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Education is broken because of this 🔧

🧑‍🏫️ Implementing AI responsibly in Higher Ed, OpenAI board gets veto powers, best ChatGPT PDF plugin, and more!

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Everyday AI
December 19, 2023

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Universities are failing students by banning AI tools like ChatGPT. We’re here to fix it in today’s show, by talking with a top voice in AI and education. Here’s what Higher Ed can do about AI. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: Creating video ads off a product URL, NVIDIA calls out AMD’s new AI chip, and how AI is transforming Bollywood. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI board gets veto powers, TomTom and Microsoft’s AI car assistant, and Bill Gates predicts for the future of GenAI. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

🚀 AI In 5: We’re showing you our go-to PDF reader ChatGPT plugin for easy wins. See it here

🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: Wondering why AI is a must have in education? Here’s why it matters and what Higher Ed can do about it. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about Google DeepMind's breakthrough discovery, Midjourney teases V6, AI finds a way to self replicate, and using ChatGPT to summarize YouTube videos. Check it here!

AI in Higher Education is Broken. How to Fix it. 🤔

We have some hot takes when it comes to how AI is being used in education.

Universities are failing their students by the way they are/aren't using GenAI tools.

Sorry not sorry.

With GenAI becoming such a high demand skill in the workforce, what can students and Higher Education do to fix the issue?

(Aside from banning it and causing their students to be completely unqualified for future employment, of course.)

Jason Gulya, Chair of Artificial Intelligence Council at Berkeley College and Higher Ed consultant, joins us to discuss the current state of AI in higher education and how to fix its shortcomings.

Also on the pod today:

• Why universities use AI or ban it 🏫
• How GenAI enriches learning 🧑‍🏫️
• Future of Higher Ed and AI 🎓

It’ll be worth your 39 minutes:

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1. OpenAI Empowers Board with Veto Powers Over CEO 🧑‍⚖️

OpenAI has introduced a new safety framework granting its board veto powers over decisions made by CEO Sam Altman. This move comes after a tumultuous period where Altman was briefly fired by the previous board, only to be reinstated following staff backlash. The "Preparedness Framework" aims to mitigate catastrophic risks posed by increasingly powerful AI models.

2. TomTom and Microsoft Create AI Car Voice Assistant 🚗

TomTom, in collaboration with Microsoft, has developed an AI-powered in-car conversational assistant, enhancing the driving experience with advanced voice interaction. This tool integrates with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, utilizing large language models for seamless control of infotainment, location search, and vehicle commands. The assistant can be integrated into various automotive infotainment systems.

3. Bill Gates Envisions a Revolutionary AI Future 🚀

Bill Gates, in a recent blog post, highlighted the transformative potential of AI in healthcare, education, and the workforce. He sees AI as a catalyst for innovation, predicting significant adoption in high-income countries within 18 to 24 months. Gates emphasized AI's role as a workplace tool, aiding in tasks and decision-making.

4. Swiss Students Issue Global AI Charter for Ethical Regulation 🌍

Students from Institut auf dem Rosenberg, a Swiss boarding school, have created the “Rosenberg AI Charter,” calling for global AI regulation. This 13-point charter, developed in collaboration with industry professionals, emphasizes the ethical use of AI, transparency, accountability, and support for human creativity. It advocates for AI to enhance rather than replace cultural and academic endeavors and proposes legal measures against misinformation.

5. South Korea Advances in AI-Driven Mine Warfare 🇰🇷

South Korea is developing an AI-based automatic naval mine detection system, a significant leap in naval warfare technology. Hanwha Systems, in collaboration with the Defense Rapid Acquisition Technology Research Institute, is leading this $21 million project. The system will utilize deep learning and big data to quickly and accurately detect and neutralize naval mines.

AI PDF ChatGPT Plugin Review

One of the easiest wins inside ChatGPT is using a PDF reader plugin to summarize your documents and PDFs.

AI PDF is a great plugin (and custom GPT!) to speed up your work with PDFs and pull information quickly.

