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The general concept of this presentation is to remind instructors that by creating a solid syllabus, they have already done most of the work that will allow a generative AI tool to be extremely helpful to both the students and to themselves.
Anonymous access to popular AI models, including GPT-3.5, Claude 3, and open-source Llama 3 and Mixtral.
‘DuckDuckGo AI Chat is an anonymous way to access popular AI chatbots – currently, Open AI’s GPT 3.5 Turbo, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, and two open-source models (Meta Llama 3 and Mistral’s Mixtral 8x7B), with more to come. This optional feature is free to use within a daily limit, and can easily be switched off.
OMG – too many names!
Yet another toy to place with. Educate yourself about it as well. The Speech to Speech option can be used to do a deepfake, but for the voice.
https://elevenlabs.io/
image of voice generator from website
Please check out the Spring 2024 Workshops below. The workshops will be offered at no cost, and will be recorded, and the recordings will be available on the Playlist below.
Description: As GPT has gained widespread attention since the release of GPT 3.5 in late 2022, our digital landscape has been evolving quickly. With academia, media, governments, and corporations focused on the furthest reaches of artificial intelligence, it is easy to get overwhelmed by the possibilities this powerful tool offers us. This hands-on session focuses not on the outer limits of AI, but instead on:
Presenter: Robert Becker
Description: AI tools have access to enormous data and use enormous processing power to generate plausible patterns that can save time, offer sophisticated text for users to consider, and boost thinking/learning and writing/communication for students and faculty alike. But they also have glaring weaknesses, such as their inability to recognize reality (versus merely “plausible” strings of words), understand context or culture, offer unbiased and ethical responses, avoid privacy or security infringement, etc. Join this hands-on session to learn and share how to help students recognize pitfalls of AI, as well as explore its potentials. We will collaboratively develop and exchange learning activities for our students.
Presenter: Shyam Sharma, Michael Murphy, & Cynthia Davidson
Description: As faculty navigate the use of Chat GPT and other AI tools in their courses, it is important to communicate their expectations with the students. This session will provide participants with examples of syllabus statements being used within SUNY and beyond. The examples will reflect varying levels of permitted AI usage:
Participants will be encouraged to discuss the examples and how they relate to their own current or future AI use in their courses. Following an open discussion and sharing of ideas, individuals will collaborate to adapt/ develop a syllabus statement based on their desired level of AI usage. Participants will leave the workshop with a syllabus statement that they may use in their course.
Presenter: Meghanne Freivald & Keith Landa
Description: AI can be helpful for a number of tasks for students, including suggesting writing improvements, summarizing or rephrasing concepts they are learning, helping with ideation to overcome “blank page syndrome”, or even generating questions for review. The commonly available tools, such as ChatGPT, have been trained on a vast corpus of information that covers many subjects, albeit non-uniformly, and its ability to provide accurate and helpful information varies by subject, as it its likelihood that it will provide incorrect information (they call this a “hallucination”).
Those are factors that are out of your control, but you can mitigate them….with a well crafted prompt.
This workshop aims to help you assess how effective these tools could be for your students – looking at whether they work out of the box, and whether the right prompt can address gaps and concerns. Even if you find that these tools are really not well suited for your course, that can be something that you can share with your students and have a chance to guide them to other options.
Presenter: Maureen Larsen & Brian Cepuran
Description: There are a variety of tools to help instructors build out their courses, from designing learning outcomes, to creating course content, to creating quizzes and other assessments. Both general-purpose and specialized AI tools will be demonstrated in the workshop, and participants will have opportunities to try them out. Both faculty and the instructional support staff that assist them are encouraged to attend. No prior AI experience required.
Presenter: Brian Cepuran & Keith Landa
What do you think?
Original image:
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New “expanded fill with snake” image
see the snake?
Looks like a nice park…
How about famous art in the public domain?
I am going to be starting a new project based on using AI as an educational resource for both faculty and students. I will create a new searchable category for this here on the blog called “AI” in case anyone is interested in filtering down to this particular journey. I intend for this to move pretty quickly so as to hopefully deploy something while it is still in fact an emergent technology.
First little mention goes to this website tool that helps one understand the currency that this will be running on via MS Azure: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
When running this service, you operate with a quota of tokens, and the tokens cost money.
“Tokens in the context of OpenAI GPT models are clusters of characters representing the fundamental unit of text. These tokens are generated by a tokenizer algorithm that segregates text into smaller segments following certain rules, such as spaces, punctuation marks, and special characters.”