weekend ai reads for 2023-03-03

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS

• Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles Ars Technica

• A list of AI uh-ohs, or "incidents" to use their euphemism AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Incidents and Controversies

  • They tout themselves as "The independent, open, public interest resource detailing incidents and controversies driven by and relating to artificial intelligence, algorithms, and automation." -- I have not verified that claim.

• The 2023 MAD (ML/AI/Data) Landscape Firstmark

🎓 EDUCATION and AI

• via Patrick, early studies on GPT that show limited results in education. One important limitation is that ChatGPT is not specifically trained on student work, and as a result, ChatGPT may struggle to give students appropriate feedback. For instance, scientist Neil Heffernan at WPI explored using GPT-3, the LLM underlying ChatGPT, to give explanations of middle school math problems, and the experiment didn’t yield positive results. TLDR: GPT-3 couldn’t perform as well as teachers in giving hints because it hadn’t been trained on educational math data or dialogue.

• Synthetic Research & Silicon Sampling Brxnd, Substack

  • While this post discusses use of synthetic research for consumer sentiment, I could see this being used for education and education research

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs OpenAI

  • via Josh, for less than 50¢ an hour, you can have everything you say and hear transcribed

• 1 Dataset 100 Visualizations 

  • … not all of them clear

• Loyalty card data could help to identify ovarian cancer symptoms sooner Imperial College London

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Wist

  • Not sure this is “AI” but it’s interesting

• The Ultimate Personal Security Checklist Security List