{"id":85005,"date":"2023-01-16T12:33:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85005"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T17:15:03","slug":"resources-and-big-deals-about-chatgpt-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/01\/16\/resources-and-big-deals-about-chatgpt-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources and &#8220;big deals&#8221; about ChatGPT and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here&#8217;s the list of sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fJd4rh8kLy\">https:\/\/t.co\/fJd4rh8kLy<\/a>. The larger resource area at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bN7CReGIEC\">https:\/\/t.co\/bN7CReGIEC<\/a> has sample ChatGPT essays, strategies for mitigating harm, and questions for teachers to ask as well as a listserv.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anna Mills, amills@mastodon.oeru.org, she\/her (@EnglishOER) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglishOER\/status\/1613254094436847617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chatgpt-creator-openai-is-in-talks-for-tender-offer-that-would-value-it-at-29-billion-11672949279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>ChatGPT Creator Is Talking to Investors About Selling Shares at $29 Billion Valuation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from wsj.com by Berber Jin and Miles Kruppa<br \/>\n<em>Tender offer at that valuation would make OpenAI one of the most valuable U.S. startups<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/technologyreview.com\/how-microsoft-could-use-chatgpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Here\u2019s how Microsoft could use ChatGPT<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from The Algorithm by Melissa Heikkil\u00e4<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Microsoft is reportedly eyeing a $10 billion investment in OpenAI, the startup that created the viral chatbot ChatGPT, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">and is planning to integrate it into Office products and Bing search.<\/span> <\/strong>The tech giant has already invested at least $1 billion into OpenAI. Some of these features might be rolling out as early as March, according to The Information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>This is a big deal. If successful, it will bring powerful AI tools to the masses.<\/strong> <\/span>So what would ChatGPT-powered Microsoft products look like? We asked Microsoft and OpenAI. Neither was willing to answer our questions on how they plan to integrate AI-powered products into Microsoft\u2019s tools, even though work must be well underway to do so. However, we do know enough to make some informed, intelligent guesses. Hint: it\u2019s probably good news if, like me, you find creating PowerPoint presentations and answering emails boring.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And speaking of Microsoft and AI, also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com\/2023\/01\/7-reasons-why-microsoft-is-winning-ai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>7 reasons why Microsoft is winning the AI war<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com by Donald Clark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>I have maintained for several years, including a book &#8216;AI for Learning&#8217;, that AI is the technology of the age and will change everything. This is unfolding as we speak but it is interesting to ask who the winners are likely to be.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Donald Clark<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l5nTlHeqYOQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maggieappleton.com\/ai-dark-forest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from maggieappleton.com by<br \/>\n<em>Proving you&#8217;re a human on a web flooded with generative AI content<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Assumed audience:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">People who have heard of GPT-3 \/ ChatGPT, and are vaguely following the advances in machine learning, large language models, and image generators. Also people who care about making the web a flourishing social and intellectual space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maggieappleton.com\/ai-dark-forest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/maggieappleton.com\/images\/posts\/ai-dark-forest\/cozyweb-1800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>That dark forest is about to expand. Large Language Models (LLMs) that can instantly generate coherent swaths of human-like text have just joined the party.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6246119\/demis-hassabis-deepmind-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Urges Caution on AI<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from time.com by Billy Perrigo<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>It is in this uncertain climate that Hassabis agrees to a rare interview, to issue a stark warning about his growing concerns. \u201cI would advocate\u00a0<i>not\u00a0<\/i>moving fast and breaking things.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cWhen it comes to very powerful technologies\u2014and obviously AI is going to be one of the most powerful ever\u2014we need to be careful,\u201d he says. \u201cNot everybody is thinking about those things. It\u2019s like experimentalists, many of whom don\u2019t realize they\u2019re holding dangerous material.\u201d Worse still, Hassabis points out, we are the guinea pigs.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Demis Hassabis\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hassabis says these efforts are just the beginning. He and his colleagues have been working toward <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>a much grander ambition: creating artificial general intelligence, or AGI, by building machines that can think, learn, and be set to solve humanity\u2019s toughest problems.<\/strong> <\/span>Today\u2019s AI is narrow, brittle, and often not very intelligent at all. But AGI, Hassabis believes, will be an \u201cepoch-defining\u201d technology\u2014like the harnessing of electricity\u2014that will change the very fabric of human life. If he\u2019s right, it could earn him a place in history that would relegate the namesakes of his meeting rooms to mere footnotes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>But with AI\u2019s promise also comes peril.<\/strong> <\/span>In recent months, researchers building an AI system to design new drugs revealed that their tool could be easily repurposed to make deadly new chemicals. A separate AI model trained to spew out toxic hate speech went viral, exemplifying the risk to vulnerable communities online. And inside AI labs around the world, policy experts were grappling with near-term questions like what to do when an AI has the potential to be commandeered by rogue states to mount widespread hacking campaigns or infer state-level nuclear secrets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/dec\/31\/ai-assisted-plagiarism-chatgpt-bot-says-it-has-an-answer-for-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>AI-assisted plagiarism? ChatGPT bot says it has an answer for that<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from theguardian.com by Alex Hern<br \/>\n<em>Silicon Valley firm insists its new text generator, which writes human-sounding essays, can overcome fears over cheating<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Headteachers and university lecturers have expressed concerns that ChatGPT, which can provide convincing human-sounding answers to exam questions, could spark a wave of cheating in homework and exam coursework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-h26idz\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Now, the bot\u2019s makers, San Francisco-based OpenAI, are trying to counter the risk by \u201cwatermarking\u201d the bot\u2019s output and making plagiarism easier to spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6246574\/schools-shouldnt-ban-access-to-chatgpt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Schools Shouldn&#8217;t Ban Access to ChatGPT<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from time.com by Joanne Lipman and Rebecca Distler<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Students need now, more than ever, to understand how to navigate a world in which artificial intelligence is increasingly woven into everyday life. It\u2019s a world that they, ultimately, will shape.