I fully embraced AI for my classes this semester, requiring students to use AI tools in a number of ways. This policy attracted a lot of interest, and I thought it worthwhile to reflect on how it is going so far. The short answer is: great! But I have learned some early lessons that I think are worth passing on. ...
I have seen lots of educators concerned about the fact that the AI lies, frequently and well. But, seeing my students’ work, I think this is less of a problem than many think. Students understood the unreliability of AI very quickly, and took seriously my policy that they are responsible for the facts in their essays. ...
On the downside, I find students also raise their hands to ask questions less. I suspect this might be because, as one of them told me, they can later ask ChatGPT to explain things they didn’t get without needing to speak in front of the class. The world of teaching is now more complicated in ways that are exciting, as well as a bit unnerving. ...
However, based on my experience, I think focusing on how people use AI in class rather than whether they use it will result in better learning outcomes, happier students, and graduates who are better prepared for a world while AI is likely to be ubiquitous.
... Select artifacts from the sunken Titanic will be preserved as nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to open up shared ownership to the general public. RMST holds the exclusive rights to recover artifacts from the Titanic and its wider debris field from the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. ...
A nine-person federal jury in New York City sided with Hermès in its fight over non-fungible token (“NFT”)-linked digital images that mirror the design of its famed Birkin bag and that bear the “MetaBirkins” name. Finding that MetaBirkins creator Mason Rothschild (whose real name is Sonny Estival) is liable on all three counts – trademark infringement and dilution, and cybersquatting – for the MetaBirkins NFTs, and that he is not shielded by the First Amendment protections that apply to artistic and not-explicitly-misleading works, the jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York returned their verdict on Wednesday morning, awarding Hermès roughly $133,000 in damages.
... Sensorium Galaxy is emerging as the first AAA inhabited metaverse with a community of AI-powered avatars populating its virtual worlds. As such, the company is enabling social AI as a core technology in powering next-generation networking, relationship building and content creation, for users and artists alike.
In a demonstration of the unprecedented capabilities of generative AI technology to hold contextual conversations, Sensorium is opening up access to the Salvador Dali Experience. Within this virtual reality environment, users will have the opportunity to meet the AI avatar of the now-resurrected genius and chat with him across an endless number of topics. ...
About Sensorium
Founded in 2018, Sensorium is a Swiss company and a leading metaverse developer, leveraging cutting-edge XR and AI technology to deliver next-generation virtual experiences in entertainment and social interaction. ...
... The same products that consumers see at the store are suitable background scenery to inject a deliberate or subconscious hint of the real world into a film that wants to appear connected to our commonplace way of life. ...
The development and promulgation of Ethical AI precepts are being pursued to hopefully prevent society from falling into a myriad of AI-inducing traps. For my coverage of the UN AI Ethics principles as devised and supported by nearly 200 countries via the efforts of UNESCO, see the link here. In a similar vein, new AI laws are being explored to try and keep AI on an even keel. One of the latest takes consists of a set of proposed AI Bill of Rights that the U.S. White House recently released to identify human rights in an age of AI, see the link here. It takes a village to keep AI and AI developers on a rightful path and deter the purposeful or accidental underhanded efforts that might undercut society. ...
Imagine that you ask a generative AI app to produce a story for you about a dog that gets lost and has to find its way back home. A touching story, for sure. ... Assume that a maker of a well-known dog food product has cut a deal with the AI maker of the generative AI app. The deal says that when feasible, make sure to include the name of their dog food, let’s call it Fido Food. This is to be done when sensibly possible. ...
Thus, the generative AI app produces a story about the dog and mentions at some point that the beloved pooch managed to find a can of Fido Food and gobbled up the scrumptious nourishment. ... Everyone is happy. ...
Whoa, some say, this is atrocious. This is beyond the pale and undercuts any semblance of Ethical AI. ...
No problem comes the reply. We will mention when users log into the AI app that the AI is being sponsored by the makers of Fido Food. ...
I’ve discussed that another means of monetizing generative AI consists of wrapping the AI into some other app that more explicitly makes money on its own. ...
