Washington Post: “Anyone with an internet connection can watch breaking news unfold in real time, or at least some version of it. Across social media, posts can fly up faster than most fact-checkers and moderators can handle, and they’re often an unpredictable mix of true, fake, out of context and straight propaganda. The rapid spread… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2023
Social Media and Youth Mental Health
U.S. Surgeon General: “This Advisory describes the current evidence on the impacts of social media on the mental health of children and adolescents. It states that we cannot conclude social media is sufficiently safe for children and adolescents and outlines immediate steps we can take to mitigate the risk of harm to children and adolescents.… Continue Reading
Seven Google Scholar Features You Should Know How to Use
Free Technology for Teachers: “In this week’s Practical Ed Tech newsletter I made the case for using Google Scholar as part of your research process. In the newsletter I included a short video overview of Google Scholar features you should know how to use. That video is here.” Continue Reading
DragGAN: A New Method for Manipulating Generated Images
80.lv: “The technique enables one to “drag” any points of the image to precisely reach target points in a user-interactive manner. A group of researchers recently published a paper presenting DragGAN, an innovative technique for manipulating generated images. This method allows users to interactively drag points on the images to achieve precise positioning at target… Continue Reading
Summarize any URL
DamnGood Tools AI – Summarize any URL – Quickly summarize any website or URL. Continue Reading
Social Security Series Part 1: The Dilemma
GAO-23-106667. Social Security Series Part 1: Published: May 18, 2023. “Since 2010, the fund that SSA uses to pay benefits to retirees has been paying out more money than it has been receiving in taxes. At the current rate, the fund’s trustees estimate that it will exhaust its reserves in 2033 and be unable to… Continue Reading
Artificial Intelligence: Key Practices to Help Ensure Accountability in Federal Use
GAO-23-106811, Artificial Intelligence: Key Practices to Help Ensure Accountability in Federal Use. “Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving at a rapid pace and the federal government cannot afford to be reactive to its complexities, risks, and societal consequences. Federal guidance has focused on ensuring AI is responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable, and governable. Third-party assessments and audits… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 20, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 20, 2023. Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance: A survey of expert opinion
Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance: A survey of expert opinion. Jonas Schuett, Noemi Dreksler, Markus Anderljung, David McCaffary, Lennart Heim, Emma Bluemke, Ben Garfinkel, 11 May 2023 arXiv “A number of leading AI companies, including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, have the stated goal of building artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI… Continue Reading
BLOOMChat: a New Open Multilingual Chat LLM
Highlights “SambaNova, in collaboration with Together, is excited to present BLOOMChat, a 176 billion parameter multilingual chat large language model (LLM). BLOOMChat is available for research and commercial use cases under a modified version of Apache 2.0, which includes RAIL’s use-based restrictions passed down from BLOOM. BLOOMChat is a new, open, multilingual chat LLM that:… Continue Reading
6 Facts About How Bees Learn, Think and Make Decisions
Hos Stuff Works: ” As trees and flowers blossom in spring, bees emerge from their winter nests and burrows. For many species it’s time to mate, and some will start new solitary nests or colonies. Bees and other pollinators are essential to human society. They provide about one-third of the food we eat, a service… Continue Reading
The Best 34 Free AI Tools For Education In 2023 – So Far
Larry Ferlazzo: “I’ve begun posting my mid-year “Best” lists, and this is a new one – the first time I’ve shared a “Best” list specifically on AI tools. As you probably know, I’ve been publishing a weekly list of free AI tools for education since January. You can see all my “Best” lists related to… Continue Reading
