall Street Journal

LinkedIn data shows that 59% of hiring managers wouldn’t hire someone without AI literacy skills. Professionals can no longer afford to ignore AI. -Fast Company

Valerie Capers Workman, chief talent engagement officer at Handshake, said generative AI is the new Microsoft Office. “The skill set will be ubiquitous 10 years from now, but in the next two to five years, it’s going to be a major asset in getting recruited,” she said. -Wall Street Journal

A Japanese mega-conglomerate says it's using AI to build what one of its designers called a "mental shield" that manipulates angry customers' voices so that call center employees don't have to deal with drama. Softbank insists it won't change customers' words, but instead will do things like make a shrill, angry voice lower, to become less grating, or else, raise the pitch. -ArsTechnica

Some employers have started administering prompt-engineering assessments, which evaluate how well you can instruct generative-AI models to complete a task, during the hiring process. -Wall Street Journal

The Stanford AI Index Report talks about how AI is associated with more productive workers, with work of higher quality, and with workers that are able to get work done in less time. There’s also data that suggests companies that integrate AI see tangible revenue increases and tangible cost decreases. -Big Think

AI has become such an inherent part of the copywriting process that many writers now add personal ‘AI policies’ to their professional websites to explain how they use the technology. They will forgo AI for those who prefer it – but you can expect to pay more. The extra time and mental energy required means AI-free projects come with a higher price tag. -BBC

Freelance jobs that require basic writing, coding or translation are disappearing across postings on job board Upwork. The number of freelance jobs posted on platforms, in the areas in which generative AI excels, have dropped by as much as 21%. -Wall Street Journal

Certain sectors are expected to experience growth due to AI advancements, particularly in healthcare and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. However, the majority of job impacts will be concentrated in four main categories… -India Today

Job seekers are using AI to craft cover letters and résumés in seconds, and deploying new automated bots to robo-apply for hundreds of jobs in just a few clicks. In response, companies are deploying more bots of their own to sort through the oceans of applications. The result: a bot versus bot war -Wall Street Journal

Microsoft released its annual Work Trend Index in partnership with LinkedIn, surveying 31,000 people. The report suggests 66% of business leaders wouldn't hire someone without AI skills, and 71% of leaders would prefer to hire a less experienced candidate with AI skills than a more experienced candidate without them. -ZD Net

You're not going to be replaced by AI; you're going to be replaced by somebody who knows how to use AI. -Abran Maldonado, community liaison for OpenAI

Which types of positions are being replaced by AI the fastest? In the past two years, “the number of writing jobs declined 33%.” Meanwhile, “Video editing/production jobs are up 39%, graphic design jobs are up 8% & Web design jobs are up 10 percent." -Inc. Magazine

For years, people working in warehouses or fast food restaurants worried that automation could eliminate their jobs. But new research suggests that generative A.I. will have its biggest impact on white-collar workers with high-paying jobs in industries like banking and tech. -New York Times

A recent survey found 4 out of 10 employers are actively looking for people with AI development qualifications—and they would be willing to “hike pay levels for AI-skilled workers across business functions” with salaries potentially rising by an average of 35-43%. -Higher Ed Dive

When it comes to using ChatGPT at work, some business leaders believe that soft skills will be crucial in the age of AI. Earlier this month, Aneesh Raman, a vice president at LinkedIn, said that communication, creativity, and flexibility are skills that will set employees apart in the workforce as opposed to technical skills like coding. Perhaps doubling down on what makes you human may be what saves you from being replaced by AI. -Business Insider

AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human – BBC

AI could shake up job market by 2030, McKinsey reveals list of sectors that will be impacted – India Today

AI models can vastly increase job candidate pools. It might also improve diversity. - Semafor

Admitting You Use AI Is Now Key To Getting Hired – All Work

AI Could Displace More Than 50% Of Banking Jobs, According To New Citigroup Report – Forbes

Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" – Futurism

How AI Has Already Begun to Change These Workers’ Jobs – Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Says AI Can Replace Thousands of Analysts – Inc

AI is coming for the professional class. Expect outrage — and fear. – Washington Post

66% of leaders wouldn't hire someone without AI skills, report finds – Zdnet 

At Target, Store Workers Become A.I. Conduits – New York Times

The Impact of AI and LLMs on the Future of Jobs – Unite AI

Will AI Be a Job Killer? Call Us Skeptical. - Wall Street Journal

AI will Disproportionally impact Jobs Held by Women – Forbes

How Companies are using AI  

AI Agents Can Do More Than Answer Queries. That Raises a Few Questions – Wall Street Journal  

AI assistants are blabbing our embarrassing work secrets – Washington Post

JPMorgan Chase is giving its employees an AI assistant powered by ChatGPT maker OpenAI – CNBC

How A.I. Can Help Start Small Businesses - New York Times

This AI humanoid robot helped assemble BMWs at US factory - Arstechnica

Why AI Risks Are Keeping Board Members Up at Night - Wall Street Journal

The Economics of Generative AI - Toward Data Science

Study finds that ai is adding to employees' workload and burning them out - Futurism

Over 80% of China’s businesses already use generative AI – Fortune

More than 40% of Japanese companies have no plan to make use of AI – Reuters

HP’s new AI computer raises the stakes in the battle of tech hardware – Semafor

Tech execs from Salesforce and Qualcomm share their best practices for implementing AI in the workplace – Business Insider

Stanford report: How AI is actually transforming the business world – Big Think

AI Business Survey: Four Themes Emerging - Bain 

How One Company Is Using AI To Transform Manufacturing – Forbes

Businesses are rushing to use generative AI. Now comes the messy part. – Business Insider  

Get Ready for More AI Mania This Earnings Season - Wall Street Journal  

Managing the risks around generative AI – McKinsey

How Businesses Can Figure Out The ROI On AI – Forbes  

German Companies Bet on AI But Payoff Could Be Years Away – Wall Street Journal  

4 Types of Gen AI Risk and How to Mitigate Them – Harvard Business Review 

PayPal Mafia’s David Sacks on his new AI-powered work chat app rivaling Slack – Semafor

AI Is Driving ‘the Next Industrial Revolution.’ Wall Street Is Cashing In. - Wall Street Journal   

Janet Yellen warns AI in finance poses ‘significant risks’ – KTVZ

How Generative AI is Changing the Global South’s IT Services Sector – Center for Data Innovation  

Can A.I. Answer the Needs of Smaller Businesses? Some Push to Find Out. – New York Times

Did You Make Your Connecting Flight? You May Have A.I. to Thank. – New York Times

6 ways AI can help launch your next business venture – ZDnet 

Where Is the AI Boom Taking Us? Business Leaders Disagree on Outlook – Wall Street Journal  

AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part - Microsoft 

Robots and AI are saving the American economy with a boom in productivity – Fortune

Heavy Machinery Meets AI Combining digital and analog machines will upend industrial companies.  – Harvard Business Review

Generative AI Isn’t Ubiquitous in the Business World—at Least Not Yet - Wall Street Journal

Will A.I. Boost Productivity? Companies Sure Hope So. – New York Times

How to manage generative AI – InfoWorld

How do you get employees to embrace AI? - ZDnet

How Companies Are Starting to Use Generative AI to Improve Their Businesses - Wall Street Journal

CIOs weigh where to place AI bets — and how to de-risk them – CIO

AI is changing the shape of leadership – how can business leaders prepare? – World Economic Forum

 How AI is Affecting Jobs 

Want to Know if AI Will Take Your Job? I Tried Using It to Replace Myself - WSJ

AI-powered robotics will fuel jobs disruptions in ways we don’t realize - Semafor 

The human side of generative AI: Creating a path to productivity - McKinsey

An Analysis of 5 Million Job Postings Showed These Are the 3 Jobs Being Replaced by AI the Fastest – Inc.

Gen AI is here to stay — here are 5 skills to help you stay relevant in the changing job market – CNBC  

Swedish fintech Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people—after it laid off 700 people – Fast Company

Oops! Replacing Workers With AI Is Actually More Expensive, MIT Finds – Futurism  

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs - Wall Street Journal 

The AI machines are not coming for your job – MarketWatch  

AI Talent Is in Demand as Other Tech Job Listings Decline - Wall Street Journal 

AI's job threat extends to CEOs who move too slowly in adapting to it – Axios

AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants - BBC

10% of US workers are in jobs most exposed to artificial intelligence, White House says - CNN

Will A.I. Take All Our Jobs? This Economist Suggests Maybe Not. – New York Times

AI could help ending the dominance of the credentialed classes – Washington Post

9 AI jobs you can get without being an expert coder – Business Insider  

Amid Fears of AI Job Losses, This MIT Professor Thinks It Can Fix the Labor Market – Inc.

AI Can't Do All Our Jobs for Us. But We Can Make It a 'Superhero Sidekick' - CNBC

The Impact of AI on Business

Embracing shadow AI will help accelerate innovation – CIO

The AI Productivity Boom Is Here—Is Your Company Ready To Seize It? – Forbes

What organizations should know about cybersecurity in the age of artificial intelligence – Biz Journals

A quick rundown of the impact AI will have on data roles across the organization – Venture Beat

Gen. AI is starting to help business tech leaders with the long overdue task of modernizing their IT systems – Wall Street Journal 

Companies are using ‘AI washing’ to mislead consumers. – Washington Post

The pace of innovation in the space sector is picking up thanks in part to AI & machine learning – Space News 

The company using AI to change customer service – Semafor  

Slack launches AI bot to help manage never-ending work chats - Yahoo 

The year of AI hype is over. The era of small AI is beginning.- Mashable

The Role Of Generative AI In HR - Forbes

We Asked AI to Draft a Business Plan. Here’s What We Got. – Wall Street Journal

AI Is Testing the Limits of Corporate Governance – Harvard Business Review  

10 AI tools to take your business to the next level – Geeky-Gadgets  

CIOs confront generative AI’s workplace X factor - CIO

What Is Shadow AI And What Can IT Do About It? – Forbes

AI & Work Productivity  

How to Use A.I. to Automate the Dreaded Office Meeting – New York Times

First study to look at AI in the workplace finds it boosts productivity – Axios

How ChatGPT in Microsoft Office could change the workplace – Venture Beat  

Machines of mind: The case for an AI-powered productivity boom – Brookings

Companies want to use AI tracking to make you better at your job – Washington Post

Where AI's productivity revolution will strike first – Axios

To Work Fewer Hours, They Put AI on the Job: New tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and Tome help professionals save time and boost their income – Wall Street Journal

Generative AI can change real estate, but the industry must change to reap the benefits - McKinsey

Is GenAI’s Impact on Productivity Overblown? - Harvard Business Review

Generative AI adoption at work hasn’t yet led to productivity gains, report says – HR Drive

The Impact of Technology on the Workplace: 2024 Report - Tech.co

How Companies are using AI

25 percent of CEOs plan to replace human workers with AI this year – Futurism

Duolingo cuts workers as it relies more on AI – Washington Post

Tropicana is one company that’s ditching AI - CNN

The Best-Managed Companies Have the Most AI Jobs Postings. What Explains That? – WSJ 

Companies using AI want human workers to ‘disappear’ – Semafor

How Walmart Is Leveraging Automation and AI to Deliver Faster – Wall Street Journal

A Consortium of Big Companies has Developed a Way to Identify A.I. – New York Times

Multinationals turn to generative AI to manage supply chains - Financial Times  

ChatGPT Helps, and Worries, Business Consultants, Study Finds – New York Times

How artificial intelligence is revamping customer call centers – CBS News 

AI Has a Trust Problem. Can Blockchain Help? – Wall Street Journal

AI ads are sweeping across Africa – Semafor

An Anticipated Wave of AI Specialist Jobs Ha Yet to Arrive – Wall Street Journal

Amazon’s AI-written product reviews aren’t as bad as you think - Washington Post

The Creepy AI-Driven Surveillance That May Be Infiltrating Your Workplace – Digg 

Inside the consulting industry's race to become AI rainmakers – Business Insider

ChatGPT provided better customer service than his staff. He fired them. – Washington Post

AI investments are a top priority for U.S. CEOs, KPMG survey finds – Axios

Your employer is (probably) unprepared for artificial intelligence - Economist

Amazon’s New AI Will Make Its Junk Problem Even Worse – Washington Post

Meta’s Free AI Isn’t Cheap to Use, Companies Say – The information

One of the most significant impacts of generative AI on enterprises is likely to be in the area of customer experience – Towards AI

Meet Your New AI Chatbot Co-Worker - Bloomberg

AI and the automation of work – Ben Evans

Why trying to "shape" AI innovation to protect workers is a bad idea – Noah Smith

Companies Put AI to Work Outside the Cloud, Trimming Costs - Wall Street Journal

How Do Companies Use Artificial Intelligence? – Data Science Central

As Businesses Clamor for Workplace A.I., Tech Companies Rush to Provide It – New York Times

U.S. employers are using AI to essentially reduce workers to numbers in the workplace – NPR  

Business Technology Chiefs Question ChatGPT’s Readiness for the Enterprise - Wall Street Journal

AI-native business models and experiences will allow small businesses to appear big and large businesses to move faster – Tech Target

Generative AI Tools Use Custom Data to Power More Business Functions - Wall Street Journal 

Businesses Aim to Harness Generative AI to Shake Up Accounting, Finance - Wall Street Journal

How businesses can break through the ChatGPT hype with ‘workable AI’ – Venture Beat

Companies Tap Tech Behind ChatGPT to Make Customer-Service Chatbots Smarter - Wall Street Journal

Employees Using AI at Work   

Employees want ChatGPT at work. Bosses worry they’ll spill secrets. – Washington Post

Panic and possibility: What workers learned about AI in 2023 – BBC

AI In The Workplace: Helpful Or Harmful? – JD Supra

Amazon employees are already using ChatGPT for software coding, to answer customer questions and write cloud training materials – Insider

How to use ChatGPT to make charts and tables – ZDnet 

5 ChatGPT Prompts To Feel Invincible At Work – Forbes

Despite Office Bans, Some Workers Still Want to Use ChatGPT – Wall Street Journal

New Gen Z graduates are fluent in AI and ready to join the workforce – Washington Post

A Guide to Collaborating With ChatGPT for Work - Wall Street Journal 

AI bots lack one critical skill for customer service jobs – Tech Target

10 most in-demand generative AI skills – CIO

The Do’s and Don’ts of Using Generative AI in the Workplace -  Wall Street Journal

The AI Economic Impact

How AI is Tipping the Scale of Job Vulnerability - Medium

Generative AI And The Future Of Jobs - Forbes

These are the jobs most likely to be taken over by AI - ZDNET

GenAI Will Change How We Design Jobs. Here’s How. – Harvard Business Review 

Generative A.I. Can Add $4.4 Trillion in Value to Global Economy, Study Says – New York Times

The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier - McKinsey

The Impact of AI-enabled Data Analytics Services Across Major Industries – Data Science Central

What AI means for travel—now and in the future - McKinsey 

The world is splitting between those who use ChatGPT to get better, smarter, richer — and everyone else – Business Insider

For those leading Companies   

The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people - McKinsey  

Gen AI: A guide for CFOs – McKinsey  

As Generative AI Reshapes the Workforce, These Companies May Be Most Affected - Wall Street Journal

Data leaders should consider seven actions to enable companies to scale their generative AI ambitions - McKinsey    

Harness the power of an AI-powered forecasting model to revitalize your business – Data Science Central

How AI May Change Entrepreneurship – Wall Street Journal

Generative AI and the future of HR – McKinsey  

AI Can Do as Bad a Job as Your PR Department - Wall Street Journal

How machine learning can work for business – Tech Central

In digital and AI transformations, companies should start with the problem, not the technology – McKinsey

Technology’s generational moment with generative AI: A CIO and CTO guide - McKinsey

What every CEO should know about generative AI - McKinsey

Companies with innovative cultures have a big edge with generative AI - McKinsey

Does your company need its own LLM? - TechTalks  

Four essential questions for boards to ask about generative AI – McKinsey 

The Big Question for Managers on AI: Who Gets the Job of Figuring It Out? – Wall Street Journal

How AI requires a new approach to work and management – Charter Work  

When AI Meets HR: Prepare Your Policies Now – Inc

Generative AI Can Make Business Intelligence Even Smarter – Here’s How – Inside Big Data

Companies Are Drowning in Too Much AI - Wall Street Journal

ChatGPT: Implications for Business – Medium

How ChatGPT Will Destabilize White-Collar Work - The Atlantic

AI & Jobs

5 types of new jobs that AI could create - Business Insider

The industry talking the most about AI jobs is not tech, according to LinkedIn – Fast Company

Why Walmart thinks AI won’t cut jobs – Semafor

The biggest winners — and losers — in the coming AI job apocalypse – Business Insider

AI threatens wages, not jobs - so far, Researchers find - Reuters

The New Jobs for Humans in the AI Era: Artificial intelligence threatens some careers, but these opportunities are on the rise – Wall Street Journal

A writer says he was laid off after a media company began using AI to translate articles: 'An AI took my job, literally' – Business Insider 

AI-related jobs surge rapidly - The Financial Express

Mid-career professionals, watch out. You're the most exposed to AI - ZDnet

Statement to the US Senate AI Insight Forum on “AI and the Workforce” - ITIF

LinkedIn Shares New Insights into the Impacts of Generative AI on the Workforce – Social Media Today

Study Reveals Professions Most Likely to Be Replaced by AI – Men’s Journal

LinkedIn allows users to use its A.I. to enhance their profiles — but it leaves something to be desired. – Washington Post 

AI-powered digital colleagues are here. Some 'safe' jobs could be vulnerable. - BBC

Employers willing to pay ‘premium’ for AI-skilled workers, survey finds - Higher Ed Dive

Will AI Cause Unemployment? - CATO Institute

AI is Coming for These Jobs 

The Jobs Most Exposed to ChatGPT – WSJ

ChatGPT Might Not Threaten Your Job as Much as the Hype Suggests It Will – The Street

Type in your job to see how much AI will affect it – Washington Post  

Is AI Coming for Our Jobs? (with David Autor) – Café

Here are the 10 roles that AI is most likely to replace – Insider  

Here’s How AI Will Come for Your Job – The Atlantic

Could ChatGPT do my job? – MIT Tech Review

Don't Believe Robots Are Taking Over Jobs: AI Will Open New Career Paths – Insider     

Fear of becoming obsolete hits a new generation of workers – Axios

AI and automation will take more jobs from women than men, report says – Washington Post

Why I'm not worried about AI causing mass unemployment – Understanding AI

The U.S. needs policies now to support workers made redundant by artificial intelligence – The Atlantic

Company Policies on the use of AI  

How WIRED Will Use Generative AI Tools - Wired 

Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks – Wall Street Journal

Associated Press cements the AI era with newsroom guidance – Poynter

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the Business of Running an AI Company 

OpenAI Inks Deal With Hearst, Marking Another Major Media Partnership - Hollywood Reporter

Three Mile Island owner seeks taxpayer backing for Microsoft AI deal – Washington Post

Nvidia and VAST pitch new AI method for companies to access their data – Semafor

Turning OpenAI Into a Real Business Is Tearing It Apart – Wall Street Journal

Why Is OpenAI Trying to Raise So Much Money? – New York Times   

New OpenAI update brings advanced voice features to any app - Semafor 

OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company - Wall Street Journal 

Amazon releases a video generator — but only for ads – Tech Crunch

For Now, There’s Only One Good Way to Power AI – The Atlantic   

OpenAI closes in on largest VC round of all time – Axios

Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration - Wall Street Journal  

Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI – The Atlantic  

New bidding war for AI's biggest brains – Axios

Three Mile Island’s Nuclear Plant to Reopen, Help Power Microsoft’s AI Centers - Wall Street Journal

Nvidia earnings show AI boom is still on, though cracks have formed - The Washington Post  

The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024 – TIME

Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI’s Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy – Wired

We need clarity about the deals between AI companies and news publishers. Here’s why – Reuters

AI Scientists Have a Problem: AI Bots Are Reviewing Their Work ChatGPT is wreaking chaos in the field that birthed it.– Chronicle of Higher Ed 

How the Sparkles Emoji Became the Symbol of Our AI Future – Wall Street Journal

Google’s AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die – Bloomberg  

The AI bubble has burst. Here's how we know. - Mashable 

The New A.I. Deal: Buy Everything but the Company – New York Times 

Inside the company that gathers ‘human data’ for every major AI company – Semafor

Websites are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones) – 404 Media  

A CIO canceled a Microsoft AI deal. The reason should worry the entire tech industry – Business Insider  

Perplexity will soon start selling ads within AI search – Fast Company 

Meet Stability AI's Stable Video 4D, a nuanced take on AI video generation - ZDnet 

Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side – The Verge  

OpenAI starts testing prototype of new AI search tool – Axios  

Oops GPT OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong. – The Atlantic  

Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble. – Washington Post

Crisis Looms as AI Companies Rapidly Losing Access to Training Data – Futurism   

AI’s Real Hallucination Problem – The Atlantic   

Alphabet Reports 29% Jump in Profit as A.I. Efforts Begin to Pay Off – New York Times  

Google Fails to ‘Wow’ as AI Bills Mount - Wall Street Journal 

Meta Is Offering Hollywood Stars Millions for AI Voice Projects – Bloomberg

San Francisco’s AI startup boom is so big, even international founders who don’t run AI startups are relocating there to help their companies grow – Tech Crunch

Censorship slows China's AI advances - Axios

Google brings AI to US broadcast of Paris Olympics – Reuters

OpenAI says chat bots will soon be able to perform human-level reasoning - Axios

A.I. Needs Copper. It Just Helped to Find Millions of Tons of It. – New York Times

OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’ – Reuters

AI's problem: The missing revenues - Axios

OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say - The Washington Post

Microsoft Quits OpenAI’s Board Amid Antitrust Scrutiny – Wall Street Journal

AI Investors Are Starting to Wonder: Is This Just a Bubble? – New York Magazine   

OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward `Human-Level' Problem Solving – Bloomberg

AI companies are finally being forced to cough up for training data – MIT Tech Review

OpenAI promised to make its AI safe. Employees say it ‘failed’ its first test. - The Washington Post 

California advances unique safety regulations for AI companies despite tech firm opposition – Associated Press

In the AI era, data is gold. And these companies are striking it rich – Fast Company

The digital twin baby boom in the AI industry - Axios 

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too – New York Times

For AI Giants, Smaller Is Sometimes Better - Wall Street Journal

 Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI – Associated Press

Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI – Wall Street Journal

OpenAI and Microsoft face a new lawsuit from CIR – MSN

Amazon, Built by Retail, Invests in Its AI Future - Wall Street Journal

Is 2026 The Year AI Runs Out of Training Data? - Techopedia

A year in the life of San Francisco’s AI start-ups fueling the boom - Washington Post

The Big AI Question: Are You Ready to Pay for It? -

Raspberry Pi—creator of tiny computers used for robotics goes public - Tech Crunch

Big Tech keeps spending billions on AI. There’s no end in sight. - The Washington Post

Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" – Futurism

Inside Google DeepMind’s effort to understand its own creations – Semafor  

OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance – New York Times 

Stanford University team apologises over claims they copied Chinese project for AI model - South China Morning Post

OpenAI, Google DeepMind's current and former employees warn about AI risks – Reuters

Google’s DeepMind leads European scoreboard in AI citations – Science Business

Researchers made an algorithm that can tell when AI is hallucinating – BGR     

France is an AI hub, but a wrinkle in tax policy is holding it back - Semafor

The media bosses fighting back against AI — and the ones cutting deals – Washington Post 

Nvidia’s Sales Triple, Signaling AI Boom’s Staying Power – Wall Street Journal

A.I.’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious – New York Times

In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent - New York Times 

The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams – Wall Street Journal

What GPT-4o illustrates about AI Regulation – HyperDimensional

Tech's AI answer war heats up - Axios 

Quantum Computers Can Now Run Powerful AI That Works like the Brain – Scientific American  

Reddit to Give OpenAI Access to Its Data in Licensing Deal - Wall Street Journal 

Meta, Google driving voice assistants, but people have found the technology uncool - New York Times

OpenAI announces new safety committee with Sam Altman, Bret Taylor, John Schulman, and others – Axios

Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion - New York Times

Meet the AI Expert Advising the White House, JPMorgan, Google and the Rest of Corporate America

Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I. - New York Times 

DeepMind CEO Says Google Will Spend More Than $100 Billion on AI – Bloomberg  

Generative AI Is Changing the Hiring Calculus at These Companies – Wall Street Journal

Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems - New York Times

OpenAI prepares to fight for its life as legal troubles mount – Washington Post  

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I. – New York Times

AI is powering Google to a $2 trillion market cap – Quartz

Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google – New York Times

Humane releases its widely anticipated Ai Pin, a wearable badge that doubles as an AI-powered smart device – Tech Crunch

Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’ - Wired 

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. – New York Times

What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I. - New York Times

Google's DeepMind CEO says the massive funds flowing into AI bring with it loads of hype and a fair share of grifting - Business Insider

Amazon Abandons AI Grocery Stores – Futurism  

For AI firms, anything "public" is fair game - Axios 

Big tech companies are expanding their AI empires using old playbooks - Semafor 

Big AI is just going to keep getting bigger - Axios 

The Fear That Inspired the Creation of OpenAI - Wired

Google Co-Founder Admits The Tech Giant Got Its AI Image Generation Tool All Wrong - Digg 

Google’s AI problems expose deeper industry dilemma - Semafor

OpenAI expands its communications operation - Axios

More than 100 top AI researchers have signed an open letter calling on generative AI companies to allow investigators access to their systems - Washington Post

Adobe Finds AI Hype Is a Two-Edged Sword - Wall Street Journal

Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI - The Verge

The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams - Wall Street Journal

Google considering making users pay for AI search results – Futurism

How the Ad Industry Is Making AI Images Look Less Like AI  - Wall Street Journal

Google’s AI still giving idiotic answers nearly a year after launch why is it still so crappy? - Futurism

SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled – Wall Street Journal

Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate AI images of people after diversity errors – The Verge

Tech companies go dark about AI advances. That’s a problem for innovation. - Semafor

OpenAI Develops Web Search Product in Challenge to Google – The Information

Google’s AI now goes by a new name: Gemini - The Verge

OpenAI is set to hit $2 billion in revenue — and fast - Quatz

AI companies agree to limit election ‘deepfakes’ but fall short of ban – Washington Post

The AI Industry Is Stuck on One Very Specific Way to Use a Chatbot: Travel Plans – The Atlantic

Amazon AGI team say their AI is showing "emergent abilities" – Futurism

Nvidia Declares AI a ‘Whole New Industry’—and Investors Agree – Wall Street Journal

Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots Like Meta – New York Times

TikTok owner ByteDance launches its answer to OpenAI’s GPTs, accelerating a generative AI push - South China Morning Post

OpenAI is working on AI education, safety initiative with Common Sense – CNBC

Data centers in the middle of nowhere - Semafor

How AI development fostered a digital ‘sweatshop’, and why it matters for the technology’s future | South China Morning Post - SCMP 

America Already has an AI Underclass – The Atlantic

AI is entering an era of corporate control  - The Verge

OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024- Axios

An Artist in Residence on A.I.’s Territory – New York Times

There Was Never Such a Thing as ‘Open’ AI Transparency isn’t enough to democratize the technology - The Atlantic

Why hot AI startup Anthropic wanted a lower valuation - Semafor

Fox Corp. launches blockchain platform to negotiate with AI firms – Axios

Microsoft briefly overtakes Apple as world's most valuable company - Reuters

Google may layoff 30,000 employees as AI improves operational efficiency: Report – Business Today 

‘Microsoft is back.’ How AI put the five-decade-old tech giant on top again. – Washington Post 

Meta is bucking just about every AI trend, including the ‘boys club’ - Semafor

How AI development fostered a digital ‘sweatshop’, and why it matters for the technology’s future | South China Morning Post - SCMP

America Already has an AI Underclass – The Atlantic

AI is entering an era of corporate control  - The Verge

OpenAI delays launch of custom GPT store until early 2024- Axois

An Artist in Residence on A.I.’s Territory – New York Times

There Was Never Such a Thing as ‘Open’ AI Transparency isn’t enough to democratize the technology - The Atlantic

Why hot AI startup Anthropic wanted a lower valuation - Semafor

Fox Corp. launches blockchain platform to negotiate with AI firms – Axios

Microsoft briefly overtakes Apple as world's most valuable company - Reuters 

Google may layoff 30,000 employees as AI improves operational efficiency: Report – Business Today

OpenAI Is in Early Talks to Raise New Funding at $100 Billion Valuation - Bloomberg

Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit – The New York Times

OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets - Wired 

Expert survey: Don't trust tech CEOs on AI – Axios 

GitHub’s AI coding assistant, Copilot, is a moneymaker – Semafor

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team - The Verge

OpenAI’s New Weapon in Talent War With Google: $10 Million Pay Packages for Researchers – The Information

Top Google executive: ‘We don’t believe in outsourcing’ AI development – Semafor  

Seeking a Big Edge in A.I., South Korean Firms Think Smaller - The New York Times

OpenAI unveils ambitions to compete more directly with Big Tech – Washington Post

3 ways to test your AI’s effectiveness – Legal Dive

AI Revolution: Top Lessons from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, & More – a16z (podcast)

The TIME100 Most Influential People in AI - TIME

Silicon Valley startups lean into AI boom – Axios

These Prisoners Are Training AI – Wired

Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water – KBUR  

Meta is Developing its Own LLM to Compete with OpenAI – Social Media Today

Microsoft, Google rebuild around AI with Windows and Bard updates – Axios

The New ChatGPT Can ‘See’ and ‘Talk.’ Here’s What It’s Like. – New York Times

The State of Large Language Models – Scientific American

OpenAI has quietly changed its ‘core values’ - Semafor

Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are inflating fears about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market – Business Insider

New synthetic data techniques could change the way AI models are trained - Semafor 

AI Startup Buzz Is Facing a Reality Check – Wall Street Journal 

Nearly 20% of the world's top 1,000 websites are blocking crawler bots that gather data for AI services – Originality.AI

Prediction: AI will add $4.4 trillion to the global economy annually – New York Times