Now that we are discussing monetization for generative AI, we can put another possibility into the game, namely product placement ads. ...
We can also add to the capability of product placement inclusion that the AI maker can set parameters in the AI app such that the product placement occurs on any of these frequencies:
a) Never
b) Rarely
c) Occasionally
d) Often
e) Always
A company wanting to negotiate with an AI maker would have a menu of options. They can have their product placement based on casual presence, contextual immersion, and/or essay contrivance. ...
The user actions then regarding a generative AI outputted essay that contains product placement consists of this:
Stays As Is. The user leaves the product placement untouched.
Does A Search-and-Replace. The user comes up with some alternative wording and does a search-and-replace throughout the produced essay.
Excise The Product Placement. The user removes the product placement from the outputted essay.
Other
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...kudos to the generative AI since it leads the reader down a primrose path. The paragraph that mentions Coco-Cola has handily noted that there are lots of tributes to Lincoln. By the time you then read about Coca-Cola, you would not likely have realized that this was an overt plug. It seems to fit within the narrative of the essay. ...
Author: Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University. Formerly a professor at USC and UCLA, and head of a pioneering AI Lab, he frequently speaks at major AI industry events.
... However, the surge in trading volume at Blur doesn’t appear to be primarily driven by traders simply selling off their BLUR tokens and buying and holding high-value NFTs. Instead, whale traders with significant NFT holdings appear to be flipping NFTs with even greater frequency than before, in an effort to boost potential future token reward allocations. ...
Now, through token rewards and gamification techniques, Blur has incentivized traders to treat NFTs more like DeFi tokens, flipping frequently and attempting to maximize every potential benefit through liquidity mining. ...
Like more exaggerated examples of wash trading, the flood of NFT flipping and rewards “farming” on Blur muddles the market data—and the surging trading volume from the past week doesn’t suggest that the NFT market is growing and onboarding scores of new collectors. It’s mostly whales trading among themselves. ...
... Ed Lantz, CEO of dome designers Vortex Immersion Media, is perhaps the single most knowledgeable expert on immersive experiences, and even he’s impressed. “It is sure to be a mind-blowing experience and will likely establish the digital dome format as the next big thing in out-of-home immersive arts and entertainment,” he told me. “The MSG Sphere is pushing both tech and venue design far beyond current state of the art at a scale that few would have imagined.” ...
In recent years, two separate trends — improvements in headset technology and the growing use of psychedelic drugs in therapy — have intertwined.
From July, approved psychiatrists in Australia will be able to prescribe MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder and psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression.
With MDMA (ecstasy) and ketamine also increasingly being trialled as mental health treatments, researchers are experimenting with the use of VR as a tool for psychedelic therapy.
Much of the work in this field is being done in Australia, where a small number of researchers are developing the world's first VR-assisted treatment protocols.
Can a headset help capture the fleeting insights generated while being high?
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About four years ago, Ms Sekula wondered if VR might be the solution.
Could it bridge the gap between dosing and integration phases by helping the patient recall what they had experienced?
"Integration initially is based on trying to remember, trying to reconnect to that experience and then process it," Ms Sekula said.
"We try to make that first component of it as easy and as rich as possible so that as much of this material is recorded as possible. ...
Under the VR-assisted treatment protocols, the world was designed to be an environment that patients shaped for themselves, a "mind map" of their psychedelic experience.
A therapist could "see" into this world, but they could not enter it. On a computer screen, they could watch the patient and listen to their recordings, but they had no avatar. ...
Vuzix may be best known for smart glasses or other AR equipment one might use at work; however, it pitches its latest product as one for more consumer-oriented OEMs to all but slap their branding on as a new pair of lightweight, sophisticated spectacles.
The head-worn device manufacturer has even developed a "fashion-forward" frame for the Ultralite OEM, which brings the reference glasses' total mass down to 38 grams (g) despite its estimated 2 days of battery life.
Then again, the Platform also allows for the addition of extra sensors or mics. It is rated to pack Vuzix' custom micro-display engine and "advanced" monocular wave-guide optics as standard, rated to drive heads-up-like content to the glasses' lenses. ...
