By Carrie Levinson, MSLIS
Happy New Year! Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for January 2024:
Kassorla M. Teaching with GAI in mind. EDUCAUSE [Internet]. 2023 Dec 14. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2023/12/teaching-with-gai-in-mind
Excerpt: “What can you teach, and how should you teach it? Should you try to stop your students from using GAI by spending your semester trying to police the unpoliceable, or should you embrace the tool? What is the best strategy?"
Pooley J. Large language publishing. Upstream [Internet]. 2024 Jan 2. Available from https://upstream.force11.org/large-language-publishing/
Excerpt: “Our prevailing joint-custody arrangement—for-profit publishers and non-profit universities—is a recent and reversible development. There are lots of good reasons to restore custody to the academy. The latest is to stop our work from fueling the publishers’ AI profits.”
Webb M. A generative AI primer [version 1.3]. 2024 Jan 2. In: Jisc. National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education blog [Internet]. Bristol, UK: Jisc. Available from: https://nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2024/01/02/generative-ai-primer/
Excerpt: “Publishing an intro to generative AI is a challenge as things are moving so quickly. However, we think things have now settled down enough for us to bring together information in a single place, to create a short primer.”
Wink I. Guest post — The truth is in there: The Library of Babel and generative AI. 2024 Jan 4. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/04/guest-post-the-truth-is-in-there-the-library-of-babel-and-generative-ai
Excerpt: “Generative artificial intelligence offerings such as ChatGPT are being retooled and developed so rapidly that anyone who attempts to write about them risks their words being outdated before they reach publication. As we reckon with how generative AI is shaping our relationships with work, information, and one another, it is worth trying to analogize our current experience to others, real or imagined, to see what perspective we might find.”
D’Agostino S. Technology students in Africa, bolstered by ‘grassroots AI’. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 4. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/01/04/african-technology-students-bolstered
Excerpt: “Amid South Africa’s perfect storm of few universities, racial inequities and economic disparities, AI students find support in a not-so-grassroots grassroots movement.”
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Coffey L. What’s next for ed tech in 2024. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 4. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/teaching-learning/2024/01/04/ai-vr-and-techy-classrooms-whats-next-ed-tech
Excerpt: “Artificial intelligence, virtual reality and more-connected classrooms could all become more prevalent in 2024.”
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST identifies types of cyberattacks that manipulate behavior of AI systems. NIST News [Internet]. 2024 Jan 4. Available from: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/nist-identifies-types-cyberattacks-manipulate-behavior-ai-systems
Excerpt: “Adversaries can deliberately confuse or even “poison” artificial intelligence (AI) systems to make them malfunction — and there’s no foolproof defense that their developers can employ. Computer scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators identify these and other vulnerabilities of AI and machine learning (ML) in a new publication.”
Basken P. Online pioneers begin urgent pursuit of value from AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 4. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/01/04/online-pioneers-begin-urgent-pursuit-value
Excerpt: “A top U.S. pioneer in not-for-profit online education is stepping down from his leadership post after creating one of the nation’s biggest universities, and he is turning his attention to what he called an urgent need to integrate artificial intelligence into the postsecondary sector.”
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Schroder R. How will AI disrupt higher education in 2024? Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 5. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2024/01/05/how-will-ai-disrupt-higher-education-2024
Excerpt: “Last year was when generative AI infused higher education. What can we expect in this new year?”
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Weerts G. Guest post — Hanging in the balance: Generative AI versus scholarly publishing. 2024 Jan 8. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/08/guest-post-hanging-in-the-balance-generative-ai-versus-scholarly-publishing
Excerpt: “Though chatbots existed before GPT-3, that iteration introduced realistic conversation and a surprising capability for idea generation that previous iterations lacked. In the past year, development of large language models (LLMs) has been rapid (we’re already on GPT-4), and their role in society — and scholarly publishing, in particular — has been debated with equal parts anxiety and excitement. ”
Frick M. Your classmate could be an AI student at this Michigan university. MLive [Internet]. 2024 Jan 8. Available from: https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2024/01/your-classmate-could-be-an-ai-student-at-this-michigan-university.html
Excerpt: “A Michigan university is believed to be the first in the country to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create virtual students that will enroll in classes and participate in lessons and assignments.”
Cohen G. Creating an AI policy for your marketing communications team. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 9. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/call-action/2024/01/09/why-higher-ed-marketingcomms-teams-need-ai-policy
Excerpt: “Your marketing and communication teams serve a unique purpose for your college or university. That means you need a generative AI policy tailored to their specific functions.”
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Flaherty C. Survey: How AI is impacting students’ career choices. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 10. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/life-after-college/2024/01/10/survey-college-students-thoughts-ai-and-careers
Excerpt: "The rise of artificial intelligence is influencing what many students want to study and pursue as a career, according to a new flash survey from Student Voice. Students also say they want to be prepared for AI and the workplace."