Salesforce unveiled an acceptable use policy that governs what companies can and can't do with its generative AI technologies - Axios

Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ – Washington Post

How ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race – New York Times

How ChatGPT became the next big thing - Axios

OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic - TIME 

The state of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s breakout year – McKinsey

Sales for Nvidia for the current quarter will nearly triple their total a year ago said the company which makes chips essential to the development of AI systems – New York Times

Microsoft confirms it’s investing billions in the creator of ChatGPT - CNN

What to know about OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - Washington Post

AI is entering an era of corporate control  - The Verge

Inside Meta's scramble to catch up on AI - Reuters

Immigrants play outsize role in the AI game - Axios

Apple Is an AI Company Now - The Atlantic

Websites That Have Blocked OpenAI’s GPTBot CCBot Anthropic, a 1000 Website Study - Originality. ai

What OpenAI Really Wants - Wired

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Coding & AI

Many developers still aren't really sure how useful Gen AI tools will be for them – MSN

With AI writing so much code, should you still study computer science? – Business Insider  

AI company launches coding assistant trained on over 80 programming languages – ItPro

AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught - IEEE

How to Learn to Code with ChatGPT in 2024 – Geeky-Gadgets  

How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made – MIT Tech Review 

Computer Science Is No Longer the Safe Major - The Atlantic  

How to Learn Python Quickly with ChatGPT – Geeky Gadgets  

AI Is Writing Code Now. For Companies, That Is Good and Bad. – Wall Street Journal

The rise of the novice coder: Can AI turn every employee into a developer? – Semafor  

Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen – The Register 

Top R Packages for Data Science You Need to Know – Analytics Insight

For coders, AI not a threat but a ladder up the value chain – Financial Express

ChatGPT Spells The End Of Coding As We Know It – Digg

ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job – Wired

There’s a new AI unicorn that will make coders faster – Semafor

Can ChatGPT write better code than Data Scientist? – Medium

Stack Overflow banned all AI-generated content — then reversed itself, leading to a protest by community moderators - Axios

5 ChatGPT features to boost your daily work And how to enhance your code quality using it – Medium

Why AI hasn’t made coding skills obsolete – Fordham Institute

How to Learn to Code with ChatGPT in 2024 – Geeky-Gadgets

How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made – MIT Tech Review

Computer Science Is No Longer the Safe Major - The Atlantic

How to Learn Python Quickly with ChatGPT – Geeky Gadgets

AI Is Writing Code Now. For Companies, That Is Good and Bad. – Wall Street Journal

The rise of the novice coder: Can AI turn every employee into a developer? – Semafor

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Creative Arts & AI  

Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Art It’s real. But it isn’t revolutionary. – The Atlantic

Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art – The New Yorker  

Create Better AI Images With These Expert Prompt Writing Tips – CNET  

So long, point-and-click: How generative AI will redefine the user interface - ZDnet 

Video game actors go on strike over AI protections – Semafor  

Colin Kaepernick lost control of his story. Now he wants to help creators own theirs – Tech Crunch

The music industry is coming for AI – NPR

The AI artist who used Bad Bunny’s voice — and shot to fame – Rest of World

How to Write a Book with AI in 2024 – GeekyGadgets

AI can’t make music — but that doesn’t mean it poses an empty threat to musicians - The Atlantic

OpenAI rolls out voice mode after delaying it for safety reasons – Washington Post  

India’s star audio content company is going all in on AI. Will listeners tune in? - Rest of World

New study on AI-assisted creativity reveals an interesting social dilemma – PsyPost 

FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist – ArsTechnica  

AI Is Coming for Amateur Novelists. That’s Fine – The Atlantic

AI category debuts at Asia’s largest genre film festival – Semafor

Why video journalism is not ready to ditch its editors because of AI – Journalism.co

The deluge of bonkers AI art is literally surreal – Washington Post

OpenAI CTO: AI Could Kill Some Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn't Exist Anyway - PCMag

UMG Offers Voice-Clone Tech to Artists With SoundLabs Partnership – Rolling Stone

Humans VS AI: Who’s Better at Designing? – Medium

AI vs Designer: Who’s better at pairing fonts? - Better Web Type   

Sentient design: AI and the next chapter of UX – Big Medium

Record labels sue two AI startups for copyright infringement – Axios

Facebook Is Already Mistakenly Tagging Real Photos as "Made With AI" – Futurism

All-AI Ad From Toys ‘R’ Us Inspires Debate Over the Future of Marketing – Wall Street Journal

Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next – Ars Technica

How Adobe manages AI ethics concerns while fostering creativity - ZDnet 

Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers – Washington Post

Country Star Who Can't Sing After Stroke Releases New Song Using AI – Futurism

The rise of Generative AI-driven design patterns – UX Design

OpenAI says it’s building a tool to let content creators ‘opt out’ of AI training – Tech Crunch

What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? - New York Times

New Federal Bill Could Require Disclosure of Songs Used in AI Training – Billboard  

Getty Images CEO Calls for Industry Standards Around AI: “There were more images created through AI last year than there were created through lens-based technologies.” – Hollywood Reporter

In the Battle of Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar, A.I. Is Playing Spoiler – New York Times

Using AI for Accessibility - Moritz Giessmann

AI Art is the New Stock Image - iA 

The best AI image generators to create AI art – Fast Company

The creative future of generative AI - MIT

Meta launches AI-based video editing tools - Reuters

Contract for WGA, the Hollywood writers' union, includes historic AI rules - Axios

Amazon restricts authors from self-publishing more than three books a day after AI concerns – The Guardian

As AI Battle Lines Are Drawn, Studios Align With Big Tech in a Risky Bet - Hollywood Reporter

Art direction vs artificial intelligence: A helpful tool or an added hassle? - Its Nice That

DeepMind and YouTube release Lyria, a gen-AI model for music, and Dream Track to build AI tunes - Tech Crunch  

Generative AI in film & TV: A Special Report - Variety

YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators - Wired  

How Frank Sinatra and Yo Gotti Are Influencing the Future of Music on YouTube - Wall Street Journal  

Will AI ruin audiobooks — for narrators and listeners? - The Washington Post

AI-Generated Art: Boom or Bust for Human Creativity? –-Center for Data Innovation 

Staying Human While Using Generative AI Tools for Content Marketing - CMS Wire 

Director Christopher Nolan reckons with AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’ - The Washington Post

AI study suggests famous Raphael painting was not entirely his own work – Euro News

How AI is transforming the creative economy and music industry - Athens Messenger

ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and the collapse of the creative process – The Conversation

The Truth About AI Getting "Creative" - Marques Brownlee (video)

What Dreams & AI have in common – Kevin Kelly’s blog

Is Adobe's AI art feature as creepy as it sounds? – Creative Bloq

Generative AI may shorten the time it takes to create richer and more thoughtful content - Semafor

Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI – The Atlantic

8 Big Questions about AI – New York Times

Is AI better at picking and pairing fonts than you? – Better Web Type

Using AI to do the work you don’t want to do – The Dropbox Blog

How to defend against the rise of ChatGPT? Think like a poet – Washington Post

Spotify will not ban AI-made music - BBC

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Dangers of AI

Justice Department Pushes Companies to Consider AI Risks - Wall Street Journal

Could AI Lead to the Escalation of Conflict? PRC Scholars Think So – Lawfare Media 

Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court? – Associated Press  

Will A.I. Ruin the Planet or Save the Planet? – New York Times 

How Experts in China and the United Kingdom View AI Risks and Collaboration – Data Innovation  

A booming industry of AI age scanners, aimed at children’s faces - Washington Post

Why AI Risks Are Keeping Board Members Up at Night – Wall Street Journal  

Many safety evaluations for AI models have significant limitations – Tech Crunch 

There’s no way for humanity to win an AI arms race – Washington Post  

Using AI to write a fan letter – NPR

Can machine-learning algorithms distinguish truth from falsehood? – The Atlantic

A.I.’s Insatiable Appetite for Energy – New York Times  

Nicolas Cage Says He’s Terrified AI Will "Steal" His Body – Futurism 

Researcher Studying Married Men With AI Girlfriends – futurism  

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too – New York Times

AI is not a magic wand – it has built-in problems that are difficult to fix and can be dangerous – The Conversation

First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’ - New York Times

AI start-up sees thousands of vulnerabilities in popular tools – Washington Post 

AI Is Helping Scammers Outsmart You—and Your Bank - Wall Street Journal

AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. - Washington Post 

AI boyfriends from Replika and Nomi are attracting more women – Axios

Opinion: A.I.’s Benefits Outweigh the Risks - New York Times

Google’s AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die – Bloomberg  

A booming industry of AI age scanners, aimed at children’s faces - Washington Post  

AI's Trust Problem – Harvard Business Review  

U.S. Army soldier charged with using AI to create child sexual abuse images – Washington Post

A student built a fusion reactor at home in just 4 weeks using $2,000 and AI - BGR

What AI thinks a beautiful woman looks like - Washington Post  

4 Types of Gen AI Risk and How to Mitigate Them – Harvard Business Review 

OpenAI, Google DeepMind's current and former employees warn about AI risks – Reuters

This Is What It Looks Like When AI Eats the World - The Atlantic

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ – Wired

Janet Yellen warns AI in finance poses ‘significant risks’ - CNN 

A.I.’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious – New York Times

Spam, junk … slop? The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’ - The Guardian

The big AI risk not enough people are seeing – The Atlantic

Equipped with AI tools, hackers make apps riskier than ever – CS Online  

When AI Gets It Wrong, Will It Be Held Accountable? - RAND 

In novel case, U.S. charges man with making child sex abuse images with AI - – Washington Post

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates – The Guardian

AI will transform sports betting. It will also increase the risks. – Washington Post  

Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive – Futurism

What Ever Happened to the AI Apocalypse? Out: building God. In: partnering with Apple. – NY Mag

UN secretary general warns humanity on ‘knife’s edge’ as AI raises nuclear war threat – The Guardian

Concern rises over AI in adult entertainment – BBC

Generative AI's refusal to produce ‘controversial’ content can create echo chambers – Fast Company 

How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105 – Wall Street Journal

AI can pretend to be stupider than it really is, Scientists find – Futurism

Lab reveals how AI safety features can be easily bypassed - The Guardian  

New York's AI chatbot tells people to break laws and do crimes - Quartz 

Why can’t anyone agree on how dangerous AI will be? – Vox  

US says leading AI companies join safety consortium to address risks – Reuters

Despite the AI safety hype, a new study finds little research on the topic – Semafor  

Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI (video) – The Daily Show

Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries shows the growing threat AI drones pose to energy markets – NBC Connecticut 

AI deepfakes threaten to upend global elections. No one can stop them. – Washington Post

How Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Affect Children? – Healthy Children

A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI – Wired

Could AI-generated content be dangerous for our health? – The Guardian

To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money – The Conversation 

Banks told to anticipate risks from using AI, machine learning – Reuters

The risks of expanding the definition of ‘AI safety’ – Semafor

Facial Recognition Used to Evict Single Mother for Taking Night Classes – Futurism

Microsoft Copilot AI suggested self-harm to a user – Quartz

AI-powered sports betting has spurred a public health emergency – 60 Minutes

GPT-4 only makes it slightly easier to create a bioweapon, OpenAI says – Semafor

Deepfake A.I. Is Coming for the Past, Too – New York Times

AI Data Centers need so much power they may need built-in Nuclear Reactors – Futurism

Scammers and spammers are trying to make money by using AI to pump out massive quantities of content to reach the top of Google search results – Business Insider

Gen AI and the racial wealth gap – McKinsey

AI is taking water from the desert – The Atlantic

Public trust in AI is sinking across the board - Axios

In Tests, GPT-4 Strangely Itchy to Launch Nuclear War - Futurism 

AI is already screening job resumes and rental apartment applications and even determining medical care with almost no oversight – Fortune

Why We Must Resist AI’s Soft Mind Control – The Atlantic

Once an AI model exhibits 'deceptive behavior' it can be hard to correct, researchers at OpenAI competitor Anthropic found – Business Insider

AI fears creep into finance, business and law - The Washington Post 

Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone - MIT Tech Review 

Survey identifies media literacy skills gap amidst rise in AI-generated content - Poynter 

Don't Fear ChatGPT's Brain. Worry About Its Very, Very Scary Body - Digg

How AI fake news is creating a ‘misinformation superspreader’ - The Washington Post

‘A certain danger lurks there’: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI - The Guardian

AI's real risk is that people will make things worse - The Washington Post

Dark Corners of the Web Offer a Glimpse at A.I.’s Nefarious Future – New York Times 

Zuckerberg’s AGI remarks follow trend of downplaying AI dangers – Ars Technica

New Psychological and Ethical Dangers of 'AI Identity Theft' – Psychology Today  

A New Study Says AI Is Eating Its Own Tail – Popular Mechanics

Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built – The New Yorker

How AI fake nudes ruin teenagers’ lives - The Washington Post

IAC warns regulators generative AI could wreck the web – Axios

AI can imitate people and make them do things on screen and in reality it wasn’t even them – The Guardian

Cutting-edge AI raises fears about risks to humanity. Are tech and political leaders doing enough? - The Washington Post

A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way - The New York Times

AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. A watchdog is calling for action - The Washington Post 

AI Search Is Turning Into the Problem Everyone Worried About – The Atlantic

Sam Altman's firing fuels myth of AI restraint – Axios

Global Leaders Warn A.I. Could Cause ‘Catastrophic’ Harm – The New York Times

A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country – New York Times

AI becoming sentient is risky, but that’s not the big threat. Here’s what is… - Science Focus 

Why humans can't trust AI: You don't know how it works, what it's going to do or whether it'll serve your interests – Japan Today

‘A.I. Obama’ and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok – New York Times

Google and Microsoft Are Supercharging AI Deepfake Porn – Bloomberg

How the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI – The Guardian

Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use – Nature 

China AI & Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed – Semi Analysis

A viral TikTok account is doxing ordinary people on the internet using off-the-shelf facial recognition technology  - 404 Media

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is pouring millions of dollars into combating AI’s dark side – CNBC

 The risk is that AI models will inevitably converge on a point at which they all share the same enormous training set collectivizing whatever inherent weaknesses that set might have. AIs don't know what they don't know. And that can be very dangerous. Axios

The perennial problem is that technology and computing are portrayed in popular media as magic. Even in this Mission Impossible movie, the idea is once the good guys get a key to access the Entity’s source code, the AI can be controlled. That’s a misunderstanding. Even if you had the actual source code of an AI, it wouldn’t tell you what you need to know. -Alex Hanna, director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute Washington Post

Experts are raising alarms about the mental health risks and the emotional burden of navigating an information ecosystem driven by AI that's likely to feature even more misinformation, identity theft and fraud. Axios

“If you look at phishing filters, they have to learn first, and by the time they learn, they already have a new set of phishing emails coming,” Srinivas Mukkamala, chief product officer at cybersecurity software company Ivanti, told reporters. “So the chances of a phishing email slipping your controls is very, very high.” Route 55

AI technologies are bad for the planet too. Training a single AI model – according to research published in 2019 – might emit the equivalent of more than 284 tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is nearly five times as much as the entire lifetime of the average American car, including its manufacture. These emissions are expected to grow by nearly 50% over the next five years. The Guardian 

Tools like Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and Microsoft-owned GitHub Copilot suggest new code snippets and provide technical recommendations to developers.  By using such tools, it is possible that engineers could produce inaccurate code documentation, code that doesn’t follow secure development practices, or reveal system information beyond what companies would typically share. Wall Street Journal

Attackers are using artificial intelligence to write software that can break into corporate networks in novel ways, change appearance and functionality to beat detection, and smuggle data back out through processes that appear normal. Washington Post 

Doctored photos are "a nifty way to plant false memories" and "things are going to get even worse with deep fake technology," psychologist Elizabeth Loftus said at the Nobel Prize Summit last month that focused on misinformation. Axios 

In a world where talent is as scarce and coveted as it is in AI right now, it’s hard for the government and government-funded entities to compete. And it makes starting a venture capital-funded company to do advanced safety research seem reasonable, compared to trying to set up a government agency to do the same. There’s more money and there’s better pay; you’ll likely get more high-quality staff. Vox

“It’s possible that super-intelligent A.I. is a looming threat, or that we might one day soon accidentally trap a self-aware entity inside a computer—but if such a system does emerge, it won’t be in the form of a large language model.” New Yorker

AI will be at the center of future financial crises — and regulators are not going to be able to stay ahead of it. That's the message being sent by SEC chair Gary Gensler, arguably the most important and powerful regulator in the U.S. at the moment. Axios 

The challenge with generative AI is that the technology is developing so quickly that companies are rushing to figure out if it introduces new cybersecurity challenges or magnifies existing security weaknesses. Meanwhile, technology vendors have inundated businesses with new generative AI-based features and offerings—not all of which they need or have even paid for. Wall Street Journal 

An estimated 3,200 hackers will try their hand at tricking chatbots and image generators, in the hopes of exposing vulnerabilities. “We’re trying something very wild and audacious, and we’re hopeful it works out.” -Semafor

Researchers have found an AI-driven attack that can steal passwords with up to 95% accuracy by listening to what you type on your keyboard. Metro

Facial Recognition Software leads Detroit Police to Wrongly Arrest Pregnant Woman – Click on Detroit

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas – The Guardian  

AI is being used to give dead, missing kids a voice they didn’t ask for – Washington Post 

AI is sleepwalking us into surveillance – UX Design

The dangers of open source AI - Axios

Single mother taking night classes evicted after facial recognition software flagged the movements of her babysitter – Futurism

FBI issues warning about AI malware assaults – Analytics Insights

The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity – Vox

ChatGPT falsely accused me of sexual harassment. Can we trust AI?  USA Today

A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks – New York Times 

Don't get scammed by fake ChatGPT apps: Here's what to look out for – ZD Net

Seven AI companies commit to safeguards at the White House's request – Engadget

The 'AI Apocalypse' Is Just PR – The Atlantic

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Like AI (the problems with facial recognition)  - Above the Law  

'ChatGPT is the new crypto': Meta warns hackers are exploiting interest in the AI chatbot – CNN  

A.I. Needs an International Watchdog, ChatGPT Creators Say – New York Times

IBM researchers show ways ChatGPT, Bard can be tricked into helping with hacks – Axios

Assessing the existential risk of AI – MIT Tech Review  

Intelligence analysts confront the reality of deepfakes: AI-generated image of fake Pentagon explosion just an inkling of what’s to come - Space News

The potential dangers of using artificial intelligence as a weapon of war - NPR

India’s religious AI chatbots are speaking in the voice of god - Rest of World 

AI-generated child sex images spawn new nightmare for the web – Washington Post 

Princeton computer science professor says don't panic over 'bullshit generator' ChatGPT - Business Insider  

Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified - Vice

Calm Down. There is No Conscious A.I. – Gizmodo

AI can be racist, sexist and creepy. What should we do about it? - CNN

The case for slowing down AI – Vox

More than 1,000 tech leaders & researchers call for a six-month moratorium on AI development over “risks to society and humanity.” - New York Times

Claudia offers nude photos for pay but is a fake AI creation - Washington Post

If Wikipedia content is AI-generated, (it could create) a feedback loop of potentially biased information, if left unchecked - Vice  

2024 promises to be the first AI election cycle with artificial intelligence potentially playing a pivotal role at the ballot box - USA TODAY 

Why Hollywood Really Fears Generative AI - Wired 

How AI is already changing the 2024 election - Axios

Chatbots have faced criticism for messing up key historical facts, fabricating sources, and citing misinformation about each other - Columbia Journalism Review 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says Government Intervention Is 'Crucial' – Entrepreneur 

The internet is filled with videos promising AI can make you rich. But there is little evidence to prove it can. – Washington Post

What happens when AI becomes so integrated into our daily decision-making that we become dependent on it? - Inside Higher Ed 

ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution—threatening to amplify existing bias in global commerce and innovation - Wired

Will AI replace coders? - The Guardian 

U.S. Grapples With Potential Threats From Chinese AI - Wall Street Journal 

Researchers failed to identify one-third of medical journal abstracts as written by AI - Bioxiv 

Why AI Will Make Our Children More Lonely - Wall Street Journal

Hackers are already abusing ChatGPT to write malware - Axiox

Armed With ChatGPT, Cybercriminals Build Malware And Plot Fake Girl Bots - Forbes

Mutating malware can be built using the ChatGPT - CSO 

Machines could prompt other machines to put out text ad infinitum, flooding the internet with synthetic text devoid of human agency or intent - The Atlantic

Experts have already seen and documented more than 60 smaller-scale examples of AI systems trying to do something other than what their designer wants - Google Spreadsheet list 

My No. 1 concern about AI right now is AI systems can do more things than their creators know that they can do - NPR

Tech security firm Zscaler (cites) AI as a factor in the 47 percent surge in phishing attacks it saw last year - Washington Post

Many of these applications are potentially vulnerable to prompt injection and it’s not clear to me that this risk is being taken as seriously as it should - Simon Wilson’s Blog 

The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing - Wired

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Data Science & AI

Agentic AI is the top strategic technology trend for 2025 

MIT spin-off Liquid AI introduces more adaptive, less energy-hungry neural network models—inspired by microscopic worms

How The New York Times incorporates editorial judgment in algorithms to curate its home page

Deep Learning vs Data Science: What is more important, your data or your model?

AI Definitions: Large Language Models

Using Archetypes to Decode the Four Types of AI

4 ways to improve the retrieval of your RAG pipeline

Ways to exploit what AI can do to enrich data science solutions

Notion Templates Every Data Scientist Should Have in 2024

AI Definitions: Constitutional AI

AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

Replacing my Right Hand with A (a pitch for the “AI engineer“)

Geospatial intelligence capability communication is being weaponized (sub. req.)

AI Definitions: foundation models 

A Data Scientist GenAI Survival Guide

Maven helps Military emergency responders pinpoint where to place aid  

The 10 most prevalent and impactful vulnerabilities in large language model

AI Definitions: Data Scientist

An alternative framework for understanding memory in large language models

The release of the Qwen2.5-Coder series

Injecting Logic into Contexts for Full Reasoning in Large Language Models

CLIP for vision-language foundation models

AI Definitions: Washing

How I Would Learn Data Science in 2024

The Nobel Prize in physics goes to AI pioneers for their foundational work in neural networks & machine learning

Smaller LLMs perform well but this paper suggests they are also fragile

AI Definitions: AI model collapse

Correlating measures of hierarchical structures in artificial neural networks with their performance

How AutoML is changing the landscape of ML development

Can damage from fine-tuning an AI model be fixed? These researchers think so

The Data Centric Approach— rather than focusing on better models working on higher quality data

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Definitions (basic terms are starred)

Abstractive summarization – Using natural language techniques to interpret and understand the important aspects of a text and generate a summary.  On the other hand, extractive summarization identifies important sections from text and producing a subset of sentences from the original text. While abstractive summarization generates entirely new sentences sometimes not found in the source material, extractive summarization sticks to the original text. Abstractive summarization is better when the meaning is more important and extractive summarization is better when sticking to the original language is more important.

Agentic AI Agents - Unlike AI prompts requiring user conversations, AI agents work in the background. Users provide a goal (from researching competitors to virtual assistant functions like buying a car or planning a vacation), and the agent acts independently, generating task list and starting to work by breaking down the overall goal into smaller steps. The ability to understand complex instructions is crucial for agentic AI to be effective. Rather than passive processors of language, these proactive active agents can work independently to produce practical, real-world applications in uncertain but data-rich environments as it interacts with external tools and APIs.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – While there is no general agreement as to its definition, most experts would agree that AGI, instead of focusing on solving specific problems (like Deep Blue which was good at chess), this type of AI has broader uses and, in some instances, can possesses seemingly human-level intelligence to learn and adapt. Beyond AGI lies the more speculative goal of "sentient AI," where the programs become aware of their own existence with feelings and desires.

AI Boom (or AI Spring) – A period of rapid AI growth driven by significant improvements in AI algorithms and models.  

AI Evolution

  1. Generative AI sounds like a person.

  2. AGI (artificial general intelligence) reasons like a person.

  3. Sentient AI thinks it's a person.

AI model collapse - The idea that AI can eat itself by running out of fresh data, so that it begins to train on it’s on product or the product of another AI. This would magnify errors and bias and make rare data more likely to be lost.

AI Washing - This references a company’s misleading claims about its use of AI. It’s a marketing tactic that exaggerates the amount of AI technology used in their products to appear more advanced than they actually are. AI washing takes its name from greenwashing, where companies make false or misleading claims about the positive impact they have on the environment

AI winter  - A period where funding and interest in the field subsided considerably. 

*Algorithms - Direct, specific instructions for computers created by a human through coding that tells the computer how to perform a task. Like a cooking recipe, this set of rules has a finite number of steps. More specifically, it is code that follows the algorithmic logic of “if”, “then”, and “else.” An example of an algorithm would be: IF the customer orders size 13 shoes, THEN display the message ‘Sold out, Sasquatch!’;  ELSE ask for a color preference.     

Algorithms make one of two approaches:

1. Rule-based algorithms – direct, specific instructions are created by a human.  

2. Machine-learning algorithms – The data and goal is given to the algorithm, which works out for itself how to reach the goal. There is a popular perception that algorithms provide a more objective, more complete view of reality, but they often will simply reinforce existing inequities, reflecting the bias of creators and the materials used to train them.

2. Machine-learning algorithms – under the larger umbrella of AI, the data and goal is given to the algorithm, which works out for itself how to reach the goal.. There is a popular perception that algorithms provide a more objective, more complete view of reality, but they often will simply reinforce existing inequities, reflecting the bias of creators and the materials used to train them.

Apache Spark - This data processing tool can be used on very large data sets. Its “cluster computing” uses resources from many computer processors linked together for rapid data processing and real-time analytics. Thus, it supports "predictive analytics." For instance, it can analyze video or social media data automatically. It's a scalable solution meaning that if more oomph is needed, you can simply introduce more processors into the system. It has basically replaced MapReduce as the batch processing engine in Hadoop. 

API - (application programming interface) This software acts as a go-between for applications, programs, or systems to allow them to talk to each other. APIs are essentially acting as translators for AI platforms. 

*Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Making machines intelligent so they can take some decisions on their own according to the situations without the need of any human interference. The defining feature of artificial intelligence is that the computer system behavior is learned from data rather than explicitly programmed.

Bard AI - Now Gemini.

*Big Data - Data that’s too big to fit on a single server. Typically, it is unstructured and fast moving. In contrast, small data fits on a single server, is already in structured form (rows and columns), and changes relatively infrequently. If you are working in Excel, you are doing small data. Two NASA researchers (Michael Cox and David Ellsworth) first wrote in a 1997 paper that when there’s too much information to fit into memory or local hard disks, “We call this the problem of big data.” Many companies wind up with big data, not because they need it, they just haven’t bothered to delete it. Thus, big data is sometimes defined as “when the cost of keeping data around is less than the cost of figuring out what to throw away.”    

Big Data looks to collect and manage large amounts of varied data to serve large-scale web applications and vast sensor networks. Meanwhile, data science looks to create models that capture the underlying patterns of complex systems, and codify those models into working applications. Although big data and data science both offer the potential to produce value from data, the fundamental difference between them can be summarized in one statement: collecting does not mean discovering. Big data collects. Data science discovers.  

C and C++ - These programming languages are a good choice for data scientists working on projects that require high performance or massive scalability. It can compile data quickly and efficiently.    

Causal AI - While large language models, traditional machine learning needs a lot of data, causal AI focuses on cause-effect relationships and needs less data. Beyond connecting data points, it looks for direction between the data points.

*ChatGPT - This OpenAI chatbot remembers what you've written or said, so the interaction has a dynamic conversational feel. Give the software a prompt and it creates articles. GPT-4 can use both images and text as inputs, process up to 25K words. It can write and explain code. It doesn’t do sourcing but can browse the internet with Bing. There is a limited free version or pay $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus.  

*Claude - This AI is from Anthropic, a startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI execs with funding from Google. Like ChatGPT, it can act on text or uploaded files. Indexed through 2023. Useful for summarizing long transcripts, clarifying complex writings, and generating lists of ideas and questions. Can analyze up to 75K words at a time. Free.

Constitutional AI - This type of AI is similar to reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF for short). Rather than use human feedback, the researchers present a set of principles (or “constitution”) and ask the model to revise its answers to prompts to comply with these principles.

*Dall-E - OpenAI’s tool that turns written text into images using AI. Named after painter Salvador Dali and Disney Pixar’s WALL-E.  A limited number of images are free. 

Data Lake - Giant, messy swamps of data where no one really knows what’s in the data or whether it is safe to clean them up.   

Data Poisoning – An attack on a machine-learning algorithm where malicious actors insert incorrect or misleading information into the data used to train an AI model to pollute the results. It also can be used as a defensive tool to help creators reassert some control over the use of their work.

Data Science - Using machine learning to make predictions, combining ML with other disciplines (like big data analytics and cloud computing) to solve real-world problems.

Data Scientist - A data scientist is a person who is responsible for gleaning insight from a massive pool of data. Data scientists typically have advanced degrees in a quantitative field, like computer science, physics, statistics, or applied mathematics. With a strong understanding of math and statistics, they possess the knowledge to invent new algorithms in order to solve data problems. They will typically use programming languages like Python, R, and SQL. They will be familiar with using big data tools like Hadoop and Apache Spark and have experience working with unstructured data. If you don't see these skills on a resume, then that person probably isn't a data scientist.  

Deepfake – AI-produced images, photos or videos produced by AI tools designed to fool people into thinking the images are real.

Deep Learning – Training computers to use neural networks and solve problems. It involves a particular kind of mathematical model. The word “deep” means that the composition has many “blocks” of neural networks stacked on top of each other, and the trick is adjusting the blocks that are far from the output, since a small change there can have very indirect effects on the output. It is the dominant way to help machines sense and perceive the world around them. It powers the image-processing operations of firms like Facebook and Google, self-driving cars, and Google’s on-the-fly language translations. 

The ELIZA effect - where humans mistake unthinking chat from machines for that of a human.

Extractive summarization - Identifying the important sections of a text and then producing a subset of sentences from that original text. On the other hand, abstractive summarization, uses natural language techniques to interpret and understand the important aspects of a text in order to generate a more “human” friendly summary. While abstractive summarization generates entirely new sentences that are sometimes not  in the source material, extractive summarization sticks to the original text. This is particularly helpful when accuracy and maintaining the author's original intent are the priority.

*Existential risk – The danger that an AI system might threaten humanity's future as the result of a malfunction. 

Facial recognition -  This AI technology uses statistical measurements of a person’s face to identify them against a digital database of other faces. For instance, Clearview AI was trained on billions of images. These AI-powered systems are used to unlock phones, verify passports, and scan crowds at events for malicious actors. It’s used by many US agencies including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. It has a serious problem with false positives and a history of unintended harms and intentional misuse based on racial and gender bias.

Foundation models - At the core of many generative AI tools today, data scientists are using foundation models as a new approach to develop machine learning models. In contrast to traditional ML models, which typically perform specific tasks, FMs are adaptable and able to perform a wide range of tasks with accuracy. These large deep-learning neural networks are trained on massive datasets. Foundation models are also known as Large X Models or LXMs. A video explanation.

*Gemini AI - Google’s conversational AI (formally Bard). It lacks attribution and links to background articles. Free to use. 

*Generative AI (GenAI) - Artificial intelligence that can produce media content (text, images, audio, video, etc.). It operates similarly to the “type ahead” feature on smartphones that makes next-word suggestions.

GPT - A LLM designed AI that goes through an unsupervised period followed by a supervised "fine-tuning" phase. The “GPT” in ChatGPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.

*Hallucinations – This is when an AI provides responses that are inaccurate or not based on facts. Generative AI models are designed to generate data that is realistic or distributionally equivalent to the training data and yet different from the actual data used for training. This is why they are good at brainstorming than reflecting the real world and why they should not be treated as sources of truth or factual knowledge. Generative AI models can answer some questions correctly, but this is not what they are designed and trained to do.

Imitation Learning – Along with reinforced learning, this is a popular method for training robots by giving it data on other robots being operated by humans. Out of fashion for decades, it has recently come back into favor in robotics as a result of AI. The downside to this technique is the need for large amounts of data in order for the robots to imitate new behaviors.

*Jasper AI - AI story writing tool for fiction and nonfiction. Pick a tone of voice for style. Pre-built templates available. A more business-focused AI that is particularly helpful for advertising and marketing. Remembers past queries, However, no sources are provided and limited to pre-2022 information. Short free trial. $29 month. 

Java - Data scientists may choose to use this programming language to perform tasks related to machine learning data analysis and data mining.

Large Language Models (LLMs) - AI trained on billions of language uses, images and other data. It can predict the next word or pixel in a pattern based on the user’s request. ChatGPT and Google Bard are LLMs.

The kinds of text LLMs can parse out include grammar and language structure, word meaning and context (ex: The word green may mean a color when it is closely related to a word like “paint,” “art,” or “grass”), proper names (Microsoft, Bill Clinton, Shakira, Cincinnati), and emotions (indications of frustration, infatuation, positive or negative feelings, or types of humor).

Large X Models (LXM) – Another name for foundation models.  

Liquid Foundation Models (LFM) – This type of AI has a smaller memory footprint but packs greater computational power than the transformer models found in most GenAI systems. Using fewer parameters and neurons than transformers, LFMs are designed to handle a variety of sequential data (such as text, video, and audio) with significant accuracy. LFMs do not rely on existing frameworks as transformers do. They are built from the ground up (that is, built on “first principles”).

*Machine learning (ML) - This subset of AI makes predictions or decisions based on patterns it spots in data sets. The process evolves and adapts on its own as it is exposed to new data, improving the output without explicit programming from a human. An example would be algorithms recommending ads for users, which become more tailored the longer it observes the users‘ habits (someone’s clicks, likes, time spent, etc.). Data scientists combine ML with other disciplines (like big data analytics and cloud computing) to solve real-world problems. However, the results are limited to probabilities, not absolutes. It doesn’t reveal causation. There are four types of machine learning: supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, and reinforcement learning. A clever computer program that simply mimics human-like behavior can be considered AI, but the computer system itself is not machine learning unless its parameters are automatically informed by data without human intervention. Video: Introduction to Machine Learning

Machine Vision - The ability of software to identify the contents of an image. 

*MidJourney - Probably the best AI image generator, it uses machine learning to create pictures based on text. However, it is hard for a beginner because the poor user interface. 

Narrow AI - The use of artificial intelligence for a very specific task. For instance, general AI would mean an algorithm that is capable of playing all kinds of board game while narrow AI will limit the range of machine capabilities to a specific game like chess or scrabble. 

Natural-language processing - This is a type of ML that makes human language intelligible to machines.

*Neural Network - In this type of machine learning computers learn a task by analyzing training examples. It is modeled loosely on the human brain—the interwoven tangle of neurons that process data in humans and find complex associations. Neural networks were first proposed in 1944 by two University of Chicago researchers (Warren McCullough and Walter Pitts) who moved to MIT in 1952 as founding members of what’s sometimes referred to as the first cognitive science department. Neural nets were a major area of research in both neuroscience and computer science until 1969. The technique then enjoyed a resurgence in the 1980s, fell into disfavor in the first decade of the new century, and has returned like gangbusters in the second, fueled largely by the increased processing power of graphics chips. Also see “transformers.” 

NoSQL - Real-time transactional databases for fast data storage and update.

Opaque AI - When an AI algorithm operates as a black box that we can’t understand. This can lead to AI systems that inadvertently perpetuate and amplify biases. On the other hand, AI transparency allows for the examination and understanding of how these biases occur, leading to more ethical and fair AI systems. The level of AI opacity varies depending on the industry. For example, in highly regulated industries, transparency is paramount for legal and regulatory compliance.

*Open Source AI - When the source code of an AI is available to the public, it can be used, modified, and improved by anyone. Closed AI means access to the code is tightly controlled by the company that produced it. The closed model gives users greater certainty as to what they are getting, but open source allows for more innovation. Open-source AI would include Stable Diffusion, Hugging Face, and Llama (created by Meta). Closed Source AI would include ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. 

Perishable insights - Insights contained in live flowing data. 

*Perplexity AI - Acts like a search engine but includes results from the web (unlike ChatGPT). Automatically generates citations of sources and suggests follow-up prompts. Free. 

Predictive analytics - This is a method of speculating about future events by making recommendations based on past data. Researchers create complex mathematical algorithms to discover patterns in data about online behavior, human conduct, and nature. One doesn't know in advance what data is important. The statistical models created by predictive analytics are designed to discover which pieces of data will predict the desired outcome. While correlation is not causation, a cause-and-effect relationship is not necessarily needed to make predictions.  

*Prompts - Instructions for an AI. It is the main way to steer the AI in a particular direction, indicate your intent, and give it a context to work in. It can be time-consuming if the task is complex.  

*Prompt Engineer  - An advanced user of AI models, a prompt engineer doesn’t possess special technical skills but is able to give clear instructions, so the AI returns results that most closely match expectations. This skill can be compared to a psychologist who is working with a client who needs help expressing what they know.   

Prompt Injection - Like prompt engineering, but with the goal of working around AI to produce harmful content. Hackers use carefully crafted prompts or text-based instructions to manipulate generative AI systems into sharing sensitive information or perform unintended actions by making the model ignore previous instructions. 

Python - A popular programming language choice for data scientists, used to building machine learning, data analytics, and data visualization. The Python language is often used to automate tasks.

Quantum Computers – The computers we use today operate on a traditional binary code, which represents information with 0s and 1s. Quantum machines, on the other hand, use quantum bits, or qubits. The unusual properties of qubits make quantum computers far more powerful for some kinds of calculations, including the mathematical problems that underpin much of modern encryption.

R - This scripting language is open-source and widely supported. It is used by data scientists managing large, complex data sets. Considered the best language to combine statistical computing with mathematics and graphics.    

Red Teaming - Testing an AI by trying to force it to act in unintended or undesirable ways, thus uncovering potential harms. The term comes from a military practice of taking on the role of an attacker to devise strategies. 

Reinforcement Learning - This type of AI learning sits somewhere in between supervised and unsupervised learning. Rather than  being given specific goals, the AI is deployed into an environment where it is allowed to train with minimal feedback. This trial-and-error approach involves adjusting weights until high reward outcomes are reached. Desirable behaviors are rewarded, and undesirable behaviors are punished. It is similar to a person learning how to work through levels of a video game, searching for an effective strategy. Reinforcement learning is indeed used in video game development and has been used to help robots adopt to new environments.   

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) – This coding technique instructs the bot to cross-check its answer with what is published elsewhere, essentially helping the AI to self-fact-check. RAG lets companies “ground” AI models in their own data, ensuring that results come from documents within the company.

Robotics - Researchers are using AI to train robots through reinforcement learning and imitation learning. Only a decade ago, learning-based approaches were rare at robotics conferences and often criticized. Now, pairing this technique with generative AI, researchers have been able to quickly teach robots many new tasks.

RLHF - Reinforcement learning with human feedback. 

Semi-supervised learning - In this type of AI training, the model works with both labeled and unlabeled data. 

Shadow AI - Generative AI use inside organizations without the approval or supervision of IT.

Small Language Models (SLMs) – Requiring less data and training time than large language models, SLMs have fewer parameters making them more useful on the spot or when using smaller devices. Perhaps the best advantage of SLMs is their ability to be fine-tuned for specialized for specific tasks or domains. They are also more useful for enhanced privacy and security and are less prone to undetected hallucinations. Google’s Gemma is an example.

Spark – See Apache Spark. 

SQL - Structured Query Language (SQL pronounced ess-kew-ell or sequel) is the most widely used method of accessing databases. This programming language can be used to create tables, change data, find particular data, and create relationships among different tables. For data scientists, it is second in importance after Python. Similar in structure and function to Excel, SQL can work with Excel and is able to handle billions of rows in multiple tables and thousands of users can access this data securely at the same time.

Stable Diffusion - Generates visual creations through AI. Since it is open-sourced, anyone can view the code. Fewer restrictions on how it can be used than DALL-E.

Supervised training - In this type of AI training, the data is labeled by humans before giving it to the AI. For example, the AI might be given a database of messages labeled either “spam” or “not spam.”  This is the most common type of machine learning. Expensive and time-consuming, this type of training is used in voice recognition, language translation, and self-driving cars. Anything that takes only a second for a person to do is something that might be performed by AI through supervised training. This is why jobs that are a series of one-second tasks are at risk from it (such as security guard). Most of the present economic value of AI comes from this type of training.

Synthetic Data – Instead of giving real data to LLMs for training (some experts say we are running out of original human data) there’s an idea that LLMs can be told generate data, synthetic data, on which it can be trained. If synthetic data can be made to work, it could negate the problem of using copyrighted material for training.  Sceptics say this will lead to a degradation of the data, weakening the performance of the model.

Temperature  - a setting within some generative AI models that determines the randomness of the output. The higher the temperature set by the user the more variability there is in the result.

Token – The words and sentences used by people are broken down by LLMs into tokens, mostly for computing efficiency. Think of a token as the root of a word. “Creat” is the “root” of many words including Create, Creative, Creator, Creating, and Creation. “Create” would be an example of a token. Examples: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

*Training data - The data initially provided to an AI model for it to create a map of relationships, which it uses to make predictions. Relying on a wide variety of data sources from the web rather than curated, locked-down data sets, can make the training more vulnerable to the insertion of poisoned data by hackers and the model more suspectable to hallucinations.

Transfer learning - This allows a reinforcement-learning system to build on previously acquired knowledge, rather than having to be trained from scratch every time.  

Transformer – A deep learning architecture known first discussed at length in Google’s 2017 research paper “Attention Is All You Need.” Every major AI model today (ChatGPT, GPT-4, Midjourney) is built using neural networks called transformers. Previously, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) process data sequentially—that is, one word at a time, in the order in which the words appear. An “attention mechanism” was included to enable a model to consider the relationships between words. Transformers advanced this process by analyzing all the words in a given body of text at the same time rather than in sequence. With transformers, it became possible to create higher-quality language models that could be trained more efficiently and with more customizable features. 

The Turing test - Proposed by computing pioneer Alan Turing in 1950, the Turing test measures whether a computer program could fool a human into believing it was human too.  

Unsupervised training - In this type of AI training, the AI is turned loose on raw data without a human labeling the data first. The AI isn’t told what to look for. Instead, the network learns to recognize features and cluster similar examples. This reveals hidden groups, links, and patterns within the data. This is helpful when the user cannot describe the thing they are looking, such as a new type of cyberattack. Not as expensive as supervised learning, it can work in real time but is less accurate.

Vector databases - Vector databases – Unlike traditional databases that uses columns and rows, raw data is stored in databases as mathematical representations or “vectors”, making it easier for machine learning models to remember previous inputs, draw comparisons, identify relationships, and understand context. Vector databases enable machine learning models to identify objects that can be grouped, enabling the creation of advanced AI programs like large language models. It’s similar to being able to provide a purchase suggestion under the heading "Customers also bought..."  

More sources of definitions

 A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work - Arstechnica 

No, chatbots aren’t sentient. Here’s how their underlying technology works. – New York Times

 Everything you wanted to know about AI – but were afraid to ask – The Guardian

Demystifying ChatGPT! – Toward AI

ChatGPT explained: what is it and why is it important? – Tom’s Guide

AI's scariest mystery – Axios

AutoGPT basics – KD Nuggets

What is ChatGPT? Everything you need to know – Tom’s Guide

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Ethics & AI  

Two voice actors say an A.I. company created clones of their voices without their permission. Now they’re suing. The company denies it did anything wrong. -New York Times 

A former high school athletic director was arrested after allegedly using AI to impersonate the school principal in a recording that included racist and antisemitic comments. The principal was temporarily removed from the school, and waves of hate-filled messages circulated on social media, while the school received numerous phone calls. -CBS News 

A researcher in Japan wanted to check if chatbots could make the same moral decisions when driving as humans. His results showed that LLMs and humans have roughly the same priorities, but some showed clear deviations… -Ars Technica 

An investment firm “is designing a facial recognition system for classroom management. Multiple cameras spread throughout the room will take attendance, monitor whether students are paying attention and detect their emotional states, including whether they are bored, distracted or confused.” –Inside Higher Ed 

So-called obituary pirates are “scraping and copying funeral-home websites. They're using AI for a new and lucrative tactic of creating YouTube videos and spammy websites out of the obits, capturing search traffic for people looking for information about the recently deceased.” -Business Insider 

The latest recipient of one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards, the Akutagawa Prize, has admitted to using AI to write parts of her novel -The Byte

When I tested My AI earlier this year, I told the app that I was a teenager — but it still gave me advice on hiding alcohol and drugs from parents, as well tips for a highly age-inappropriate sexual encounter. -Washington Post 

A central question about gen AI is whether using unattributed content written entirely by a machine — rather than by a human — counts as plagiarism. -Nature

How to Implement AI — Responsibly – Harvard Business Review  

AI Can Re-Create Your Loved Ones After They Die. Is That Good or Bad? – Wall Street Journal

Should AI Join Medical Ethics Committees? Ethicist Says Not Yet – Medscape  

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ VFX lead argues that the movie uses AI ethically – Polygon  

When AI Gets It Wrong, Will It Be Held Accountable? – Rand.org

Yale Freshman Creates AI Chatbot With Answers on AI Ethics – Inside Higher Ed

The Quest for Clarity: Are Interpretable Neural Networks the Future of Ethical AI? – Toward Data Science

AI can see clearly now: Why transparency leads to ethical and fair AI systems – Silicon Angle

Whose future is it anyway? Exploring the ethical battlegrounds of AI – Kem Laurin

AI’s Most Pressing Ethics Problem – Columbia Journalism Institute

Your newsroom needs an AI ethics policy. Start here. – Poynter

Google finds AI agents pose fresh ethical challenges - Axios 

How GenAI can enhance your legal work without compromising ethics – Reuters Legal 

A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence – Symmetry Magazine 

Newsrooms Are Already Using AI, But Ethical Considerations Are Uneven, AP Finds – Forbes

How Adobe manages AI ethics concerns while fostering creativity - ZDnet

Anthropic wants to create a better constitution for AI – Axios

AI researchers uncover ethical, legal risks to using popular data sets – Washington Post

Should A.I. Accelerate? Decelerate? A professor of both A.I. and A.I. ethics says the answer Is both. – New York Times  

Adopting and expanding ethical principles for generative artificial intelligence from military to healthcare – Nature

AI has social consequences, but who pays the price? Tech companies’ problem with ‘ethical debt – The Conversation  

A.V. Club's Al Reporter Plagiarized IMDb – Plagiarism Today 

New Psychological and Ethical Dangers of 'AI Identity Theft' – Psychology Today

AI's next fight is over whose values it should hold – Axios

Generative AI Is a (ethical) Disaster, and Companies Don’t Seem to Really Care – Vice  

Artificial Intelligence comes with risks. How can companies develop AI responsibly? - NPR

USC Invests $1 Billion in New Computing School to Teach Ethical AI Use - dot.LA

The Green Glass Approach to Responsible AI – Expert AI

AI is acting ‘pro-anorexia’ and tech companies aren’t stopping it – Washington Post

Pope Francis: AI should be used in a responsible and ethical way – Market Watch

For artificial intelligence to thrive, it must explain itself - Economist 

Colonizing Art – Openmind Mag

AI operations create a huge carbon footprint and often rely on low-paid workers in developing countries. Some professors and students may decide it’s ethically questionable to use these tools. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Leading companies including Anthropic and Google DeepMind are creating “AI constitutions”—a set of values and principles that their models can adhere to, in an effort to prevent abuses. – Artechnica

The ethics of AI-powered marketing technology – Mark Tech

Ethical considerations in the use of AI – Reuters

Answering AI’s biggest questions requires an interdisciplinary approach – Tech Crunch

OpenAI's 'unreasonable claims' exhaust AI-ethics researchers – Insider  

Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data – Wired  

Amazon created an AI resume-reading software and worked on this project for two years, trying various kinds of bias-mitigation techniques. And at the end of the day, they couldn’t sufficiently de-bias it, and so they threw it out.  - CNN

Yes, you need data scientists and data engineers. You need those tech people. You also need people like sociologists, attorneys, especially civil rights attorneys, and people from risk. You need that cross-functional expertise because solving or mitigating bias in AI is not something that can just be left in the technologists’ hands. - CNN

Can AI chatbots like ChatGPT help us make ethical decisions rationally? - Vox 

Teaching AI Ethics - Leon Furze Blog 

People Using Generative AI ChatGPT Are Instinctively Making This AI Rookie Mistake, A Vexing Recipe For AI Ethics And AI Law - Forbes

Online mental health company uses ChatGPT to help respond to users in experiment — raising ethical concerns around healthcare and AI technology - Business Insider

When AI Overrules the Nurses Caring for You - Wall Street Journal

A.I. Is Becoming More Conversant. But Will It Get More Honest? - New York Times

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Fakes & Detecting AI

AI-generated images threaten science — here’s how researchers hope to spot them – Nature

AI hallucinations gone wrong as Alaska uses fake stats in policy – AI News 

AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them – Associated Press

AI is spawning a flood of fake Trump & Harris voices. Here's how to tell what's real – Washington Post

An ‘Interview’ With a Dead Luminary Exposes the Pitfalls of A.I. – New York Times

A group of experienced editorial board members struggled to distinguish human versus AI authorship - AHAIASA Journals

AI scams have infiltrated the knitting and crochet world - why it matters for everyone - ZDnet

'Garbage in, garbage out': AI fails to debunk disinformation, study finds – Voice of America

His murdered daughter’s name and image was used to create an AI chatbot - Washington Post

AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences – Bloomberg

America's gullibility crisis – Axios 

Russia using generative AI to ramp up disinformation, says Ukraine minister – Reuters

An American in Moscow is creating deepfakes & works with Russian intelligence -  Washington Post

AI deepfakes a top concern for election officials with voting underway – ABC News

What to know about the rise of AI deepfakes – CBS News (video) 

What to know about the rise of AI deepfakes – CBS News

High School Is Becoming a Cesspool of Sexually Explicit Deepfakes – The Atlantic

Sophistication of AI-backed operation targeting senator points to future of deepfake schemes – Associated Press

Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here - ArsTechnica

Taylor Swift and the Power of the AI Backlash – New York Magazine

How AI Is Helping ‘Fake Candidates’ Land Jobs – Wall Street Journal

A.I. Can Now Create Lifelike Videos. Can You Tell What’s Real? - The New York Times

FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist - ArsTechnica

Educational resource page with information and tips about deepfakes - Microsoft

5 Best Deepfake Detector Tools & Techniques – Unite  

U.S. Army soldier charged with using AI to create child sexual abuse images – Washington Post

New McAfee tool can detect AI-generated audio - Axios 

See why AI detection tools can fail to catch election deepfakes – Washington Post

Google's Nonconsensual Explicit Image Problem is Getting Worse – Wired

Something fascinating is wrong with the eyes in deepfakes – Futurism

Bill to Outlaw AI Deepfakes Backed by SAG-AFTRA – Variety  

As AI entrenches itself in the political world, discerning real from fake is critical – NBC Boston

The FCC wants the AI voice calling you to say it's a deepfake – Tech Radar

California lawmakers approve legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AI  - ABC News

YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training – Tech Crunch

Scammers now using deepfakes to commit title fraud – NBC 6 South Florida

Many political AI deepfakes are totally cartoonish, but the technology is still shaping the election – Fortune

AI-generated deepfakes are a growing threat to consumer identity – CBS 8

What the US can learn from the role of AI in other elections – MIT Tech Review

Fake and AI generated images spread online after Hurricanes Helene, Milton – NBC News  

Created an A.I. Voice Clone to Prank Telemarketers. But the Joke’s on Us. – New York Times

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes – 404 Media

The rise of fake influencers - Axis

A proposal to enhance AI text detectors - Arxiv

Why Watermarking Text Fails to Stop Misinformation and Plagiarism – Data Innovation

How A.I., QAnon and Falsehoods Are Reshaping the Presidential Race - New York Times 

Rice research could make weird AI images a thing of the past – Rice  

How to Tell If What You're Reading Was Written By AI - Lifehacker

Chatbots can chip away at belief in conspiracy theories - Axios

AI tool claims 94% accuracy in telling apart fake from real research papers – Decca Herald

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation – Harvard’s Kennedy School: Misinformation  

Teachers still can't trust AI text checkers – Axios

Is Detecting genAI in Scholarly Research Beside the Point? – Adam Day on Medium 

LinkedIn says if you share fake or false AI-generated content, that's on you – Tech Radar

Microsoft Bing Copilot blames reporter for crimes he covered - The Register

AI researchers call for ‘personhood credentials’ as bots get smarter – Washington Post   

AI was responsible for the fake quotes in the Megalopolis trailer – The Verge 

Trump Promotes A.I. Images to Falsely Suggest Taylor Swift Endorsed Him – New York Times

How do AI checkers actually work? - ZDnet

Watermarking in Images Will Not Solve AI-Generated Content Abuse – Data Innovation

Trump's crowd-photo claims speed AI-driven truth decay – Axios

This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it? – The Verge

Secretaries of state urge Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading false election info – Washington Post   

AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond? – Nature

Research findings strongly argue against the use of free AI detectors to detect fake scientific images - Arxiv 

How universities spot AI cheats – and the one word that gives it away – Telegraph  

US agents shut down huge Russian AI bot farm as fears over misinformation grow – Semafor 

Hunting for AI bots? These four words could do the trick – NBC News

How to Teach Kids to Spot AI Manipulation – Ed Week

OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT  - Tech Crunch 

Tom Hanks alerts fans about AI ads using his voice to sell ‘wonder drugs’: ‘Do not be fooled’ – LA Times 

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election – NPR

Why the Pentagon is looking to speedily buy deepfake-detection technology – Defense Scoop

Forget deepfake videos. Text and voice are this election’s true AI threat. – The Hill

Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All – Wired

Fake AI-generated video of Justin Timberlake drinking beer shocks fans: ‘Where do we go from here?’ – NY Post

Political deepfakes top list of malicious AI use, DeepMind finds – Financial Times 

A.I. Is Getting Better Fast. Can You Tell What’s Real Now? – New York Times

The Near Future of Deepfakes Just Got Way Clearer – The Atlantic

Deepfakes and the First Amendment: Are Deepfakes Illegal? – Freedom Forum

AI Fake Nudes Are Wreaking Havoc at Schools Across the Country – Wall Street Journal 

A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm - CNN  

‘I Felt Shameful and Fearful’: Teen Who Saw AI Fake Nudes of Herself Speaks Out - Wall Street Journal

How to spot generative AI ‘hallucinations’ and prevent them – ReadWrite

Few AI deepfakes identified in EU elections, Microsoft president says – Reuters 

The danger of deepfakes is not what you think – Financial Times

These ISIS news anchors are AI fakes. Their propaganda is real. – Washington Post

Generative AI poses Threat to election security, intelligence agencies warn – CBS News

Bank of Italy warns against AI-powered fake videos – Reuters

Google's AI Watermarks Will Identify Deepfakes – Dark Reading

In novel case, U.S. charges man with making child sex abuse images with AI – Washington Post

Voice-cloning technology bringing a key Supreme Court moment to 'life' – Associated Press

Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures – Wall Street Journal

New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes - Ars Technica 

She was accused of faking an incriminating video but nothing was fake after all  - The Guardian

TikTok’s AI watermarks could help curb deepfakes, but it’s no panacea – Semafor  

OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers – New York Times  

Microsoft and OpenAI launch $2M fund to counter election deepfakes – Tech Crunch

OpenAI Says It Can Now Detect Images Spawned by Its Software—Most of the Time – Wall Street Journal  

How AI-generated disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it – Reuters Institute  

How Generative AI Is Helping Fact-Checkers Flag Election Disinformation, But Is Less Useful in the Global South – Global Investigative Journalism Network  

In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024 – Washington Post

Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies - EL PAÍS English

Fooled by AI? These firms sell deepfake detection - Washington Post

There are limited guardrails to deter politicians and their allies from using AI to dupe voters, and enforcers are rarely a match for fakes that can spread quickly across social media or in group chats. The democratization of AI means it’s up to individuals — not regulators — to make ethical choices to stave off AI-induced election chaos. – Washington Post 

Adobe surveyed more than 2,000 people in the U.S. and 63% of said they would be less likely to vote for someone who uses GenAI in their promotional content during an election. – Fast Company 

Even a false-positive rate in the single digits will, at the scale of a modern social network, make tens of thousands of false accusations each day, eroding faith in the detector itself. - IEEE Spectrum 

It took me two days, $105 and no expertise whatsoever to launch a fully automated, AI-generated local news site capable of publishing thousands of articles a day—with the partisan news coverage framing of my choice, nearly all rewritten without credit from legitimate news sources. I created a website specifically designed to support one political candidate against another in a real race for the U.S. Senate. And I made it all happen in a matter of hours.- Wall Street Journal 

"Tools to detect AI-written content are notoriously unreliable and have resulted in what students say are false accusations of cheating and failing grades. OpenAI unveiled an AI-detection tool in Jan, but quietly scrapped it due to its “low rate of accuracy.” One of the most prominent tools to detect AI-written text, created by plagiarism detection company Turnitin.com, frequently flagged human writing as AI-generated, according to a Washington Post examination." – Washington Post

It’s important to remember that generative models shouldn’t be treated as a source of truth or factual knowledge. They surely can answer some questions correctly, but this is not what they are designed and trained for. It would be like using a racehorse to haul cargo: it’s possible, but not its intended purpose … Generative AI models are designed and trained to hallucinate, so hallucinations are a common product of any generative model … The job of a generative model is to generate data that is realistic or distributionally equivalent to the training data, yet different from actual data used for training. - InsideBigData

“No single tool is considered fully reliable yet for the general public to detect deepfake audio. A combined approach using multiple detection methods is what I will advise at this stage." Politifact

Too many educators think AI detectors are ‘a silver bullet and can help them do the difficult work of identifying possible academic misconduct.’ My favorite example of just how imperfect they can be: A detector called GPTZero claimed the US Constitution was written by AI. – Washington Post

Most deepfake audio detection providers “claim their tools are over 90% accurate at differentiating between real audio and AI-generated audio.” An NPR test of 84 clips revealed that the detection software often failed to identify AI-generated clips, or misidentified real voices as AI-generated, or both.”  - NPR 

In a year when billions of people worldwide are set to vote in elections, AI researcher Oren Etzioni continues to paint a bleak picture of what lies ahead. “I’m terrified. There is a very good chance we are going to see a tsunami of misinformation.” – New York Times

Google appears to have quietly struck a deal with one of the most controversial companies using AI to produce content online: AdVon Commerce, the contractor linked to Sports Illustrated's explosive AI scandal.  Google is trying to have it both ways: modifying its algorithms to suppress AI sludge while actively supporting attempts to create vastly more of it. – Futurism

Most online detection tools do not provide sufficient information about their development, making it difficult to evaluate and trust the detector results and their significance. - Global Investigative Journalism Network 

Run some of your other writing dated before the arrival of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022 through an AI detector, to see whether any of it gets flagged. If it does, the problem is clearly the detector, not the writing. (It’s a little aggressive, but one student told me he did the same with his instructor’s own writing to make the point.) – Washington Post

Men are quite confident (72%) in their ability to tell real news from fake news than women (59%), according to new polling from the Ipsos Consumer Tracker. We see a similar gender gap when it comes to our perceived ability to tell content that was created by AI. - Ipsos

A former high school athletic director was arrested after allegedly using AI to impersonate the school principal in a recording that included racist and antisemitic comments. The principal was temporarily removed from the school, and waves of hate-filled messages circulated on social media, while the school received numerous phone calls. – CBS News

Dubbed “model disgorgement,” AWS researchers have been experimenting with different computational methods to try and remove data that might lead to bias, toxicity, data privacy, or copyright infringement. – Semafor

Henry Cavill James Bond Trailer Gets 2.3M Views Despite Being an AI Fake – Hollywood Reporter

23 of the best deepfake examples that terrified and amused the internet – CreativeBloq

How to spot AI-generated deepfake images – Associated Press

AI-generated audio deepfakes are increasing. We tested four tools designed to detect them. - PolitiFact

Spotting LLMs With Binoculars: Zero-Shot Detection of Machine-Generated Text - arXiv

Wait, Can Turnitin Actually Detect If You Use ChatGPT For A Paper? – Her Campus

How to Spot AI-Generated Images – Every Pixel

A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written using the chatbot ChatGPT – Nature

AI bots are everywhere now. These telltale words give them away. - Washington Post 

Disinformation poses an unprecedented threat in 2024 — and the U.S. is less ready than ever – NBC News

AI washing explained: Everything you need to know – Tech Target

How to Spot AI Fakes (For Now) – McGill University  

The telltale signs of AI-generated images, video and audio, according to experts – News Nation

Spot the deepfake: The AI tools undermining our own eyes and ears – Politico

Hijacked Facebook Pages are pushing fake AI services to steal your data – ZDNet  

Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools – New York Times

Contest invites Penn Staters to write believable fake news with generative AI – Penn State

AI-fueled scams target tax refunds - Axios

AI Spam Threatens the Internet—AI Can Also Protect It – IEEE Spectrum

Fake news YouTube creators target Black celebrities with AI-generated misinformation – NBC

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’- CNN

Underage picture of Jenna Ortega used in ‘no clothes’ deepfake app ad on Instagram, Facebook – NBC

A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning - CNN

AI deepfakes of Taylor Swift spread on X. Here’s what to know. – Washington Post

A Photographer Who Found Instagram Fame for His Striking Portraits Has Confessed His Images Were Actually A.I.-Generated - ArtNet

A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. - Politico

Wait, Can Turnitin Actually Detect If You Use ChatGPT For A Paper? – Her Campus

How to Spot AI-Generated Images – Every Pixel

A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written using the chatbot ChatGPT – Nature

Google, Bing put deepfake porn at the top of some search results – NBC News

AI bots are everywhere now. These telltale words give them away. - Washington Post

Disinformation poses an unprecedented threat in 2024 — and the U.S. is less ready than ever – NBC News

"Tools to detect AI-written content are notoriously unreliable and have resulted in what students say are false accusations of cheating and failing grades. OpenAI unveiled an AI-detection tool in Jan, but quietly scrapped it due to its “low rate of accuracy.” One of the most prominent tools to detect AI-written text, created by plagiarism detection company Turnitin.com, frequently flagged human writing as AI-generated, according to a Washington Post examination." – Washington Post

Too many educators think AI detectors are ‘a silver bullet and can help them do the difficult work of identifying possible academic misconduct.’ My favorite example of just how imperfect they can be: A detector called GPTZero claimed the US Constitution was written by AI. – Washington Post

Run some of your other writing dated before the arrival of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022 through an AI detector, to see whether any of it gets flagged. If it does, the problem is clearly the detector, not the writing. (It’s a little aggressive, but one student told me he did the same with his instructor’s own writing to make the point.) – Washington Post

It’s important to remember that generative models shouldn’t be treated as a source of truth or factual knowledge. They surely can answer some questions correctly, but this is not what they are designed and trained for. It would be like using a racehorse to haul cargo: it’s possible, but not its intended purpose … Generative AI models are designed and trained to hallucinate, so hallucinations are a common product of any generative model … The job of a generative model is to generate data that is realistic or distributionally equivalent to the training data, yet different from actual data used for training. - InsideBigData

How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools? – New York Times

Can you tell which poem was written by ChatGPT? – Al Jazeera

20 Questions (with Answers) to Detect Fake Data Scientists: ChatGPT Edition, Part 1 – KD Nuggets

ChatGPT sparks surge of AI detection tools - Axios

AI-Created Images Are So Good Even AI Has Trouble Spotting Some – Wall Street Journal

Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See? – New York Times

Did a Fourth Grader Write This? Or the New Chatbot? - New York Times  

Only Half of Americans Can Differentiate Between AI and Human Writing – PC Mag

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Robotics

Future of farming? Carbon Robotics raises $70M for AI robots that blast weeds with lasers – Geek Wire  

The Battle Over Robots at U.S. Ports Is On – Wall Street Journal 

Microsoft is using AI-powered robots to help dismantle and destroy hard drives used in its data centers – Tech Radar

This AI humanoid robot helped assemble BMWs at US factory – Ars Technica  

A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots – New York Times

We Need to Control AI Agents Now Automated bots are about to be everywhere, with potentially devastating consequences. – The Atlantic  

Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment? – MIT Tech Review

An open-source vision-language-action model for robotics called OpenVLA has been released. – Venture Beat 

Ray Kurzweil is (still, somehow) excited about humans merging with machines – The Washington Post  

One-third of U.S. military could be robotic says former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – Axios  

Forget drones, this street-smart robot could be future of local deliveries – Fox News 

Sotheby's to auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot – CBS News 

MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores. – MIT Tech Review 

In America’s Factories, Even the Robots Are Getting Less Work – Wall Street Journal

The US Army is testing killer robot dogs with AI-powered rifles in the Middle East – Futuris 

AI and robots take center stage at ‘world’s largest tech event’ - CNN

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Students Using AI

Meet Sassy, the AI Chatbot Helping Students Find Their Dream Jobs – Ed Week 

How Students Can Use AI to Manage Their Time - CNET

Parents sue after student disciplined for using AI on school project in Massachusetts - CBS Boston

AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences – Bloomberg 

I write about AI for a living — and NotebookLM is the most exciting tech to arrive since ChatGPT – Tom’s Guide

The Students Who Are Overlooked by Most AI Tools – Ed Week  

Students with concentration issues turn to ChatGPT and similar AI tools, study finds -PsyPost 

Black teenagers twice as likely to be falsely accused of using AI tools in homework – Semafor  

A teacher caught students using ChatGPT on their first assignment to introduce themselves. Her post about it started a debate. – Business Insider

Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests - PopSci 

AI Cheating Is Getting Worse – The Atlantic

I tested 7 AI content detectors - they're getting dramatically better at identifying plagiarism – ZDnet  

Students and Professors Believe AI Will Aid Cheating – Inside Higher Ed 

Study shows disengaged students more likely to use AI tools for assignments – Phys.org 

Turkish student arrested for using AI to cheat in university exam – Reuters

AI can beat university students, study suggests - BBC

More than 400 Scottish students caught cheating using AI - AGCC 

What motivates students to use Generative AI and what would motivate them not to? – Dynamics of Writing

Understanding what AI can and cannot do well within the context of your course will be key as you contemplate revising your assignments and teaching.” -Hechinger Report

The University of Southern California rolled out its AI for Business major last year, a joint degree between the business and engineering schools. In its first year, the major received 713 applications from incoming freshmen for fewer than 50 spots. This year, over 1,000 students applied.  -Wall Street Journal

More than 1 in 6 bot conversations seemed to be students seeking help with their homework,” according to a review of nearly 200,000 English-language conversations by The Washington Post. “Some approached the bots like a tutor, hoping to get a better understanding of a subject area. Others just went all-in and copy-and-pasted multiple-choice questions from online courseware software and demanded the right answers. -Washington Post

Faculty will need to improve their own AI literacy. A good way to begin is to ask AI to perform assignments and projects that you typically ask your students to complete — and then try to improve the AI’s response. -Hechinger Report

Three in five college students say they are regular users of AI compared to 36 percent of instructors, according to research released in June by Tyton Partners -Inside Higher Ed

Magic School's Academic Content Generator: Enter your assignment description to receive suggestions on making it more challenging for AI chatbots, promoting higher-level thinking among students. -Magic School

Half of surveyed college students say they would be likely or extremely likely to use generative AI tools, even if they were banned by their instructor, according to research released in June by Tyton Partners. -Inside Higher Ed

What should a young person study in college? JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon recently said, “It almost doesn't matter because (we're) looking for smart, ethical, decent people. But I do think in business you should learn the language of business. So I think it would help to do accounting, finance, markets, something like that.” -Wall Street Journal

Nearly all college-bound high school seniors are familiar with generative artificial intelligence tools, and the vast majority of them have used those tools, according to a new survey. It found 19 out of 20 students are familiar with generative AI and 69% of college-bound students have used generative AI tools. -The National Desk

There are students who are leaning on AI too much. But it’s not pervasive. The number of students using AI to complete their schoolwork hasn’t skyrocketed in the past year. -Ed Week

If students don’t learn about how AI works, they won’t understand its limitations – and therefore how it is useful and appropriate to use and how it’s not. -The Conversation

The teachers will say, ‘Don’t use AI because it is very inaccurate and it will make up things. But then they use AI to detect AI.’ - a Houston high school senior quoted in EdWeek

A survey of students in grades 6-12, released by the nonpartisan think tank Center for Democracy & Technology, found that students with special needs are more likely than their peers to use generative AI and be disciplined for doing so. -Center for Democracy & Technology

How two professors harnessed generative AI to teach students to be better writers – Fast Company

AI isn't a daily habit yet for teens, young adults - Axios

University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to Make – 404 Media

College-bound students concerned about AI skills – Inside Higher Ed  

New report shows widespread usage of AI by high school seniors – The National Desk

AI Detection Is a Business. But Should It Be Faculty Business? – Chronicle of Higher Ed  

New Data Reveal How Many Students Are Using AI to Cheat – Ed Week 

The Risky Words That Might Make School Admissions Suspect AI Wrote Your Essay – Slash Gear

College student put on academic probation for using Grammarly: ‘AI violation’ – New York Post  

Facial Recognition Heads to Class. Will Students Benefit? - Inside Higher Ed

66% of leaders wouldn't hire someone without AI skills, report finds – ZDnet

Humans plus AI detectors can catch AI-generated academic writing – University World News

Teen and Young Adult Perspectives on Generative AI: Patterns of Use, Excitements, and Concerns – Common Sense Media

AI and the Death of Student Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed

How two professors harnessed generative AI to teach students to be better writers – Fast Company

A.I. Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students – New York Times

AI is getting very popular among students and teachers, very quickly – CNBC

Generation GPT: What Gen Z really thinks about ‘world-changing’ AI – Washington Post

9 AI Tools For College Students That’ll Make Your Life So Much Easier – Her Campus

My 5 favorite AI tools for school: Class is in session, and generative AI can help – ZDnet

Nearly half of college students are using AI tools this fall, but fewer than a quarter of faculty members use them – Inside Higher Ed 

Artificial Intelligence: A Graduate-Student User’s Guide – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Applying to College? Here’s How A.I. Tools Might Hurt, or Help. – New York Times

Turns out that students, not teachers, are the bigger skeptics when it comes to using ChatGPT -  Ed Week  

Students can quote ChatGPT in essays as long as they do not pass the work off as their own, international qualification body says – Business Insider

AI bots can seem sentient. Students need guardrails - Inside Higher Ed

Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests - New York Times

Can ChatGPT get into Harvard? We tested its admissions essay - Washington Post

Your classmate could be an AI student at this Michigan university – Futurism  

Surprise! AI chatbots don't increase student cheating afterall, new research finds - ZDnet

Survey: College students' thoughts on AI and careers – Inside Higher Ed 

What Students Are Saying About Learning to Write in the Age of A.I. - New York Times

For students who do not self-identify as writers, for those who struggle with writer’s block or for underrepresented students seeking to find their voices, it can provide a meaningful assist during initial stages of the writing process. Inside Higher Ed

Let’s be honest. Ideas are more important than how they are written. So, I use ChatGPT to help me organize my ideas better and make them sound more professional. The Tech Insider 

Students could (use AI to) look for where the writing took a predictable turn or identify places where the prose is inconsistent. Students could then work to make the prose more intellectually stimulating for humans. Inside Higher Ed 

If you’re a college student preparing for life in an A.I. world, you need to ask yourself: Which classes will give me the skills that machines will not replicate, making me more distinctly human? A.I. often churns out the kind of impersonal bureaucratic prose that is found in corporate communications or academic journals. You’ll want to develop a voice as distinct as those of George Orwell, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe and James Baldwin, so take classes in which you are reading distinctive and flamboyant voices so you can craft your own. New York Times

Imagine if the platform extracted campus-specific information about gen ed and major requirements. It could then provide quality academic advice to students that current chat bots can’t. Inside Higher Ed 

ChatGPT may be able to help with more basic functions, such as assisting with writing in English for those who do not speak it natively. Tech Radar

What if the platform had access to real-time local or regional job market data and trends and data about the efficacy of various skills certificates? It could then serve as initial-tier career counseling. Inside Higher Ed

On TikTok, the hashtag #chatgpt has more than 578 million views, with people sharing videos of the tool writing papers and solving coding problems. New York Times 

The student who is using it because they lack the expertise is exactly the student who is not ready to assess what it’s doing critically. Some argue that it’s not worth the time spent ferreting out a few cheaters and would rather focus their energy on students who are there to learn. Others say they can’t afford to look the other way. Chronicle of Higher Ed

It used to be about mastery of content. Now, students need to understand content, but it’s much more about mastery of the interpretation and utilization of the content. Inside Higher Ed

Don’t fixate on how much evidence you have but on how much evidence will persuade your intended audience. ChatGPT distills everything on the internet through its filter and dumps it on the reader; your flawed and beautiful mind, by contrast, makes its mark on your subject by choosing the right evidence, not all the evidence. Find the six feet that your reader needs, and put the rest of your estate up for auction. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

A.I. is good at predicting what word should come next, so you want to be really good at being unpredictable,departing from the conventional. New York Times 

We surpass the AI by standing on its shoulders. Boris Steipe, associate professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto, for example, encourages students to engage in a Socratic debate with ChatGPT as a way of thinking through a question and articulating an argument. “You will get the plain vanilla answer—what everybody thinks—from ChatGPT,” Steipe said, “That’s where you need to start to think. That’s where you need to ask, ‘How is it possibly incomplete?’” Inside Higher Ed

Students can leverage ChatGPT as a tutor or homework supplement, especially if they need to catch up. ChatGPT’s ability to make curated responses is unparalleled, so if a student needs a scientific explanation for a sixth-grade reading level, ChatGPT can adapt. New York Magazine

The common fear among teachers is that AI is actually writing our essays for us, but that isn’t what happens. The more effective, and increasingly popular, strategy is to tell the algorithm what your topic is and ask for a central claim, then have it give you an outline to argue this claim. Depending on the topic, you might even be able to have it write each paragraph the outline calls for, one by one, then rewrite them yourself to make them flow better. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Marc Watkins, lecturer in composition and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi: “Our students are not John Henry, and AI is not a steam-powered drilling machine that will replace them. We don’t need to exhaust ourselves trying to surpass technology.” Inside Higher Ed

These tools can function like personal assistants: Ask ChatGPT to create a study schedule, simplify a complex idea, or suggest topics for a research paper, and it can do that. That could be a boon for students who have trouble managing their time, processing information, or ordering their thoughts. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Students who lack confidence in their ability to learn might allow the products of these AI tools to replace their own voices or ideas.  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Students describe using OpenAI’s tool as well as others for much more than generating essays. They are asking the bots to create workout plans, give relationship advice, suggest characters for a short story, make a joke and provide recipes for the random things left in their refrigerators. Washington Post 

Bots like ChatGPT show great promise as a “writing consultant” for students. “It’s not often that students have a chance to sit down with a professor and have long discussions about how to go about this paper, that paper, how to approach research on this topic and that topic. But ChatGPT can do that for them, provided…they know how to use the right ethics, to use it as a tool and not a replacement for their work.” CalMatters

Don’t rely on AI to know things instead of knowing them yourself. AI can lend a helping hand, but it’s an artificial intelligence that isn’t the same as yours. One scientist described to me how younger colleagues often “cobble together a solution” to a problem by using AI. But if the solution doesn’t work, “they don’t have anywhere to turn because they don’t understand the crux of the problem” that they’re trying to solve. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Janine Holc thinks that students are much too reliant on generative AI, defaulting to it, she wrote, “for even the smallest writing, such as a one sentence response uploaded to a shared document.” As a result, wrote Holc, a professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland, “they have lost confidence in their own writing process. I think the issue of confidence in one’s own voice is something to be addressed as we grapple with this topic.” Chronicle of Higher Ed

It’s a conversation that can be evoked at will. But it’s not different in the content. You still have to evaluate what someone says and whether or not it’s sensible. CalMatters

Helena Kashleva, an adjunct instructor at Florida SouthWestern State College, spots a sea-change in STEM education, noting that many assignments in introductory courses serve mainly to check students’ understanding. “With the advent of AI, grading such assignments becomes pointless.” Chronicle of Higher Ed

Given how widely faculty members vary on what kinds of AI are OK for students to use, though, that may be an impossible goal. And of course, even if they find common ground, the technology is evolving so quickly that policies may soon become obsolete. Students are also getting more savvy in their use of these tools. It’s going to be hard for their instructors to keep up. Chronicle of Higher Ed

In situations when you or your group feel stuck, generative AI can definitely help. The trick is to learn how to prompt it in a way that can help you get unstuck. Sometimes you’ll need to try a few prompts up until you’ll get something you like.  UXdesign.cc 

Proponents contend that classroom chatbots could democratize the idea of tutoring by automatically customizing responses to students, allowing them to work on lessons at their own pace. Critics warn that the bots, which are trained on vast databases of texts, can fabricate plausible-sounding misinformation — making them a risky bet for schools. New York Times

Parents are eager to have their children use the generative AI technology in the classroom. Sixty-four percent said they think teachers and schools should allow students to use ChatGPT to do schoolwork, with 28 percent saying that schools should encourage the technology’s use. Ed Week

Student newspaper editors at Middlebury College have called for a reconsideration of the school’s honor code after a survey found two-thirds of students admitted to breaking it—nearly twice as many as before the pandemic. Wall Street Journal

If you are accused of cheating with AI Google Docs or Microsoft Word could help. Both offer a version history function that can keep track of changes to the file, so you can demonstrate how long you worked on it and that whole chunks didn’t magically appear. Some students simply screen record themselves writing. Washington Post

There is no bright line between “my intelligence” and “other intelligence,” artificial or otherwise. It’s an academic truism that no idea exists in an intellectual vacuum. We use other people’s ideas whenever we quote or paraphrase. The important thing is how. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Quizlet has announced four new AI features that will help with student learning and managing their classwork, including Magic Notes, Memory Score, Quick Summary, and AI-Enhanced Expert Solutions.  ZDnet

James Neave, Adzuna’s head of data science, recommends interested job applicants build up their AI skills and stand out from the competition in three key ways: Stay on top of developments, use AI in your own work, and show how you’ve used AI successfully to achieve a specific goal. CNBC 

Bots like ChatGPT show great promise as a “writing consultant” for students. “It’s not often that students have a chance to sit down with a professor and have long discussions about how to go about this paper, that paper, how to approach research on this topic and that topic. But ChatGPT can do that for them, provided…they know how to use the right ethics, to use it as a tool and not a replacement for their work.” CalMatters

Don’t rely on AI to know things instead of knowing them yourself. AI can lend a helping hand, but it’s an artificial intelligence that isn’t the same as yours. One scientist described to me how younger colleagues often “cobble together a solution” to a problem by using AI. But if the solution doesn’t work, “they don’t have anywhere to turn because they don’t understand the crux of the problem” that they’re trying to solve. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Janine Holc thinks that students are much too reliant on generative AI, defaulting to it, she wrote, “for even the smallest writing, such as a one sentence response uploaded to a shared document.” As a result, wrote Holc, a professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland, “they have lost confidence in their own writing process. I think the issue of confidence in one’s own voice is something to be addressed as we grapple with this topic.” Chronicle of Higher Ed

It’s a conversation that can be evoked at will. But it’s not different in the content. You still have to evaluate what someone says and whether or not it’s sensible. CalMatters

Helena Kashleva, an adjunct instructor at Florida SouthWestern State College, spots a sea-change in STEM education, noting that many assignments in introductory courses serve mainly to check students’ understanding. “With the advent of AI, grading such assignments becomes pointless.” Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Given how widely faculty members vary on what kinds of AI are OK for students to use, though, that may be an impossible goal. And of course, even if they find common ground, the technology is evolving so quickly that policies may soon become obsolete. Students are also getting more savvy in their use of these tools. It’s going to be hard for their instructors to keep up. Chronicle of Higher Ed

In situations when you or your group feel stuck, generative AI can definitely help. The trick is to learn how to prompt it in a way that can help you get unstuck. Sometimes you’ll need to try a few prompts up until you’ll get something you like.  UXdesign.cc

Proponents contend that classroom chatbots could democratize the idea of tutoring by automatically customizing responses to students, allowing them to work on lessons at their own pace. Critics warn that the bots, which are trained on vast databases of texts, can fabricate plausible-sounding misinformation — making them a risky bet for schools. New York Times

Parents are eager to have their children use the generative AI technology in the classroom. Sixty-four percent said they think teachers and schools should allow students to use ChatGPT to do schoolwork, with 28 percent saying that schools should encourage the technology’s use. Ed Week

Student newspaper editors at Middlebury College have called for a reconsideration of the school’s honor code after a survey found two-thirds of students admitted to breaking it—nearly twice as many as before the pandemic. Wall Street Journal

If you are accused of cheating with AI Google Docs or Microsoft Word could help. Both offer a version history function that can keep track of changes to the file, so you can demonstrate how long you worked on it and that whole chunks didn’t magically appear. Some students simply screen record themselves writing. Washington Post 

There is no bright line between “my intelligence” and “other intelligence,” artificial or otherwise. It’s an academic truism that no idea exists in an intellectual vacuum. We use other people’s ideas whenever we quote or paraphrase. The important thing is how. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Quizlet has announced four new AI features that will help with student learning and managing their classwork, including Magic Notes, Memory Score, Quick Summary, and AI-Enhanced Expert Solutions.  ZDnet

James Neave, Adzuna’s head of data science, recommends interested job applicants build up their AI skills and stand out from the competition in three key ways: Stay on top of developments, use AI in your own work, and show how you’ve used AI successfully to achieve a specific goal. CNBC

For students who do not self-identify as writers, for those who struggle with writer’s block or for underrepresented students seeking to find their voices, it can provide a meaningful assist during initial stages of the writing process. Inside Higher Ed 

Let’s be honest. Ideas are more important than how they are written. So, I use ChatGPT to help me organize my ideas better and make them sound more professional. The Tech Insider

Students could (use AI to) look for where the writing took a predictable turn or identify places where the prose is inconsistent. Students could then work to make the prose more intellectually stimulating for humans. Inside Higher Ed

If you’re a college student preparing for life in an A.I. world, you need to ask yourself: Which classes will give me the skills that machines will not replicate, making me more distinctly human? A.I. often churns out the kind of impersonal bureaucratic prose that is found in corporate communications or academic journals. You’ll want to develop a voice as distinct as those of George Orwell, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe and James Baldwin, so take classes in which you are reading distinctive and flamboyant voices so you can craft your own. New York Times

Imagine if the platform extracted campus-specific information about gen ed and major requirements. It could then provide quality academic advice to students that current chat bots can’t. Inside Higher Ed 

ChatGPT may be able to help with more basic functions, such as assisting with writing in English for those who do not speak it natively. Tech Radar

What if the platform had access to real-time local or regional job market data and trends and data about the efficacy of various skills certificates? It could then serve as initial-tier career counseling. Inside Higher Ed 

On TikTok, the hashtag #chatgpt has more than 578 million views, with people sharing videos of the tool writing papers and solving coding problems. New York Times 

The student who is using it because they lack the expertise is exactly the student who is not ready to assess what it’s doing critically. Some argue that it’s not worth the time spent ferreting out a few cheaters and would rather focus their energy on students who are there to learn. Others say they can’t afford to look the other way. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

It used to be about mastery of content. Now, students need to understand content, but it’s much more about mastery of the interpretation and utilization of the content. Inside Higher Ed

Don’t fixate on how much evidence you have but on how much evidence will persuade your intended audience. ChatGPT distills everything on the internet through its filter and dumps it on the reader; your flawed and beautiful mind, by contrast, makes its mark on your subject by choosing the right evidence, not all the evidence. Find the six feet that your reader needs, and put the rest of your estate up for auction. Chronicle of Higher Ed

A.I. is good at predicting what word should come next, so you want to be really good at being unpredictable,departing from the conventional. New York Times

We surpass the AI by standing on its shoulders. Boris Steipe, associate professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto, for example, encourages students to engage in a Socratic debate with ChatGPT as a way of thinking through a question and articulating an argument. “You will get the plain vanilla answer—what everybody thinks—from ChatGPT,” Steipe said, “That’s where you need to start to think. That’s where you need to ask, ‘How is it possibly incomplete?’” Inside Higher Ed 

Students can leverage ChatGPT as a tutor or homework supplement, especially if they need to catch up. ChatGPT’s ability to make curated responses is unparalleled, so if a student needs a scientific explanation for a sixth-grade reading level, ChatGPT can adapt. New York Magazine 

The common fear among teachers is that AI is actually writing our essays for us, but that isn’t what happens. The more effective, and increasingly popular, strategy is to tell the algorithm what your topic is and ask for a central claim, then have it give you an outline to argue this claim. Depending on the topic, you might even be able to have it write each paragraph the outline calls for, one by one, then rewrite them yourself to make them flow better. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Marc Watkins, lecturer in composition and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi: “Our students are not John Henry, and AI is not a steam-powered drilling machine that will replace them. We don’t need to exhaust ourselves trying to surpass technology.” Inside Higher Ed

These tools can function like personal assistants: Ask ChatGPT to create a study schedule, simplify a complex idea, or suggest topics for a research paper, and it can do that. That could be a boon for students who have trouble managing their time, processing information, or ordering their thoughts. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Students who lack confidence in their ability to learn might allow the products of these AI tools to replace their own voices or ideas.  Chronicle of Higher Ed

Students describe using OpenAI’s tool as well as others for much more than generating essays. They are asking the bots to create workout plans, give relationship advice, suggest characters for a short story, make a joke and provide recipes for the random things left in their refrigerators. Washington Post

Basak-Odisio will use it only, he said, if he has procrastinated too much and is facing an impossible deadline. “If it is the day or night before, and I want to finish something as quickly as possible — ” he said, trailing off. “But,” he added, “I want to be better than that.” Washington Post 

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Teaching with AI

New AI Tools Are Promoted as Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good? - EdSurge

Cheating Has Become Normal - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Your AI Policy Is Already Obsolete - Inside Higher Ed 

California Law Requires Schools to Teach Students About AI – Gov Tech  

Is AI Really a Threat to Higher Education? – Psychology Today

Teaching Entrepreneurship Students to Self-Teach With AI - Inside Higher Ed 

Parents Sue After School Disciplined Student for AI Use: Takeaways for Educators – Ed Week  

Colleges begin to reimagine learning in an AI world - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

The art of asking questions: Does AI in the classroom facilitate deep learning in students? – William & Mary  

How universities spot AI cheats – and the one word that gives it away – Telegraph

Colleges Race to Ready Students for the AI Workplace – Wall Street Journal

Owning the Unknown: Teaching and Learning With AI – Inside Higher Ed

What Teachers Told Me About A.I. in School - New York Times 

5 Small Steps for AI Skeptics: Getting academics to teach with AI is a tough nut to crack – Chronicle of Higher Ed

W&M professor publishes children’s book to teach AI fundamentals - William & Mary

I found myself spending more time giving feedback to AI than to my students. So I quit. - TIME 

ChatGPT Can Make English Teachers Feel Doomed. Here’s How I’m Adapting – Ed Week

Some NYC teachers experiment with AI-powered tools, while Education Department develops guidelines – Chalkbeat

What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn? – EdSurge

Survey: How Are Profs, Staff Using AI? – Inside Higher Ed  

What teachers call AI cheating, leaders in the workforce might call progress – Hechinger Report

Teachers Use AI to Grade Student Work. It’s Harsher Than They Are. Teachers Use AI to Grade Student Work. It’s Harsher Than They Are. – Wall Street Journal

AI can't replace teaching but it can make it better – Wired

What's next with AI in higher education? – Phys.org

AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught – IEEE 

Morehouse College is Using AI assistants – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Can I Use A.I. to Grade My Students’ Papers? – New York Times

Academic Success Tip: Infusing AI into Curricular Offerings – Inside Higher Ed

Google and MIT launch a free generative AI course for teachers – Zdnet  

This AI Tool Cut One Teacher's Grading Time in Half. How It Works – Ed Week

California teachers are using AI to grade papers. Who’s grading the AI? – Cal Matters

Making Progress Against ChatGPT - Inside Higher Ed

A quarter of U.S. teachers say AI tools do more harm than good in K-12 education – Pew Research

How two professors harnessed generative AI to teach students to be better writers – Fast Company  

AI, online courses divide students, faculty, administrators – Inside Higher Ed

Professors Ask: Are We Just Grading Robots? Some are riding the AI wave. Others feel like they’re drowning. –Chronicle of Higher Ed  

How AI Is Changing The Teaching Profession Forever – Forbes

How a computer science professor is using AI in her classroom – UAB

Are You Ready To Use AI In Your Teaching? – Forbes  

Survey: How Are Profs, Staff Using AI? – Inside Higher Ed 

Why AI Won’t Replace Teachers As Motivators – Forbes

How to Teach Kids to Spot AI Manipulation – Ed Week

More Teachers Are Using AI-Detection Tools. Here’s Why That Might Be a Problem – EdWeek

Actionable strategies for integrating AI into the classroom – Higher Ed Dive

Teachers are embracing ChatGPT-powered grading – Axios

The Responsible Use of Generative AI in Education Technology – Epam

Ban or Embrace? Colleges Wrestle With A.I.-Generated Admissions Essays. - The New York Times 

7 AI Tools That Help Teachers Work More Efficiently – Edutopia 

Teachers and professors now using AI as a learning tool – Scripts

Claude AI – PDF Analysis for Teachers – The AI English Teacher

Will Chatbots Teach Your Children? - The New York Times

AI Will Shake Up Higher Ed. Are Colleges Ready? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

By infusing GPT with its own database of lesson plans, essays and sample problems, Khan Academy improved accuracy and reduced hallucinations. – Washington Post

How AI Should Change Math Education – Ed Week  

How artificial intelligence can help build real intelligence in the classroom – Harvard

Teachers are using AI to grade essays. But some experts are raising ethical concerns – CNN

Teaching With AI — What You Need To Know – Forbes

UNC Journalism Professors Grapple With Teaching AI as it Upends the Media Landscape - Indy Week

Is early childhood education ready for AI? – Hechinger Reports

Business Schools Are Going All In on AI – Wall Street Journal

Using Generative AI to Teach Philosophy – Daily Nous

Microsoft unveils first professional certificate for generative AI skills – ZDnet  

Confused About Which AI Tools to Use? These Teachers Have Advice – Education Week  

The Sentient Syllabus Project – a collaborative effort launched by Professor Boris Steipe 

4 Steps to Help You Plan for ChatGPT in Your Classroom -Chronicle of Higher Ed

Is ChatGPT being embraced in classrooms this semester? – Semafor

AI Guidance for Faculty from Harvard’s Office of Undergraduate Education – Harvard

Schools Need to Help Students Use AI Tools Effectively, Expert Says – EdWeek

What I Learned From an Experiment to Apply Generative AI to My Data Course - EdSurge News 

Why You Should Rethink Your Resistance to ChatGPT – Chronicle of Higher Ed

1 in 10 teens already use ChatGPT for school. Here’s how to guide them. – Washington Post 

Research shows that when students feel confident that they can successfully do the work assigned to them, they are less likely to cheat. And an important way to boost students’ confidence is to provide them with opportunities to experience success. ChatGPT can facilitate such experiences by offering students individualized support and breaking down complex problems into smaller challenges or tasks. The Conversation

 Rather than trying to stop the tools and, for instance, telling students not to use them, in my class I’m telling students to embrace them – but I expect their quality of work to be that much better now they have the help of these tools. Ultimately, by the end of the semester, I'm expecting the students to turn in assignments that are substantially more creative and interesting than the ones last year’s students or previous generations of students could have created. We Forum 

ChatGPT can be directed to deliver feedback using positive, empathetic and encouraging language. For example, if a student completes a math problem incorrectly, instead of merely telling the student “You are wrong and the correct answer is …,” ChatGPT may initiate a conversation with the student. The Conversation 

“AI can help with lesson planning,” Kerry O’Grady, an associate professor of public relations at Columbia University wrote, “ including selecting examples, reviewing key concepts before class, and helping with teaching/activity ideas.” This, she says, can help professors save both time and energy. Chronicle of Higher Ed

I don’t think that AI is going to necessarily destroy education. I don’t think it’s going to revolutionize education, either. I think it’s just going to sort of expand the toolbox of what’s possible in our classrooms. CalMatters

AI could analyze an individual learner's strengths, weaknesses and learning styles during online training and then recommend the most effective teaching methods and most relevant resources. Eventually, AI-powered virtual assistants could become standard features in learning platforms by providing real-time support and feedback to learners as they progress through their courses. TechTarget

Use these tools to help you understand challenging passages in assigned readings, or to build preliminary foundational knowledge to help you understand more difficult concepts. Don’t use AI to cheat — use it as a tool to help you learn. Chronicle of Higher Ed

As AI-enabled cheating roils colleges, professors turn to an ancient testing method— oral examinations, which date at least to ancient Greece, are getting new attention. Wall Street Journal

Even as some educators raise concerns, others see potential for new AI technology to reduce teacher workloads or help bring teaching materials to life in new ways. EdSurge

Professors can use the new technology to encourage students to engage in a range of productive ChatGPT activities, including thinking, questioning, debating, identifying shortcomings and experimenting. Inside Higher Ed 

Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business said ChatGPT has already changed his expectations of his students. “I expect them to write more and expect them to write better,” he said. “This is a force multiplier for writing. I expect them to use it.” Forbes

ChatGPT can create David, said David Chrisinger, who directs the writing program at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, referring to the famous Michelangelo statue. “But his head is too big and his legs are too short. Now it’s our job to interrogate the evidence and improve on what it gives us,” he said. Wall Street Journal 

For some educators, the chatbot helps to make their job easier by creating lesson plans and material for their students. Mashable 

We can teach students that there is a time, place and a way to use GPT3 and other AI writing tools. It depends on the learning objectives. Inside Higher Ed 

Judging from the reaction on TikTok, teachers on the app see ChatGPT as a tool to be treated the same way calculators and cell phones are used in class — as resources to help students succeed but not do the work for them. Mashable 

Faculty members need time to play with new tools and explore their implications. Administrators can carve out time for faculty training support. How does bias play out in your area within the model? Inside Higher Ed 

Here’s what I plan to do about chatbots in my classes: pretty much nothing. Washington Post

If a program can do a job as well as a person, then humans shouldn’t duplicate those abilities; they must surpass them. The next task for higher education, then, is to prepare graduates to make the most effective use of the new tools and to rise above and go beyond their limitations. That means pedagogies that emphasize active and experiential learning, that show students how to take advantage of these new technologies and that produce graduates who can do those things that the tools can’t. Inside Higher Ed 

Are new rubrics and assignment descriptions needed? Will you add an AI writing code of conduct to your syllabus? Divisions or departments might agree on expectations across courses. That way, students need not scramble to interpret academic misconduct across multiple courses. Inside Higher Ed

We should be telling our undergraduates that good writing isn’t just about subject-verb agreement or avoiding grammatical errors—not even good academic writing. Good writing reminds us of our humanity, the humanity of others and all the ugly, beautiful ways in which we exist in the world. Inside Higher Ed

(Some) professors are enthusiastic, or at least intrigued, by the possibility of incorporating generative AI into academic life. Those same tools can help students — and professors — brainstorm, kick-start an essay, explain a confusing idea, and smooth out awkward first drafts. Equally important, these faculty members argue, is their responsibility to prepare students for a world in which these technologies will be incorporated into everyday life, helping to produce everything from a professional email to a legal contract. Chronicle of Higher Ed

After discovering my first ChatGPT essay, I decided that going forward, students can use generative A.I. on assignments, so long as they disclose how and why. I’m hoping this will lead to less banging my head against the kitchen table–and, at its best, be its own kind of lesson. Slate

There’s plenty to agree on, such as motivating students to do their own work, adapting teaching to this new reality, and fostering AI literacy. Chronicle of Higher Ed

As academe adjusts to a world with ChatGPT, faculty will need to find fresh ways to assess students’ writing.The same was true when calculators first began to appear in math classrooms, and professors adapted the exams. “Academic integrity is about being honest about the way you did your work.” Spell checkers, David Rettinger, president emeritus at the International Center for Academic Integrity, pointed out, are a prime example of artificial intelligence that may have been controversial at first, but are now used routinely without a second thought to produce papers. Chronicle of Higher Ed

For those tasked to perform tedious and formulaic writing, we don’t doubt that some version of this tool could be a boon. Perhaps ChatGPT’s most grateful academic users will not be students, but deans and department headsracking their brains for buzzwords on “excellence” while talking up the latest strategic plan. Public Books

These technologies introduce opportunities for educators to rethink assessment practices and engage students in deeper and more meaningful learning that can promote critical thinking skills. World Economic Forum 

Khan Academy founder Sal Khan says the latest version of the generative AI engine makes a pretty good tutor.Axios

Information that was once dispensed in the classroom is now everywhere: first online, then in chatbots. What educators must now do is show students not only how to find it, but what information to trust and what not to, and how to tell the difference. MIT Tech Review

Don’t wait until you feel like an expert to discuss AI in your courses. Learn about it in class alongside your students. Chronicle of Higher Ed

The old education model in which teachers deliver information to later be condensed and repeated will not prepare our students for success in the classroom—or the jobs of tomorrow. Brookings

What if we could train it on our own rules and regulations, so if it hits an ethical issue or a problem, it could say to students: ‘you need to stop here and take that problem to the ethical lead.’ Columbia Journalism Review

I look at it as the future of: What if we could program it to be our substitute teacher at school? EdSurge 

Once you start to think of a chatbot as a tool, rather than a replacement, its possibilities become very exciting. Vice

Training ourselves and our students to work with AI doesn’t require inviting AI to every conversation we have. In fact, I believe it’s essential that we don’t.  Inside Higher Ed

A US survey of 1,002 K–12 teachers and 1,000 students between 12 and 17, commissioned by the Walton Family Foundation in February, found that more than half the teachers had used ChatGPT—10% of them reported using it every day—but only a third of the students. Nearly all those who had used it (88% of teachers and 79% of students) said it had a positive impact. MIT Tech Review

For my students and for the public, the quickest way to feel hopeless in the face of seemingly unstoppable technological change is to decide that it is all-powerful and too complicated for an ordinary person to understand. Slate 

Consider the tools relative to your course. What are the cognitive tasks students need to perform without AI assistance? When should students rely on AI assistance? Where can an AI aid facilitate a better outcome? Are there efficiencies in grading that can be gained? Are new rubrics and assignment descriptions needed? Will you add an AI writing code of conduct to your syllabus? Do these changes require structural shifts in timetabling, class size or number of teaching assistants? Inside Higher Ed

Last night, I received an essay draft from a student. I passed it along to OpenAI’s bots. “Can you fix this essay up and make it better?” Turns out, it could. It kept the student’s words intact but employed them more gracefully; it removed the clutter so the ideas were able to shine through. It was like magic. The Atlantic

Its ability to do so well in that niche might be a reminder to us that we’ve allowed academic writing to become a little bit too tightly bound up in a predictable pattern. Maybe forcing us to stretch the kind of assignments we’re giving students is not a bad thing. Inside Higher Ed 

The teaching of writing has too often involved teaching students to follow an algorithm. Your essay will have five paragraphs; start the first one in with a sentence about your main idea, then fill in three paragraphs with supporting ideas, then wrap it up with a conclusion. Call it a format or a template or an algorithm. Schools have taught students to assemble essays to satisfy algorithms for judging their writing—algorithms that may be used by either humans or software, with little real difference. If this kind of writing can be done by a machine that doesn’t have a single thought in its head, what does that tell us about what we’ve been asking of students. The unfortunate side effect is that teachers end up grading students not on the quality of their end product, but on how well they followed the teacher-required algorithm. Forbes

AI writing tools bring urgency to a pedagogical question: If a machine can produce prose that accomplishes the learning outcomes of a college writing assignment, what does that say about the assignment? Inside Higher Ed

ChatGPT is a dynamic demonstration that if you approach an essay by thinking “I’ll just write something about Huckelberry Finn,” you get mediocre junk. Better thinking about what you want the essay to be about, what you want it to say, and how you want to say it gets you a better result, even if you’re having an app do the grunt work of stringing words together. Forbes 

AI is trained on large data sets; if the data set of writing on which the writing tool is trained reflects societal prejudices, then the essays it produces will likely reproduce those views. Similarly, if the training sets underrepresent the views of marginalized populations, then the essays they produce may omit those views as well. Inside Higher Ed 

Artificial intelligence is likely to have some impact on how students write, according to John Gallagher, a professor in the English department at the University of Illinois. When word processors replaced typewriters, written sentences got longer and more complicated, he said. Wall Street Journal

In-class exams — the ChatGPT-induced alternative to writing assignments — are worthless when it comes to learning how to write, because no professor expects to see polished prose in such time-limited contexts. Washington Post

Students will only gravitate to chat bots if the message they are getting from their writing instructors is that the most important qualities of writing are technical proficiency and correctness. Inside Higher Ed 

Hold individual conferences on student writing or ask students to submit audio/video reflections on their writing. As we talk with students about their writing, or listen to them talk about it, we get a better sense of their thinking. By encouraging student engagement and building relationships, these activities could discourage reliance on automated tools. Critical AI

It’s not easy to write like a human, especially now, when AI or the worn-in grooves of scholarly habits are right there at hand. Resist the temptation to produce robotic prose, though, and you’ll find that you’re reaching new human readers, in the way that only human writers can. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Here’s an idea for extracting something positive from the inevitable prominence that chatbots will achieve in coming years. My students and I can spend some class time critically appraising a chatbot-generated essay, revealing its shortcomings and deconstructing its strengths. Washington Post

David Chrisinger, who directs the writing program at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago is asking his students to generate a 600-word essay using ChatGPT. Then their assignment is to think of more incisive questions to elicit a stronger response. Finally, they are required to edit the essay for tone and voice and to tailor it to the intended audience. Wall Street Journal

Instead of just presenting conclusions, give the reader a glimpse of your origin story as a researcher, a sense of the stumbling blocks you encountered along the way, and a description of the elation or illumination you felt when you experienced your eureka moment. If you tell stories, tell them well. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Students may be more likely to complete an assignment without automated assistance if they’ve gotten started through in-class writing. (Note: In-class writing, whether digital or handwritten, may have downsides for students with anxiety and disabilities). Critical AI 

In a world where students are taught to write like robots, a robot can write for them. Students who care more about their GPA than muddling through ideas and learning how to think will run to The Bot to produce the cleanest written English. The goal is to work through thoughts and further research and revision to land on something potentially messy but deeply thought out. Inside Higher Ed 

ChatGPT is good at grammar and syntax but suffers from formulaic, derivative, or inaccurate content. The tool seems more beneficial for those who already have a lot of experience writing–not those learning how to develop ideas, organize thinking, support propositions with evidence, conduct independent research, and so on. Critical AI 

What many of us notice about art or prose generated by A.I. It’s often bland and vague. It’s missing a humanistic core. It’s missing an individual person’s passion, pain, longings and a life of deeply felt personal experiences. It does not spring from a person’s imagination, bursts of insight, anxiety and joy that underlie any profound work of human creativity. New York Times

The most obvious response, and one that I suspect many professors will pursue, involves replacing the standard five-page paper assignment with an in-class exam. Others expect to continue with the papers but have suggested that the assigned topics should be revised to focus on lesser-known works or ideas about which a chatbot might not “know” too much. Washington Post 

Assigning personal writing may still help motivate students to write and, in that way, deter misuse of AI. Chronicle of Higher Ed

We’re expecting students to use ChatGPT to write a first draft of their paper but then not use it to revise the paper.  I don’t consider myself a pessimist about human nature, but in what world do we humans take a perfectly good tool that helped us get from point A to point B and then decline its offer to take us from point B to point C? Inside Higher Ed 

Writing teacher John Warner wrote, “If AI can replace what students do, why have students keep doing that?” He recommended changing “the way we grade so that the fluent but dull prose that ChatGPT can churn out does not actually pass muster.” Chronicle of Higher Ed

Assign writing that is as interesting and meaningful to students as possible. Connecting prompts to real-world situations and allowing for student choice and creativity within the bounds of the assignment can help. Chronicle of Higher Ed

No one creates writing assignments because the artifact of one more student essay will be useful in the world; we assign them because the process itself is valuable. Through writing, students can learn how to clarify their thoughts and find a voice. If they understand the benefits of struggling to put words together, they are more likely not to resort to a text generator. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Really soon, we’re not going to be able to tell where the human ends and where the robot begins, at least in terms of writing. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Many teachers have reacted to ChatGPT by imagining how to give writing assignments now—maybe they should be written out by hand, or given only in class—but that seems to me shortsighted. The question isn’t “How will we get around this?” but rather “Is this still worth doing?” The Atlantic

Rather than fully embracing AI as a writing assistant, the reasonable conclusion is that there needs to be a split between assignments on which using AI is encouraged and assignments on which using AI can’t possibly help. Chronicle of Higher Ed

As the co-editors of a book series on teaching in higher education, we receive many queries and proposals from academic writers. A significant percentage of those proposals — which often include sample chapters — are written in prose that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. The author’s ideas are laid out like bullet points on a whiteboard, the citations are dense and numerous, and the examples and stories (if there are any) are pale and lifeless. The most successful books in our series are the ones that don’t read like that. Their authors have demolished — or at least weakened — the wall that separates their subject matter from their lives. Chronicle of Higher Ed

(A professor) plans to weave ChatGPT into lessons by asking students to evaluate the chatbot’s responses.“What’s happening in class is no longer going to be, ‘Here are some questions — let’s talk about it between us human beings,’” he said, but instead “it’s like, ‘What also does this alien robot think?’” New York Times

Prof Jim is a software company that can turn existing written materials—like textbooks, Wikipedia pages or a teacher’s notes—into these animated videos at the push of a button. A teacher could use the software to turn a Wikipedia page about, say, the Grand Canyon into a video. EdSurge 

Some professors are redesigning their courses entirely, making changes that include more oral exams, group work and handwritten assessments in lieu of typed ones. New York Times

There is no understanding or intent behind AI outputs. But warning students about the mistakes that result from this lack of understanding is not enough. It’s easy to pay lip service to the notion that AI has limitations and still end up treating AI text as more reliable than it is. There’s a well-documented tendency to project onto AI; we need to work against that by helping students practice recognizing its failings. One way to do this is to model generating and critiquing outputs and then have students try on their own. Can they detect fabrications, misrepresentations, fallacies and perpetuation of harmful stereotypes? If students aren’t ready to critique ChatGPT’s output, then we shouldn’t choose it as a learning aid. Inside Higher Ed 

ChatGPT could help teachers shift away from an excessive focus on final results. Getting a class to engage with AI and think critically about what it generates could make teaching feel more human “rather than asking students to write and perform like robots.” MIT Tech Review

Reverting to analog forms of assessment, like oral exams, can put students with disabilities at a disadvantage. And outright bans on AI tools could cement a culture of distrust. “It’s going to be harder for students to learn in an environment where a teacher is trying to catch them cheating,” says Trust. “It shifts the focus from learning to just trying to get a good grade.” Wired

I’ve given students assignments to “cheat” on their final papers with text-generating software. In doing so, most students learn—often to their surprise—as much about the limits of these technologies as their seemingly revolutionary potential. Some come away quite critical of AI, believing more firmly in their own voices. Others grow curious about how to adapt these tools for different goals or about professional or educational domains they could impact. Inside Higher Ed 

ChatGPT can play the role of a debate opponent and generate counterarguments to a student’s positions. By exposing students to an endless supply of opposing viewpoints, chatbots could help them look for weak points in their own thinking. MIT Tech Review 

Assign reflection to help students understand their own thought processes and motivations for using these tools, as well as the impact AI has on their learning and writing. Inside Higher Ed

In March, Quizlet updated its app with a feature called Q-Chat, built using ChatGPT, that tailors material to each user’s needs. The app adjusts the difficulty of the questions according to how well students know the material they’re studying and how they prefer to learn. Some educators think future textbooks could be bundled with chatbots trained on their contents. Students would have a conversation with the bot about the book’s contents as well as (or instead of) reading it. The chatbot could generate personalized quizzes to coach students on topics they understand less well. MIT Tech Review

Encourage students to use peer-reviewed journals as sources. These types of journals are not available to ChatGPT, so by teaching our students about them and requiring their use in essays, we can ensure that the content being presented is truly original. The Tech Insider 

Students must then take apart and improve upon the ChatGPT-generated essay—an exercise designed to teach critical analysis, the craft of precise thesis statements, and a feel for what “good writing” looks like. Wired 

Show students examples of inaccuracy, bias, logical, and stylistic problems in automated outputs. We can build students’ cognitive abilities by modeling and encouraging this kind of critique. Critical AI

Far from being just a dream machine for cheaters, many teachers now believe, ChatGPT could actually help make education better. Advanced chatbots could be used as powerful classroom aids that make lessons more interactive, teach students media literacy, generate personalized lesson plans, save teachers time on admin, and more. MIT Tech Review

When possible, scaffold your assignments to promote revision and growth over time, with opportunities for feedback from peers, TAs, and/or the instructor. Build assignment pre-writing or brainstorming into class time and invite students to share and discuss these ideas in small groups or with the class as a whole. Barnard College 

Nontraditional learners could get more out of tools like ChatGPT than mainstream methods. It could be an audio-visual assistant where students can freely ask as many clarifying questions as necessary without judgment. Teachers juggling countless individualized education plans could also take advantage of ChatGPT by asking how to curate lesson plans for students with disabilities or other learning requirements. New York Magazine 

Discuss students’ potentially diverse motivations for using ChatGPT or other generative AI software. Do they arise from stress about the writing and research process? Time management on big projects? Competition with other students? Experimentation and curiosity about using AI? Grade and/or other pressures and/or burnout? Invite your students to have an honest discussion about these and related questions. Cultivate an environment in your course in which students will feel comfortable approaching you if they need more direct support from you, their peers, or a campus resource to successfully complete an assignment. Barnard College 

We will need to teach students to contest it. Students in every major will need to know how to challenge or defend the appropriateness of a given model for a given question. To teach them how to do that, we don’t need to hastily construct a new field called “critical AI studies.” The intellectual resources students need are already present in the history and philosophy of science courses, along with the disciplines of statistics and machine learning themselves, which are deeply self-conscious about their own epistemic procedures. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Spend some time discussing the definition (or definitions) of academic honesty and discuss your own expectations for academic honesty with your students. Be open, specific, and direct about what those expectations are. Barnard College

Experiential learning will become the norm. Everyone will need an internship. Employers will want assurances that a new graduate can follow directions, complete tasks, demonstrate judgment. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Khan Academy released the Khanmigo project which is able to help students as a virtual tutor or debating partner and helps teachers with administrative tasks such as generating lesson plans. Columbia Journalism Review

One situation in which I have found ChatGPT extremely useful is writing multiple-choice questions. It’s quite easy to write a question and the right answer, but coming up with three plausible wrong answers is tricky. I found that if I prompted ChatGPT with the following: “Write a multi-choice question about <topic of interest> with four answers, and not using ‘all of the above’ as an answer,” it came up with good wrong answers. This was incredibly helpful. Nature

ChatGPT outperformed most of his (journalism) students who were in the early part of the course. But students would have to seek out sources, do on-the-ground reporting, and find the important trends in the data. “And all of that, you’re not gonna get from ChatGPT.” Columbia Journalism Review

There is a reason why educational video games are not as engaging as regular video games. There is a reason why AI-generated educational videos will never be as engaging as regular videos. Brenda Laurel pointed to the ‘chocolate-covered broccoli’ problem over 20 years ago … her point still stands. EdSurge

While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic and lifelong success,” said Jenna Lyle, a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Education. Mashable 

This tech is being primarily pitched as a money-saving device—so it will be taken up by school authorities that are looking to save money. As soon as a cash-strapped administrator has decided that they’re happy to let technology drive a whole lesson, then they no longer need a highly-paid professional teacher in the room—they just need someone to trouble-shoot any glitches and keep an eye on the students. EdSurge

Some commentators are urging teachers to introduce ChatGPT into the curriculum as early as possible (a valuable revenue stream and data source). Students, they argue, must begin to develop new skills such as prompt engineering. What these (often well-intentioned) techno-enthusiasts forget is that they have decades of writing solo under their belts. Just as drivers who turn the wheel over to flawed autopilot systems surrender their judgment to an over-hyped technology, so a future generation raised on language models could end up, in effect, never learning to drive. Public Books

Some professors have leapt out front, producing newsletters, creating explainer videos, and crowdsourcing resources and classroom policies. The one thing that academics can’t afford to do, teaching and tech experts say, is ignore what’s happening. Sooner or later, the technology will catch up with them, whether they encounter a student at the end of the semester who may have used it inappropriately, or realize that it’s shaping their discipline and their students’ futures in unstoppable ways. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

(There is a) notion that college students (can) learn to write by using chatbots to generate a synthetic first draft, which they afterwards revise, overlooks the fundamentals of a complex process. Since text generators do a good job with syntax, but suffer from simplistic, derivative, or inaccurate content, requiring students to work from this shallow foundation is hardly the best way to empower their thinking, hone their technique, or even help them develop a solid grasp of an LLM’s limitations. The purpose of a college research essay is not to teach students how to fact-check and gussy up pre-digested pablum. It is to enable them to develop and substantiate their own robust propositions and truth claims. Public Books 

If a professor runs students’ work through a detector without informing them in advance, that could be an academic-integrity violation in itself.  The student could then appeal the decision on grounds of deceptive assessment, “and they would probably win.” Chronicle of Higher Ed

We are dangerously close to creating two strata of students: those whom we deem smart and insightful and deeply thoughtful, if sometimes guilty of a typo, and those who seem less engaged with the material, or less able to have serious thoughts about it. Inside Higher Ed

The challenge here is in communicating to students that AI isn’t a replacement for real thinking or critical analysis, and that heavy reliance on such platforms can lead away from genuine learning. Also, because AI platforms like ChatGPT retrieve information from multiple unknown sources, and the accuracy of the information cannot be guaranteed, students need to be wary about using the chatbot’s content. The Straits Times 

It seems futile for faculty members to spend their energies figuring out what a current version can’t do. Chronicle of Higher Ed

It is important to be aware that ChatGPT’s potential sharing of personal information with third parties may raise serious privacy concerns for your students and perhaps in particular for students from marginalized backgrounds. Barnard College 

How might chatting with AI systems affect vulnerable students, including those with depression, anxiety, and other mental-health challenges? Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Students need considerable support to make sure ChatGPT promotes learning rather than getting in the way of it. Some students find it harder to move beyond the tool’s output and make it their own. “It needs to be a jumping-off point rather than a crutch.” MIT Tech Review

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Using AI

How To Train ChatGPT To Write In Your Brand’s Tone of Voice [Infographic] – Social Media Today 

You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say. – MIT Tech Review

How to use ChatGPT to build your resume - ZDnet

How to Create an AI Text-to-Video Clip in Seconds – Tom’s Hardware  

5 AI-Tools To Convert Blog Articles To Videos In Just Minutes – Medium

How To Build Your Own Custom Chatbot Without Any Code Using ChatGPT Builder – Slashgear

How to Make a Logo Using Midjourney – Midjourney

4 actually helpful uses for an AI chatbot – Washington Post  

How to Use AI Tools to Improve Quality of Internet Searches – Voice of America

 How to use ChatGPT to digitize your handwritten notes for free – ZDnet

What do people really ask chatbots? It’s a lot of sex and homework – Washington Post  

How to use the ChatGPT app on iPhone and Android – Tom’s Guide

OpenAI rolls out voice mode after delaying it for safety reasons – Washington Post   

How to Write a Book with AI in 2024 - Geeky Gadgets

Actionable AI – Moz

Meet Stability AI's Stable Video 4D, a nuanced take on AI video generation – ZDnet

Can't Decide Which AI Chatbot Is Best? Poe Says Use Them All – Cnet  

Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps – Tech Crunch

Helping nonexperts build advanced generative AI models – MIT

Anthropic’s AI now lets you create bots to work for you – The Verge

How my 4 favorite AI tools help me get more done at work - ZDnet

The Great AI Challenge: We Test Which Bot Is Best – Wall Street Journal

How to avoid AI in your Google searches - PopSci

LinkedIn Shares New insight into Professional Use of Generative AI – Social Media Today

Generative AI Defined: How it Works, Benefits and Dangers – Tech Republic

Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted – New York Times

7 Everyday Work Problems AI Helps Me Solve - Wall Street Journal

ChatGPT no longer requires an account — but there’s a catch – Tech Crunch

A guide to applying AI to real-world problems - Semafor

How data scientists can leverage ChatGPT – Analytics Insight

How to use LinkedIn AI tools to find a job – Popular Science

How to use voice in Character.AI – Digital Trends

These Free LinkedIn Courses Will Teach You How to Use AI - Life Hacker

How to Use Microsoft's Copilot AI, and 10 Things to Try Right Away – PC Mag

OpenAI's GPT Store has millions of custom chatbots — here are 5 of the best so far – Tom’s Guide 

What Salespeople Get Wrong About Using GenAI – Harvard Business Review 

Google’s ChatGPT competitor Bard is nearly as good — just slower – The Verge

Microsoft's AI assistant comes to iPhone and iPad — it's powered by GPT-4 & DALL·E 3, and it's free – iMore  

How to setup and use the new Microsoft AutoGen AI agent - Geeky Gadgets   

Want Better AI? Get Input From a Real (Human) Expert - insideBIGDATA

4 new ways to use Bard AI – Wonder Tools

How to make the most of Claude – Wonder Tools 

How to use Pi and other alternatives to ChatGPT - Wonder Tools

I'm an AI prompt engineer. Here are 3 rules to get the best results using ChatGPT – and what people get wrong. – Business Insider

How to use ChatGPT for data analysis and research - Beginners Guide - Geeky Gadgets 

How To Use Artificial Intelligence Today: Text-To-Speech Technology – Forbes

How to add plugins to ChatGPT – XDA Developers 

OpenAI Develops Tool to Create Realistic AI Videos - Wall Street Journal

Premier YouTube Channels Exploring Large Language Models – Analytics Insights

"AI native" Gen Zers are comfortable on the cutting edge - Axios 

TikTok’s AI-powered Creative Assistant is now available directly in Adobe Express – Tech Crunch

 How to use ChatGPT to brainstorm anything – Geeky-Gadgets

How to Use AI Tools to Easily Make Short-Form TikTok and Reels Videos – Tech.co

How to Use ChatGPT in Non-Evil Ways – Vice

Want More Clarity on Generative AI? Experiment Widely – MIT Tech Review

How to Use A.I. to Edit and Generate Stunning Photos – New York Times  

Specific steps in how to use ChatGPT - Wharton School 

ChatGPT Vision lets you submit images in your prompts: 7 wild ways people are using it -Mashable  

Generative AI is now a part of everyday life, for good and bad. Here’s how to make the tech work for you – Technical.ly

The 4 Best AI Generator Tools For Writing Essays, Blogs & More – Hive.com

This is the best AI technology you’re probably not using – Washington Post  

YouTube has AI creator tools, but creators are too busy battling AI to care - Polygon

New AI Dev Platform Allows You to Customize Open Source LLMs – The New Stack

How to write fiction and non-fiction books using ChatGPT – Geeky-Gadgets

Google's AI note-taking service 'NotebookLM' is now available – TechSpot  

From bench to bot: How to use AI tools to convert notes into a draft – The Transmitter

Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you – The Verge

You can now create AI images right from Google Search — here’s how – Tom’s Guide

7 things I’ll tell my best friend, who is just getting started with Midjourney – Medium

