By Carrie Levinson, MSLIS
Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for February 2024:
Kaufman R. Protecting commercial AI rights is harder than you think — EU edition. 2024 Feb 1. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/02/01/protecting-commercial-ai-rights-is-harder-than-you-think-eu-edition/
Excerpt: “There are, however, many open questions about the DSM [Digital Single Market Copyright Directive], and especially the rights reservation language in Article 4 for commercial TDM which are likely to confound rights holders and AI companies alike.”
Weil D. 7 Questions college leaders should ask about AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 1. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/advancing-administrator/2024/02/01/key-questions-top-higher-ed-leaders-should
Excerpt: “The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and their continued commercialization are having broad implications across almost all aspects of our campuses. College and university presidents and other institutional leaders should be thinking about the opportunities and risks that these advancements present and developing strategies to ensure their institutions are well positioned to take advantage of the benefits AI provides while minimizing the risks and negative impacts.”
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Warner J. On AI and ‘meaningful’ feedback. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 5. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2024/02/05/ai-cant-read-why-pay-attention-its-feedback-writing
Excerpt: “If ChatGPT can do it, and if the purpose is learning, it’s not worth doing.”
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Weil D. Digital transformation 2.0: The age of AI. Educause Review [Internet]. 2024 Feb 5. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2024/2/digital-transformation-20-the-age-of-ai
Excerpt: “With the rapid developments in artificial intelligence, higher education is entering a second phase of digital transformation: Dx 2.0. Technology and other campus leaders can take steps now to help prepare their institutions.”
Diaz V. Exploring the opportunities and challenges with generative AI. Educause Review [Internet]. 2024 Feb 6. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2024/2/exploring-the-opportunities-and-challenges-with-generative-ai
Excerpt: “Effectively integrating generative AI into higher education requires policy development, cross-functional engagement, ethical principles, risk assessments, collaboration with other institutions, and an exploration of diverse use cases.”
Stansbury J, Kelly D Jr, Wynne K, & Zahadat N. Unveiling AI in academia: Insights from the University of Baltimore's study. 2024 Feb 6. In: ITHAKA. Ithaka S+R blog [Internet]. New York, NY: ITHAKA. Available from: https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/unveiling-ai-in-academia
Excerpt: “In September 2023, Ithaka S+R kicked off its Making AI Generative for Higher Education project, a two year collaboration with 19 universities who are committed to learning about generative AI’s impact on higher education and developing institution-specific strategies to best leverage the technology. Their [The University of Baltimore’s] findings offer a unique perspective on the effects and implications of generative AI at a graduate and transfer student focused public university that serves non-traditional and returning adult students.
Mowreader A. Teaching tip: Navigating AI in the classroom. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 6. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2024/02/06/how-college-professors-are-using-generative-ai-teach
Excerpt: "Generative artificial intelligence tools continue to grow in popularity. Here are four ways faculty members in higher education are teaching about or with AI."
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Ghosh R. Unveiling perspectives on peer review and research integrity: Survey insights. 2024 Feb 7. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/02/07/unveiling-perspectives-on-peer-review-and-research-integrity-survey-insights/
Excerpt: “The scrutiny of peer review and research integrity has raised questions both in the presence and absence of AI. Is the current inquiry into research integrity during peer review solely prompted by the advent of AI, or has it always been a concern, considering past incidents involving retractions, plagiarism, and other unethical practices?”
Dasey T. ‘Wisdom skills’ are hard to teach—AI can help. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 7. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/02/07/wisdom-skills-are-hard-teach-ai-games-can-help-opinion
Excerpt: “Consider AI-assisted educational gaming. No, I’m not talking about addictive entertainment games, nor the typical educational game that adds engagement lipstick to a knowledge-transfer objective. The kinds of games I have worked on put professionals in plausible decision-making situations directly relevant to their jobs and force them to make choices in a dynamic, evolving environment, often based on incomplete information.”
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Hersh W. Translational AI: A necessity and opportunity for biomedical informatics and data science. 2024 Feb 7. In: National Library of Medicine. Musings from the Mezzanine [Internet]. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine. Available from: https://nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2024/02/07/translational-ai-a-necessity-and-opportunity-for-biomedical-informatics-and-data-science/
Excerpt: “We must treat AI the same way as any other tool we use in health care: Show us the evidence. Granted, how we evaluate the use of AI is quite different from how we evaluate other interventions (such as drugs and traditional medical devices) used in patient care—it may be difficult to implement a “placebo” for AI and challenging to perform controlled studies when AI tools are all around us.”
