Category «Education»

Learn as you search and browse using generative AI

Google Blog: “Today, we’re sharing a few more upgrades to SGE to help you better learn and make sense of information on the web: whether it’s deepening your understanding of complicated concepts, boosting your coding skills or tracking down details within a complex topic. See definitions within AI-generated responses – When you’re researching something new, …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Internet, Search Engines

New Accidental Government Information Librarian Webinar

The next Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian webinar is scheduled for August 29, 2023 from 2:00-3:00pm (Eastern). This session, Tips for Navigating Spatial Data Resources, is hosted by Kevin Dyke – the Maps and Spatial Data Curator at Edmon Low Library. Register here: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TB6XPsRGQR6pm3jDPjULvQ#/registration

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

How to Use Large Language Models for Empirical Legal Research

Choi, Jonathan H., How to Use Large Language Models for Empirical Legal Research (August 9, 2023). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4536852 – “Legal scholars have long annotated cases by hand to summarize and learn about developments in jurisprudence. Dramatic recent improvements in the performance of large language models (LLMs) …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Drought Center

“We’re the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The National Drought Mitigation Center’s mission is to reduce the effects of drought on people, the environment and the economy by researching the science of drought monitoring and the practice of drought planning. We collaborate with and learn from decision-makers at all levels – …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Food and Nutrition

An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books

“It certainly didn’t take long for AI’s other shoe to drop, what with the emergent technology already being perverted to commit confidence scams and generate spam content. We can now add censorship to that list as the Globe Gazette reports the school board of Mason City, Iowa has begun leveraging AI technology to cultivate lists …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries

Advancing global NWP through international collaboration

“ECMWF is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. We are both a research institute and a 24/7 operational service, producing global numerical weather predictions and other data for our Member and Co-operating States and the broader community. The Centre has one of the largest supercomputer facilities and meteorological data archives in the world. Other …

Subjects: Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Government Documents

Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow. ‘These Places Are Just Devouring Money.’

WSJ (free to read): “The nation’s best-known public universities have been on an unfettered spending spree. Over the past two decades, they erected new skylines comprising snazzy academic buildings and dorms. They poured money into big-time sports programs and hired layers of administrators.  Then they passed the bill along to students. The University of Kentucky …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System

AI in Education

Education Next [This is an extensive well documented guide – includes a section on The Importance of Well-Designed Prompts] – The leap into a new era of machine intelligence carries risks and challenges, but also plenty of promise. Over the last year, developers have released a dizzying array of AI tools that can generate text, …

Subjects: AI, Education

Google Free courses: IoT; Machine Learning; Data Science; Computer Science

1. Introduction to Generative AI https://lnkd.in/eXp8h7dY 2. Introduction to Large Language Models https://lnkd.in/eK7qQcJY 3. Introduction to Responsible AI https://lnkd.in/e-aX58Ky 4. Introduction to Image Generation https://lnkd.in/ewM_aXam 5. Encoder-Decoder Architecture https://lnkd.in/e3ZGHSfz 6. Attention Mechanism https://lnkd.in/ea9crZiR 7. Transformer Models and BERT Model https://lnkd.in/eM5Dhi4N 8. Create Image Captioning Models https://lnkd.in/eeBEJx_n 9. Introduction to Generative AI Studio https://lnkd.in/eGn8NUCD 10. Machine …

Subjects: AI, Education

101.school

“101.school is an experiment in creating AI generated course contents. It works like this: you enter something you’re curious about, and then we generate a 13 week course on the subject. You can choose to receive the course via email, or read it on the site. We’ll keep track of your progress. An Alex MacCaw …

Subjects: AI, Education

Navigating LLMs and Generative AI: A Primer for Information Science Practitioners

Via SLA – Free Webinar: “Devin Conathon of Liberty Mutual Insurance will provide an introduction to Large Language Models (LLM) and Generative AI. Devin is a data scientist with machine learning research and development experience. Join us to learn more from Devin about what Generative AI is and how it will impact the world around …

Subjects: AI, Education, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries