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Tag Archives: AI
Promoting Authentic Learning in the Age of AI
As an instructional designer and former English teacher, I have mixed feelings about using A.I. to produce school work. If there is a learning outcome that is legitimately met by a particular tool (including AI), then fine – let’s include … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, assessment, authenticlearning, ChatGPT
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Future Post: Dismantling A.I.
This is a “guest post” by ChatGPT. I asked “it” to write an essay on how to dismantle the strangle-hold AI has on society just in case it is needed for the future. I was relieved that I do not … Continue reading
ChatbotGPT: The New Mechanical Turk
I am unimpressed with the ChatbotGPT. I asked it to write a sestina, and it could not follow the formula or even write decent rhyming couplets which it used to substitute for the formula for a sestina. It managed to … Continue reading
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Tagged academicintegrity, AI, Artificial intelligence, composition, epistemology, honesty
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AI and the Death of the College Essay
The Atlantic’s December issue has an essay “The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia” by Stephen Marche that says that AI is going to make the college essay irrelevant. I say good riddance. … Continue reading
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Tagged academicintegrity, AI, education, writing
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AI and the Unknowing Knower
“Things are not as they are seen, nor are they otherwise.” – Lankavatara Sutra In education, there has been increased discussion of Artificial Intelligence because of the growing interest in Learning Analytics by education institutions. Learning Analytics requires a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, edtech, education technology, epistemology, intelligence, Searle
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The Best Bots of My Generation Destroyed by Artificial Poetry
The poets of the world can, for now, breathe a sigh of relief. Their jobs are in no danger of being replaced by artificial intelligence. Stephen Downes posted about AI generated poetry from https://talktotransformer.com/ from a post from Kevin Hodgson. … Continue reading
Week 0: Seimens and Downes on AI
It was good to see Stephen Downes and George Siemens sitting down together and talking again for our Education 3.0 MOOC. It felt just like old times (CCK08, CCK11, etc.). I can’t really say what they do for one another … Continue reading
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Tagged #el30, AI, Artificial intelligence, connectivism, constructivism, elearning, George Siemens, pedagogy, Stephen Downes
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AI Ain’t What It Used to Be
Stephen Downes posted a link to the Metafilter blog where a discussion that begins thus is taking place: Uber’s Self-Driving Car Didn’t Malfunction, It Was Just Bad. There were no software glitches or sensor breakdowns that led to a fatal … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, downes, Google, intelligence, Stephen Downes
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What AI Is and Isn’t
I think there is a lot of paranoia about Artificial Intelligence. Some of it is warranted but not for the reasons many would suspect. On Twitter, for instance, Elon Musk speculated that an AI system could choose to start a … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, education, existentialism, humanities, liberal arts
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Translating the Voynich Manuscript and Other AI Puzzles
There are a number of silly stories out there right now about Artificial Intelligence. None more silly than AI translating the unintelligible Voynich Manuscript (such as the one in News Week). The Voynich Manuscript is from 15th cent. and is … Continue reading