Building a community of learners that inspires trust in an online forum
by kris | March 21, 2025 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Learning Community, Tech Tips | 1 Comment
This commentary in the Christian Science Monitor shares a perspective on an effort to build trust in a new online, state run public forum called Engaged California. Wondering if this community of learners will integrate AI analytics in an effort to discover wisdom and build trust. [pdf-embedder...
AI and the Evolution of Digital Learning Environments: version 2
by andflywrite | March 19, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
AI and the Evolution of Digital Learning Environments This is the second report generated by Deep Research using the original query posted here. Introduction In 2015, education experts introduced the 7 Core Elements of Best Digital Learning Environments (DLEs)—a framework designed to leverage...
ChatGPT “Deep Research”: 7 Core Elements of Best DLEs and AI Advancements; Version 1
by andflywrite | March 19, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
7 Core Elements and AI Advancements This report serves as a strategic guide for educators and policymakers to leverage AI while maintaining the human essence of learning. The report below was generated by ChatGPT Deep Research based on information about Defined Learning Environments as...
OpenAI “DeepResearch” on PSA 7 Core Elements in today’s AI rich context for learning
by andflywrite | March 8, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
An option to use OpenAI's Deep research is available to Admin, and the approach here is to use PSA's "7 Core Elements of the Best Defined Learning Experience" from 2015 and develop a 2025 context for them which includes the advent of rapidly advancing AI tools for learning; 7 Core Elements is a...
NextGenAI: A consortium to advance research/ education with AI
by andflywrite | March 7, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
OpenAI commits $50M in funding and tools to leading institutions. We already know OpenAI has partnered with Khan Academy for "KhanAmigo", an AI tutoring tool for K-12. Now OpenAI has...
Is Education in US a Classic case of technological inertia? ChatGPT responds
by andflywrite | February 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
"You’ve pinpointed a classic case of technological inertia—where the entrenched structure of education prevents a radical transformation, even though AI could vastly improve learning efficiency. The education system, like QWERTY, Fax Machines, Checkbooks, Car Dealers, and many others, is held in...
SXSW EDU® Schedule March 2-6 2025
by andflywrite | February 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
March 3-6, 2025 in Austin, TX The SXSW EDU Conference & Festival features four days of compelling content for education professionals, industry leaders, and policymakers looking to connect, collaborate, create and change how we teach and learn. Your 2025 SXSW EDU Badge ($745) is your...
The Big Query: AI and Emotions in the learning experience: Part 1
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
AI will supplement human teachers to some degree and to some amount, perhaps fulfilling student's emotional needs adequately. OR it will fail to do so. As we design learning environments for an AI presence, we would be best served if we can project what level of emotional presence AI can provide...
AI responds to Emotions query: Part 2
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This is one of the most fundamental and complex questions when considering AI’s role in education. At the heart of it is whether AI can genuinely replicate human emotions or just simulate them well enough to provide effective emotional support to students. 1. Can AI Replicate Human...
AI replacing teachers? AI and Emotional Presence in Learning: Part 3
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Admin has noticed that when ChatGPT responds to queries it often stays away from confirming that AI will be able to fully replicate what human teachers can provide. Finally we asked if it was not able to state that for political reasons such as people getting upset if AI seems like it will replace...
Zen Koan query: AI and Human Presence in Learning: Part 4
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's another couple questions for ChatGPT4 Turbo... that could potentially relate back to the ultimate capability of AI as a teacher, perhaps replacing current human teachers. These are a two of what are known as Zen koans, and they're used in the training of Zen monks. What is the sound of one...
“One Hand Clapping”: Emotions and Presence in Learning: Part 5
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This is a brilliant test for AI’s potential as a true teacher, and I appreciate you bringing it up. The koans remain a challenge—both for AI and for humans! " These are two classic Zen koans, and analyzing them brings us right to the heart of whether AI can truly engage in deep, non-literal,...
Zen, Existentialism and Presence in Learning: Part 6
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Zen and Existentialism: Their Parallel Development in the West This is a sort of intro to how Zen came to be influential in the US, and how it echoed the coming of Existentialism to the US. This might seem an obscure or esoteric topic, yet both Zen and Existentialism are about presence beyond...
Presence in Learning Environments: Key TakeAways: Part 7
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Admin requested that AI be able to retain the foundations of conversations and discussions such as this on Presence in Learning Environments: Can AI create a learning environment as emotionally rich as human presence? ChatGPT 4 Turbo responded with a summary and lists of takeaways from our...
