S10 E11 AI Podcast Wrapped for 2024
AI Education Podcast
We look back on the highlights of 2024, and the mass of stories, challenges and inspirations we had throughout the year. And what a year - AI in education has been moving so fast we even invited two digital AI podcasters to take over half the episode. And, worryingly, they did an amazing job - listen for yourself... We're going to take a break over the Australian school holidays, but then we'll be back with at the end of January 2025. If you miss us, then please go and give us a rating or review in Spotify or Apple Podcasts, and that'll encourage us to return with even more energy for 2025! We...
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AI News (and no research!)
AI Education Podcast
A heap of news stories this week means we didn't cover any research at all! AI isn’t a tool, it’s an environment by Josh Thorpe Australian Senate report into Adoption of AI Ethan Mollick's course on Coursera: "AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching" I'll also recommend his book - Co-Intelligence - as a great Christmas gift for yourself or a friend Open AI announced Open AI Pro @ $200/m We like Ethan Mollick's example that showed what it could do - solving this problem and creating a working app in 15 minutes - see here: Microsoft Copilot...
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S10 E9 - TEQSA AI Toolkit
AI Education Podcast
This week's episode discussed the new AI toolkit for generative AI strategies from Australia's Higher Education regulator, The full toolkit is available here: During the episode we referenced some of the podcasts when we'd had the chance to interview some of the people from The University of Sydney who were used as case studies in the toolkit, and here's the link to previous podcast episodes that might be helpful to go back to for more depth: The University of Sydney's Cogniti AI bot The University of Sydney's Two Lane approach to assessment We'd also recommend...
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Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and Research
AI Education Podcast
Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and ResearchSeries 10, Episode 8 We explore quite a lot of news related to AI in Education that arrived this week, which meant we didn't get to cover nearly as many academic research papers as we'd hoped. Oh well, there's still 4 episodes left this year to catch up 😊 News Open AI released a course for teachers The AI Art Turing Test Overview: Direct link to the Avoiding the Discriminatory Use of Artificial Intelligence Brisbane Catholic Education's announcement on "AI for everybody" New research from Google Workspace and The Harris Poll shows...
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AI - Study Buddy or Influencer? Series 10, Episode 7
AI Education Podcast
This week's episode is a discussion of the Australian Parliamentary report on AI in Education, "". The report highlights both the opportunities and challenges GenAI presents, focusing on student and teacher perspectives, ethical considerations, regulatory approaches, and potential solutions. The report makes many recommendations, with the very first being significant on many levels: "The Committee recommends that the Australian Government: consider making the use of GenAI in education a national priority" and are joined by guest, , an Education Consultant for Generative AI for the ...
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Deception and Deepfakes - News & Research
AI Education Podcast
Another News & Research episode this week, and lots of interesting links and research discussed. Here's the weblinks for everything! News Deception and Deepfakes - How genAI is Changing Cyber Safety Course: Leon Furzes online course, where he made a free course about deepfakes hosted by a deepfake, with deepfake content about deepfakes McKinsey surveyed 1363 working professionals across countries, industries, and demographics about the use of generative AI at their work places. The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans...
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AI for AussieEd week, with Toddle
AI Education Podcast
In September, the team organised "", a week-long series of professional development sessions for teachers, which had thousands of attendees for the virtual sessions. This episode "Driving Innovation in Australian Schools" was part of the week, and brings you the experiences of three educators, in conversation with podcast hosts Dan and Ray The guests are: , Primary School Learning Leader at Concordia College in Adelaide , Director of Digital Pedagogies & Online Safety Education at the ACT Education Directorate , Director of Learning Technologies and ICT at St Michaels Grammar School in...
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Research - How are students using AI - Series 10 Episode 4
AI Education Podcast
This week's episode has a lot more news than research. But the research that we spend a bit of time on is the insights on how students in Australian universities are using AI. Really good insights for any educator or leader! News AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences Empowering Education Leaders Toolkit TEQSA Guidance for universities Danny Liu video Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI - The Verge Apple...
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Anna Denejkina - Insight Centre
AI Education Podcast
Series 10, Episode 3 This week's episode is an interview with , who's an interdisciplinary researcher and Associate Director at . We discuss her research on youth engagement with generative AI. The conversation explores the multifaceted impact of AI technology in education, addressing benefits such as upskilling and accessibility, as well as concerns related to academic misconduct, job displacement, and misinformation. Key themes include gender disparity in confidence using AI, the importance of critical and empathetic thinking, and the evolving landscape of education assessments. The...
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AI Research - Apostles, Agnostics and Atheists
AI Education Podcast
This week we cover a range of AI in Education related news and academic research papers. Here's all the links you need to read more about each of the topics we dicussed: News Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard In September the Australian Government published: Voluntary AI Safety Standard (68pg): Proposals paper for introducing mandatory guardrails for AI in high-risk settings: Stanford's STORM Students give English HSC exam an F over use of image with ‘hallmarks’ of AI Investigation into the use of ChatGPT by a Child Protection worker - Office of the Victorian Information...
