AI Definitions: Open Source AI

Open Source AI - This is 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. 

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The Web Almost Killed Me

For a decade and a half, I’d been a web obsessive, publishing blog posts multiple times a day, seven days a week, and ultimately corralling a team that curated the web every 20 minutes during peak hours. Each morning began with a full immersion in the stream of internet consciousness and news, jumping from site to site, tweet to tweet, breaking news story to hottest take, scanning countless images and videos, catching up with multiple memes. Throughout the day, I’d cough up an insight or an argument or a joke about what had just occurred or what was happening right now. My brain had never been so occupied so insistently by so many different subjects and in so public a way for so long.  If you had to reinvent yourself as a writer in the internet age, I reassured myself, then I was ahead of the curve. The problem was that I hadn’t been able to reinvent myself as a human being.

I realized I had been engaging—like most addicts—in a form of denial. I’d long treated my online life as a supplement to my real life. But then I began to realize, as my health and happiness deteriorated, that this was not a both-and kind of situation. It was either-or. Every hour I spent online was not spent in the physical world.

Andrew Sullivan, I used to Be a Human Being

27 Articles from August about Data Science & AI

Experts warn U.S. falling behind in satellite imaging race: ‘We’ve gone backwards’ – Space News

Experts say the US military has to predictive tracking of orbital threats – Space News 

Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing's flying spying censors, think tank warns – The Register

AI large language model (LLM) aboard the International Space Station – Satellite ProMe 

Sustained deep learning requires a random, non-gradient component to maintain variability and plasticity – Nature

AI Coding Assistants: 12 Do’s and Don’ts – The New Stack

AI and machine learning are among the highest research and development priorities for the DoD – Military Aerospace

A workaround for the scalability limitations of deep neural networks – Nature

SpaceX launches more than 100 satellites into orbit for both government and commercial outfits – SpaceWatch

Top Coding Skills for Data Science Professionals – Analytics Insight

Is the next frontier in generative AI transforming transformers? – VentureBeat

Using synthetic data to train foundational LLMs – Enterpriseai News 

AI Definitions: Neural Networks 

China is providing satellite intelligence for military purposes to Russia – Business Insider

Research team uses satellite data and machine learning to predict typhoon intensity - PhysOrg 

How diffusion and other tricks are making AI models smarter – The Economist

Speeding Up Your Python Code with NumPy, a Python package – KD Nuggets

10 top vector database options for similarity searches – Tech Target  

You don’t necessarily have to submit your paper to get an LLM review delivered to your inbox – Stat Modeling   

Developing Neural Network’s called KANs for greater flexibility when learning to represent data - Spectrum

AI Definitions: Machine Learning 

A ballooning number of spying technologies inside and outside Earth's atmosphere are making military maneuvers and materiel nearly impossible to hide – Axios

Comparing ChatGPT, Claude, & Gemini on various data science and analytics tasks – Toward Data Science

NTIA advocates open-source AI foundation model weights with sufficient risk mitigation frameworks in report to White House – Next Gov  

How Transformers Outperform RNNs in NLP and Why It Matters - Appinventiv

A tutorial on implementing a federated LLM approach, where an agent sends data to a cloud-based LLM, which then outputs functions and arguments – the New Stack

AI Overload: Navigating the US Intelligence Community’s Data Deluge – Global Security Review

13 Great Quotes about AI & Students

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

AI discussion questions at the start of the semester

Suggested questions for teachers and professors to bring up with their classes at the start of the school year:

• What AI policies have you had in other classes?

• Are you using it and how? (talk about how you are using it)

• How could AI be ethically used in education? 

• What counts as AI-enabled plagiarism?

• How could AI be ethically used in the production of media?  

• When should students rely on AI assistance? 

• When should students not rely on AI assistance? 

Talk about transparency (perhaps show some examples of transparency statements)

Be sure to tell them about your expectations regarding the use of generative AI and when it can be used in the class.

In Pursuit of Failure

When you consider failure, it is important to distinguish between two kinds. There is the failure of giving up, turning around, and walking away. Although this failure holds a certain seductive appeal, you must not let it divert you from the true heart of failure: the triumphant defeat of all your hopes, stratagems, and efforts. This is the ultimate failure that tells you who you are. This is the failure you have had to work hard for, the failure you put everything into—failure so rich with loss and pain that, even years later, it gives you the basis from which to make yourself anew, the scar tissue that deeply confirms your aliveness. Real failure requires real effort and is its own reward.

Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions

20 Articles about the business of running an AI

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

AI Definitions: ChatGPT

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.  

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Clear Writing vs Legalize

MIT cognitive scientists set out to determine why laws are written in an incomprehensible style. Lawyers don’t like it. Your average person doesn’t like it, so why does it persist? The researchers theorized that legal writers start by coming up with a main idea but then they keep finding reasons to qualify the rules, and soon the writing is overly complicated. It turns out that wasn’t it at all. When they had people try to write laws, they immediately adopted a convoluted style of legal language. It’s called the "magic spell hypothesis." The researchers say, “Just as magic spells are written with a distinctive style that sets them apart from everyday language, using legal language appears to signal a special kind of authority.” Academic writing is similar. When students are asked to write something for a class, they immediately adopt the overly-formal writing style of academics.  

