Tag: automation
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STORM writes Wikipedia-like articles from scratch
STORM is an AI system that generates Wikipedia-like articles from internet searches. It uses multiple AI personas to create diverse perspectives on topics. While the generated content is comprehensive and well-structured, it tends to provide balanced, mainstream views. STORM offers potential for collaborative writing and knowledge curation in education and research.
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Weekly digest 37
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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AI Automation
An episode of the Cognitive Revolution podcast, where Nathan Labenz shares his insights into using AI to automate processes.
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I disagree. Beyond ’10 myths’ of AI in education
In this post, I critique a recent paper on AI myths in education, arguing that it presents unfounded ‘myths’ without evidence and uses outdated studies to support its claims. The author’s tendency to conflate different AI concepts is also disappointing and unhelpful, and the article fails to clarify important ideas about AI in education.
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Link: A Robot the Size of the World
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/a-robot-the-size-of-the-world.html “This future requires us to see ourselves less as individuals, and more as parts of larger systems. It’s AI as nature, as Gaia—everything as one system. It’s a future more aligned with the Buddhist philosophy of interconnectedness than Western ideas of individuality. (And also with science-fiction dystopias, like Skynet from the Terminator movies.) It…
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To what degree can AI replace teachers?
A very real question is now on the table. To what degree can AI now replace teachers? That is seen by some as a disturbing question. It is in the sense of possibly dehumanising learning. Nevertheless, it is a worthwhile thought experiment. Donald Clark (2023). Are we heading towards a ‘universal teacher’?
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Link: Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis?
https://markcarrigan.net/2023/11/01/generative-ai-in-higher-education-what-comes-after-the-assessment-crisis/ “My biggest concern is that financial pressures could lead universities to embrace automation in the hope of reducing staffing levels. What is widely recognised as a “broken funding system” coupled with the impact of inflation and high interest rates could easily give rise to the hope that new technologies make it possible to replace…
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Podcast: Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy
https://futureoflife.org/podcast/tom-davidson-on-how-quickly-ai-could-automate-the-economy/ Great conversation with Tom Davidson, with a lot of overlap with Holden Karnofsky’s Most Important Century series. Timestamps 00:00 The current pace of AI03:58 Near-term risks from AI09:34 Historical analogies to AI13:58 AI benchmarks VS economic impact18:30 AI takeoff speed and bottlenecks31:09 Tom’s model of AI takeoff speed36:21 How AI could automate AI research41:49…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (Point of view) | Human replacement by artificial intelligence: An heretical point of view
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. I should note that my intention with this submission was to take an extreme position on a topic, to test our collective assumptions. I’m not convinced that the claim (i.e. health professions workers will be replaced by AI) is true. But I’m also not convinced…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (oral presentation) | Is ‘being human’ enough? Preparing for clinical practice in the age of artificial intelligence
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. Introduction Identity is central to our understanding of the health professions, and much of professionaleducation revolves around this core value. The introduction of artificially intelligent tools (AI-based systems) into clinical practice has led to resistance in the face of perceived threats to clinician autonomy (Jussupow…
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Comment: New robot does superior job sampling blood.
The results were comparable to or exceeded clinical standards, with an overall success rate of 87% for the 31 participants whose blood was drawn. For the 25 people whose veins were easy to access, the success rate was 97%. The device includes an ultrasound image-guided robot that draws blood from veins. A fully integrated device,…
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Comment: A machine may not take your job, but one could become your boss.
The goal of automation has always been efficiency, but in this new kind of workplace, A.I. sees humanity itself as the thing to be optimized. Roose, K. (2019). A Machine May Not Take Your Job, but One Could Become Your Boss. The New York Times. There’s a lot going on in this article, some of…
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Comment: In competition, people get discouraged by competent robots
After each round, participants filled out a questionnaire rating the robot’s competence, their own competence and the robot’s likability. The researchers found that as the robot performed better, people rated its competence higher, its likability lower and their own competence lower. Lefkowitz, M. (2019). In competition, people get discouraged by competent robots. Cornell Chronicle. This…
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The next generation of AI assistants in enterprise
AI assistants can be applied both for direct customer service and within the operations of an organization. AI that understands customers, context, and that can be proactive will lead to automation of many repetitive tasks. Source: Nichol, A. (2018). The next generation of AI assistants in enterprise. Level 1 – Notification: Simple notifications on your…
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What can machine learning do? Workforce implications | Science
Although recent advances in the capabilities of machine learning (ML) systems are impressive, they are not equally suitable for all tasks… .We identify eight key criteria that help distinguish successful ML tasks from tasks where ML is less likely to be successful. Learning a function that maps well-defined inputs to well-defined outputs. Large (digital) data…