The Ultimate Do-it-yourself Project
/The most important do-it-yourself project is your life.
The most important do-it-yourself project is your life.
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
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
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
Why exert effort to focus totally on the boring prattlings of a six-year-old? First, you willingness to do so is the best possible concrete evidence of your esteem you can give your child. If you give your child the same esteem you would give a great lecturer, then the child will know him or herself to be valued and therefore feel valuable. Second, the more children feel valuable, the more they will begin to say things of value.
They will rise to your expectation of them. Third, the more you listen to your child, the more you will realize that in amoungst the pauses, the stutterings, the seemingly innocent chatter, your child does indeed have valuable things to say. Listen to your child enough and you'll come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be, the more you'll will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.
M Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
Our attitudes are shaped much more by our social groups than they are by facts on the ground. We are not great reasoners. Most people don't like to think at all, or like to think as little as possible. And by most, I mean roughly 70 percent of the population. Even the rest seem to devote a lot of their resources to justifying beliefs that they want to hold, as opposed to forming credible beliefs based only on fact.
Think about if you were to utter a fact that contradicted the opinions of the majority of those in your social group. You pay a price for that.
I live in a very limited universe, and so I have to depend on the beliefs and knowledge of other people. I know what I’ve read; I know what I’ve heard from experts. In that sense, the decisions we make, the attitudes we form, the judgments we make, depend very much on what other people are thinking.
Steven Sloman quoted in Vox
What: How journalists can address unprecedented challenges to their craft during one of the most consequential elections in its history.
Who: Media critic and author Margaret Sullivan, formerly executive editor of The Buffalo News, and Barton Gellman, a three-time Pulitzer-prize winner, author and journalist who is now a senior advisor to the Brennan Center for Justice.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists, DC Chapter
What: Three experts will share tips, tools, and resources to identify, investigate, and verify potential deepfakes.
Who: Silas Jonathan, a Digital Investigation Manager at the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development; Shayan Sardarizadeh, a journalist with BBC Verify, where he covers fake news, disinformation and manipulation on digital platforms; Olga Yurkova, a journalist and cofounder of StopFake.org, an independent Ukrainian organization that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and misinformation in the media; The moderator is Rowan Philp, GIJN’s senior reporter.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Global Investigative Journalism Network
What: We’ll get into both internal policies that shape your use of AI and public-facing disclosures and explanations for audiences.
Who: Lynn Walsh and Joy Mayer of Trusting News.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association
What: Learn strategies for coverage that informs and empowers your community and discuss the ways disinformation has affected the practice of journalism.
Who: Tiffany Hsu, reporter on the technology team covering misinformation and disinformation, New York Times; Shannon Jankowski, program director, journalism and disinformation for PEN America; Jay Van Bavel, director of the Social Identity & Morality Lab and associate professor of psychology and neural science, New York University; Moderator: Beth Francesco, executive director of the National Press Club Journalism Institute.
When: 11:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: The National Press Club Journalism Institute, the American Psychological Association, and PEN America
What: The good, the bad and the ugly of Artificial Intelligence.
Who: PCLI treasurer Jeff Bessen; Jay Aldred, co-founder of Lede AI; Nikita Roy, Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists; Zachary Richner, managing partner and founder of Arrandale Ventures.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Press Club of Long Island
What: In this webinar, top Environmental Health Sciences staff will trace the arc of environmental journalism: Trends, coverage gaps, and the future. We will look under the hood at social media approaches and how journalists are working to reach audiences that neither trust nor consume traditional media. We'll talk about how to pitch stories and make science approachable.
Who: Environmental Health Sciences Executive Director Douglas Fischer.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health
What: The session will not only highlight inspiring applications of AI in journalism but also navigate the crucial discussions around responsible AI use, addressing the ethical dimensions and the imperative of maintaining journalistic integrity. Additionally, we will tackle the pressing challenge of AI’s impact on newspaper websites, exploring both the opportunities and threats it presents, ensuring that attendees leave with a well-rounded understanding of AI’s role in shaping the future of news.
Who: Dwayne Desaulniers stands at the forefront of merging journalism with cutting-edge AI, boasting a rich career that reshaped newsrooms from The Associated Press to WebMD. As a co-founder of NewsStand.ai, he champions AI’s role in sustaining local journalism, ensuring newsrooms stay ahead in the digital era.
When: 1 pm, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: $35
Sponsor: Online Media Campus
What: Learn how these 5 technologies will not only shape your career in the future, but also the priorities of upcoming administrations. The possible pain points in implementation, agency success stories, and where they’ve used these technologies for good.
