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Humane Ingenuity 44: Bookwork and Cloud Labs

Dan Cohen

We have become familiar with how technology, media, commerce, and forms of human expression are deeply intertwined. There is no model consciously shaping the form of this newsletter, or some of the other free newsletters that I read. Ah, the 1980s, when computer magazines had joyous, goofy illustrations in them.

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Machines can craft essays. How should writing be taught now?

Inside Higher Ed

Paul Fyfe, associate professor of English and the student’s instructor in the Data and the Human course, had asked students to “cheat” in this way and then reflect on how the experiment tested or changed their ideas about writing, AI or humanness. ’ And that is without human intervention, which would help.”

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GPT-4 is here. But most faculty lack AI policies.

Inside Higher Ed

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. This latest version largely outperforms the earlier model. There are noteworthy exceptions. Then came GPT-4.

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ChatGPT Can’t Envision Anything: It’s Actually BS-ing

ACRLog

But our knowledge on large language models varies from person to person, and it feels quite irresponsible to publish something wherein ChatGPT is referred to as a “colleague.” A large language model does not think. Why are we giving a large language model a direct platform? I then corrected the model and told it I was male.

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A machine can now do college-level math

Inside Higher Ed

Enticed by the possibility that artificial intelligence might address this tutoring gap, he and his team set to work attempting to develop a machine learning model that could solve calculus, differential equations and linear algebra problems sourced from undergraduate math courses at MIT and Columbia University.

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History hiring in the pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

university, and the resulting downturn was as expected as it was unwelcome,” says a report on the COVID-era job market, out this week in the AHA’s Perspectives on History magazine. “Pandemic-related austerity measures, hiring freezes, and the like were implemented by almost every U.S. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Universities are ousting their mental health directors

Inside Higher Ed

The reimagined center will incorporate more wellness services and partner more closely with the university’s College of Health Education and Human Services, which university leaders hope will lead to shorter wait times for students seeking services, as well as to increased telehealth and after-hours capabilities.