More: Study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style

16 Great Quotes about the Impact of AI on Jobs

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

The Triumph

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -Henry Louis Mencken

14 Media Webinars This Week about AI, Journalism, Podcasting, & More

Mon, Aug 26 - Beyond the Headlines: Voices of Palestinian Women in Journalism and Media

What: This initiative focuses on women in media and the unique role women play in shaping stories coming out of the Middle East, with specific attention to the current crisis in Gaza. It highlights the voices of three incredible Palestinian women working at the intersections of journalism and media.

Who: Tamar Haddad, full-time And Still We Rise Coordinator; Faten Alwan, a seasoned storyteller and journalist, narrates stories from the heart of conflict zones; Rana Abu Farha is a senior journalist and program presenter with over fifteen years of professional experience in national media; Rula Salameh is a veteran journalist, community organizer, and the Education and Outreach Director in Palestine for Just Vision, an organization that fills a media gap in Israel-Palestine through independent storytelling and strategic audience engagement.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Churches for Middle East Peace

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Mon, Aug 26 - How to turn your election coverage from horse-race to pro-democracy 

What: This training will help journalists have working understanding of pro-democracy journalism and its impact, develop reporting plans for thematic election stories, and pull from a set of quick tips to immediately elevate their coverage beyond the horse race.

Who: Beatrice Forman and Jaisal Noor — two organizers with U.S. Democracy Day.

When: 5 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists, Washington Chapter 

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Tues, Aug 27 - Foreign Correspondents: A Discussion with John Maxwell Hamilton

What: John Maxwell Hamilton will talk about the history of American foreign reporting, local/global story possibilities and his assessment of the current way US media outlets cover international events.

Who: John Maxwell Hamilton, journalist, author and journalism professor; Nerissa Young, Professor of instruction in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University

When: 7 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists

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Wed, Aug 28 - AI Is The Solution To Media’s Knowledge Crisis

What: Get actionable insights and detailed examples of how media companies and agencies are using AI to manage knowledge and foster collaboration and innovation. You’ll find out:  The extent of the media industry’s current knowledge management issues and their impact on productivity and innovation; How AI can revolutionize knowledge management by filtering out noise, uncovering insights and streamlining workflows; Real-world examples of companies like Condé Nast and Ogilvy, which have successfully integrated AI into their knowledge management systems.

Who: Tariq Rauf, Tariq Rauf CEO and Founder, Qatalog

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Qatlalog

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Wed, Aug 28 - Resisting misinformation in your election reporting

What: This briefing will offer research-backed strategies and tools to help reporters recognize and verify material of questionable validity and correct misinformation without inadvertently amplifying it. Three panelists will make brief presentations and then take reporter questions on the record.

Who: Dr. Cuihua Shen, University of California, Davis; Dr. Kate Starbird, University of Washington; Dr. Briony Swire-Thompson, Northeastern University; SciLine Director Rick Weiss  

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: New England Newspaper & Press Association

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Wed, Aug 28 - Supercharge Learning with Augmented Reality!

What: Ready to ditch static marketing materials and uninspiring events? This webinar is your guide to the future of learning and engagement - Augmented Reality (AR)! We'll break down the power of AR, then explore how to use it to: Craft Interactive Marketing: Imagine brochures that come alive with AR! Watch product demos, explore 3D models, or access additional learning content. Spark excitement for your learning events before they even begin.

Who: Destery Hildenbrand XR Solution Architect, Intellezy

When: 3 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Training Magazine Network

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Wed, Aug 28 - Putting Your Print Foot in the Podcasting World

What: Today’s media job market is all about the pivot. So how do you put your print foot into the podcasting world?  That’s what we’ll explore with a panel of experts who’ve made the leap from print to podcasting, and in some cases, back to print. How do you jump into podcasting? How is producing or writing for a podcast different from writing for print? Where do you learn that? How do you get podcast ideas funded?

Who: Carra Mallory, freelance podcast producer & writer, working in the past on Spotify podcasts Disappearances, Serial Killers, and Conspiracy Theories; Matt Frassica, independent podcast producer who has most recently worked on The Bag Game, a series for ESPN’s 30 for 30 podcast. He has piloted podcasts for the New York Times and PBS; Stacy St. Clair, investigative reporter, Chicago Tribune who worked with colleague Christy Gutowski on the podcast, Unsealed: The Tylenol Murders. The podcast was accompanied by a six-part print series in the newspaper.

