Can AI help democracy? This app hopes it can
A new tool hopes to drive more students to the polls, and it uses AI under the hood to help.
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Why your AI outputs feel “average”
AI advocates have expressed frustration at Ted Chiang’s critique of AI in The New Yorker, where he argued that large language models “take an average of the choices that other writers have made.” Yes it’s a simplification, but it’s also correct at a fundamental level.
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AI’s threat to elections is not what you think
Deep-faked images and other media may get all the headlines when it comes to endangering democracy, but the 2024 Maine Town Meeting revealed that the rise of generative AI arms saboteurs with many more insidious ways to destabilize elections.
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The Misapplication of AI
We should be genuinely worried about the hubris of the captains of AI.
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Digital Curation in the Shadow of AI
Join UMaine Digital Curation for a conversation with Christiane Paul, a trailblazer in the field who will review how practices of creating, collecting, and exhibiting have transformed in response to the latest tech trends, particularly the rise of generative AI.
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Why you should generate AI images in your classroom
Text generators like ChatGPT have dominated my conversations with educators about AI in the past year. Despite their emergence a year before chatbots, text-to-image generators like DALL-E or Midjourney typically come up only in generic conversations about plagiarism or bias. This is understandable, both because writing has been central to so many disciplines and because
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AI versus old-school creativity: a 50-student, semester-long showdown
This fall an unusual four-month experiment pitted generative AI against conventional digital tools in eight separate creative tasks. Fifty students wrote, coded, designed, modeled, and recorded creations with and without AI, then judged the results.
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How To Teach with AI and Still Put People First
By Jon Ippolito Worried that generative AI might have killed the student essay? An “AI sandwich” may resurrect learning through writing for the ChatGPT age.
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Webinars examine impact of AI on coders and creators
As part of its Learning With AI initiative, UMaine’s New Media program continues to offer free webinars on ways generative AI like ChatGPT and Midjourney are disrupting today’s workplaces and workflows. These online discussions feature New Media faculty and alumni reporting from the front lines of fields such as business, digital art, web development, video
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To prevent cheating with AI, add it to your syllabus
Still Water faculty and colleagues have an answer for educators confused about how to cope with the rapid rise of ChatGPT and its ilk.
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