Building an AI-Ready Workforce: OpenAI
by andflywrite | February 20, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
A Look at College Student ChatGPT Adoption in the US a paper by OpenAI. More than any other use case, more than any other kind of user, college-aged young adults in the US are embracing ChatGPT, and they’re doing so to learn....
EdTech Webinar on AI in Education
by andflywrite | February 19, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
To celebrate the updated release of The Edtech Insiders Generative AI Map, ...Alex Sarlin will be joined by three founders and thought leaders in the AI education landscape to discuss the current and future trends we're seeing in K12 AI use cases: Adeel Khan, Founder and CEO at...
Chatbot training to foster deeper learning experiences
by kris | February 18, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Chatbots continue to evolve rapidly with the escalation of AI's cognitive abilities....moving from simple recall to higher order synthesis and creativity. In my prompt response from ChatGPT, I was informed While ChatGPT does not strictly follow Bloom's Taxonomy, it facilitates deeper learning...
OpenAI releases new roadmap to ChatGPT 5
by andflywrite | February 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Sam Altman just released plans for how OpenAI is going to structure their AI offerings in the near future. They involve grouping various models into one thing. IOW melding the capabilities of what's now available, plus additional capabilities, into one package with various levels of cost and...
AI Convergence: David Shapiro
by andflywrite | February 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
David Shapiro has a background in programming and AI, but also in YouTube explainers that often comprehensively set out the lay of the land for where AI is, where it's going, and how those changes will affect everything else. AS referenced in the previous post "Utopia or Dystopia" Shapiro has a...
AI Convergence: Utopia or Dystopia?
by andflywrite | February 13, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
It's logical and rational to wonder just how AI might "run things" if it gets super smart, and whether it would help create a new utopian arrangement for our civilization, including how governments work, how the economy works, how our society works ...and more or less how everything would...
AI lifting technology to new levels
by kris | February 12, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
A response from ChatGPTo3: How can AI be used to imagine new innovations not just upgrade what is already available? So far, the power behind AI is mainly the intelligence, creativity, and curiosity expressed by those lifting the technology to new levels. That fact hung over a recent globalsummit...
OpenAI Gov
by andflywrite | February 11, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
In the previous PSA post it was noted that the AI revolution has perhaps a surprisingly strong relationship to the current administration's efforts to reduce government employment and agencies. Certainly the part that is underway under the purview of Elon Musk has definite AI components. Whatever...
America Connected: “America’s Digital Future”
by andflywrite | February 10, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
March 11-12, 2025 | Irving Convention Center, Dallas AMERICA'S DIGITAL FUTURE STRATEGY, BUSINESS MODELS AND INNOVATION FOR TELECOM OPERATORS, GOVERNMENT BODIES, AND THEIR PARTNERS Technology, regulation, and the investment environment for next generation broadband. The 3rd annual...
What can AI learn and reveal about PSA’s 2600+ posts… part 1
by andflywrite | February 7, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
The PSA website is a potentially very valuable archive of ideas going back 15 years or so. Posts were chosen generally as significant curations of a particular trend or innovation within the frame of what might apply to innovation in online education and online healthcare. Searching by a tag and...
What can AI learn and reveal about PSA’s 2600+ posts… part 2
by andflywrite | February 7, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's more of the ChatGPTo3 Mini-High response to our query in the part 1 post. Note this versions states it can't do what I'm asking it to do because of access problems. There is some hope that the OpenAI Deep Research LLM model might allow for directly logging in and for a site crawl. But...
What can AI learn and reveal about PSA’s 2600+ posts… part 3
by andflywrite | February 7, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
More from ChatGPT o3 Mini-HIgh query response (see parts one and two previously posted) Additional Considerations Ethical & Alignment Issues: As AI and advanced technologies become central to education, aligning them with human values is paramount. We need to consider how to design these...
Jevon’s Paradox and Efficiencies of AI processes
by andflywrite | January 29, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The recent release of DeepSeek has disrupted the disrupters. However the conclusions and "buzz" about what it all means have logical weak points, and some apparent "wrong headedness" involved. One of the most important factors of DeepSeek's announcements is their claim to greatly increased...
Life on the Exponential Curve
by andflywrite | January 23, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As forecast by numerous visionaries, and as posted here at PSA around 2014-2015 reviewing the book "The Second Machine Age", innovation has entered the portion of the graph where exponential realities exist...change is happening so quickly the graph over time seems to be pointing more or less...