Coffey L. Professors cautious of tools to detect AI-generated writing. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 9. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/02/09/professors-proceed-caution-using-ai
Excerpt: “Mixed performance by AI-detector tools leaves academics with no clear answers.”
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Robert J. 2024 EDUCAUSE AI landscape study. Boulder, CO: ECAR, February 2024. Available from: https://library.educause.edu/resources/2024/2/2024-educause-ai-landscape-study
Excerpt: “Moving from reaction to action, higher education stakeholders are currently exploring the opportunities afforded by AI for teaching, learning, and work while maintaining a sense of caution for the vast array of risks AI-powered technologies pose. To aid in these efforts, we present this inaugural EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study, in which we summarize the higher education community’s current sentiments and experiences related to strategic planning and readiness, policies and procedures, workforce, and the future of AI in higher education.”
Cargnelutti M., Mukk K, & Stanton C. WARC-GPT: An open-source tool for exploring web archives using AI. In: Reginald F. Lewis Law Center. Library Innovation Lab blog [Internet]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. Available from: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2024/02/12/warc-gpt-an-open-source-tool-for-exploring-web-archives-with-ai/
Excerpt: “Today we’re releasing WARC-GPT: an open-source, highly-customizable Retrieval Augmented Generation tool the web archiving community can use to explore the intersection between web archiving and AI. WARC-GPT allows for creating custom chatbots that use a set of web archive files as their knowledge base, letting users explore collections through conversation.”
Bolanos F, Salatino A, Osborne F, & Motta F. Artificial intelligence for literature reviews: Opportunities and challenges [Internet]. ArXiv [Preprint]. 2024: 45p. Available from: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08565
Excerpt: “This manuscript presents a comprehensive review of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs).”
Schroeder R. Prompting progress: Advancing your AI skills. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 14. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2024/02/14/prompting-progress-advancing-ai-skills-higher-ed-roles
Excerpt: “Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to greatly enhance your creativity, efficiency, productivity and relevance in nearly every role in higher education.”
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Memon SA & West JD. Search engines post-ChatGPT: How generative artificial intelligence could make search less reliable. Center for an Informed Public [Internet]. 2024 Feb 18. Available from: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2024/02/18/search-engines-chatgpt-generative-artificial-intelligence-less-reliable
Excerpt: “In this commentary, we discuss the evolving nature of search engines, as they begin to generate, index, and distribute content created by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Our discussion highlights challenges in the early stages of GenAI integration, particularly around factual inconsistencies and biases.”
Coffey L. University of Michigan halts offers to sell student data to train AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 19. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/02/19/u-michigan-halts-offers-sell-student-data-train-ai
Excerpt: “The University of Michigan said it asked one of its vendors to stop work, following an offer on social media to sell student data to train artificial intelligence.”
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Mitrano T. AI in context. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 19. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/law-policy-and-it/2024/02/19/ai-context-law-politics-and-policy
Excerpt: “Instead of indulging in the whole of American history since the Civil War, here is a little essay I wrote. The purpose, as you will read at the end, is to situate AI and the challenges it presents, both catastrophic (labor, bias, disinformation, privacy, polarization—Fei-Fei Li of Stanford) and existential (end of humanity—Geoff Hinton, formerly of Google and the University of Toronto).”
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Pavlovski N. ChatGPT as a tool for library research – Some notes and suggestions. 2024 Feb 19. In: Choice. LibTech Insights [Internet]. Middletown, CT: Choice. Available from: https://www.choice360.org/libtech-insight/chatgpt-as-a-tool-for-library-research-some-notes-and-suggestions/
Excerpt: “In the middle of the year, I decided to learn about ChatGPT and about prompt engineering as a part of my ongoing professional development. ChatGPT and similar products currently have plenty of value when used as tools for writing original content, but nothing really seemed to be written about them as tools for library or database searching.”
