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Artificial Intelligence

Measured responses to AI drama:

John Warner, the author of the book Why They Can’t Write, has been railing against the five-paragraph essay for years. The AI can generate credible writing, but only because writing, and our expectations for it, has become so unaspiring. (Bogost 2023)

Bogost, I. (2022, December 7). ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You ThinkThe Atlantic.

In New York Magazine, John Herrman analyzed the shifting nature of ChatGPT, which could be interpreted as a decline in the tool’s effectiveness, an impression perhaps confirmed by a Stanford research team’s finding that ChatGPT went from producing correct responses to math problems at a high of 90 percent to down to a rate of less than 3 percent in recent months.(Gannon 2023)

Readings on ethical issues, environmental and human costs:

Ciurria, M. (2023, March 30). Ableism and ChatGPT: Why People Fear It Versus Why They Should Fear It. Blog of the APA.

Marks, A. (2023, January 18). Bestiality and Beyond: ChatGTP Works Because Underpaid Workers Read About Horrible ThingsRolling Stone.

Lucciono, S. (2023, April 12). The mounting human and environmental costs of generative AIArs Technica.

Perrigo, B. (2023, January 18). Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT SaferTime.

Wong, M. (2023, June 2). AI Doomerism Is a Decoy. The Atlantic.

Readings on bias in AI

Getahun, H. (n.d.). ChatGPT could be used for good, but like many other AI models, it’s rife with racist and discriminatory bias. Insider. Retrieved July 13, 2023

Hamilton, I. A. (n.d.). Why it’s totally unsurprising that Amazon’s recruitment AI was biased against women. Business Insider. Retrieved July 13, 2023

Liang, W., Yuksekgonul, M., Mao, Y., Wu, E., & Zou, J. (2023). GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers. Patterns, 4(7), 100779.

Mattu, J. L., Julia Angwin,Lauren Kirchner,Surya. (n.d.). How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm. ProPublica. Retrieved July 13, 2023

Obermeyer, Z., Powers, B., Vogeli, C., & Mullainathan, S. (2019). Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populationsScience366(6464), 447–453.

Palmer, K. (2022, April 6). ‘We need to be much more diverse’: More than half of data used in health care AI comes from the U.S. and ChinaSTAT.

Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online. (n.d.). MIT Technology Review. Retrieved July 13, 2023

Readings on why ChatGPT lies:

Smith, C. (2023, March 13). Hallucinations Could Blunt ChatGPT’s Success - IEEE Spectrum. IEEE Spectrum.

AI in Medicine readings

Alenichev, A., Kingori, P., & Grietens, K. P. (2023). Reflections before the storm: the AI reproduction of biased imagery in global health visuals. The Lancet Global Health, 0(0).

Ayers JW, Poliak A, Dredze M, et al. Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media ForumJAMA Intern Med. 2023;183(6):589–596. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.1838

Singhal, K., Azizi, S., Tu, T., Mahdavi, S. S., Wei, J., Chung, H. W., Scales, N., Tanwani, A., Cole-Lewis, H., Pfohl, S., Payne, P., Seneviratne, M., Gamble, P., Kelly, C., Scharli, N., Chowdhery, A., Mansfield, P., Arcas, B. A. y, Webster, D., … Natarajan, V. (2022). Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge (arXiv:2212.13138). arXiv.

Golan, R., Ripps, S. J., Reddy, R., Loloi, J., Bernstein, A. P., Connelly, Z. M., Golan, N. S., & Ramasamy, R. (2023). ChatGPT’s Ability to Assess Quality and Readability of Online Medical Information: Evidence From a Cross-Sectional StudyCureus15(7), e42214.

Ross, C. (2023, April 27). A research team airs the messy truth about AI in medicine — and gives hospitals a guide to fix itSTAT.

Teng, M., Singla, R., Yau, O., Lamoureux, D., Gupta, A., Hu, Z., Hu, R., Aissiou, A., Eaton, S., Hamm, C., Hu, S., Kelly, D., MacMillan, K. M., Malik, S., Mazzoli, V., Teng, Y.-W., Laricheva, M., Jarus, T., & Field, T. S. (2022). Health Care Students’ Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence: Countrywide Survey in Canada. JMIR Medical Education, 8(1), e33390.

AI in higher education readings

Alimardani, A., & Jane, E. A. (2023, February 19). We pitted ChatGPT against tools for detecting AI-written text, and the results are troubling. The Conversation.

Bartlett, T. (2023, July 7). A Study Found That AI Could Ace MIT. Three MIT Students Beg to DifferThe Chronicle of Higher Education.

Caines, A. (2022, December 30). ChatGPT and Good Intentions in Higher EdIs a Liminal Space.

Dobrin, S  (2023, May 15). Talking About Generative AI: A Guide for Educators. Broadview Press.

Edwards, B. (2023, September 8). OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work. Ars Technica.

Fowler, G. A. (2023, April 14). Analysis | We tested a new ChatGPT-detector for teachers. It flagged an innocent student. Washington Post.

Leadership, P. R. M. I. for, & Teaching, I. and E. in. (2023). Generative Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning at McMaster University. Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching.

Mikeladze, T., Meijer, P. C., & Verhoeff, R. P. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12663 European Journal of Education, n/a(n/a), e12663.

(2023, July 31). Advice | Should You Add an AI Policy to Your SyllabusThe Chronicle of Higher Education

Teng, M., Singla, R., Yau, O., Lamoureux, D., Gupta, A., Hu, Z., Hu, R., Aissiou, A., Eaton, S., Hamm, C., Hu, S., Kelly, D., MacMillan, K. M., Malik, S., Mazzoli, V., Teng, Y.-W., Laricheva, M., Jarus, T., & Field, T. S. (2022). Health Care Students’ Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence: Countrywide Survey in Canada. JMIR Medical Education, 8(1), e33390.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 7. (2023). ChatGPT, artificial intelligence and higher education: What do higher education institutions need to know? – UNESCO-IESALC.

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations, Washington, DC, 2023.

Copyright, intellectual property, and AI readings

Appel, G., Neelbauer, J., & Schweidel, D. A. (2023, April 7). Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property ProblemHarvard Business Review.

Edwards, B. (2023, February 23). AI-generated comic artwork loses US Copyright protection. Ars Technica.

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law. Congressional Research Service. LSB10922 Christopher T. Zirpoli. May 11 2023. United States Congress.

Grant, D. (2023, May 5). New US copyright rules protect only AI art with ‘human authorship.’ The Art Newspaper - International Art News and Events.

Metz, C., Kang, C., Frenkel, S., Thompson, S. A., & Grant, N. (2024, April 6). How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. The New York Times.

Thompson, S. A. (2024, January 25). We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image. The New York Times.

 

Vincent, J. (2022, November 15). The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen nextThe Verge.