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There has been a lot of AI news and AI research that's related to education since our last Rapid Rundown, so we've had to be honest and drop 'rapid' from the title! Despite talking fast, this episode still clocked in just over 40 minutes, and we really can't out what to do - should we talk less, cover less news and research, or just stop worrying about time, and focus instead on making sure we bring you the key things every episode?
News
More than half of UK undergraduates say they use AI to help with essays
This was from a Higher Education Policy Institute of 1,000 students, where they found 53% are using AI to generate assignment material.
- 1 in 4 are using things like ChatGPT and Bard to suggest topics
- 1 in 8 are using it to create content
- And 1 in 20 admit to copying and pasting unedited AI-generated text straight into their assignments
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html
An HK-based employee of a multinational firm wired out $25M after attending a video call where all employees were deepfaked, including the CFO. He first got an email which was suspicious but then was reassured on the video call with his “coworkers.”
NSW Department of Education Launch NSW EduChat
NSW are rolling out a trial to 16 public schools of a chatbot built on Open AI technology, but without giving students and staff unfettered access to ChatGPT. Unlike ChatGPT, the app has been designed to only respond to questions that relate to schooling and education, via content-filtering and topic restriction. It does not reveal full answers or write essays, instead aiming to encourage critical thinking via guided questions that prompt the student to respond – much like a teacher.
The Productivity Commission has thoughts on AI and Education
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/making-the-most-of-the-ai-opportunity
The PC released a set of research papers about "Making the most of the AI opportunity", looking at Productivity, Regulation and Data Access.
They do talk about education in two key ways:
- "Recent improvements in generative AI are expected to present opportunities for innovation in publicly provided services such as healthcare, education, disability and aged care, which not only account for a significant part of the Australian economy but also traditionally exhibit very low productivity growth"
- "A challenge for tertiary education institutions will be to keep up to date with technological developments and industry needs. As noted previously by the Commission, short courses and unaccredited training are often preferred by businesses for developing digital and data skills as they can be more relevant and up to date, as well as more flexible"
Yes, AI-Assisted Inventions can be inventions
News from the US, that may set a precedent for the rest of the world. Patents can be granted for AI-assisted inventions - including prompts, as long as there's significant contribution from the human named on the patent
Not news, but Ray mentioned his Very British Chat bot. Sadly, you need the paid version of ChatGPT to access it as it's one of the public GPTs, but if you have that you'll find it here: Very British Chat
Sora was announced
Although it was the same day that Google announced Gemini 1.5, we led with Sora here - just like the rest of the world's media did!
On the podcast, we didn't do it justice with words, so instead here's four threads on X that are worth your time to read\watch to understand what it can do:
- Taking a video, and changing the style/environment: https://x.com/minchoi/status/1758831659833602434?s=20
- Some phenomenally realistic videos: https://x.com/AngryTomtweets/status/1759171749738840215?s=20 (remember, despite how 'real' these videos appear, none of these places exist outside of the mind of Sora!)
- Bling Zoo: https://x.com/billpeeb/status/1758223674832728242?s=20
- This cooking grandmother does not exist: https://x.com/sama/status/1758219575882301608?s=20 (A little bit like her mixing spoon, that appears to exist only for mixing and then doesn't)
Google's Gemini 1.5 is here…almost
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/google-gemini-advanced-tasting-notes
Research Papers
Google's Gemini 1.5 can translate languages it doesn't know
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_v1_5_report.pdf
Google also published a 58 page report on what their researchers had found with it, and we found the section on translation fascinating.
Sidenote: There's an interesting Oxford Academic research project report from last year that was translating cuneiform tablets from Akkadian into English, which didn't use Large Language Models, but set the thinking going on this aspect of using LLMs
Understanding the Role of Large Language Models in Personalizing and Scaffolding Strategies to Combat Academic Procrastination
Challenges and Opportunities of Moderating Usage of Large Language Models in Education
ChatEd: A Chatbot Leveraging ChatGPT for an Enhanced Learning Experience in Higher Education
AI Content Self-Detection for Transformer-based Large Language Models
Evaluating the Performance of Large Language Models for Spanish Language in Undergraduate Admissions Exams
Taking the Next Step with Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Transformative Role of Multimodal Large Language Models in Science Education
Empirical Study of Large Language Models as Automated Essay Scoring Tools in English Composition - Taking TOEFL Independent Writing Task for Example
Using Large Language Models to Assess Tutors' Performance in Reacting to Students Making Math Errors
Future-proofing Education: A Prototype for Simulating Oral Examinations Using Large Language Models
How Teachers Can Use Large Language Models and Bloom's Taxonomy to Create Educational Quizzes
How does generative artificial intelligence impact student creativity?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374523000316
Large Language Models As MOOCs Graders
Can generative AI and ChatGPT outperform humans on cognitive-demanding problem-solving tasks in science?