How to Use AI Tools to Easily Make Short-Form TikTok and Reels Videos – Tech.co

Amazon Launches Free AI Classes in Bid to Win Talent Arms Race – Wall Street Journal

I tried Microsoft's AI-powered assistant, Copilot. The tool helpfully attends meetings and summarizes emails, but it's best to treat it as a rookie intern – Business Insiider  

7 AI Tools That Help You Write Emails - MakeUseOf 

Create Stunning Data Viz in Seconds with ChatGPT – KD Nuggets

How To Use Google's New AI Image Generator in Search – Tech.co

How to Use AI to Get Your Next Job, According to Career Experts – Reader’s Digest

Prompt Structure in Conversations with Generative AI – Nielsen Norman Group 

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Health Care & AI

Zoom will now use an AI-powered medical notetaker for telehealth visits – Fast Company

New JAMA channel highlights AI’s role in medicine - Washington Post

How Generative AI Is Transforming Medical Education – Harvard Medicine  

AI in Medicine: Are Large Language Models Ready for the Exam Room? – Medscape

New JAMA channel highlights AI’s role in medicine – Washington Post 

Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro In Operating Rooms - TIME 

Cancer diagnostics' rapid evolution thanks to AI – Axios  

Microsoft announces new AI tools to help ease workload for doctors and nurses - CNBC

As AI-powered health care expands, experts warn of biases – Semafor  

How AI could monitor brain health and find dementia sooner – Washington Post

10 Uses Cases of Predictive Analytics in Healthcare - Appinventiv

New AI Tool Rivals Human Experts In Cancer Diagnosis And Prognosis – Science Blog

The AI revolution in health care - Washington Post

Enhancing fairness in AI-enabled medical systems with the attribute neutral framework – Nature

Generative AI-assisted Peer Review in Medical Publications: Opportunities Or Trap - JMIR Publications 

Would you trust AI to scan your genitals for STIs? – the 19th

That Message From Your Doctor? It May Have Been Drafted by A.I. – New York Times

Effects of artificial intelligence implementation on efficiency in medical imaging—a systematic literature review and meta-analysis – Nature

When AI looked at biology, the result was astounding - Washington Post 

How AI can help — and hurt — when people fundraise for urgent medical needs – Marquette

Google’s AI-backed healthcare search tool now available for general use – Health Care Dive

Scientists to use AI to analyse 1.6m brain scans to develop tool predicting dementia risk – The Guardian

How AI Could Help Reduce Inequities in Health Care – Harvard Business Review

5 Challenges of AI in Healthcare – Unite AI 

California nurses protest ‘untested’ AI as it proliferates in health care – Health Care Journalism

What accelerates brain ageing? This AI ‘brain clock’ points to answers - Nature

How AI and accelerated computing are transforming drug discovery – Financial Times

How Often Do LLMs Hallucinate When Producing Medical Summaries? -Medcity News

The testing of AI in medicine is a mess. Here’s how it should be done - Nature

A.L.S. Stole His Voice. A.I. Retrieved It. – New York Times

AI tool outperforms existing x-ray structure methods - Chemistry World

A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time – BRG 

Artificial intelligence in scientific medical writing: Legitimate and deceptive uses and ethical concerns – Science Direct  

University of Florida researchers say they have developed a machine learning tool that can track the progression of Parkinson’s disease – Decrypt

MIT Researchers say they have developed an AI model that can accurately identify the stages of some types of breast cancer – MIT  

In Constant Battle With Insurers, Doctors Reach for a Cudgel: A.I. - New York Times 

First ‘bilingual’ brain-reading device decodes Spanish and English words -

Google Is Using A.I. to Answer Your Health Questions. Should You Trust It? - New York Times

Reconciling privacy and accuracy in AI for medical imaging – Nature

How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development - New York Times

OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’ – The Verge

End-of-life decisions are difficult and distressing. Could AI help? – MIT Tech Review

States are writing their own rules for AI in health care  - Axios

The testing of AI in medicine is a mess. Here’s how it should be done - Nature

DermaSensor: World's first AI-powered skin cancer detecting device – Interesting Engineering  

How doctors are using AI to diagnose a hidden heart condition in kids – Washington Post

Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses - Nature

The startup that wants to cure diseases and slow aging, with the help of AI - Semafor 

Medical AI could be ‘dangerous’ for poorer nations, WHO warns – Nature

This AI was built to tell pastries apart. Now it's helping fight cancer - CNN 

ML Model Predicts Complications Following Cardiovascular Interventions – Heath IT analytics 

US FDA approves world's first AI-powered skin cancer detecting device - Interesting Engineering 

AI helps predict antidepressant response in a week – Medical.net 

Health-care AI: The potential and pitfalls of diagnosis by app – The Conversation

AI Predicts Alzheimer’s 7 Years Early – Neuroscience News  

Could AI Predict Psychosis Before it Happens? – Psychology Today

 AI Chatbots Are Promising but Limited in Promoting Healthy Behavior Change – UniteAI 

Can Mental-Health Chatbots Help With Anxiety and Depression? – Wall Street Journal

Machine learning enables cheaper and safer low-power MRI - News-Medical.Net 

Tetris-inspired radiation detector uses machine learning – Physics World

Doctors are using AI to talk to patients and record appointments. Don’t worry, your data is allegedly safe – Fast Company

Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device – UCLA

A.I. Could Spot Breast Cancer Earlier. Should You Pay for It? – New York Times

AI-enhanced integration of genetic and medical imaging data for risk assessment of Type 2 diabetes – Nature 

How Does AI Fit Into Clinical Practice? – MedScape  

Using AI for public impact of healthcare – Fast Company  

Less burnout for doctors, better clinical trials, among the benefits of AI in health care – CNBC

Growing Evidence Shows Importance of AI for Healthcare – Center For Data Innovation

Nurses gather at Kaiser SF to protest AI in health care – NBC Bay Area  

A health tech leader’s plea: Regulate AI – Politico

Protecting scientific integrity in an age of generative AI - PNAS

Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR – New York Times 

Researcher will use AI to test new materials so engineers don’t have to – Arizona State University

Democratizing the future of AI R&D: NSF to launch National AI Research Resource pilot - National Science Foundation

NASA accelerates science with gen AI-powered search - CIO

A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence – Symmetry Magazine

Interdisciplinary group suggests guidelines for the use of AI in science - TechExplore

Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics – MIT

AI Is Moving Biology From Science To Engineering, Advancing Medicine - Forbes

AI gets scientists one step closer to mapping the organized chaos in our cells – NPR

AI’s big test: Making sense of $4 trillion in medical expenses - Politico 

How to Use ChatGPT for Health: Doctors, Professionals Give Tips - Bloomberg 

AI is accelerating drug discovery but if clinical development fails to keep pace, the benefits to patients will be delayed - McKinsey

Medical AI Tools Can Make Dangerous Mistakes. Can the Government Help Prevent Them? - WSJ

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges – Ars Technica  

AI that reads brain scans shows promise for finding Alzheimer’s genes – Nature

New A.I. Tool Diagnoses Brain Tumors on the Operating Table – New York Times

Health data in the UK is about to flow more freely, like it or not (podcast) – The Guardian

Doctors Wrestle With A.I. in Patient Care, Citing Lax Oversight – New York Times

Researchers at Northwestern Medicine have created a generative AI system that can create text reports interpreting chest radiographs as accurately as radiologists.  – Health IT Analytics

Where healthcare needs to focus for AI – Fast Company 

ChatGPT was 72% accurate in clinical decision-making on medical cases drawn from textbooks, from diagnoses to care decisions - Axios

How to Use ChatGPT for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - MakeUseOf

Balancing The Pros And Cons Of AI In Healthcare – Forbes  

Google reveals new generative AI models for healthcare – Health Care Dive  

Eliminating Racial Bias in Health Care AI – Yale School of Medicine  

Why AI Is Medicine’s Biggest Moment Since Antibiotics - Wall Street Journal

I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what AI startups get wrong about “ChatGPT for telehealth” – Fast Company 

Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried. – Washington Post

Deep Learning Model Detects Diabetes Using Routine Chest Radiographs – Health IT Analytics 

AI Helps a Stroke Patient Speak Again, a Milestone for Tech and Neuroscience - New York Times 

Google DeepMind’s AI Model Scours Our Genes to Guess Who Might Get Sick - Wall Street Journal

A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for chronic pain. ChatGPT found the right diagnosis - NBC Today Show

AI might be listening during your next health appointment - Axios

A step towards AI-based precision medicine - Science Daily

Is the Eye the Window to Alzheimer’s? New AI tools could diagnose the disease with visual scans - Wall Street Journal

Predicting epileptic seizures with AI - RIU Research  

AI’s potential to accelerate drug discovery needs a reality check - Nature  

An AI Tool That Can Help Forecast Viral Outbreaks – Harvard Medical School

Microsoft announces new AI tools to help doctors deliver better care – CNBC

Cigna Accused of Using AI, Not Doctors, to Deny Claims: Lawsuit – Medscape

Here's what AI-powered doctor's visits are like – CNBC

AI-supported mammogram screening increases breast cancer detection by 20%, study finds – CNN

New AI tool can help treat brain tumors more quickly and accurately, study finds – The Guardian

Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals – The Verge  

The AI Opportunity for Life Sciences and Pharma in the Age of ChatGPT – Expert.ai

A mental health tech company ran an AI experiment on real users. Nothing’s stopping apps from conducting more – NBC News

IBM is using generative systems to develop new semiconductors and molecules that can help fight cancer or bacterial infection – IMB

AI-Generated Data Could Be a Boon for Healthcare—If Only It Seemed More Real – Wall Street Journal

AI-brain implant helped patient gain feeling in his hand again – Mobile Syrup 

The AI Will See You Now - Wall Street Journal

AI tool could help spot lung cancer years in advance – Washington Post

ChatGPT Will See You Now: Doctors Using AI to Answer Patient Questions - Wall Street Journal

ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically with patients – New York Times

A Doctor Published Several Research Papers With Breakneck Speed. ChatGPT Wrote Them All - Digg

Patients were told their voices could disappear. They turned to AI to save them - Washington Post  

The algorithm has been trained to make medical predictions based on reading genomes - Washington Post  

Scientists have used AI to discover a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly species of superbug - BBC

AI Tool Assists in Predicting the Likelihood of Pancreatic Cancer - Healthy Analytics

For now, the new AI in health care is going to be less a genius partner than a tireless scribe - New York Times

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How to Use AI

Surprising ways to prompt AI – Wonder Tools 

5 prompts to have a fun AI chatbot conversation - Mashable 

I write about AI for a living — here's how to become a true power user – Tom’s Guide 

Google unveils invisible ‘watermark’ for AI-generated text – Nature

Adobe promises AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear. – The Verge

Should You Be Nice to Your Chatbot? – Wall Street Journal

Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro - The Verge

I write about AI for a living — and NotebookLM is the most exciting tech to arrive since ChatGPT – Tom’s Guide  

Perplexity AI : How to Use It for Fast, Accurate Results – Geeky-Gadgets

Meta Unveils Instant A.I. Video Generator That Adds Sounds – New York Times 

I Built a Chatbot to Replace Me. It Went a Little Wild. - Wall Street Journal

Learn From My Worst AI Images and Fix These Biggest AI Fails – CNET 

AI's parent-teen knowledge gap – Axios  

Create Better AI Images With These Expert Prompt Writing Tips - CNET

How to use Midjourney's new AI image editor - Tom’s Guide 

How to cite ChatGPT in APA Style –  American Psychological Association 

How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? - Modern Language Association

What Is AI Best at Now? Improving Products You Already Own - Wall Street Journal 

Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills? – Tech Republic

Using AI to buy your home? These companies think it's time you should

How Generative AI Works – Financial Times (scroll storytelling)

Demystifying AI – Axios

5 questions about artificial intelligence, answered – Washington Post

W&M professor publishes children’s book to teach AI fundamentals – William  & Mary  

Shedding light on AI's black box – Axios

What exactly is an AI agent? – Tech Crunch

‘Visual’ AI models might not see anything at all - Tech Crunch

Is this AI? See if you can spot the technology in your everyday life. – Washington Post

ChatGPT and other language AIs are nothing without humans – a sociologist explains how countless hidden people make the magic – The Conversation

What Are Large Language Models (LLMs) and How Do They Work? – MakeUseOf 

What Is Deep Learning? - MathWorks

Readers Have a Lot of Questions About AI. We Answer Them. – Wall Street Journal

What is AI? Everything to know about artificial intelligence – Zdnet

How AI models are getting smarter Deep neural networks are learning diffusion and other tricks – The Economist

Using synthetic data to train foundational LLMs – AI Wire  

Predictions about AI

How Experts in China and the United Kingdom View AI Risks and Collaboration – Data Innovation

The AI bubble has burst. Here's how we know. – Mashable 

Paris gives first glimpse at AI's Olympic future – Axios

H​ow Long Will A.I.’s ‘Slop’ Era Last? – New York Times

Who will control the future of AI? – Washington Post  

The first wave of AI innovation is over. Here’s what comes next – Fast Company   

Generative AI Hype Cycle Is Hitting ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ – 404 Media

What Messing With Chatbots Tells Us About the Future of AI – New York Magazine

AI Finds That AI Is Great In New Garbage Research From Tony Blair Institute - 404 Media 

The future is all bot vs. bot – Axios  

The AI hype bubble is deflating. Now comes the hard part. - Washington Post

Tech Exec Predicts Billion-dollar AI Girlfriend Industry - Futurism

China tops the U.S. on AI research in over half of the hottest fields: report – Axios

The Decade Ahead in AI – Situational Awareness

AI optimists crowd out doubters at TED conference – Axios 

Eric Schmidt’s AI prophecy: The next two years will shock you – Exponential View 

Why small language models are the next big thing in AI – Venture Beat

What’s next for generative video – MIT Tech Review

Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language – The Atlantic

Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons – The Journal  Nature 

AI Will Mean Cheaper Food – Wall Street Journal

The Year Ahead in AI: AI Predictions for 2024 – Expert AI

What an AI-powered future of data science looks like – Fast Company

A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive - New  York Times

What’s next for generative AI: Household chores and more – MIT Management

 Experts Concerned by Signs of AI Bubble - Futurism

AI Has Lost Its Magic That’s how you know it’s taking over - The Atlantic

How the A.I. That Drives ChatGPT Will Move Into the Physical World – New York Times

How the A.I. That Drives ChatGPT Will Move Into the Physical World – New York Times 

How AI will influence creative tools – Figma  

Western countries are more pessimistic about AI – Axios

Generative AI Landscape: Trends of 2024 and Beyond - eWeek 

AI is Coming! Tips for Staying Calm and Carrying On – Wall Street Journal  

AI Is Trying to Predict Your Death. It's Not as Scary as It Sounds. - Bloomberg

Generative A.I.’s Biggest Impact Will Be in Banking and Tech, Report Says - New  York Times 

How Generative AI Will Change All Of Our Jobs In 2024 - Forbes

AI is here – and everywhere: 3 AI researchers look to the challenges ahead in 2024 – The Conversation

The Year Ahead in AI: AI Predictions for 2024 – Expert AI

What an AI-powered future of data science looks like – Fast Company

A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive - New  York Times

The Future Of Generative AI: 6 Predictions Everyone Should Know About – Forbes

The Future of Censorship Is AI-Generated – TIME

Why small language models are the next big thing in AI – Venture Beat

What’s next for generative video – MIT Tech Review

Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language – The Atlantic

Natural language instructions induce compositional generalization in networks of neurons – The Journal  Nature 

AI Will Mean Cheaper Food – Wall Street Journal

The Year Ahead in AI: AI Predictions for 2024 – Expert AI

What an AI-powered future of data science looks like – Fast Company

A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive - New  York Times

What’s next for generative AI: Household chores and more – MIT Management

 Experts Concerned by Signs of AI Bubble - Futurism

AI Has Lost Its Magic That’s how you know it’s taking over - The Atlantic

How the A.I. That Drives ChatGPT Will Move Into the Physical World – New York Times

An OpenAI employee says prompt engineering is not the skill of the future — but knowing how to talk to humans will be – Business Insider 

Generative AI will move from hype to actually being helpful – Semafor

How ‘A.I. Agents’ That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers – New York Times

Why AI struggles to predict the future – NPR 

How AI will upend the customer service industry - Semafor 

OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI - MIT Technology Review

Forrester’s 2024 Predictions Report warns of AI ‘shadow pandemic’ as employees adopt unauthorized tools – VentureBeat  

2024: The year AI gets real - Axios

The biggest winners — and losers — in the coming AI job apocalypse – Business Insider

Now That Generative AI Is Here, Where Will All The Data Come From? – Forbes

Researchers think there’s a 5% chance AI could wipe out humanity – Semafor

Generative AI a la ChatGPT is pushing investors to new extremes of hype – Axios  

The Generative AI Bubble Will Burst Soon – KD Nuggets

Wall Street Watchdog Says AI Will Cause 'Unavoidable' Economic Collapse – Gizmodo

Experts Predict the Future of Technology, AI & Humanity – Wired 

An English professor long interested in the statistical analysis of literature & he thinks AI is a game-changer in our understanding of texts – Business Insider

How AI Is Impacting Society And Shaping The Future – Forbes

In its own words: The future of AI in sports – Sports Business Journal

iPhone 16 is poised to be an AI superphone — 5 rumors you need to know – Tom’s Guide

Everyone gets an AI agent – The Nieman Lab

Klarna CEO on how AI will make online shopping more 'emotional' – Semafor

Where is AI Heading in 2024? Looking Ahead To AI In 2024 – Forbes

Why AI struggles to predict the future – NPR

How AI will upend the customer service industry - Semafor 

OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI - MIT Technology Review

Forrester’s 2024 Predictions Report warns of AI ‘shadow pandemic’ as employees adopt unauthorized tools – VentureBeat

The biggest winners — and losers — in the coming AI job apocalypse – Business Insider

Now That Generative AI Is Here, Where Will All The Data Come From? – Forbes

Generative AI a la ChatGPT is pushing investors to new extremes of hype – Axios

The Generative AI Bubble Will Burst Soon – KD Nuggets

Wall Street Watchdog Says AI Will Cause 'Unavoidable' Economic Collapse – Gizmodo

Experts Predict the Future of Technology, AI & Humanity – Wired 

An English professor long interested in the statistical analysis of literature & he thinks AI is a game-changer in our understanding of texts – Business Insider

How AI Is Impacting Society And Shaping The Future – Forbes

In its own words: The future of AI in sports – Sports Business Journal

Within five years everyone would have access to an AI personal assistant. He referred to this function as a personal chief-of-staff. In this vision, everybody will have access to an AI that knows you, is super smart, and understands your personal history. -Venture Beat 

Some experts in generative AI predict that as much as 90% of content on the internet could be artificially generated within a few years. -Bloomberg 

Currently, most AI falls under narrow or specialized intelligence — good at one thing but pretty useless otherwise. However, we’re inching closer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), where machines can understand, learn, and apply knowledge across different domains. -Christophe Atten writing in Medium

It is certainly the case that many new technologies have led to bad outcomes – often the same technologies that have been otherwise enormously beneficial to our welfare. So it’s not that the mere existence of a moral panic means there is nothing to be concerned about.  But a moral panic is by its very nature irrational – it takes what may be a legitimate concern and inflates it into a level of hysteria that ironically makes it harder to confront actually serious concerns.  And wow do we have a full-blown moral panic about AI right now. -Marc Andreesen writing in a16z

All of the software we’ve ever used was engineered to work backward from an outcome. Its creators wanted to help you find a webpage or play a game or operate a laptop. Perhaps you’ve noticed that the major AI chatbots arrived with almost no user documentation or instructions. A lump of clay doesn’t come with instructions either. That’s what makes this moment unique — and so worthy of species-level #1 foam-finger pride. We humans have created a tool for potentially infinite tasks. Its imperfections are ours to solve — and its powers still ours to shape. – Washington Post 

“AI may cause a new Renaissance, perhaps a new phase of the Enlightenment,” Yann LeCun, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence, suggested earlier this year. AI can already make some existing scientific processes faster and more efficient, but can it do more, by transforming the way science itself is done? Such transformations have happened before. – The Economist

DeepMind’s cofounder says generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry out tasks you set for them by calling on other software and other people to get stuff done. “Technology is going to be animated. It’s going to have the potential freedom, if you give it, to take actions. It’s truly a step change in the history of our species that we’re creating tools that have this kind of, you know, agency.” -MIT Tech Review 

What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World? First it was chess and Go. Now AI can beat us at Diplomacy, the most human of board games. The way it wins offers hope that maybe AI will be a delight. -Wired 

People need to develop “rugged flexibility,” to manage change most effectively. In other words, people need to learn how to be strong and hold on to what is most useful but also to bend and adapt to change by embracing what is new. -Venture Beat

Imagine if your brain got 10 times smarter every year over the past decade, and you were on pace for more 10x compounding increases in intelligence over at least the next five. Throw in precise recall of everything you’ve ever learned and the ability to synthesize all those materials instantly in any language. You wouldn’t be just the smartest person to have ever lived — you’d be all the smartest people to have ever lived. (Though not the wisest.) That’s a plausible trajectory of the largest AI models. -Washington Post

We seem to be in what I can only call an “AI lull.” The initial excitement about ChatGPT, which started in January, has receded. Do not be deceived. While the hype and marketing may have died down, at least on the retail side, the AI revolution will continue. -Bloomberg

What Happens When AI Has Read Everything? – The Atlantic  

AI Is About to Make Social Media Much More Toxic - The Atlantic 

Hallucinations Could Blunt ChatGPT’s Success - Spectrum    

The AI-powered, totally autonomous future of war Is here – Wired

The AI emotions dreamed up by ChatGPT – BBC

When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster – New York Times

The ChatGPT buzz and why it will be over sooner than you think – Venture Beat

What happens when we can no longer differentiate a human from a machine? – The Hill 

The Hype Cycle of AI – Expert.ai

Attackers (will) use artificial intelligence to write software that can break into corporate networks in novel ways, change appearance and functionality to beat detection, and smuggle data back out through processes that appear normal. Washington Post  

Actor Tom Hanks believes he will be starring in new film roles long after his death, as he speculated on the possibility that his likeness could be captured by AI. Forbes

Any site that depends on contributions from the public — text messages, product reviews, photo or video uploads — is preparing to be swamped with AI-generated input that will make finding signal in the noise even harder for human users. Axios

Robots presented at an AI forum said they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans' jobs or rebel against us. Reuters

While much of the media attention has been on large language models, the field of causal AI has gotten comparatively little. If causal reasoning is combined with large language models, it could have a major impact on humanity. Semafor 

In a way, I’m agnostic to that question of “do we need more breakthroughs or will existing systems just scale all the way?” My view is it’s an empirical question, and one should push both as hard as possible. And then the results will speak for themselves.(DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis) The Verge

Artificial intelligences that are trained using text and images from other AIs, which have themselves been trained on AI outputs, could eventually become functionally useless. New Scientist

One need not even know how to program to construct attack software. “You will be able to say, ‘just tell me how to break into a system,’ and it will say, ‘here’s 10 paths in’,” said Robert Hansen, who has explored AI as deputy chief technology officer at security firm Tenable. “They are just going to get in. It’ll be a very different world.” Washington Post

Fifty-six percent of respondents (in a recent survey) think ‘people will develop emotional relationships with AI’ and 35 percent of people said they’d be open to doing so if they were lonely. The Verge 

In 2019, Christian Szegedy, a computer scientist formerly at Google and now at a start-up in the Bay Area, predicted that a computer system would match or exceed the problem-solving ability of the best human mathematicians within a decade. Last year he revised the target date to 2026. New York Times

What to Expect from AI in 2023 – Towards AI

The Prospect of an AI Winter – Erich Grunewald Blog

A.I. May Change Everything, but Probably Not Too Quickly - New York Times

ChatGPT could make life easier — here’s when it’s worth it – Washington Post

A.I. Technology: 8 Questions About the Future - New York Times

As AI Spreads, Experts Predict the Best and Worst Changes in Digital Life by 2035 – Pew Research  

Think AI was impressive last year? Wait until you see what’s coming - Vox  

The 2024 election cycle 'is poised to be the first election where A.I.-generated content is prevalent  - New York Times

Humans will specialize in whatever AI does worst. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI will certainly force us to concentrate on those talents and skills that will remain uniquely human. - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Will writers start proclaiming they are “natural” writers, with no AI use in their work, akin to bodybuilders who choose not to use performance-enhancing drugs? - Washington Post 

It’s going to creep into our lives in ways we least expect it  - Wall Street Journal

While I think that A.I. tools help express our creativity, creativity will still be the driving force behind the future of art. - New York Magazine

The new web is struggling to be born, and the decisions we make now will shape how it grows  - The Verge 

The role of software engineers will evolve into one of guiding and overseeing the AI's work, providing input and feedback, and ensuring that the generated code meets the project's requirements.  Prompt engineering will be critical in using automated code generators as prompts must be carefully crafted to accurately capture the intent of the desired code.  Forbes

Many types of work will be taken over by machines, and jobs will vanish. This change is typically seen as a cause for gloom. I suggest we see it as an opportunity to revitalize education by replacing unsatisfying work with meaningful labor. Chronicle of Higher Ed

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Possibilities: Things People are Trying to Get AI To Do

The brain-computer interface race is on, with AI speeding up developments – Semafor

What’s next for generative AI: Household chores and more – MIT Management

Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage - ProPublica

Deal Dive: Can AI fix lost and found? – Tech Crunch

1 in 3 people are lonely. Will AI help, or make things worse? – The Conversation

Samsung to release Ballie, an AI home robot with a projector, in 2024 – Washington Post

Will Chatbots Teach Your Children? – New York Times

AI Is Helping Pick What You’ll Wear in Two Years – Bloomberg

Can AI count hate crimes? – Semafor

TurboTax and H&R Block’s AI chatbots are giving bad tax advice – Washington Post

What happens when ChatGPT tries to solve 50,000 trolley problems? – Ars Technica

Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World? – Bloomberg

How One Tech Skeptic Decided A.I. Might Benefit the Middle Class – New York Times

A new tool to counter California’s housing crisis: AI - Semafor 

Can AI Replace Your Financial Adviser? Not Yet. But Wait. - Wall Street Journal

AI models can analyze thousands of words at a time. A Google researcher has found a way to increase that by millions.– Business Insider 

New deep learning AI tool helps ecologists monitor rare birds through their songs – Phys.org

When AI Denies Your Loan Application, Should You Be Able to Appeal to a Human? – Wall Street Journal  

Edith Piaf AI-Generated Biopic in the Works at Warner Music – Variety  

ChatGPT and Midjourney bring back the dead with generative AI – Axios

How advances in AI can make content moderation harder — and easier - Semafor

Can AI Rescue Recycling? - Wall Street Journal  

The US has a new plan for wielding AI to fight climate change - Semafor

AI Doom Calculator is predicting people's death – USA Today  

Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search  - Wall Street Journal

Can A.I. solve rape cases? To find out, a Cleveland professor programmed a computer to analyze thousands of police reports -Cleveland.com 

Some in the (book) publishing world are already experimenting with AI programs in areas such as marketing, advertising, audiobook production and even writing, weighing their promise of supporting work done by humans against the threat that the machines ma. -NY Times

AI-powered technology may also help revitalize endangered languages, including by processing and storing languages and identifying language patterns. Additionally, AI may help accomplish these tasks at unprecedented speeds or just in time, before an endangered language goes extinct. -Inside Higher Ed

Many in publishing are taking action to protect their work. The Authors Guild recently organized a petition signed by thousands of writers demanding that companies seek their approval before using their work to train A.I. programs. Agencies representing illustrators have also revised their contracts to keep their work from being used to feed A.I. programs. Penguin Random House, the country’s largest book publisher, said it considers the “unauthorized ingestion” of content to train A.I. models to be a copyright infringement. New York Times

Text With Jesus replicates an instant messaging platform, with biblical figures impersonated by the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT. The launching of the app stirred reactions ranging from amusement to accusations of blasphemy and heresy. -Religious News Service 

Can ChatGPT become a content moderator? The technique is still not as effective as experienced human moderators, OpenAI found. But it outperforms moderators that have had light training.-Semafor

Can A.I. Detect Wildfires Faster Than Humans? California Is Trying to Find Out. -New York Times

AI providers begin to explore new terrain: chatbots in salary negotiations – Axios 

Coca-Cola launches beverage created with the help of artificial intelligence -Food Dive

Get Ready for AI Chatbots That Do Your Boring Chores - Wired 

Alexa, will generative AI make you more useful? -Semafor

Can AI predict, and try to prevent, homelessness? -NPR

Can AI Flirt?

Can You Flirt Better Than Artificial Intelligence? – Wall Street Journal

Could AI read my thoughts?

A Brain Scanner Combined with an AI Language Model Can Provide a Glimpse into Your Thoughts – Scientific American

A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading In a recent experiment, researchers used large language models to translate brain activity into words. – New York Times 

Can AI help me find a date?

AI apps are being used to help people connect on dating apps – NPR

Will AI change the self-help industry?

The Goopification of AI A new generation of chatbots is poised to become the next frontier of self-help – The Atlantic

Can AI be a therapist?

Virtual therapists can help veterans reluctant to open up to a person – Wired

Startups are using ChatGPT to meet soaring demand for chatbot therapy - Semafor

Can AI provide therapy in someone’s native language?

Virtual therapists can help people struggling to access in-person therapy in their native languages. – Wiley

Can AI help with text & Tinder?

How to use ChatGPT for texting and Tinder without being a jerk - The Washington Post

Can AI read my mind?

New AI system could help people who lost their ability to speak - CBS News

Can AI rap?

A Swedish newspaper is having AI rap its articles in an attempt to get young people interested in the news - Business Insider 

Are AI pets available?

AI pets are booming: They can include realistic programmed personalities — plus tails that wag - AI Time Journal   

Can AI past an MBA test?

ChatGPT passes Wharton Business School's MBA exam, gets a B - Interesting Engineering

Can AI simulate large-scale economic or political events?

