Category Archives: automation

Instructors after AI

Posted on April 21, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

How will the current wave of artificial intelligence change college teaching? I’ve been thinking AI and education for years, and it’s all come into sharp focus lately, due to the advent of large language learning (LLM) bots like ChatGPT (previously). … Continue reading →

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Digital storytelling with generative AI: notes on the appearance of #AICinema

Posted on April 9, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

Whenever we create a new communications technology, we try new ways of telling stories with it. That’s one of my long-running contentions.  I made it in digital storytelling workshops and my first book (ABC-CLIO; Amazon). My thinking is that humans … Continue reading →

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How might higher education respond to GPT-4? A community conversation with Ruben Puentedura

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

What can colleges and universities do about generative AI?  How can academics respond to this fast-moving technology? Last Thursday we hosted computer scientist and ed tech leader Ruben Puentedura on the Future Trends Forum to explore the implications of large … Continue reading →

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A flurry of AI releases now: GPT-4 and new educational projects

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

The generative AI world continues to develop at a very fast pace.  I’m buried in project work right now, but wanted to quickly note some developments. The big announcement today was OpenAI’s launch of GPT-4, the next version of its … Continue reading →

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Experimenting with using ChatGPT as a simulation application

Posted on March 5, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

How might we use generative AI tools in higher education? Many address this issue by focusing on chatbots as writing apps, trying to think through what the technology means for teaching writing.  While this is obviously a major part of … Continue reading →

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Two figures for generative AI: the calculator and the mad scientist’s assistant

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

As people grapple with ChatGPT 3 and other instances of generative artificial intelligence, we sometimes turn to imagination in order to describe and understand the technology. I’ve seen folks raise the Terminator movies, HAL-9000, and generic scary robots to express … Continue reading →

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Some ways for generative AI to transform the world

Posted on February 19, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

For the past two months I’ve been scrambling to work on generative AI.  That’s the phrase I prefer to corral together ChatGPT, art generators like DALL-E, and any AI-driven software which helps us make content. Besides hosting Forum sessions (some … Continue reading →

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