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23 Oct

Using Artificial Intelligence Is Easier Than You Think

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Ever since I watched the Disney Channel original movie Smart House as a kid, I’ve been fascinated by futuristic visions of technology in our daily lives. While writing about artificial intelligence tools and providing advice for using them at WIRED over the past two years, it’s become so clear to me that the software is nothing like it’s depicted in these sci-fi movies or what the hype-focused marketing materials from AI companies would have you believe.Even with this in mind, I do still consider the current crop of generative AI tools to be sometimes useful, sometimes entertaining, and almost always…

19 Sep

Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules

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A group of sex industry professionals and advocates issued an open letter to EU regulators on Thursday, claiming that their views are being overlooked in vital discussions on policing AI technology despite also being implicated in AI’s momentous rise.In response to European internet regulations, a collective of adult industry members—including sex workers, erotic filmmakers, sex tech enterprises, and sex educators—urged the European Commission to include them in future negotiations shaping AI regulations, according to the letter, seen by WIRED.The group includes erotic filmmaker Erika Lust’s company as well as the European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance campaign group, and is signed…

18 Sep

Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don’t Know

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A fresh wave of anxiety about children and technology is cresting, with parents and pundits increasingly interrogating how kids use smartphones, social media, and screens. It hasn’t stopped teenagers from embracing generative AI. New research reveals what AI tools teenagers in the United States are using, and how often—as well as how little their parents know about it.Seven in 10 teenagers in the United States have used generative AI tools, according to a report published today by Common Sense Media. The nonprofit analyzed survey answers from US parents and high schoolers between March and May 2024 to assess the scale…

31 Aug

Why I got a Master’s Degree for AI / ML

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This summer I completed my Master's of Science in Data Analytics through Franklin University, and I'm already reaping benefits to my career with a recent promotion to become a Wizard on the Innovation and Excellence team at Leading EDJE. But is a data science related master's degree right for everyone? Let's talk about my experience in the program, my reasons for pursuing it, and who a data science master's degree would be right for. Why I pursued a Master's Degree A number of years ago my father's health declined suddenly and we lost him to cancer detected just 6 weeks…

28 Aug

Generative AI Transformed English Homework. Math Is Next

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ChatGPT has already wreaked havoc on classrooms and changed how teachers approach writing homework, since OpenAI publicly launched the generative AI chatbot in late 2022. School administrators rushed to try to detect AI-generated essays, and in turn, students scrambled to find out how to cloak their synthetic compositions. But by focusing on writing assignments, educators let another seismic shift take place in the periphery: students using AI more often to complete math homework too.Right now, high schoolers and college students around the country are experimenting with free smartphone apps that help complete their math homework using generative AI. One of…

08 Aug

About 1,200 Tech Workers Sign Letter Backing Kamala Harris

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A group of about 1,200 technology workers have pledged to back Kamala Harris’ presidential bid — part of an effort to show wide industry support for Democrats in Silicon Valley, outside of its most vocal investor class. Tech4Kamala plans to unveil the signatories of a letter supporting Harris late Thursday night, it told Bloomberg. The letter called Harris an “archetypical innovator” and “champion of technology” who “worked to expand access to STEM education, promote entrepreneurship and close the digital equity gap.” Source link lol

10 Jul

AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

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Khanmigo doesn't answer student questions directly, but starts with questions of its own, such as asking whether the student has any ideas about how to find an answer. Then it guides them to a solution, step by step, with hints and encouragement.Notwithstanding Khan’s expansive vision of “amazing” personal tutors for every student on the planet, DiCerbo assigns Khanmigo a more limited teaching role. When students are working independently on a skill or concept but get hung up or caught in a cognitive rut, she says, “we want to help students get unstuck.”Some 100,000 students and teachers piloted Khanmigo this past…

09 Jul

A British boarding school will make students use boring old Nokia phones

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A lot of school districts have instituted smartphone bans for students during the school day but a British boarding school has taken it one step further. Wait, scratch that. They’ve taken it one step back.Eton College, the historic and elite British boarding school with famous alumni such as Prince William and Harry, Ian Fleming and Tom Hiddleston, has instituted a new mobile phone policy for its first-year students starting in September. Those students will have to leave their smartphones at home but bring their SIM card to school and put it in an old school, offline Nokia cell phone with…