We’re showing you how to use it, and going over some of its quirks, updates and new ways to get the most out of it!

🤷‍♂️ What’s Going On and Why It Matters:

School is in session, shorties. 

Universities (especially in the U.S.) are failing to provide GenAI essentials to their students. 

Instead of teaching them essential technologies to prepare them for the future, higher education at-large is just straight up banning AI tools such as ChatGPT. 

While some universities are blazing a responsible path forward and equipping their students with much-needed GenAI skills, the majority of higher education has been pushing off AI. 

Instead of going on a solo rant about this again, we brought in an expert to help us sort it all out.

Jason Gulya is an educator and also an AI consultant to universities and colleges across the country.

He joined Everyday AI to talk about not just why AI in higher education is broken, but also laid out the blueprint on how to go about fixing it. 

To be honest, we’ve already got DMs saying today’s show is one of our best. 

Here’s the high-level of what we covered:

  • The need for transparency and accountability in AI use

  • The teaching and use of generative AI skills to keep students competitive in the job market

  • ChatGPT’s ability to create a personalized learning experience

  • Divide in higher education regarding the use of AI tools

  • The effort required to integrate and learn to engage with AI systems

  • Skepticism about the effectiveness of AI detection tools

  • Involving students in the conversation about AI and supporting their use of technology

And a ton more. 👇

🦾How You Can Leverage:

Whether you’re an educator, a student, or just have kids in school, this is one hot topic you can’t skip over. 

We’ve ranted on this once (or maybe twice) but there’s no denying this: higher education is failing. Miserably.

(/Starting rant) 

Instead of doing the responsible thing in understanding, embracing and teaching essential GenAI skills, universities have put their tails between their collective legs and punted on the issue. 

You wanna hint universities? 

GenAI skills are at an alarming demand. Jobs from all sectors will soon require basic GenAI skills. So, universities deciding to ban ChatGPT and other GenAI tools is like elementary schools banning reading, writing and math. 

It’ll be on you when your job placement rates and enrollment start to plummet. We warned ya!

Also, AI detectors don’t work so stop using them. Kthanksbye.

(Rant over/)

Now, let’s tap into the expert’s mind, and uncover the actionable path forward that Jason laid out for responsible AI implementation in the university setting. 

1 – Transparency is key️ 🔑

Gem from Jason here. 

He advised classroom to take an overly transparent approach — develop an ethical and responsible AI policy together. And all sides — teachers included — should abide by the rules. Establish trust. Create the rules together.

Try this: Getting group buy-in increases the likelihood of an AI policy not only working, but also improving the learning experience in an ever-changing world. Here’s an in-depth resource for how to write AI policies for the classroom, and some examples of how they could be written from actual universities. 

2 – ChatGPT makes learning better 🧑‍🏫️

If all you think of large language models is that they are a tool that students use to write their papers, you’ve greatly underestimated LLMs.

After all, Google Deepmind just used its LLM to solve a previously unsolvable math problem. 

Jason talked about using ChatGPT to not only increase the learning experience, but to also provide more personalized learning experiences for students based on their needs. 

Try this: The American Psychological Association penned out a great guide on how to use ChatGPT as a learning tool. Go give it a read, and re-think how ChatGPT can be used as a superpower in the classroom. 

3 – Re-think your curriculum 🤔

Here’s the not-so-secret-secret. Even if universities are ‘banning’ ChatGPT, students are still using it to write their papers. 

Almost. 

Every. 

Single. 

Student. 

Jason talked about how students are always ahead of administrators and finding any shortcuts to be had. 

So what to do? Jason dropped more gold here. 

Try this: Jason talked about redefining how learning happens in the classroom.

Instead of assigning papers, Jason gives out ChatGPT prompts for his students to use that acts as a contrarian. Then, students have to defend their ideas inside of that ChatGPT chat log, and the ‘turn in’ the transcription of their chat by sharing the chat transcript with him. 

Genius? Yes. 

The future of ChatGPT in the classroom? We sure hope so. 

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