Generative AI landscape: Potential future trends - Tech Target  

Can AI contest parking tickets?

I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket - Fast Company

Can AI set insurance rates?

Generative AI is helping figure out who is riskier for insurers – Semafor

Can AI create fashion?

Generative AI: Unlocking the future of fashion - McKinsey  

Can AI explain history?

How AI is helping historians better understand our past - MIT Tech Review 

Can an AI be my lawyer’s assistant?

Why it’s imperative lawyers adopt a ‘legal copilot’ model with AI – Legal Dive

LexisNexis has launched a generative AI tool that can draft documents, conduct research & summarize legal issues - LawNext  

Can AI make decent movies?

Another Reason Hollywood Will Love AI - Wall Street Journal

Welcome to the new surreal. How AI-generated video is changing film - MIT Tech Review 

Can AI spot materials inside of images?

Researchers use AI to identify similar materials in images - MIT Tech Review

Can AI pick hit songs?

Accurately predicting hit songs using neurophysiology and machine learning - Frontiers

Neuro-forecasting the next No. 1 song - Axios

Can AI replace data scientists?

Are data scientists still needed in the age of generative AI? - KD Nuggets

Can AI plan your trip better than you can?

In Milan, Putting an A.I. Travel Adviser to the Test - New York Times 

Can AI build a website?

How to use AI Art and ChatGPT to Create Insane Web Designs - Codex Community (video) 

Can AI play Minecraft?

They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft—and Unearthed New Potential for AI - Wired

Can AI provide commentary at tennis matches?

Wimbledon to introduce AI-powered commentary to coverage this year – The Guardian

Can AI Read my mind?

A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading In a recent experiment, researchers used large language models to translate brain activity into words. – New York Times

Can AI translate the Bible?

USC researchers use AI to help translate Bible into very rare languages – Religious News Service

Can AI make Astrological Readings?

Is A.I. the Future of Astrology? – New York Times

Can AI Do your Taxes?

Ready for AI to help you do your taxes? Taxfyle’s got you covered – Refresh Miami

How about answering questions from a ‘biblical’ perspective?

Christian creators build chatbots with ‘biblical’ worldview – Religious News Service

Can AI change the way wars are fought?

Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of AI Weapons – New York Times

Can AI Replace Humans?

We Went to the Fast-Food Drive-Through to Find Out – Wall Street Journal

Can AI Build Websites?

Mobile website builder Universe launches AI-powered designer – Tech Crunch

Can AI write sermons?

Start-up AI Platform Aims to Help Pastors Make the Most of Their Sunday Sermons – Christian Standard

Can AI write a song?

We asked Google’s new AI music bot to write us a song. We instantly regretted it – Science Focus

Can AI pilot airplanes & drones?

AI pilots, the future of aerial warfare – Air Force Tech

Can AI bring historical figures to life?

AI Chatbots Now Let You Talk to Historical Figures Like Shakespeare and Andy Warhol – My Modern Met

Can AI create decent headshots?

I Used AI To Create My Professional Headshots And The Results Were Either Great Or Hilarious – Digg

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Possibilities: Things AI Can Do Now  

New Score Uses AI to Rate Brands’ Inclusivity in Advertising - Wall Street Journal 

OpenAI’s advanced voice mode shatters language barriers. It’s uncanny, incredible, and poised to change how we interact with AI. - Bloomberg   

Google Lens now lets you search with video – The Verge  

This Google AI Tool Can Turn Your Research Into a 'Podcast' – Life Hacker

Warner Bros. Discovery to Use Google AI Tech for Captions Programming – Hollywood Reporter 

How Perplexity AI is Transforming Data Science and Analytics https://tinyurl.com/4sez9uxj - Analytics Insight   

Google Funds New AI-Assisted Satellites to Detect Wildfires Faster – AI Business

Podcast: AI and Voice Replication – Illusion of More

Amazon is allowing Audible narrators to clone themselves with AI - The Verge

No laughing matter - how AI is helping comedians write jokes – BBC

What can we learn from millions of high school yearbook photos? – NPR  

Google Meet’s automatic AI note-taking is here - The Verge

What accelerates brain ageing? This AI ‘brain clock’ points to answers – Nature

These New AI Bots Will Do Just About Anything for You - Wall Street Journal

Google’s new Pixel 9 can search your screenshots with AI – Washington Post

An Anthropic scientist broke his hand on a bike and it forced him to write all his code with AI for two months. He is never going back. - Erik Schluntz

AI is surprisingly good at predicting narcissism based on LinkedIn profiles – PsyPost 

A.L.S. Stole His Voice. A.I. Retrieved It. – New York Times

Drones could soon be working together in swarms to put out flames before they become wildfires – BBC

Salesforce unveils autonomous agents for sales teams - CIO

Is AI the end of search? One CDO says no but look for search to be decentralized. “If I want to know the closest pizza shop, that’s what Google is for, but if I want to understand allergen info for the shop, I need to ask the shop itself” using the shop’s AI.  - VentureBeat

Toys “R” Us has released a video ad, one of the first from a major brand that was created almost entirely by generative artificial intelligence. Sora completed 80% to 85% of the work before the agency went in to make slight corrections to the imagery. - Wall Street Journal

A Japanese mega-conglomerate says it's using AI to build what one of its designers called a "mental shield" that manipulates angry customers' voices so that call center employees don't have to deal with drama. Softbank insists it won't change customers' words, but instead will do things like make a shrill, angry voice lower, to become less grating, or else, raise the pitch. - ArsTechnica

We put five of the leading bots through a series of blind tests to determine their usefulness. ChatGPT, didn’t lead the pack. Instead, lesser-known Perplexity was our champ. - Wall Street Journal

There were more images created through AI last year than there were created through lens-based technologies. - Hollywood Reporter

Humane releases widely anticipated Ai Pin—a wearable badge that doubles as an AI-powered smart device. The voice-based, always-connected Ai Pin is the first of what will almost certainly be a long line of products riding the generative AI boon. - Tech Crunch

An innovative voice-cloning technology is making it possible to hear Chief Justice Earl Warren “read” the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision on school desegregation as he did on May 17, 1954, along with oral arguments by lawyers including a future Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall. - Associated Press

A new study “recruited management consultants from Boston Consulting Group.” One of the tasks was to brainstorm about a new type of shoe, sketch a persuasive business plan for making it and write about it persuasively. Some researchers had believed only humans could perform such creative tasks.  They were wrong. The consultants who used ChatGPT produced work that independent evaluators rated about 40 percent better on average. In fact, people who simply cut and pasted ChatGPT’s output were rated more highly than colleagues who blended its work with their own thoughts. And the A.I.-assisted consultants were more than 20 percent faster. - The New York Times

AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once. - Eureka Alert

A pair of studies looked at how much a person's expectations about AI impacted their likelihood to trust it and take its advice. A strong placebo effect works to shape what people think of a particular AI tool. - Axios

AI can figure out where a photo was taken. This "may help people ID the locations of old snapshots or allow biologists to conduct rapid surveys for invasive plant species—but similar tech could be used for gov. surveillance, corp. tracking or even stalking.” - NPR

A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence. Perplexity doesn’t give you back a list of links. Instead, it scours the web for you and uses AI to write a summary of what it finds. One impressive Perplexity feature is ‘Copilot,’ which helps a user narrow down a query by asking clarifying questions. Perplexity also allows users to search within a specific set of sources, such as academic papers, YouTube videos or Reddit posts. - New York Times

Researchers say they have developed a machine learning tool that can track the progression of Parkinson’s disease – Decrypt  

This AI humanoid robot helped assemble BMWs at US factory - Arstechnica

USC researchers say have developed an AI model that accurately predicts wildfire spread using satellite data &  Gen AI - CyberNews

AI tool outperforms existing x-ray structure methods - Chemistry World

MIT Researchers say they have developed an AI model that can accurately identify the stages of some types of breast cancer – MIT  

Getty Images Updated Generative AI Pushes Boundaries Of What’s Possible – Search Engine Journal

What It's Like Using a Brain Implant With ChatGPT (Video) - Cnet

Google DeepMind AI system reaches milestone in global math contest – Semafor

How AI Brought 11,000 College Football Players to Digital Life in Three Months – Wall Street Journal  

Is AI funnier than humans? This study says so but you be the judge – New York Post

A Japanese mega-conglomerate says it’s building an AI that manipulates angry customers' voices so that call center employees don't have to deal with drama - Arstechnica

AI model harnesses physics to autocorrect remote sensing data - Phys Org

Meet Kenza Layli from Morocco - the winner of the world's first Miss AI beauty pageant – Euronews

‘We don’t want to leave people behind’: AI is helping disabled people in surprising new ways - CNN

NBC will use AI version of Al Michaels’s voice for Olympics coverage – The Hill

Hong Kong researchers say they have created a machine learning algorithm that processes satellite data to more accurately and efficiently predict space weather conditions caused by solar activity - Techxplore

Smashing, from Goodreads’ co-founder, curates the best of the web using AI and human recommendations – TechCrunch 

AI is upending search as we know it – Venture Beat

Generative AI Speech-to-Speech Systems and Their Applications – Datanami  

How AI is helping judge Olympic gymnastics – The Verge

Using AI to decode dog vocalizations – University of Michigan

An app that uses generative AI that writes biographies for users – Tech Crunch

'AI is redefining the insurance industry' – FT Advisor

AI Is Coming to a Restaurant Near You, Says OpenTable CEO Debby Soo – Barrons

Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members - Futurism

Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts – Tech Crunch

The AI art generator Midjourney is the favored tool in architecture – Bloomberg

Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer – 404 Media

Anthropic claims its AI models are as persuasive as humans - Axios

Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers? – New York Times

AI “deathbots” are helping people in China grieve – Rest of World

I Used ChatGPT to Build My Best Wardrobe Ever, and It Worked – Cnet

No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making huge strides. – Ars Technica

Tom Brady says he's 'using AI' to prepare for broadcasting career – Awful Announcing

Artificial intelligence might revolutionise coaching based on football research – Cosmos

OpenAI reveals artificial intelligence tool to re-create human voices - Axios

NASA is releasing its first open-source geospatial artificial intelligence foundation model for Earth observation data - EarthData

Advances in AI and satellite imagery allowed researchers to create the clearest picture yet of human activity at sea – The Verge

AI Is Telling Bedtime Stories to Your Kids Now - Wired

Why AI will help IT workers get more sleep - Semafor

New study finds ChatGPT gives better advice than professional columnists – PsyPost

LinkedIn Tests New AI-Based Learning Elements In-Stream – Social Media Today

AI platform demonstrates ability to autonomously plan and execute a chemistry experiment after taking input prompts from researchers – Engineering   

Can AI Predict What Shoppers Will Buy? – Business of Fashion

AI is speeding up scientific discoveries and helping to spot new ideas - Axios

Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI - The Verge

AI is helping cut the carbon footprint of online shopping returns - Semafor

Elvis Evolution: Presley to be brought to life using AI for new immersive show - BBC

How an AI robot smashed human world record in Labyrinth, a classic marble maze game – Fox News

George Carlin has a new AI-generated comedy special – USA Today

This AI game controller can predict which button you'll press next - BGR

This AI learnt language by seeing the world through a baby’s eyes – Nature

AI program “can train neural networks using just a handful of satellite and drone images - Phys.org

How AI Can Find the Perfect Movies, TV Shows and Books for You – Wall Street Journal

Ex Zillow exec launches AI-powered home search platform - Axios

A Celebrity Dies, and New Biographies Pop Up Overnight. The Author? A.I. – New York Times

Build Walls

An autonomous excavator can build a wall out of nearby boulders by an AI system that uses the data to determine the best placement for each boulder – HackaDay

Predict Weather

NASA and IBM are building an AI for weather and climate applications – Engadget

Map Icebergs

Researchers at the University of Leeds have created an AI system that can map icebergs in satellite images 10,000 times faster than humans - ESA

Mute Chip Crunching

Frito-Lay has created an AI-powered mic filter that can remove the crunching sound created by eating chips during online gaming sessions – Marketing Drive

Predict New Stable Compounds

Google DeepMind has created an AI system that can predict the structure of crystalline materials much faster than humans – The Next Web

Track Tomatoes

A data visualization tracking tomato production in Europe – Data Innovation

Make a Movie

Make I asked ChatGPT to create a Hallmark Christmas movie — and it went better than expected – Tom’s Guide  

Be a Personal Assistant

Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them? – New York Times 

Win Awards

The Grammys will consider that viral song with Drake and The Weeknd AI vocals for awards after all – Engadet  

Let you Speak in Other Languages

This new AI video tool clones your voice in 7 languages — and it's blowing up – Tom’s Guide

Edit Major Movies

How Will Editors Use AI? The Tech’s Role in Production and Post Scrutinized at IBC – Hollywood Reporter   

Translate Podcasts

Spotify develops ai-powered voice cloning tool that can translate podcasts into multiple languages – Music Business Worldwide 

Fashion Modeling

Spanish influencer agency designed this AI model after deciding real-life influencers are a pain – BGR 

Create Anime  

Tezuka Fans Unimpressed by Black Jack's First Official AI-Generated Manga – CBR

Read Books for you

Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead? - WIRED

Haggle with Sellers

See how well you can haggle with AI to purchase real products – AI Garage Sale  

Create a Dead Actors Voice

AI-Generated Jimmy Stewart Narrates Bedtime Story for Calm App – Variety

And do other chores

6 ChatGPT mind-blowing extensions to use it anywhere – Medium  

 AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1. – Business Insider

AI Has Already Created As Many Images As Photographers Have Taken in 150 Years. Statistics for 2023 – Every Pixel

A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job – New York Times

AI-generated books are infiltrating online bookstores - Axios

GenAI Is Making Data Science More Accessible - Datanami

Can AI summaries save you from endless virtual meetings? – Washington Post

Amazon is bringing a whole lot of AI to Thursday Night Football this season – The Verge

7 Projects Built with Generative AI by Data Scientists – KD Nuggets

The Novel Written about—and with—Artificial Intelligence – The Walrus

The IRS will use AI to crack down on wealthy potential tax violators - Axios 

Stability AI has now released a code generator called StableCode – VentureBeat

AI is already helping 911 operators. Here’s what the future of emergencies looks like – Fast Company

Generative AI: Here are the use cases across industries – Economic Times

How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead – BBC

How AI is Revolutionizing the Insurance Industry - Stack Diary

How to Create QR Code Art using Stable Diffusion – Urvashi on Medium

8 questions CISOs should be asking about AI – CSO  

How to Use A.I. for Family Time – New York Times

Sweetspot is an AI search engine for the U.S. government contract maze - Semafor 

ChatGPT Code Interpreter: What is It and What Can You Do With It – Stack Diary

AI can write code

Making basic coding obsolete - Semafor

AI changes the software-making game - Axios

Now, folks who don’t know how to code can easily write automation scripts to run in browsers - KHOI    

It is becoming more feasible for AI systems to take over the role of coding – Forbes

AI can write email

Microsoft Will Use OpenAI Tech to Write Emails for Busy Salespeople – Bloomberg

AI write SEO

24 Experts share how they are using ChatGPT to help with SEO efforts - Matt Tutt

AI can spot phishing sites

ChatGPT shows promise in detecting phishing sites – Help Net Security 

AI can fight El Niño

AI is helping scientists and startups fight El Niño - Semafor

AI can help build video games

Game makers put generative AI to imaginative work - Axios

AI can write political speeches

ChatGPT writes lawmakers speech – Boston Globe

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Journalism & AI

Here are the AI essentials that our experts are using, promoting and nervous about – Poynter

Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists - 404 Media

How I’m Trying to Use Generative AI as a Journalism Engineer — Ethically – The Markup

David Caswell: “All journalists should be trained to use generative AI” – Hello Future

AI companies have a news problem. Journalists have the skills they need to fix it. – Columbia Journalism Review

‘Being on camera is no longer sensible’: persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI – The Guardian  

How The New York Times' Granular Gen AI Tool Drives Campaign Performance – Ad Week 

Meet NAT, the AI-generated presenter offering soft news to Mexican audiences – Reuters

After getting caught fabricating quotes using AI, Cody reporter resigns – Wyoming News 

India’s star audio content company is going all in on AI. Will listeners tune in? – Rest of World  

Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the ‘written word’ – Associated Press

Reality Check Commentary: No News Is Bad News: Some AI Models Are Trained to Avoid News – New Guardian  

CNN slashes 100 jobs as it announces major AI-focused overhaul – Raw Story  

The Washington Post debuts AI chatbot – Axios  

The assignment: Build AI tools for journalists – and make ethics job one – Poynter  

Why video journalism is not ready to ditch its editors because of AI – Journalism.co

Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results – Wired   

Global audiences suspicious of AI-powered newsrooms, report finds - Reuters  

How AI helped a local newsroom in Argentina boost its reach, innovation and sustainability - International Journalist's Network  

Fact-checkers urge collaboration, caution in using artificial intelligence tools – Poynter

How Donors Can Support Responsible AI Use in Journalism – Journalism Funders Forum   

OK computer? Understanding public attitudes towards the uses of generative AI in news - Reuters 

Breaking down ESPN’s decision to use AI to write some game stories – Poynter

Our standards for using AI at The Dallas Morning News – Dallas News

California announces new deal with tech to fund journalism, AI research – Associated Press

New Washington Post AI tool sifts massive data sets - Axios

Yahoo News debuted a fresh A.I.-powered news app – Wired

Ten big questions on AI and the news – Columbia Journalism Review   

It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop. – New York Times

NYT issues guidance on its A.I. principles – InPublishing

AI companies freeze out partisan media – Semafor  

AI newsroom guidelines look very similar, says a researcher who studied them. He thinks this is bad news - Reuters Institute

WSJ editor Emma Tucker on how publishers can protect themselves from AI challenge – Press Gazettte 

For the first time, two Pulitzer winners disclosed using AI in their reporting – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff right now – Simon Willison  

The media bosses fighting back against AI — and the ones cutting deals – Washington Post  

A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm - CNN

What does the public in six countries think of generative AI in news? | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism - Reuters Institute

USA Today is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of its articles - The Verge  

Google’s and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election – Wired

Julia Angwin on trust in journalism and the future of AI and the news – Journalist’s Resources  

AI’s coming inverted pyramid moment for journalism – Poynter

Does AI Have a Place in Journalism? 6 Ways It Helps Us Craft Our Original Work – PC Magazine

Why TikTok star Sophia Smith Galer created an AI tool to help journalists make viral videos – Journalism.co  

Newsrooms are experimenting with generative AI, warts and all – The Conversation  

Media Companies Are Making a Huge Mistake With AI – The Atlantic

‘Devastating’ potential impact of Google AI Overviews on publisher visibility revealed - Press Gazette

Impact of AI on Local News Models – Local News Initiative

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry – Futurism

New AI and Large Language Model Tools for Journalists: What to Know - Global Investigative Journalism Network 

AI is disrupting the local news industry. Will it unlock growth or be an existential threat? – Poynter  

How Generative AI Is Helping Fact-Checkers Flag Election Disinformation, But Is Less Useful in the Global South – Global Investigative Journalism Network  

News industry divides over AI content rights - Axios

8 major newspapers join legal backlash against OpenAI, Microsoft – Washington Post

The business of news in the AI economy – Wiley Online Journal

Nearly 70% of newsroom staffers are using A.I. in some capacity, leveraging the technology to generate headlines, edit stories, and perform other tasks – Poynter   

How AI-generated disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it – Reuters Institute  

AI is already reshaping newsrooms, AP study finds - Poynter 

AI news that’s fit to print: The New York Times’ editorial AI director on the current state of AI-powered journalism – Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Watermarks are Just One of Many Tools Needed for Effective Use of AI in News – Innovating  

We’re not ready for a major shift in visual journalism - Poynter

Axios Sees A.I. Coming, and Shifts Its Strategy – New York Times

Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom - Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Your newsroom needs an AI ethics policy. Start here. – Poynter  

Is AI about to kill what’s left of journalism? – Financial Times 

Pulitzer’s AI Spotlight Series will train 1,000 journalists on AI accountability reporting – Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

AI newsroom guidelines look very similar, says a researcher who studied them. He thinks this is bad news – Reuter’s Institute

AI’s Most Pressing Ethics Problem – Columbia Journalism Institute

AI-generated news is here from SF-based Hoodline. What will that mean? -San Francisco Chronicle 

Two journalists talk to the bots — who talk back — about the pros and pitfalls of AI  - Nieman Labs 

What will be the impact of generative AI on journalism? – Reuters  

TikTok dominates media outlets as news source for Gen Z - Axios 

Vice Media to Stop Publishing on Vice.com, Plans to Cut Hundreds of Jobs – Wall Street Journal

How OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool, Sora, could harm journalism and society - Poynter

Semafor reporters are going to curate the news with AI – The Verge

AI and Journalism Need Each Other – WSJ

How less, not more, data, could help journalism – Semafor

News Publishers See Google’s AI Search Tool as a Traffic-Destroying Nightmare – WSJ READ

AI may be news reporting’s future. So far, it’s been an embarrassment. - Washington Post 

Can news outlets build a ‘trustworthy’ AI chatbot? - The Verge  

How to report on AI in elections - International Journalists' Network -  International Center For Journalists

How Reuters, Newsquest and BBC experiment with generative AI – Journalism.co  

Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles – 404 Media

Experts Warn Congress of Dangers AI Poses to Journalism - TIME

The New York Times is building a team to explore AI in the newsroom - The Verge

New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement – WSJ

I created an AI tool to help investigative journalists find stories in audit reports - Reuters

The AI Revolution in Journalism: A New Era of Enhanced Reporting - Hackernoon

How The Generative AI Boom Proves We Need Journalism - AdExchanger

AI is a big opportunity for the news media. Let’s not blow it. - Columbia Journalism Review

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Legal Issues & AI  

5 Critical AI Legal Issues Every Business Must Navigate – Forbes

Artist appeals copyright denial for prize-winning AI-generated work - ArsTechnica

Podcast: AI and Voice Replication  - Illusion of More

YouTube Develops Tool to Allow Creators to Detect AI-Generated Content Using Their Likeness – Hollywood Reporter

FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist – ArsTechnica 

Supio brings generative AI to personal injury cases – Tech Crunch 

Mickey Mouse Smoking: How AI Image Tools Are Generating New Content-Moderation Problems – Wall Street Journal 

Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court? – Associated Press  

Watermarking in Images Will Not Solve AI-Generated Content Abuse – Data Innovation 

Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill – Futurism  

Bill to Outlaw AI Deepfakes Backed by SAG-AFTRA – Variety

The European Union’s world-first artificial intelligence rules are officially taking effect - Associated Press  

Buzzfeed sends ‘cease and desist’ letter over AI aggregator’s logo – Press Gazette  

The Push to Develop Generative A.I. Without All the Lawsuits – New York Times 

AI can’t make music — but that doesn’t mean it poses an empty threat to musicians – The Atlantic 

The music industry is coming for AI – NPR

Judge sharply criticizes lawyers for authors in AI suit against Meta – Politico

YouTube will use AI to snip copyrighted music and not silence your whole video – Tech Radar  

Three senators introduce bill to protect artists and journalists from unauthorized AI use – Engadget

Chevron’s downfall highlights need for clear artificial intelligence laws - FedScoop

The AI Shakeup: New Tech Innovations and the Future of Corporate Law – JD Supra  

Decoding US Copyright Law and Fair Use for Generative AI Legal Cases – Medium  

Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the ‘written word’ – Associated Press

Colorado’s Landmark AI Act: What Companies Need To Know – Skadden

Record labels sue two AI startups for copyright infringement – Axios  

Deepfakes and the First Amendment: Are Deepfakes Illegal? – Freedom Forum 

What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? – New York Times

AI Legal Tools Could Be Too Pricey For Those Most In Need – Law360 

Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac – The Verge

AI is creating fake legal cases and making its way into real courtrooms, with disastrous results – The Conversation 

Generative AI For Legal Professionals: What To Know And What To Do Right Now – Above the Law 

Gen AI Shows Promise — And Peril — For Pro Se Litigants - Law360

AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them. – The Washington Post

Generative AI Is Challenging a 234-Year-Old Law – The Atlantic

George Carlin’s estate settles lawsuit over AI comedy special – Washington Post

How GenAI can enhance your legal work without compromising ethics – Reuters Legal 

Calif.'s Top Judge Launches Task Force To Probe AI Uses - Law360 

How Dow Jones is building a framework to tackle AI copyright challenges – Journalism.co

 China court says AI broke copyright law in apparent world first – Semafor 

Judge Blasts Law Firm for using ChatGPT to Estimate Legal Costs – Futurism

AI Use in Law Practice Needs Common Sense, Not More Court Rules – Bloomberg

How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers – Law 360 

Generative AI in the legal industry: The 3 waves set to change how the business works – Reuters  

Harvard Law Expert Explains How AI my Transform the Legal Profession in 2042 – Harvard Law School 

How Artificial Intelligence is making its way into the legal system – The Marshall Project 

AI Will Soon Streamline Litigation Practice for Patent Attorneys – Bloomberg  

How AI-Assisted Research helps legal professionals complete quality research faster and create revenue opportunities – Reuters  

Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on artificial intelligence in the courts  - NPR  

AI’s Billion-Dollar Copyright Battle Starts With a Font Designer – Bloomberg

Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law – New York Times

The New York Times’s OpenAI lawsuit could put a damper on AI’s 2024 ambitions – Fast Company 

OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free – Futurism

What If We Held ChatGPT to the Same Standard as Claudine Gay? The problem with generative AI is plagiarism, not copyright – The Atlantic 

The New York Times’ Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI Threatens the Future of AI and Fair Use – Data Innovation  

We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.  – New York Times

How lawyers used ChatGPT and got in trouble – Washington Post  

Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Legal Profession – NYSBA  

How is AI Used in Legal Technology? – National Law Review  

Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT – New York Times

End of the Billable Hour? Law Firms Get On Board With Artificial Intelligence – Wall Street Journal  

How I help clients navigate the world of AI – Legal Check 

Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than The Supreme Court – Above the Law

Law Firms Wrestle With How Much to Tell Clients About AI Use - Bloomberg Law

Law students will gain access to LexisNexis' generative artificial intelligence platform - ABA Journal

Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney – NPR

Experts say the courts will feel even greater impacts from generative AI in 2024 - Reuters

Generating a Body of Generative AI Case Law - Holland & Knight Law

Recent cases raise questions about the ethics of using AI in the legal system - NPR

Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Lawsuit Against Meta - The Hollywood Reporter

How China’s $70 AI copyright ruling impacts the world - Semafor

Legal experts step up to defend wave of AI lawsuits - Financial Times

Exploring Copyright Boundaries: The Impact of Van Gogh-Inspired AI Art - JD Supra

AI cannot be patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules in landmark case - Reuters

Face search company Clearview AI overturns UK privacy fine - BBC  

Vanderbilt Law School introduces new AI Legal Lab - National Jurist

AI-generated content can now be copyrighted...sometimes - Mashable

Two Supreme Court Cases Could Shape the Future of AI and Content Moderation - Just Security

OpenAI, Microsoft hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training - Reuters

Google promises to take the legal heat in users’ AI copyright lawsuits – The Verge  

A.I. May Not Get a Chance to Kill Us if This Kills It First – Slate  

Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has a plan to defend photography from AI – The Verge 

Artists Are Losing the War Against AI – The Atlantic 

Some of the resistance among publishers to works generated by A.I. comes from its legal standing: Machine-written text can’t be copyrighted – New York Times

Some argue that authors whose copyrighted works are used to train AI systems have an ownership claim while others say those who use AI as a tool are the legal authors  – Inside Higher Ed

Microsoft Says It Will Protect Customers from AI Copyright Lawsuits - Bloomberg

Thomson Reuters AI copyright dispute must go to trial, judge says -Reuters

Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images – The Verge  

The Authors whose Pirated books are Powering Generative AI – The Atlantic 

Inside the Legal Tussle Between Authors and AI: “We’ve Got to Attack This From All Directions” – Vanity Fair  

Can My AI Program Sue? Supreme Court’s ADA Decision May Have the Answer – Security Boulevard 

Philosophical Theory May Help Solve AI Inventorship Question – Law 360

2 Creative IP Attorneys On The Complications Of AI-Generated Art – Above the Law

The copyright battles against OpenAI have begun - Quartz

AI learned from their work. Now they want compensation – Washington Post 

How ChatGPT Could Embed a ‘Watermark’ in the Text It Generates - The New York Times     

UChicago scientists develop new tool to protect artists from AI mimicry – Univ. Chicago 

Can an AI Own a Copyright? – Illusion of More 

Can A.I. Invent? – New York Times

Thousands of authors sign letter urging AI makers to stop stealing books - TechCrunch

Stop Rushing To Copyright As A Tool To ‘Solve’ The Problems Of AI – Above the Law 

OpenAI is facing lawsuits over copyrighted materials it uses to train ChatGPT – NPR  

Generative AI is a legal minefield – Axios

ChatGPT and the First Amendment: Whose Rights Are We Talking About? – LawFare Blog

Generative AI Brings A New Generation Of Legal Issues – Law360

No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not dissent in Obergefell — and other things ChatGPT gets wrong about the Supreme Court – Scotus Blog

Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT – Wall Street Journal  

Some law professors fear ChatGPT's rise as others see opportunity – Reuters

A Machine With First Amendment Rights – LawFare Blog

A terrible decision on AI-made images hurts creators – Washington Post  

The AI boom is here, and so are the lawsuits - Vox

Publishers’ group warns that generative AI content could violate copyright law – Marketing Brew

Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem - Pluralistic 

Who Is Liable for A.I. Creations? – New York Times

AI is already writing books, websites and online recipes - The Washington Post 

ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data - The Washington Post

AI-created images lose U.S. copyrights in test for new technology - Reuters 

Do AI images violate copyright? A lawyer explains the Stable Diffusion lawsuit - BoingBoing  

AI-generated comic artwork loses US Copyright protection - ArsTechnica

Does Generative AI Need to Infringe Copyright to Create? – Lexology 

Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Foundation - Wall Street Journal

Critics of Generative AI Are Worrying About the Wrong IP Issues – Data Innovation  