Who: Adam Leonard, Chief Analytics Officer & Director, Information Innovation & Insight, Texas Workforce Commission; Michael Lawrence Evans, Director of Emerging Technologies, Mayor’s Office, City of Boston; Jacqueline Ponti-Lazaruk, Chief Innovation Officer, USDA; William Cahoe, Director of Communications and Outreach for 10x, GSA; Francisco Ramirez, Chief Architect, State and Local Government, Red Hat
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
How Hollywood’s Most-Feared AI Video Tool Works — and What Filmmakers May Worry About – Hollywood Reporter
Tennessee Signs ELVIS Act, the Nation’s First Law to Protect Musicians Against AI - Consequence of Sound
ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Courts Hollywood in Meetings With Movie Studios, Directors - Bloomberg
How AI Could Disrupt Hollywood - Vanity Fair
For Voice Actors, the Race Against AI Has Already Begun - The Wrap
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
ChatGPT will kill off the Romantic genius - Unherd
Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments - New Yorker
The AI Dilemma In Graphic Design: Steering Towards Excellence In Typography And Beyond - Smashing Magazine
Pika adds generative AI sound effects to its video maker - VentureBeat
How the Ad Industry Is Making AI Images Look Less Like AI – Wall Street Journal
Top musicians among hundreds warning against replacing human artists with AI - Axios
A UX framework to design generative AI experiences - UX Design
Is AI More Creative Than Humans? – Psychology Today
How I learned how to stop worrying about AI killing our creativity – Creative Boom
The creative chasm between human and AI AI can make work more efficient, but can it pull at your emotions? – Fast Company
Survey: How Is Generative AI Impacting Creativity In PR? – Provoke Media
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.
More AI definitions here.
Technical Debt - A software development term referring to the cost of choosing fast solutions now and putting off fixing issues until a future time. The benefit of a rush to market is matched with a hope that bugs will be found later, and repairs made. It can result from limited testing during the development process.
Ethical Debt - The result of not considering societal harms and unintended consequences. This can happen in the fast-moving production of AI tools. The people who incur it are rarely the people who ultimately pay for it.
More AI definitions here.
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
Rather than looking at tasks, projects or decisions as items that must be completed, slice them into the smallest possible units of progress, then knock them out one at a time. This strategy relieves the pressure of thinking we need a perfect plan before we begin something — after all, if your first step is “open a new Google Doc for this week’s newsletter” and not “pick a perfect topic, write a perfect lede and have a perfect organization,” you either have achieved that micro-goal or you haven’t. There’s no gray area.
Tim Herrera writing in the New York Times
Artificial intelligence might revolutionise coaching based on football research – Cosmos
OpenAI reveals artificial intelligence tool to re-create human voices - Axios
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
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
The AI art generator Midjourney is the favored tool in architecture - Bloomberg
Labels are shortcuts. They allow us to easily dismiss the people we associate them with. They give us an excuse not to invest in others because we think we already know them. We avoid treating them as people.
If you ask a blind person what he would like more than anything else in the world (aside from regaining his sight) you’ll invariably get an answer like this: “I want people to accept me as a person in spite of my handicap. I don’t want to be defined as a blind person. I want to be known first as a person — a person who happens to blind.
What the blind person is asking sounds like something from the Sermon on the Mount”: “Don’t label, and then you won’t be labeled.”
Labels not only can be turned outward, but they can also be turned inward. Labeling ourselves can propel the user down a pessimistic spiral. “I can’t tell good jokes at parties” soon becomes “I’m no fun at parties” and eventually “People don’t want me around.”
People who overeat soon find themselves saying, “I’m the kind of person who overeats.” Or it might be, “I’m the kind of person who has to keep smoking.” The shift toward letting a label become our identify is a subtle but damning shift. The label becomes a shortcut way to deny the possibility of change.
Stephen Goforth
“Somme Requiem” is a short film that serves as an example of a “hybrid workflow” involving AI and humans. Every shot was generated using Runway's Gen 2 model. The clips were then edited together by a team of video editors at the Los Angeles production company Myles.
What’s next for generative video - MIT Tech Review
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -Samuel Ullma
Who: Media critic and author Margaret Sullivan, formerly executive editor of The Buffalo News, and Barton Gellman, a three-time Pulitzer-prize winner, author and journalist who is now a senior advisor to the Brennan Center for Justice.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists, Wash., DC chapter
What: This one-hour workshop will both provide a high-level explanation of how these tools work, along with insights from colleagues across disciplines at UChicago about how they’ve been approaching this change in the educational landscape. Attendees will receive context to make an informed decision about how to approach these tools and address the topic with their students. By providing examples of how they might design assignments and communicate their expectations in this new context, we hope to provide attendees with everything they need to feel confident that learning remains authentic even in a time that computer-generated text may approach the quality of human intellectual work.
Who: University of Chicago faculty
When: 1 pm, Central
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: University of Chicago
What: What are the best practices in crafting AI policies—should schools ban the technology, wholly embrace it, or something in between? What are the questions district and state leaders should ask themselves as they chart their course on AI? And where does AI literacy and professional development for teachers fit in this picture? This webinar will explore those questions, offering practical tips from educators and experts on how to approach this rapidly evolving technology while remaining mindful of core principles such as student privacy and academic honesty.
