More OpenAI Drama, AI Marilyn Gone Wrong & AI Educator Alex Kotran | Ep48
Mar 14, 2024
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AI educator Alex Kotran discusses the challenges of AI integration in schools. The podcast also covers OpenAI drama, AI in State of the Union, resurrecting dead celebrities with AI, elder care AI dolls, and AI-generated sound effects. The hosts explore AI communication with animals, feuds in the AI industry, digital celebrity avatars, education integration, and the future of human-machine intelligence.
AI EDU focuses on integrating AI literacy into all subjects for students, ensuring essential AI skills for the future.
AI in education emphasizes hands-on experiences with AI tools to make the topic more relevant and tangible for students.
Teachers leading AI integration in education are reshaping traditional teaching methods, focusing on individualized engagement over written feedback.
Deep dives
AI Literacy and Educational Empowerment
AI EDU, a nonprofit founded in 2019, focuses on ensuring every student graduates with fundamental AI skills. Their mission centers on integrating AI learning experiences across all subjects. By partnering with underserved schools, they aim to introduce AI literacy that is as essential as internet literacy, making AI education accessible and relevant to all students.
AI Awareness in Education
There is a growing awareness of AI in education compared to five years ago. Hands-on experiences with AI technology have made the topic more tangible and relevant to students, parents, and teachers. However, the focus often revolves around AI as a tool for personal use rather than fully appreciating its significant impact on knowledge work and society.
AI Integration in English Literature Classes
Some teachers, like the English teacher integrating AI into lessons, are leading the way in AI integration within education. This proactive approach encourages students to explore AI tools and applications within their coursework, providing a hands-on and practical understanding of AI's role in various subject areas.
Teacher Engagement with AI Technology
While some teachers actively incorporate AI tools in their lessons, the broader spectrum of educators may still be exploring ways to leverage AI effectively in the classroom. Further efforts to train and empower teachers with AI knowledge and resources could enhance AI integration and relevance throughout educational curricula.
Teachers' Diverging Views on AI in Education
Around half of surveyed teachers and administrators express fear while the other half show hopefulness about the role of AI in education. Despite some level of fear and hope, only a small percentage are extremely fearful or hopeful. Teachers who are integrating AI into the classroom are reshaping traditional teaching methods, with the emphasis shifting from written feedback to individualized engagement.
Impact of AI on Future Career Pathways
As AI evolves rapidly, the podcast explores the potential impact on career pathways. The listeners ponder the balance between automation enhancing productivity and the risk of job displacement. The discussion extends to a potential future where merging with machine intelligence might become commonplace, influencing the skill sets and creativity needed in a shifting workforce landscape.
This week… the OpenAI lawsuit forces Elon Musk to open source Grok, AI makes it into the State of the Union, Electronic Arts says AI makes it more “efficient” & a cool new Midjourney update.
There’s also a very scary product that’s bringing Marilyn Monroe, Jack Nicklaus and other dead celebrities back to life with AI, some big data drama between Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, weird elder care AI dolls from Korea and Pika Labs has added sound effects! Pewpew!
AND THEN… an interview with AI EDU CEO Alex Kotran about the challenges of getting our schools to recognize how AI will affect teachers and students lives going forward.
And in a very personal AI co-Host segment, Gavin and Kevin are joined by Gavin’s second dog Ollie who AI has given a voice to and he has some significant things to say to Gavin. SOME VERY SIGNIFICANT THINGS.
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