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We hail from two professional fields that have an outsize interest in this debate. Joanne is a veteran journalist and editor deeply concerned about the potential for plagiarism and misinformation. Rebecca is a public health expert focused on artificial intelligence, who champions equitable adoption of new technologies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We are also mother and daughter. Our dinner-table conversations have become a microcosm of the argument around ChatGPT, weighing its very real dangers against its equally real promise. Yet we both firmly believe that a blanket ban is a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/higher-ed-gamma\/chatgpt-threat-or-menace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>ChatGPT: Threat or Menace?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Steven Mintz<br \/>\n<em>Are fears about generative AI warranted?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And see Joshua Kim&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/learning-innovation\/friendly-attempt-balance-steve-mintz%E2%80%99s-piece-higher-ed-hard-truths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A Friendly Attempt to Balance Steve Mintz\u2019s Piece on Higher Ed Hard Truths<\/strong><\/a> out at nsidehighered.com | <em>Comparing the health care and higher ed systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I spent New Years building GPTZero \u2014 an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edward Tian (@edward_the6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edward_the6\/status\/1610067688449007618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/benjaminlaker\/2022\/11\/17\/what-leaders-should-know-about-emerging-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>What Leaders Should Know About Emerging Technologies<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from forbes.com by Benjamin Laker<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The rapid pace of change is driven by a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of factors, including the falling cost of computing power, the rise of data-driven decision-making, and the increasing availability of new technologies. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cThe speed of current breakthroughs has no historical precedent,\u201d<\/span> <\/strong>concluded Andrew Doxsey, co-founder of\u00a0Libra Incentix, in an interview. \u201cUnlike previous technological revolutions, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is evolving exponentially rather than linearly. Furthermore, it disrupts almost every industry worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chatgpt-job-applications-hiring-managers-job-interview-candidate-2022-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>I asked ChatGPT to write my cover letters. 2 hiring managers said they would have given me an interview but the letters lacked personality.<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from businessinsider.com by Beatrice Nolan<\/p>\n<p>Key points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An updated version of the AI chatbot ChatGPT was recently released to the public.<\/li>\n<li>I got the chatbot to write cover letters for real jobs and asked hiring managers what they thought.<\/li>\n<li>The managers said they would&#8217;ve given me a call but that the letters lacked personality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I mentor a young lad with poor literacy skills who is starting a landscaping business. He struggles to communicate with clients in a professional manner.<\/p>\n<p>I created a GPT3-powered Gmail account to which he sends a message. It responds with the text to send to the client. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nlFX9Yx6wR\">pic.twitter.com\/nlFX9Yx6wR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Danny Richman (@DannyRichman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DannyRichman\/status\/1598254671591723008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A class action lawsuit has been filed against several companies that use image-generating AI with datasets gained amorally. The outcome could affect how AI art is regulated in the future.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ML?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ML<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/futurism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#futurism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IntelligenceFactory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IntelligenceFactory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/digitaltransformation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#digitaltransformation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DX<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XhzLWc9Qxt\">https:\/\/t.co\/XhzLWc9Qxt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nWBB12aFMb\">pic.twitter.com\/nWBB12aFMb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Lamons (@mlamons1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlamons1\/status\/1614654095528173570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So excited to share this quick ChatGPT Teacher Prompt Guide that is aligned with CESE\u2019s What Works Best Framework. Download it for free with the link in my bio ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/chatgpt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#chatgpt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/edutech?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#edutech<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wwb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wwb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/whatworksbest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#whatworksbest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9qio14Mgzf\">pic.twitter.com\/9qio14Mgzf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Herft (@HerftEducator) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HerftEducator\/status\/1611603848925446145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the list of sources: https:\/\/t.co\/fJd4rh8kLy. The larger resource area at https:\/\/t.co\/bN7CReGIEC has sample ChatGPT essays, strategies for mitigating harm, and questions for teachers to ask as well as a listserv. \u2014 Anna Mills, amills@mastodon.oeru.org, she\/her (@EnglishOER) January 11, 2023 ChatGPT Creator Is Talking to Investors About Selling Shares at $29 Billion Valuation\u00a0&#8212; from wsj.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,356,112,143,210,533,37,35,95,825,74,285,216,44,309,201,330,196,480,454,195,321,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-corporate-business-world","category-disruption","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-global-globalization","category-law-schools","category-leadership","category-legislation-legislatures","category-microsoft","category-pace-of-change","category-platforms","category-policy","category-political-science","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-united-states","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85005"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85086,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85005\/revisions\/85086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}