Who: Pati Ruiz is a Senior Director of Edtech and Emerging Technologies at Digital Promise where she leads the Edtech and Emerging Technologies team; Dr. Kip Glazer is a proud Principal of Mountain View High School in Mountain View California, home of Google and in the heart of Silicon Valley; Vera Cubero, an experienced educator with a wide range of experience in K12 education at the school, district, and state levels; Jerry Almendarez’ career in education spans over 30 years and includes experience as a classroom teacher, assistant principal, and principal.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Education Week
What: This webinar will explore the ins and outs of solutions journalism, talk about why it’s important, explain key steps in reporting a solutions story, and share tips and resources for journalists interested in investigating how people are responding to social problems. We will also explore additional resources we have on hand for your reporting, including the Solutions Story Tracker, a database of more than 15,000 stories tagged by beat, publication, author, location, and more, a virtual heat map of what’s working around the world.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Solutions Journalism Network
What: How to navigate through the maze of brand measurement in this new environment, providing you with actionable insights to optimize your marketing strategies and drive tangible results. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or just starting out, this webinar is your gateway to mastering brand measurement in the ever-evolving video landscape.
Who: Tinuiti’s Client Strategy experts: Harry Browne, VP, Client Strategy & Analytics; Hanah Choi, Vice President, Client Strategy & Analytics.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Tinuiti & Media Post
The current limitations of ML and AI systems suitable for use in adversarial environments
11 Articles about the Ethics of AI
Space Force: needs to “improve how it harnesses AI & ML tools”
The European Space Agency plans to build a ChatGPT-style digital assistant
The role of transformers in how chain-of-thought reasoning helps neural networks compute
A record number of objects went into space last year
The adoption of new AI capabilities is making the benefits of geospatial intell more accessible
TimeGPT a generative pre-trained model specifically designed for predicting time-series data
AI definitions: Extractive summarization
Meet the 8 Google employees credited with inventing modern AI
SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites
Google DeepMind has developed an AI model that outperforms techniques for quantum circuits
Here are five ways to use LLMs on your laptop
Build an AI application with Python in 10 easy steps
A mathematical formula can explain how neural networks detect relevant patterns
12 Recent Articles about AI’s future
Generative AI Landscape: Trends of 2024 and Beyond
Understanding the similarities and differences between data science and applied statistics
AI Terms: Abstractive summarization
How to Succeed With Predictive AI: An MIT webinar
A breakthrough in storing quantum data without the need for cryogenic cooling
How Large X Models (LXMs) can help generative AI complete new tasks
The role of Large Language Models in enhancing the process of extractive summarization
The Role of Satellite Technology in Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Google Cloud adds vector support to all its database offerings
Google just entered the race of foundation models for time-series forecasting
“Some of the ways we’re applying AI to the world of design systems”
“Generative AI can improve -- not replace -- predictive analytics”
NGA launches National GEOINT Operations Center
The White House wants developers to abandon C and C++ over memory management security concerns
Regret is an emotion, and it is also a punishment that we administer to ourselves. The fear of regret is a factor in many of the decisions that people make (‘Don’t do this, you will regret it’ is a common warning), and the actual experience of regret is familiar. The emotional state has been well described by two Dutch psychologists, who noted that regret is “accompanied by feelings that one should have known better, by a sinking feeling, by thoughts about the mistake one has made and the opportunities lost, by a tendency to kick oneself and to correct one’s mistake, and by wanting to undo the event and to get a second chance.” Intense regret is what you experience when you can most easily imagine yourself doing something other than what you did.
Decision makers know that they are prone to regret, and the anticipation of that painful emotion plays a part in many decisions.
We spend much of our day anticipating, and trying to avoid, the emotional pains we inflict on ourselves. Susceptibility regret, like susceptibility to fainting spells, is a fact of life to which one must adjust.
You can take precautions that will inoculate you against regret. Perhaps the most useful is to be explicit about the anticipation of regret. If you can remember when things go badly that you considered the possibility of regret carefully before deciding, you are likely to experience less of it. You should also know that regret and hindsight bias will come together, so anything you can do to preclude hindsight is likely to be helpful. You should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now think.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
What happens when ChatGPT tries to solve 50,000 trolley problems? - Ars Technica
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
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
How to develop ‘ethical AI’ and avoid potential dangers – United Nations
Your newsroom needs an AI ethics policy. Start here. – Poynter
You start a project determined to execute it perfectly. You avoid it until you can “do it right,” but then you don’t do it at all. You feel frozen, stuck, incapable. You are paralyzed by the fear that you will be bad at the thing you want to accomplish. Which, of course, makes it impossible to accomplish anything.
It's a never ending cycle: perfectionism, procrastination, paralysis.
At my best, I am an efficient and organized person. I thrive off of hard work and high pressure, always ambitious, always reaching for the next thing to do or make or achieve. I am productive and full of ideas. I take charge and take action. I keep a clean house and read at least a book a week.
At my worst, I am flighty and frazzled. I spend far more time thinking about how I want to do something than I do actually doing it. I doubt every choice I make, every thought that flits across my mind. I let my apartment get increasingly messy, even though I know how much I need a clean space in order to be happy. I just can’t confront the glaring imperfection of a sink full of dishes, baskets of dirty laundry.
I recede further and further inside of myself.
Jenni Berrett writing in Ravishly
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