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Smith D. Guest Post — Beyond generative AI: The indispensable role of BERT in scholarly publishing. 2024 Jan 11. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/11/guest-post-beyond-generative-ai-the-indispensable-role-of-bert-in-scholarly-publishing
Excerpt: “Large Language Models (LLMs) are the powerhouse behind today’s most prevalent AI applications. However, a deeper dive is necessary to grasp their varied roles in scholarly publishing. There are two primary LLM branches: generative AI (like OpenAI’s GPTs and models from Anthropic, Google, and Facebook) known for crafting text, and the less-heralded interpretive AI (exemplified by BERT—Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) designed to understand text.”
Coffey L. A year later, did our ChatGPT advice get it right? Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 11. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/01/11/academic-ai-advice-after-year-chatgpt
Excerpt: “Exactly a year ago, we shared the advice of 11 academics on the then-new ChatGPT. We followed up to see what has changed and what to expect in 2024.”
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Walls A. ChatGPT has read almost the whole internet. That hasn’t solved its diversity issues. UBC News [Internet]. 2024 Jan 11. Available from: https://news.ubc.ca/2024/01/11/chatgpt-diversity-issues/
Excerpt: “In this Q&A, Dr. Vered Shwartz (she/her), assistant professor in the UBC department of computer science, and masters student Mehar Bhatia (she/her) explain why reasoning could be the next step in AI—and why it’s important to train these models using diverse datasets from different cultures.”
Mitrano T. Plagiarism, AI and higher education. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 16. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/law-policy-and-it/2024/01/16/plagiarism-ai-and-higher-education
Excerpt: “A year ago, I wrote in this blog about the academic integrity policy I now use in my courses to address consumer AI, i.e., ChatGPT. I can, however, foresee a blurring of the lines in academic work. Heck, if a noted scholar at MIT can take definitions from Wikipedia in a doctoral thesis, who might not be tempted to throw in a phrase or two from ChatGPT?”
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Schroeder R. Integrating generative AI into daily work and personal life. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 17. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2024/01/17/integrating-generative-ai-daily-work-and-personal-life
Excerpt: “Integrating generative AI use into your daily routine can help you become a more effective user of the technology, saving time, delivering a higher-quality end product and encouraging efficiency.”
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Chiu TK. Future research recommendations for transforming higher education with generative AI. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. 2024 Jun; (6): 100197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2023.100197
Excerpt: “The introduction of generative AI (GenAI), such as ChatGPT, has posed opportunities and challenges to the traditional model of education. However, the current conversations primarily focus on policy development and assessment, with limited research on the future of higher education. GenAI's impact on learning outcomes, pedagogy, and assessment is crucial for reforming and advancing the workforce. This qualitative study aims to investigate student perspectives on GenAI's impact on higher education.”
Fleischman, T. Task force offers guidance to researchers on use of AI. Cornell Chronicle [Internet]. 2024 Jan 17. Available from: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/01/task-force-offers-guidance-researchers-use-ai
Excerpt: "A multidisciplinary task force of Cornell faculty and staff has issued a report offering perspectives and practical guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in the practice and dissemination of Cornell’s academic research."
Coffey L. Arizona State joins ChatGPT in first higher ed partnership. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 19. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/01/19/arizona-state-joins-chatgpt-first-higher-ed-partnership
Excerpt: “Arizona State University is slated to become the first higher education institution to partner with the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, which will give ASU students and faculty access to its most advanced iteration of ChatGPT.”
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Warner J. ChatGPT can’t teach writing. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 19. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2024/01/22/arizona-state-announces-plan-give-education
Excerpt: “I’m going to cut ASU a modicum of slack in that saying you’re going to use ChatGPT to help tutor in Freshman Composition is the kind of idea that comes up in brainstorming among people who don’t know or think much about what it means to teach students to write, and there’s some evidence that at this time this is a notion without a plan. I’d like to explain why, in my view, it’s a bad notion and therefore should not be put into effect.”
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Gardner L. Your college’s new marketing campaign, with a boost from AI. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 Jan 22. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/your-colleges-new-marketing-campaign-with-a-boost-from-ai
Excerpt: “While most of the debate over artificial-intelligence technology at colleges centers on the classroom, there’s another hotbed of AI adoption on many campuses — the marketing and communications office.”
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Carpenter TA. Let’s be cautious as we cede reading to machines. 2024 Jan 25. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/25/lets-be-cautious-as-we-cede-reading-to-machines
Excerpt: “In considering the supply and demand issue of a greater supply of written content, why can’t we just use machines to help us deal with this increased supply?... What are the implications of ceding this control to the machines?”
Schroeder R. Lifelong learning with artificial general intelligence. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Jan 31. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2024/01/31/lifelong-learning-artificial-general-intelligence
Excerpt: "What will it mean to higher education when AI systems carry out tasks at an intelligence level that matches or exceeds humans’?"
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Harington R. How we work, AI, and human engagement. 2024 Jan 31. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/31/in-this-post-robert-harington-looks-to-hannah-arendt-and-her-1958-book-the-human-condition-for-help-in-understanding-the-nature-of-how-we-work-asking-how-an-ai-world-may-affect-the-nature-of-our-wo/
Excerpt: "Of late, I have been considering the nature of work, and how this may change as we embrace AI in the workplace. I thought I should turn for help to the brilliant mind of Hannah Arendt, perhaps the most important political theorist of the 20th century.
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