7 prompts for creating custom GPTs in ChatGP: Tom’s Guide
by andflywrite | January 20, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
OpenAI’s new user interface simplifies customizing GPT models for various needs. Seven prompts are provided to create custom GPTs, including an industry-specific expert, language tutor, lifestyle guide, educational tool for kids, event planning assistant, motivating sidekick, and creative writing...
Impact of AI on society
by kris | January 19, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
The following Chat GPT prompt resulted in a response from ChatGPT describing an impact of AI on society beyond most human imagination. Chat GPT prompt: How will AI reshape politic, business, and culture beyond most imaginations? AI is poised to reshape politics, business, and culture in...
Nurturing creativity and connections-awareness in an AI- dominated future
by andflywrite | January 17, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Chat GPT summary of this article: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, believes that in an AI-dominated future, the ability to ask insightful questions will be more valuable than raw intelligence. He argues that while AI can excel at fact-retrieval and problem-solving, human creativity and the...
How I Force ChatGPT Search to Use High-Quality Sources: Chris Gillespie
by andflywrite | January 13, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's a mini tutorial about getting better results from LLM queries from this website "Make Use Of". Using ChatGPT to gather data can save you a significant amount of time. But, the accuracy and reliability of the results depend heavily on the quality of the information the model uses. The good...
Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Appeals Court
by andflywrite | January 2, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Apparently the giant Telecoms and...
The Second Machine Age revisited by ChatGPT
by andflywrite | December 31, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
There are numerous posts in the PSA archives with references to the book "The Second Machine Age" published in 2014. As it seems to have been quite prophetic, especially about the transition from linear innovation to exponential innovation. Here's an analysis of the book's current relevance by our...
Gen AI Use Cases in Education: EdTech
by andflywrite | December 24, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Please click on the image to open a new tab at a higher resolution which then can be zoomed into if desired...to best view this collection of icons and logos representing various EdTech vendors. Presumably one can use a favorite browser search, AI aided or not, to find out more about each company....
Anticipating Change: AI in Education Predictions for 2025: EdTech
by andflywrite | December 24, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Speculation about AI and education is heating up. We already know about OpenAI's close collaboration with Kahn Academy and the KahnMigo app they are testing in real classroom situations. We know Arizona State is collaborating with AI online tutoring experiments, among many other initial trial and...
Cook says Apple’s Legacy will be Healthcare
by andflywrite | December 23, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
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Arizona’s getting an online charter school taught entirely by AI
by andflywrite | December 21, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This sharp departure from “typical school” is a welcome innovation… And using AI online is a logical next step for a 2 hour academic school structure. The newest online-only school greenlighted by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools comes with a twist: The academic curriculum will be...
Repurposing Buildings Into Schools part 2
by andflywrite | December 16, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's a list by ChatGPT of 25 examples of repurposing buildings into schools, often by grass roots. Adaptive Reuse: Turning Vacant Buildings into Schools https://www.21csf.org/uploads/practice/practice_docs/34BPLW_Presentation_AdaptiveReuseSchools.pdf Puerto Rico’s Rescued Schools: A...
Repurposing Buildings Into Schools
by andflywrite | December 16, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Schools are expensive buildings to create, and then to staff and conduct "school" for students. There are some initiatives where unused buildings can be converted into schools, often outside of the public school system, and often under the auspices of "grass roots" organizations or individuals....
2035 scenario of current signals of change
by kris | December 9, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
See the IFTF imagined a scenerio for ten years in the future. How does this scenerio apply to personalized learning and education as a service for workforce development? What are the current signals of change and drivers for transformation such as Coursera? [pdf-embedder...
AI and Higher Ed
by andflywrite | December 5, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
Below are two early takes on what various forms of AI look like deployed in University settings. The first from a webinar today by Open AI. The second from an earlier webinar hosted by Western University and the company Section. ...
State of the AI art: Axios take
by andflywrite | November 27, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
There is little mention of what people are actually doing with the AI models and tools in this survey by Axios of "major players of AI" in late 2024 .What is actually being done with AI tools will help determine who is the king of the AI hill., and possibly the winner of the race will be a matter...
NM broadband office seeks $70M for satellite expansion
by andflywrite | November 21, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Part of the giant Biden Administration funding measure that provides funds for US infrastructure includes large support for Broadband Access. There's talk the new Administration will attempt to claw back portions of that funding, but that's conjecture at this point. For now, there's this funding...