When: 7 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalism

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Thu, Aug 29 - AI Policies for Grantmakers: How to Manage Risk and Harness AI for Good

What: Learn how a small but growing number of grantmakers are creating internal policies that aim to minimize risk while also ensuring that they can leverage AI for good. During this interactive session, we’ll cover the unique risks AI poses for funders, provide a rationale for creating an internal AI policy, and discuss what to consider as you build your own policy. We’ll also share real-life examples of AI policies that can help you shape a protocol that you can use at your organization.

Who: Ray Borkman Sr. Marketing Manager Blackbaud; Peter Panepento Co-Founder and Managing Partner Turn Two

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Blackbaud

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Thu, Aug 29 - Election Coverage 101

What:  By attending this class, you'll learn: - How to approach voters and find relevant, timely sources for your stories. How to identify new election-related stories and report on under-served communities. How to localize stories about national elections and keep election coverage relevant to your audience.

Who: Emma Platoff The Boston Globe

When: 12 noon

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: New England First Amendment Coalition

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Thu, Aug 29 - Emerging Tech and the Future of Accessibility  

What: An expert panel discussion exploring the positive potential of technological innovation to transform society for the better by increasing accessibility for all.

Who: Alex Ambrose Policy Analyst Moderator; Scott Code Vice President, Center for Aging Services Technologies LeadingAge; Kai Frazier Founder & CEO Kai XR; Brian Switzer Program Manager for Accessibility Technology, Training, and Research The Carroll Center for the Blind.

When: 12 noon, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

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Thu, Aug 29 - Depolarize the news: Avoiding common pitfalls that make coverage feel biased

What: In this training, we’ll talk about how journalists can avoid common pitfalls that often can send signals of bias and alienate people from news coverage.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Trusting News

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Thu, Aug 29 - Mental health and election reporting

What: journalists will contribute anonymously to a series of prompts to learn actionable insights for reassessing and repairing their relationships with work. Created specifically for those working within a news organization, this session will help journalists assess where they sit on the stress spectrum, understand what is inside and outside of their control and self-prescribe a set of actions for election season to combat their unique blend of burnout.

Who: Samantha Ragland, API’s vice president of journalism programs, formally a member of the faculty at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies where she also served as director of the Leadership Academy for Women in Media.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: American Press Institute and Associated Press

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Thu, Aug 29 - Using Articulate Storyline 360 to Create Interactive Learning Lessons

What: Examples and demonstrate how easily Storyline can help you build interactive learning lessons with any content. We will explore how Slides, States, Layers, and Triggers work together to build any exercise you can imagine. We will also show and discuss how Variables and Conditions can be used for more advanced solutions.

Who: Ron Price Chief Learning Officer, Yukon Learning; Tom Kuhlmann Chief Learning Architect, Articulate

When: 3 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Training Magazine Network

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Thu, Aug 29 - Putting AI to Work for You and Your Students: The Practical Pieces

What: Learn how you can use what Khan Academy has available, free for teachers, for leveraging artificial intelligence to help students get unstuck and to assist teachers with administrative tasks and lesson planning. The panalists will share tangible ways that AI can be used to spark curiosity in students while supporting teachers with customizable lesson support, resources, and plans. 

Who: Kristen DiCerbo, Ph.D. is the Chief Learning Officer at Khan Academy; Dr. Wendy Amato is the Chief Academic Officer at Teaching Channel’s parent company, K12 Coalition.

When: 4 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Teaching Channel

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A Head Case

Failure has gone to his head. -Wilson Mizner

16 Recent Articles about AI’s future

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 

A Personal Notebook

Successful people track their progress, set goals, reflect, and learn from their mistakes. And they often use some kind notebook to accomplish this. If you want to get somewhere in life, you need a map, and this notebook is that map. You can write down what you did today, what you tried to accomplish, where you made mistakes, and so forth. It’s a place to reflect. It’s a place to capture important thoughts. It’s a place to be able to track where you’ve been and where you intend to go. It’s one of the most underused, yet incredibly effective tools available to the masses.

Angel Chernoff

Setting Goals

Self-regulation begins with setting goals - not big, life-directing goals, but more immediate goals for what you're going to be doing today. In the research, the poorest performers don't set goals at all; they just slog through their work. Mediocre performers set goals that are general and are often focused on simply achieving a good outcome - win the order; get the new project proposal done. The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but rather about the process of reaching the outcome. 

The best performers are focused on how they could get better at some specific element of the work, just as a pianist may focus on improving a particular passage.

With a goal set, the next step is planning how to reach it. Again, the best performers make the most specific, technique-oriented plans. They're thinking exactly, not vaguely, of how to get where they're going. So if their goal is discerning the customer's unstated needs, their plan for achieving it on that day may be to listen for certain key words the customer might use, or to ask specific questions to bring out the customer's crucial issues.

Geoff Colvin, Why Talent is Overrated  

27 Articles about Politics & AI

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

Success is Misleading

The Misconception: You should focus on the successful if you wish to become successful. 

The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisible.

David McRaney, Survivorship Bias

22 Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

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

AI Definitions: Prompt Engineer

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.   

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