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The end of AI and the future of higher education

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · 9d

“Content delivery can be replicated by machines; what cannot be automated are mentoring, trust and dialogue. Human relationships remain at the centre of transformative learning.”

#AI #GenAI

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The debate over whether universities should adopt AI is behind us. The real issue is how higher education will operate in an ‘atmosphere of cognitio...

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · 9d

#AI professors will work alongside human professors - is this the way forward? No!!!

#PerilsofAI

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Meet The AI Professor: Coming To A Higher Education Campus Near You

The integration of AI in higher education is explored and considered in relation teaching and learning. Meet the AI avatar professor

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Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of ‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood

Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · 14d

“To be clear, ‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers – without permission or compensation …devaluing human artistry.”

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#PerilsOfAI #AI

US actors’ union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created ‘using stolen performances’

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · 26d

‘Companies desperate to rush generative #AI products to market are pushing flawed products onto the public that are predictably being used to pollute our information ecosystems. The consequences are that #AI slop is entering libraries,….’

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#AISlop #GenAI #PerilsofAI

It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · 29d

“Why #SoTL matters? Why educators should engage in #SoTL?”

A note by UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute #HEPI, @hepi-news.bsky.social that discusses the role of teaching-focussed educators in #SoTL.

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Recognising the Value of Teaching-Focused Academics in Developing Student Skills - HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Chris Featherstone, Hillary Briffa, Madeleine Le Bourdon, Jeremy Moulton, Louise Pears, Anna Plunkett, Sudhir Selvaraj and Jillian Terry. Amid the UK’s ongoing c...

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Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles

Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Why would you work if your work can be stolen, degraded, stripped of your association, and made instantly and universally available for free?”

#GenAI #AI #LLLMs #Copyrights #PerilsofAI

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If we don’t refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished

Duke University pilot project examining pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in college

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Sep 11

Duke University pilot project examining pros and cons of using artificial intelligence #AI in college

#GenAI #Chatbots

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Duke University in North Carolina has launched an initiative to examine the opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence brings to student life.

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Sep 11

“How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s #AI to seem smart

Contracted #AI raters describe gruelling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make #chatbots intelligent”

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

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How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy

Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Sep 7

‘Humans are being hired to make #AI slop look less sloppy

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what #ArtificialIntelligence gets wrong.’

#GenAI #AI #PerilsofAI

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In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

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Here’s the truth about the Civil Service and AI

Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Sep 7

‘Here’s the truth about the Civil Service and #AI

People self report that #chatbots make them more efficient. The reality is not so rosy’

#AI #GenAI #PerilsofAI

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People self report that chatbots make them more efficient. The reality is not so rosy

ChatGPT fed a man’s delusion his mother was spying on him. Then he killed her

Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Aug 31

“#ChatGPT fed a man’s delusion his mother was spying on him. Then he killed her

Computer system told former marketing manager ‘you’re not crazy’ and encouraged belief family tried to poison him”

#ChatGPT #GenAI #PerilsofAI

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Computer system told former marketing manager ‘you’re not crazy’ and encouraged belief family tried to poision him

ChatGPT ‘coached’ suicidal teenager to kill himself, parents claim

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Aug 29

#ChatGPT ‘coached’ suicidal teenager to kill himself, parents claim

Lawsuit says #AI #chatbot validated Adam Raine’s ‘harmful and self-destructive thoughts’

#PerilsofAI #GenAI

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Lawsuit says AI chatbot validated Adam Raine’s ‘harmful and self-destructive thoughts’

The next ‘AI winter’ is coming

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Aug 29

“The next ‘#AI winter’ is coming
The FOMO-driven boom is running out of steam – again”

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#PerilsofAI #GenAI

The FOMO-driven boom is running out of steam – again

The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst

Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Aug 20

“The warning signs the #AI bubble is about to burst

Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returns”

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

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Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returns

ChatGPT is driving people mad

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Aug 17

“ #ChatGPT is driving people mad.

#AI software is fuelling paranoid episodes in users – some of which have ended in tragedy”

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

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AI software is fuelling paranoid episodes in users – some of which have ended in tragedy

Man poisoned himself after taking medical advice from ChatGPT

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Aug 12

‘Man poisoned himself after taking medical advice from #ChatGPT

Patient replaced table salt with sodium bromide after consulting #AI software, say doctors’

#PerilsofAI #GenAI

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Patient replaced table salt with sodium bromide after consulting AI software, say doctors

Why AI heralds a new age of stupidity

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Aug 10

‘Are we doomed to dispense with reasoning, reflection and good judgment? What happens to a society that has lost its ability to think?’

#AI #PerilsofAI #GenAI

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Britain’s rush to adopt artificial intelligence risks becoming a race to the bottom

Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia

Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Aug 9

‘Volunteers fight to keep ‘#AI slop’ off Wikipedia

Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain #AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out’

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#PerilsofAI #GenAI

Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out.

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Aug 4

‘Terminated by #AI’

“I will never again assume…that I am in conversation with a human. Any chat or e-mail chain is more than likely to be AI, posing as a human but responding to a limited set of prompts… utterly devoid of empathy, curiosity or creativity”

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Terminated

There's no "U" in AI / "Open the pod bay doors, please..."

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Doctors fear ChatGPT is fuelling psychosis

Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Jul 27

‘Doctors fear #ChatGPT is fuelling #psychosis

#AI software can ‘mirror, validate or amplify’ users’ delusions, report warns’

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AI software can ‘mirror, validate or amplify’ users’ delusions, report warns

The academics taking on ‘cheating’ students using AI to write their essays

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Jul 22

‘The academics taking on ‘cheating’ students using #AI to write their essays

With 92 per cent of undergraduates relying on #AI tools, institutions are bringing back in-person exams to safeguard independent thought’

#GenAI #AcademicIntegrity

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With 92 per cent of undergraduates relying on AI tools, institutions are bringing back in-person exams to safeguard independent thought

Customers are starting to push back against AI in their favorite products, worried about jobs, quality and the meaning of art.

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Jun 19

‘Popular services keep adding AI. Some customers want them to stop.’

“People are upset over the quality of AI products and the loss of human jobs. Is it enough to slow the tech down?”

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#GenAI #AI #CustomerExperience #UserExperience

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