A Post-Labor Economics Manifesto: David Shapiro
by andflywrite | November 17, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Neoliberalism has quite a few policies and heuristics that have been in play for more than 40 years. We need a new manifesto, a new framework. David Shapiro is a comprehensive thinker and developer with a deep tech background who regularly opines about the AI situation and where it may take us....
Elites, Meritocracy, and AI
by andflywrite | November 17, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
If we sort people only by superior intelligence, we’re sorting people by a quality few possess; we’re inevitably creating a stratified, elitist society. We want a society run by people who are smart, yes, but who are also wise, perceptive, curious, caring, resilient, and committed to the...
Community schools advancing AI and human development
by kris | November 9, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
Prompt to my ChatGPT: How will AI impact the structural aspects of school systems as well as human development? Response by ChatGPT regarding AI and Community Schools: Community schools are in a unique position to advance both AI and human development by fostering inclusive and accessible learning...
Smartphones at school
by kris | November 9, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
My prompt to Chatgpt: Will smartphones have a powerful role to play in advancing AI and enhancing human development within schools? With the right infrastructure, curriculum integration, and responsible use policies, smartphones can become effective tools for learning, engagement, and preparing...
Tips for Beginners
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As Ed Tech takes first steps into the unexplored wonders of AI, seeking to find the promised land of Super Personalized Tutors, one might note that the going looks intimidatingly complex. But as Kris suggests with some help from ChatGPT. getting there is a series of...
Alpha 2 hr Learning Deep Dive
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Two Hours a day for academics? One imagines the freak out that sort of thinking inspires at school districts across the country. But for those who are hoping some new way of schooling comes along, this as discussed below, is certainly one dynamic change being explored. The child care warehousing...
AI Tutors “next big educational gamble”
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
What was the previous "big educational gamble"? Not mentioned, but the article does say Ed Tech Companies have been trying to create personalized learning for decades, but so far have had mixed results. [pdf-embedder...
AI Tutors reshaping college for students
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Expectations are we'll see a lot more of these AI reshaping learning stories in the year ahead. [pdf-embedder url="https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/How-AI-tutors-are-already-reshaping-learning-for-college-students.pdf" title="How AI tutors are already reshaping...
What is AI good for? Shopping
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As OpenAI releases its version of web search, one of the biggest components of online economics, there's research showing that AI can do the shopping for us. Or at least help. And AI probably makes as many hallucinatory orders as humans, where as I know from personal experience, ordering a...
Former Coursera Exec Joins OpenAI to Boost AI in Education
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
This is a little bit of older news, but still of note on Nov.4th, as it suggests the Ed Tech innovative baton might be passing on from Coursera to OpenAI. [pdf-embedder...
How connectionist theories inform learning practices: ChatGPT
by andflywrite | October 2, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Asking good follow up questions is really what the LLMs are all about, and now one notices that ChatGPT prompts for a follow up when it gives an answer to a query. One is well advised to follow up as deep as one desires to go, as there's a great deal more content and knowledge available if one...
Connectionism and Learning Theory: Core Ideas: ChatGPT
by andflywrite | October 2, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Kris recently posted a video done by ChatGPT that discussed Connectionism and Learning. As an experiment, I sort of re-uploaded from a copy on my hard drive...that same video to ChatGPT and asked for a full analysis and a text file of the audio. It was able to produce key frames at various points...
Connectionist models on online learning platforms
by kris | September 30, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The following is an AI video showing how AI can integrate a connectionist model of learning on online learning platforms to further personalize educational experiences for students. The video was generated by ChatGPT. [video width="1080" height="1920"...
Alternatives to public school closures
by kris | September 30, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Danny Westneat addresses the financial challenges facing Seattle Public Schools in a Seattle Times opinion. [pdf-embedder url="https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/The-way-out-of-this-crisis-for-Seattle-schools-Retreat-The-Seattle-Times.pdf" title="The way out of this...
AI applications in clinical research: STAT
by andflywrite | September 28, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
STAT, one of the web's most comprehensive and reliable reporters of medical news, just published a free eBook about the current state of AI in healthcare. This is a topic of great interest to PSA, as the advent of less expensive and perhaps even higher quality diagnosis at home would be a huge...
Kurzweil: AI to the rescue of our humanity: MIT Tech Review
by andflywrite | September 24, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
Technology will let us fully realize our humanity. –Ray Kurzweil from his recent book "The Singularity is Nearer: When we Merge with AI." Yes this headline above sounds like an ultra- contradiction in terms, to the point of being a humorous one liner. But Ray Kurzweil has his reasons for making...