AI-Generated Works Should Not Have Copyright Protection - Law360

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Limitations of AI

While AI can enhance individual creativity, it might do so at the expense of collective diversity and novelty in creative works. PsyPost

The AI programs aren’t necessarily doing something no human can; they’re doing something no human can in such a short period of time. Sometimes that’s great, as when an AI model quickly solves a scientific challenge that would have taken a researcher years. Sometimes that’s terrifying, as when (they appear) capable of replacing entire production studios. -The Atlantic

“On average 30% of the time the AI models spread misinformation when asked about claims in the news. On average 29% of the time, the AI models simply refused to respond to prompts about false claims in the news over the past month. Instead, the models delivered only non-responsive responses.” -News Guard

While AI models are starting to replicate musical patterns, it is the breaking of rules that tends to produce era-defining songs. Algorithms ‘are great at fulfilling expectations but not good at subverting them, but that’s what often makes the best music,’ Eric Drott, a music-theory professor at the University of Texas at Austin.” How can we be more human than an AI? Produce creative work that goes beyond the expected, the predictable, the established and popular. -The Atlantic

Recent brain scans suggest we don’t need language to think. A group of neuroscientists now argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. "Separating thought and language could help explain why AI systems like ChatGPT are so good at some tasks and so bad at others. These programs mimic the language network in the human brain — but fall short on reasoning." - New York Times

If an LLM can be trained on 17th-century texts, it can just as easily be trained on QAnon forums, or a dataset that presupposes the superiority of one religion or political system. Use a deeply skewed bubble machine like that to try to understand a book, a movie, or someone's medical records and the results will be inherently biased against whatever — or whoever — got left out of the training material. -Business Insider

At times, A.I. chatbots have stumbled with simple arithmetic and math word problems that require multiple steps to reach a solution, something recently documented by some technology reviewers. The A.I.’s proficiency is getting better, but it remains a shortcoming. -New York Times

Can machine-learning algorithms distinguish truth from falsehood? – The Atlantic

AI models could collapse if trained on their own materials, study shows – Semafor

A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles With Math – New York Times

OopsGPT OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong. – The Atlantic

A week of nonstop breaking political news stumps AI chatbots – Washington Post

Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. LLMs might be a trap – Ben Evans Blog

What if the A.I. Boosters Are Wrong? – New York Times

AI Has Become a Technology of Faith - The Atlantic

Why AI can’t replace science – Fast Company

AI Investors Are Starting to Wonder: Is This Just a Bubble? - New York Magazine

It’s time to get real about what AI can and can’t do – Washington Post

Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sources - The Atlantic

Think AI Can Perceive Emotion? Think Again. – Wall Street Journal

Press Pause on the Silicon Valley Hype Machine – New York Times

In the shadow of generative AI, what remains uniquely human? - VentureBeat

Teenager stuns China after beating AI in math contest – NBC News  

The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling – Wired

New study on AI-assisted creativity reveals an interesting social dilemma – Psypost 

The AI that de-ages Eminem into Slim Shady is astonishingly bad – Futurism  

Using synthetic data to train foundational LLMs – Enterprise AI

Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated – TechSpot

AI May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize - The New York Times

AI shines the kinds of skills that are generally considered to reflect cognitive aptitude (think: playing chess), but fumbles with the basics ones. – The Atlantic

Why ChatGPT Is Getting Dumber at Basic Math – Wall Street Journal

What are LLMs bad at? Reference lists - Edifix

M.B.A. Students vs. ChatGPT: Who Comes Up With More Innovative Ideas? - Wall Street Journal

Why AI Isn’t Funny – The Messenger

AI Is a Waste of Time – The Atlantic

ChatGPT AI makes mistakes and stifles diversity of thought, according to workplace study – Axios

How Smart is ChatGPT? – Visual Capitalist

Has ChatGPT really gotten ‘lazy’? – Semafor

Honestly, I love when AI hallucinates – Washington Post 

In Leaked Audio, Microsoft Cherry-Picked Examples to Make Its AI Seem Functional - Futurism 

Generative AI Models Are Built to Hallucinate: The Question is How to Control Them - insideBIGDATA

No ChatGPT didn’t ace MIT classes — it cheated - Chronicle of Higher Ed

You'd likely be disappointed if you asked ChatGPT for internet links to research sources - MakeUseOf

ChatGPT is no CPA: The Popular chatbot can’t pass accounting test - Study Finds

We’re Using A.I. Chatbots Wrong. Here’s How to Direct Them - New York Times

If ChatGPT doesn’t get a better grasp of facts, nothing else matters - Fast Company

AI chatbots are having their "tulip mania" moment - Salon  

Why data contamination is a big issue for LLMs - BDtechtalks 

Are you better than an AI? - Bandt

AI needs better metaphors - Dylan Collins blog

Be an AI realist - Axios

Machine thinking is great for understanding the behavioral patterns across populations. It is not great for understanding the unique individual right in front of you. If you can understand another person’s perspective, you have a more valuable skill than the skill possessed by some machine vacuuming up vast masses of data about no one in particular. New York Times

Ian Bogost suggests that ChatGPT produces “an icon of the answer … rather than the answer itself.”  The Atlantic 

A large language model is not capable of conducting independent research or gathering new information. It is only capable of generating text based on the input it is given, so it would not be able to provide original insights or perspectives on the topic at hand. Inside Higher Ed 

The ability to create and give a good speech, connect with an audience, and organize fun and productive gatherings seem like a suite of skills that A.I. will not replicate. New York Times

The idea that “AI” can navigate contested terrain by flagging “disagreement” and synthesizing links to “both sides” is hardly sufficient. Such illusions of balance obscure the need to situate information and differentiate among sources: precisely the critical skills that college writing was designed to cultivate and empower. Public Books

Something I noticed when I asked ChatGPT to write a short story: It makes everything sound like an unfunny parody. New York Magazine

I’ve learned that it is being used for such daily tasks as: translating code from one programming language to another, potentially saving hours spent searching web forums for a solution; generating plain-language summaries of published research, or identifying key arguments on a particular topic; and creating bullet points to pull into a presentation or lecture. Chronicle of Higher Ed

If AI-generated forensic sketches are ever released to the public, they can reinforce stereotypes and racial biases and can hamper an investigation by directing attention to people who look like the sketch instead of the actual perpetrator Vice

AI feels mundane. It just feels like using any other technology. So we really need to reckon with our own expectations, turn down the hype, and close the gap between what we imagine and what the reality is. The Markup

The information produced by AI language models and chatbots is often incorrect. The tricky thing is that when it’s wrong, it’s wrong in ways that are difficult to spot. The Verge

Our tests found that it sometimes offers responses that potentially include plagiarism, contradict itself, are factually incorrect or have grammatical errors, to name a few — all of which could be problematic at work. Washington Post

When we discuss hallucinations and out-of-date databases, we should be careful about reaching summative judgments. These products are still very much in development; there will be new innovations, and there will be bigger and better pools of data that will stir the pot among ranking brands and products. Inside Higher Ed

CNET started quietly publishing articles explaining financial topics using “‘automated technology’ – a stylistic euphemism for AI,” CNET had to issue corrections on 41 of the 77 stories after uncovering errors despite the articles being reviewed by humans prior to publication. Some of the errors came down to basic math. Columbia Journalism Review 

I think the questionable accuracy of responses provided by ChatGPT is its biggest downside. It means the user is responsible for verifying the information, which takes away the ease people are attributing to ChatGPT. Demand Sage

ChatGPT has proven inept at reproducing even the simplest ideas in rocketry. In addition to messing up the rocket equation, it bungled concepts such as the thrust-to-weight ratio, a basic measure of the rocket's ability to fly. NPR 

ChatGPT can write poemlike streams of regurgitated text, but . . . they don’t satisfy the minimal criterion of a poem, which is a pattern of language that compresses the messy data of experience, emotion, truth, or knowledge and turns those, as W. H. Auden wrote in 1935, into “memorable speech.” The Atlantic

Even if researchers trained these systems solely on peer-reviewed scientific literature, they might still produce statements that were scientifically ridiculous. Even if they learned solely from text that was true, they might still produce untruths. Even if they learned only from text that was wholesome, they might still generate something creepy. New York Times

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Politics & AI

Half of U.S. states seek to crack down on AI in elections – Axios

No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans – Semafor

Sophistication of AI-backed operation targeting senator points to future of deepfake schemes – Associated Press  

US intel says AI is boosting, but not revolutionizing, foreign efforts to influence the 2024 elections - CNN

Half of U.S. states seek to crack down on AI in elections – Axios

Rethinking ‘Checks and Balances’ for the A.I. Age – New York Times

AI Could Still Wreck the Presidential Election – The Atlantic 

How A.I., QAnon and Falsehoods Are Reshaping the Presidential Race - New York Times

Uncle Sam wants to know: What can your country do for AI? – Semafor

California lawmakers approve legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AI – ABC News

AI Regulation Is Coming. Fortune 500 Companies Are Bracing for Impact. – Wall Street Journal  

Harris will use human Donald Trump stand-ins, not AI, for debate prep – Semafor

Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court? – Associated Press

Breaking Down Global Government Spending on AI – Enterprise AI 

How Innovative Is China in AI? – Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

AI researchers call for ‘personhood credentials’ as bots get smarter – Washington Post 

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election – NPR  

States are writing their own rules for AI in health care  - Axios

Political consultant fined $6M for using AI to fake Biden’s voice in robocalls to voters – New York Post 

AI enters politics: 3 Pa. House candidates used ChatGPT to shape voters guide responses – Lancaster Online

Israel establishes national expert forum to guide AI policy and regulation – Jerusalem Post  

France appoints first AI minister amid political unrest as it aims to become global AI leader – Euro News  

Can politicians benefit from claiming real scandals are deep fakes? (video) – CNN

FCC pursues new rules for AI in political ads, but changes may not take effect before the election - Associated Press

As AI entrenches itself in the political world, discerning real from fake is critical – NBC Boston

Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming’s capital city – Washington Post

Brands Love Influencers (Until Politics Get Involved) – New York Times

What AI is doing to campaigns - Politico

See why AI detection tools can fail to catch election deepfakes – Washington Post

Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower – New York Times

Trump's crowd-photo claims speed AI-driven truth decay – Axios  

The brewing storm over California’s AI bill – Semafor

Secretaries of state urge Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading false election info - Washington Post

With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans - New York Times 

A neurological disorder stole her voice. Jennifer Wexton takes it back on the House floor – Associated Press  

A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation - New York Times 

California is a battleground for AI bills, as Trump plans to curb regulation - Washington Post 

Censorship slows China's AI advances – Axios  

US agents shut down huge Russian AI bot farm as fears over misinformation grow – Semafor  

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too - New York Times 

The AI Industry starts to focus on a potential Trump presidency – Semafor  

Forget deepfake videos. Text and voice are this election’s true AI threat. – The Hill

The AI election is here. Regulators can’t decide whose problem it is. - Washington Post 

Generative AI poses Threat to election security, intelligence agencies warn – CBS News

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’ – Wired

UN adopts first resolution on artificial intelligence – Associated Press

Few AI deepfakes identified in EU elections, Microsoft president says – Reuters

The danger of deepfakes is not what you think – Financial Times 

J.D. Vance’s A.I. Agenda: Reduce Regulation – New York Times 

Over 80% of China’s businesses already use generative AI - Fortune

Trump Promotes A.I. Images to Falsely Suggest Taylor Swift Endorsed Him - New York Times

The dos and don’ts of campaigning with AI – Washington Post

Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AI — Associated Press 

Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election – Reuters 

AI sharpens political targeting in US presidential race – Voice of America

An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes – New York Times

What is propaganda? What's a deep fake? And can they influence elections? – Tennessean

In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024 - Washington Post 

Political operative and firms behind Biden AI robocall sued for thousands - The Guardian

‘Inflection point’: AI meme wars hit India election, test social platforms – Al Jazeera 

Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide – Associated Press

With elections looming worldwide, here’s how to identify and investigate AI audio deepfakes – Harvard’s Nieman Lab 

Underdog Who Beat Biden in American Samoa Used AI in Election Campaign – Wall Street Journal

AI call quiz: see if you can spot the sham audio of Trump and Biden – The Guardian

Fake images made to show Trump with Black supporters highlight concerns around AI and elections – Associated Press   

How AI-generated disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it – Reuters Institute

San Francisco Chronicle AI will shake up democracy — for better or worse – SF Chronicle 

FBI warns that foreign adversaries could use AI to spread disinformation about US elections - Washington Post 

AI Threatens Elections by Capitalizing on Human Foibles, Officials Warn – Wall Street Journal 

Demand for computer chips fuelled by AI could reshape global politics and security – The Conversation

Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images – BBC  

Belarusian opposition endorses AI candidate in parliamentary elections - Semafor 

Tech firms sign ‘reasonable precautions’ to stop AI-generated election chaos – The Guardians  

OpenAI suspends maker of a ChatGPT-based bot mimicking Democratic presidential nominee Dean Phillips – Axios

Imran Khan’s ‘Victory Speech’ From Jail Shows A.I.’s Peril and Promise – New York Times

Parents of gun violence victims use AI to bring kids’ voices to Capitol Hill  - Washington Post

New Era of AI Deepfakes Complicates 2024 Elections – Wall Street Journal  

Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery – Courthouse News

Microsoft says Iran, North Korea, Russia and China are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyberattacks - Fortune

AI concerns grow as billions of people worldwide prepare to vote this year – NPR

Technology group hopes to help Democrats win with AI-generated ads and emails – NBC News  

Chatbots are generating false and misleading information about U.S. elections – Fast Company

The AI Culture Wars Are Just Getting Started – Wired

Politicians, lobbyists are banned from using ChatGPT for official campaign business - NPR

FEC to weigh AI limits for political ads by ‘early summer,’ chair says - The Washington Post

AI-powered disinformation is spreading — is Canada ready for the political impact? - CBC

China Is Stealing AI Secrets to Turbocharge Spying, U.S. Says – Wall Street Journal

Google’s plan to quash AI-generated election misinformation – Semafor 

Europe reaches a deal on the world's first comprehensive AI rules – Associated Press

Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT – Associated Press

An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban – The Verge 

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio tells Congress global AI rules are needed - The Washington Post 

European Central Bank Is Experimenting With a New Tool: A.I. – New York Times

How generative AI will impact elections around the world - Axios 

Microsoft Debates What to Do With A.I. Lab in China – New York Times

The Davos elite embraced AI in 2023. Now they fear it. - The Washington Post  

Four things to know about China’s new AI rules in 2024 – MIT Tech Review

The AI Factor In Political Campaigns: Revolutionizing Modern Politics - Forbes

Silicon Valley insiders are trying to unseat Biden with help from AI - The Washington Post

Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China – New York Times

The who's who of the tech world will gather on Capitol Hill to focus on AI – NPR  

ChatGPT leans liberal, research shows – Washington Post

Will the federal government regulate A.I.? History suggests it could take a while. – New York Times 

Who Is Going to Regulate AI? – Harvard Business Review

Google to require disclosure for AI in election ads - Axios

AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous – Wired  

On AI: What Should We Regulate? – Battlelle Media   

A bill that would mandate tech companies to analyze the effects their A.I. platforms might have and certify the safety of their products - Politico 

Argentina’s AI election heralds a new future for politics – Semafor

Here’s what it might look like if A.I. is deployed to sway elections—And what we can do to stop it - Fortune

A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections – The Guardian  

The AI rules that US policymakers are considering, explained – Vox

A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did. – New York Time

D.C. aides learn about AI at Stanford boot camp - Washington Post

AI’s Rapid Growth Threatens to Flood 2024 Campaigns With Fake Videos – Wall Street Journal

New Zealand’s National party admits using AI-generated people in attack ads – The Guardian

3 Guidelines for Crafting a Strong Federal AI Policy – FedTech

How AI is already changing the 2024 election - Axios

ChatGPT’s creators can’t figure out why it won’t talk about Trump – Semafor

The right’s new culture-war target: ‘Woke AI’ – Washington Post

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Military & AI

Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones – Vox

The U.S. Military’s Investments Into Artificial Intelligence Are Skyrocketing - TIME 

U.S. military pits AI against human pilots in first ever dogfight test – Semafor

What War by A.I. Actually Looks Like – New York Times 

Google will provide AI to the military for disaster response – Washington Post 

How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia – Economist

Artificial Intelligence Changing Way Military Health System Delivers Health Care – Dvidshub 

Israel offers a glimpse into the terrifying world of military AI - Washington Post 

OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with the Pentagon – Semafor

Tech Companies Turned Ukraine Into an AI War Lab - TIME  

AI models consistently favor using nuclear weapons in war games – Wired

Pentagon explores military uses of large language models - Washington Post

Scale AI to set the Pentagon’s path for testing and evaluating large language models  - Defense Scoop 

Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries shows the growing threat AI drones pose to energy markets – NBC Connecticut

Some tech leaders fear AI. ScaleAI is selling it to the military. - Washington Post  

Israel is using an AI system to find targets in Gaza. Experts say it's just the start - NPR 

Pentagon's AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons – Niagara Gazette  

A.I. Killer Drones Are Becoming Reality. Nations Disagree on Limits - New York Times

Scale AI wants to be America’s AI arms dealer to compete with China - Washington Post 

NGA is looking closer at how large language models and data labeling can further the progress of artificial intelligence across the military – Breaking Defense

Military AI’s Next Frontier: Your Work Computer - Wired

A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat - New York Times

CIA Builds Its Own Artificial Intelligence Tool in Rivalry With China - Bloomberg

Let’s Talk About AI on the Battlefield - Washington Post

Air Force Secretary: Military needs AI to augment human capabilities - Space News

U.S. not ready for era of robotic, AI world wars - Axios

The militarized AI risk that’s bigger than “killer robots” - Vox

Autonomous drones are rapidly changing combat—a new one aims to gain an edge with jet power and AI - Wired

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Photography & AI

AI image generators need just 200 sample images to perfectly recreate an artist style — here's how - Inkl  

Learn From My Worst AI Images and Fix These Biggest AI Fails - CNET 

Is that AI? Or Does it Just Suck? – NY Mag 

Best AI Image Generators of 2024 -  CNET

The best AI image generators to try right now - ZDnet 

Rice research could make weird AI images a thing of the past - Rice 

This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it? – The Verge  

Getty Images Updated Generative AI Pushes Boundaries Of What’s Possible – Search Engine Journal  

The deluge of bonkers AI art is literally surreal – Washington Post

Watermarking in Images Will Not Solve AI-Generated Content Abuse – Data Innovation  

Create Better AI Images With These Expert Prompt Writing Tips - CNET

AI-generated images threaten science — here’s how researchers hope to spot them – Nature

AI nude photo investigation uncovers twice as many likely victims at Lancaster Country Day – WGAL

Homer students used AI to make fake nude photos of classmates, police say – Alaska Public

The incredible blandness of AI photography – The Verge

As A.I. Becomes Harder to Detect, Photography Is Having a Renaissance – New York Times

Google's AI-powered search feature for Photos now rolling out to more users - ZDnet

Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo - PetaPixel

ChatGPT Vision lets you submit images in your prompts: 7 wild ways people are using it - Mashable

AI comes for YouTube’s thumbnail industry -Rest of World 

Google unveiled a watermark that will permanently, though invisibly, mark an image to show that it has been produced by A.I. - Axios 

The best AI image generators to create AI art – Fast Company

A Photographer Who Found Instagram Fame for His Striking Portraits Has Confessed His Images Were Actually A.I.-Generated - ArtNet 

‘Art’ificial Intelligence: AI Can Create Religious Images in Seconds. But Is It Really Sacred Art? – Denver Catholic 

We tried AI headshot generators to see if you should use them – Washington Post

No, the Jesus ‘washed feet’ Super Bowl ad photos weren’t AI – Poynter

How journals are fighting back against a wave of questionable images – Nature 

I tried Microsoft Copilot's new AI image-generating feature, and it solves a real problem – Zdnet 

I Used AI Photos on My Dating Profile and...No One Even Noticed?? – Cosmo  

No Photoshop skills? No prob. Use AI to edit your photos – Komando  

Meta will start labeling AI-generated images on Instagram and Facebook – NPR  

Publishers are deploying AI-based tools to detect suspicious images, but generative AI threatens their efforts – Nature

In novel case, U.S. charges man with making child sex abuse images with AI - – Washington Post

Google's AI Watermarks Will Identify Deepfakes – Dark Reading

Is It Real or Is It AI? For Photographers, It’s Nebulous - Bloomberg

The best AI photo editing software – Creative Bloq

Instagram is now labeling real photos as “made with AI” – DIY Photography

AI image generators tend to exaggerate stereotypes – Science News Explores

AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children – Wired

Google Can’t Catch All the AI Images. Can You? - Bloomberg 

Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos, worrying privacy experts – NPR  

Over 100 Photographers Unite Against AI at World Press Photo – Blind Magazine

Are AI faces ‘more human’ than real ones? See if you can tell the difference – New York Post

A New Way to​ Tell Deepfakes From Real Photos: Can It Work? – WSJ 

Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence – Futurism

Fake Nudes of Real Students Cause an Uproar at a New Jersey High School - WSJ

Shutterstock, Adobe Stock are mixing AI-created images with real ones - Washington Post

OpenAI debates when to release its AI-generated image detector – Tech Crunch

A surge in fake AI-generated photos is eroding public trust in information online, charity warns - Daily Mail 

Meta Is Scraping Photos From Facebook And Instagram To Create AI Images - Forbes

AI fake nudes are booming. It’s ruining real teens’ lives. – Washington Post 

More online sellers are using AI-generated images, so what you buy may look different – NPR

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Higher Ed: The Impact of AI on Admin & Faculty

College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them - EdSurge 

Publication Ethics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence – Journal of Korean Medical Science 

The AI Hiring Spree Colleges face stiff competition as they race to build faculties with expertise. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Los Angeles Unified launches Ed, the nation’s first AI ‘personal assistant’ for students – Ed Source 

Why We Should Normalize Open Disclosure of AI Use - Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Abstracts Written by Medical Researchers vs Generated by Large Language Models – JAMA Network

AI Will Shake Up Higher Ed. Are Colleges Ready? - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Mary Meeker wants AI and higher education to be partners – Axios  

MIT Guide to Responsible use of AI in Higher Education – MIT Sloan Management Review  

This University Had an AI Robot as Commencement Speaker. Yes, It Was Weird.  - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language. – The Atlantic

OpenAI announces first partnership with a university – CNBC

How AI Has Begun Changing University Roles, Responsibilities – Inside Higher Ed 

Drexel University AI policies – Drexel

A.I. Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students – New York Times 

How Higher Ed Can Adapt to the Challenges of AI - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Attainment with AI: A Compendium of Practical Applications for Generative AI in Higher Ed – Complete College America

Why Educators Should Lean in to AI to Better Support Students - EdSurge News  

The sheer growth in computing power behind generative AI raises the question of whether this technology could be the turning point – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Why I chose OpenAI over academia: reflections on the CS academic and industry job markets – Rown Zellers

Teaching Philosophy in a World with ChatGPT – Daily Nous

ChatGPT could eventually cause powers-that-be to think that writing is less of a university-wide essential skill down the road - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Top Law School Welcomes The Use Of ChatGPT In Its Admissions Process – Above the Law  

Ban or Embrace? Colleges Wrestle With A.I.-Generated Admissions Essays – New York Times

AI writing tools will not fix HE's language discrimination – Times Higher Education   

Using artificial intelligence to assess personal qualities in college admissions – Science

What about us humble professors? Those of us with tenure have nothing to worry about. Taxpayers and donors will keep funding us no matter how useless we become. If you don’t have tenure, students will keep coming and your job will go on — unless you’re at a mediocre private college with a small endowment. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Colleges need to learn how to rely on technology. While much of the discussion has focused on what generative AI means for teaching, learning, and research, its immediate impact will likely be felt on functions outside of the academic core. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Most colleges accept most students who apply using a selection process that is routine and predictable. AI could be trained to make decisions about who gets accepted — or at least make the first cut of applicants. Yes, colleges will still need humans for recruiting, but even there, AI is increasingly capable of finding and marketing to prospective students. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Colleges have already started to deploy AI-powered chatbots to answer students’ everyday questions and help them show up for classes. Saint Louis University, for instance, added smart devices to dorm rooms that have been programmed to answer more than 600 questions from “What time does the library close tonight?” to “Where is the registrar’s office?” The next iteration of these chatbots is to personalize them to answer questions that are specific to a student (“When is my history exam?”) and bring them into the classroom. Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI can be used to tackle administrative functions from financial aid to the registrar’s office. At Arizona State University, AI is rewriting course descriptions to make them more informative for prospective students and improve search performance on the web. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Officials at companies that provide AI services to higher education tell me that colleges are sometimes reluctant to buy the products because they don’t want them to be seen as replacing people. But until campuses use AI in that way — to take over for people in jobs that involve processing information or doing repeatable tasks — then we won’t reverse or slow down the upward-cost trajectory of higher education, where most tuition dollars are now spent on functions outside of the classroom. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Rolling out AI software that can map prior admissions decisions, assess the performance of current students with similar profiles, and make preliminary recommendations will allow admissions officers to spend far less time reading essays and combing through student activities. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Vanderbilt University's Peabody School has apologized to students for using artificial intelligence to write an email about a mass shooting at another university, saying the distribution of the note did not follow the school's usual processes. CNN

That the same entrepreneurs marketing text generators for writing papers market the same systems for grading papers suggests a bizarre software-to-software relay, with hardly a human in the loop. Who would benefit from such “education”? Public Books

The AI-in-education market is expected to grow from approximately $2 billion in 2022 to more than $25 billion in 2030, with North America accounting for the largest share.  Inside Higher Ed 

What if we rearranged our universities around departments of critical thinking rather than departments of chemistry? Create a school of applied ethics rather than a school of business? We can create certificates for innovation and creative thinking that challenge our students to think like humans, not computers. We also need to ensure part of higher education is the development of human relationships. Businesses have been clamoring for this for years, but higher education still treats soft skills as a condiment, not the main course. Inside Higher Ed

If those in charge of the institutions of learning — the ones who are supposed to set an example and lay out the rules — can’t bring themselves to even talk about a major issue, let alone establish clear and reasonable guidelines for those facing it, how can students be expected to know what to do? Chronicle of Higher Ed

Institutions will need to have their needs and priorities clear … before buying marking machines or teaching robots or any other such thing. EdSurge

For science and the process of grant writing to be improved, two things have to happen: first, the pointless sections (those that might as well have been written by a computer, and could just as easily be answered by one) need to be removed; and second, the sections that remain need to be changed in scope, to be shorter and action-centred. Nature

Are we going to fill the time saved by AI with other low-value tasks, or will it free us to be more disruptive in our thinking and doing? I have some unrealistically high hopes of what AI can deliver. I want low-engagement tasks to take up less of my working day, allowing me to do more of what I need to do to thrive (thinking, writing, discussing science with colleagues). And then, because I won’t have a Sisyphean to-do list, I’ll be able to go home earlier — because I’ll have got more of the thinking, writing and discussing done during working hours, rather than having to fit them around the edges. Nature

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Writing & AI

From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer? - The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives

Did an AI write up your arrest? Hard to know – Politico

AI Editing: Are We There Yet? - Science Editor

How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? - Modern Language Association

I tested 7 AI content detectors - they're getting dramatically better at identifying plagiarism – Zdnet 

OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT  - Tech Crunch  

AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond? – Nature

The telltale words that could identify generative AI text - Arstechnica

Research shows that AI-generated slop overuses specific words – Futurism

AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human – BBC  

AI and the Death of Student Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Software that detects ‘tortured acronyms’ in research papers could help root out misconduct | Science | AAAS – Science

How AI Reshapes Vocabulary: Unveiling the Most Used Terms Related to the Technology – Every Pixel  

How to tell if something is written by ChatGPT – Read Write 

Coursera Launches AI Plagiarism Detector – Inside Higher Ed 

I Tested Three AI Essay-writing Tools, and Here’s What I Found – Life Hacker

New study on AI-assisted creativity reveals an interesting social dilemma – Psypost  

How to cite ChatGPT in APA Style –  American Psychological Association

Is ChatGPT a Reliable Ghostwriter? - The Journal of Nuclear Medicine 

AI Is Coming for Amateur Novelists. That’s Fine. - The Atlantic

National Novel Writing Month faces backlash over allowing AI: What to know – Washington Post

How Do You Change a Chatbot’s Mind?, I discovered a new world of A.I. manipulation. – New York Times 

If journalism is going up in smoke, I might as well get high off the fumes: confessions of a chatbot helper – The Guardian  

College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them – EdSurge

No laughing matter - how AI is helping comedians write jokes – BBC

What Teachers Told Me About A.I. in School - New York Times

How to Train ChatGPT to Write Like You - MakeUseOf

Can AI Really Improve Your Writing? - Medium

My A.I. Writing Robot – The New Yorker

Google Adds New Generative AI Elements to Chrome, Including Writing Assistant - Social Media Today

The best AI copywriting tools currently available – Android Authority

How to Use ChatGPT to Write Better Social Media Posts - MakeUseOf 

Some authors are using A.I. as a writing and editing assistant that can help them brainstorm, organize material, develop characters or create an outline - New York Times 

Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence - 3 Quarks Daily 

7 AI Tools That Help You Write Emails - MakeUseOf 

How To Train ChatGPT To Write In Your Brand’s Tone of Voice [Infographic] – Social Media Today

Google’s Arts & Culture app lets you generate a poem based on a piece of artwork – The Verge

Google Search now has an AI-powered grammar checker – Engaget

What Students Are Saying About Learning to Write in the Age of A.I. – New York Times 

13 Ways Writers Should Embrace Generative AI – Forbes

How Does AI Writing Impact Your SEO? Here's What You Need to Know. - Entrepreneur.

Google Debuting Chrome Feature Where AI Writes Your Posts for You – Futurism  

Even with so many AI programs present, being a good writer still matters – Inklings News

AI Writing is Not the Answer – Pitt News

What Humans Lose When AI Writes for Us – Scientific American  

Students’ Right to Write – Inside Higher Ed

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