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Tag Archives: AI
AI and the End of Education
By the click-baity title “end of education,” I don’t mean the inevitable intellectual dystopian smoking hellscape of education that is to come, but the purpose of education: to what end are we doing what we do and by what means … Continue reading
Brief Notes on Issues Around ChatGPT
Here are some quick notes around issues around ChatGPT: Lack of corporate transparency from the mis-named Open AI (Silicon Republic) Ethical issues around labor practices with Open AI (Time) Difficulties with attribution (Duke University) Unresolved copyright issues (Bloomberg Law) Spreading … Continue reading
The Environmental Impact of AI
Here is something from the MIT Reivew that I don’t see talked about much: “In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, performed a life cycle assessment for training several common large AI models. They found that the … Continue reading
Look Before We Leap: Evaluating Ed Tech
The willy-nilly embracing of AI in education and ChatGPT in particular has got me thinking again about the importance of rubrics for the evaluation of education technology. I think we are at a place where all of the efforts that … Continue reading
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