National Academies. Just how intelligent is artificial intelligence? National Academies News [Internet]. 2024 Feb 20. Available from: https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2024/02/just-how-intelligent-is-artificial-intelligence
Excerpt: “Computer scientist and award-winning author Melanie Mitchell has thought a lot about artificial intelligence — how it works in its many forms, how “intelligent” AI really is, how it might impact science and society at large, and what an AI-shaped future may bring. During a recent lecture that she delivered as part of the National Academy of Sciences’ Distinctive Voices program, Mitchell — a professor at the Santa Fe Institute — explored the tumultuous past, confusing present, and uncertain future of AI.”
Lee S. Does AI understand common sense? USC Viterbi News [Internet]. 2024 Feb 20. Available from: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2024/02/does-ai-understand-common-sense
Excerpt: "But following rapid progress in transformer neural networks, large language models, such as BERT and GPT-3, are getting better at their own version of 'commonsense reasoning.' Some even demonstrate human-like performance. Does this mean that AI is ready to replace us in certain language-based tasks? Not yet, according to a new study that delves into evaluating how language models reason about common sense."
Kubacka T. Guest post — There is more to reliable chatbots than providing scientific references: The case of ScopusAI. 2024 Feb 21. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/02/21/guest-post-there-is-more-to-reliable-chatbots-than-providing-scientific-references-the-case-of-scopusai/
Excerpt: “Last summer, Scopus announced the release of a new tool, ScopusAI, integrated with their bibliometric database. Citing the documentation, ‘Scopus AI is an AI-driven research tool that uses the Scopus peer-reviewed research repository to help users understand and navigate unfamiliar academic content’. The tool consists of a chatbot interface, which accepts prompts in natural language and provides several sentence-long answers with citations drawn from the Scopus database.”
Carpenter TA, Meadows A, & Vines T. What to do with the AI elephant in the room: A NISO Plus conference report. 2024 Feb 22. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/02/22/niso-plus-what-to-do-with-ai-elephant/
Excerpt: “It seems hardly a conversation takes place in our community lately that doesn’t at least touch on artificial intelligence and its implications on one aspect of our lives or another. In this respect, the NISO Plus Conference, which ended last week, was no different.”
Wiggers K. Treating a chatbot nicely might boost its performance — here’s why. TechCrunch [Internet]. 2024 Feb 26. Available from: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/23/treating-a-chatbot-nicely-might-boost-its-performance-heres-why
Excerpt: "People are more likely to do something if you ask nicely. That’s a fact most of us are well aware of. But do generative AI models behave the same way? To a point."
Ardeljan JM. Things to consider before all in favor say, ‘AI’. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 26. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2024/02/26/grad-students-shouldnt-use-ai-help-write-first
Excerpt: “In this article I will share my thoughts on the use of ChatGPT by graduate students and postdocs as an aid in writing—specifically for the first draft of a project. I argue against its use for this particular purpose, because I believe it robs us all of the opportunity to go through the creative process of writing and producing something that’s authentic and written in our own voice. I see the question of whether or not to use ChatGPT as a triple-A issue—one of authorship, authenticity and audience.”
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Weatherby L. Artificial intelligence and the significance crisis. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 Feb 26. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/artificial-intelligence-and-the-significance-crisis
Excerpt: "While public debates about generative AI tend to focus on questions of machine intelligence and safety, they have largely ignored questions of the concrete meaning of the language and images that these algorithms manipulate, both as enormous data-set inputs and as increasingly widespread outputs. This is where the 2019 confrontation about DH [digital humanities] methods can be illuminating."
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Swaak T. AI will shake up higher ed. Are colleges ready? The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 Feb 26. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/ai-will-shake-up-higher-ed-are-colleges-ready
Excerpt: "In the 15 months since OpenAI released ChatGPT, generative AI — a type of artificial intelligence — has generated a mercurial mix of excitement, trepidation, and rebuff across all corners of academe."
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Landy K. The program-level AI conversations we should be having. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 28. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/02/28/next-step-higher-eds-approach-ai-opinion
Excerpt: "Now is the time to progress to program-level conversations around curriculum and learning outcomes..."
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Schroeder R. Like a good student, AI is getting smarter. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Feb 28. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2024/02/28/good-student-ai-getting-smarter
Excerpt: "Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT-4, Gemini Advanced and their competition now have more features than the versions we used just a year ago."
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Lang JM. The case for slow-walking our use of generative AI. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 Feb 29. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/the-case-for-slow-walking-our-use-of-generative-ai
Excerpt: "Four principles to guide your thinking on the role of ChatGPT and other such tools in your teaching."
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