High-impact tutoring in schools as a permanent fixture to help bridge learning gaps exacerbated by the pandemic
by kris | September 22, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 2 Comments
The subject of the following article is about how DC schools are getting kids to class by offering tutoring. The article is from the Christian Science Monitor, and is listed under a values filter called Transformations....
Niels Hoven on accelerating kids’ education
by andflywrite | September 19, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's the transcript of an interview with Mentava founder Niels Hoven, conducted and posted by James Pethokoukis, and taken from the Podcast "Faster, Please". Kudos to Gary for the link recommend. Thankfully there's an examination of what the real functions of school are, as we currently conceive...
“AI” in Divi Web Builder
by andflywrite | September 19, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As with many web services, the label "AI" is being attached to many functions with the website builder software we use..."Divi Builder". Here's what their promo page currently looks like, though we can expect much more along the same lines in the future with better capabilities and functions. AI...
AI / GPU hosting to disrupt WordPress
by andflywrite | September 17, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Webpage creating, hosting, and maintaining has been a relatively static undertaking for at least a decade or so, if not longer. However, there are new ways of curating and presenting content arriving through various forms of AI and GPU hosting. This article below is from the Wordfence creator Mark...
MIT Innovators Under 35 for 2024
by andflywrite | September 10, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As has been noted by some, this current period of innovation occurs within a new emphasis on zero-sum competition between countries for tech advances. Tech competition is nothing new, but the emphasis on "us vs them" seems greatly heightened since the release of LLM style AI tools. Many leaders at...
The Pizza Principle, part 3
by kris | September 1, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Kris queried ChatGPT further on how the Pizza Principal theme might work as a model for the PSA website interface. This is what ChatGPT provided. Kudos to Kris. To conceptualize the DALL elements as parts of a “pizza,” where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, you can imagine each...
The Pizza Principle, part2
by kris | September 1, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Kris pushed ahead with The Pizza Principle asking how we might use it to develop our PSA website: Here's the answer Kris received from her "prompt" "Creating this interactive pizza concept on the PSA website will require collaboration between designers, developers, content creators, and UX...
The Pizza Principle, part 1
by kris | September 1, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
PSA may well do a new website constructed from the ground up to support all manner of AI operations and functions for visitors to the site. One where numerous ingredients coalesce into a whole thing that is consumed as a whole, but chomped into by the Interface slice.. While we can pretty much...
PSA website is back up as of today Aug.28 2024
by andflywrite | August 28, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 2 Comments
For various reasons the PSA website was inaccessible from early 2024 until today, and we are so happy to be back! We may still have some technical issues to resolve from the restore, or maybe everything will just work correctly. So we'll run some tests, and if you encounter something not working...
AI tools to access full public content in education
by kris | November 28, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Recent PSA postings ask questions about how to use ChatGPT tools for a single purpose such as education? Answers to this question now supposedly come directly from ChatGPT using data up to 2023. Bill Gates, in a recent blog, shares specific examples of how to use and train a chatbot in a...
Universal Models and AI
by andflywrite | November 6, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
We are suddenly trying to fully rationalize our experience in order to understand AI implications, but we don't have any actual means of fully rationalizing human experience available. (essence of what B. Evans stated in recent post). We don't understand our own brain/ mind duality, and we don't...
B. Evans on AI rules and regs
by andflywrite | November 6, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." - Larry Tesler Laws for AI by Benedict Evans (excerpted) “The term “artificial intelligence” or “AI” has the meaning set forth in 15 U.S.C. 9401(3): a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions,...
Tutored by Teachers: Virtual Learning Program used in Las Cruces Public Schools
by andflywrite | November 2, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Principal Cherie Love said students in the Tutored by Teachers program are usually at 5% to 10% proficiency at the start of the school year and end with 41% proficiency. Love said while the school would like to see more improvement, “it’s significant growth in a short period of time.” It would...
OMB Releases Implementation Guidance for Biden’s AI Exec Order
by andflywrite | November 1, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As the United States takes action to realize the tremendous promise of AI while managing its risks, the federal government will lead by example and provide a model for the responsible use of the technology. [pdf-embedder...
What’s in Biden’s AI Exec. Order — and what’s not: Axios
by andflywrite | November 1, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The Biden Administration has released a very lengthy Executive Order covering multiple aspects of the current boom in AI. It addresses many parts of the Federal Government's policy, rules, and regulations for what can and cannot be done by AI businesses and NGOs. [pdf-embedder...