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Autumm Aug 15, 2023

A larger than life Elvis bust and a tiny Santa will not steal your job, but someone using a larger than life Elvis bust and a tiny Santa will.

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Autumm Jul 27, 2023

Yesterday, I found out that the U-M GPT tool is actually live. The links are only on the student and staff pages of the website. Faculty are strangely not directed to it. But anyone with UMich creds can login and start using the tool. They are offering Llama 2 and Azure GPT 4.

They put "(beta)" next to the links but it still feels rushed to me. For example, from the report they still don't know what they are doing about data requests. (See attached screenshot from committee report)

Autumm Jul 26, 2023

Whew - things are about to get real for me:

University of Michigan announces plans to offer text based Generative AI tools in house (U-M GPT). Launches informational website and tri-campus report outlining potential directions.

The implications of this for our school is going to be huge but I'm also thinking about other schools who can't afford to offer this.

https://record.umich.edu/articles/advisory-report-begins-integration-of-generative-ai-at-u-m/

Curious if there are reports of other schools embracing this tech so tightly from others?

#ChatGPT #LLM

Advisory report begins integration of generative AI at U-M | The University Record

Autumm Apr 16, 2023

Chicago is fun. It's the second city; not because it's less than but because it was built twice. It is the windy city; not because it's windy but because someone thought it's people were full of hot air. I find it to be a layer cake of a city and right now I just want wine and chocolate.

Autumm Mar 12, 2023

Wait wait wait wait

Let me get this straight...

LinkedIn wants to generate crappy AI content and then invite me to fix it, for free, under some guise of flattery calling out my "expertise"

Really?

Autumm Feb 20, 2023

I don’t spend much time on the bird site anymore. But every time I do pop in there, it just gets weirder and weirder.

So they are selling advertising that is anti-fact checking now?

Autumm Feb 3, 2023

Yesterday I attended a popular webinar around #ChatGPT in education. The special guest went on at length about how amazing the tool was with no mention of ethics. They talked about using the tool with eighth graders with no mention that this violates the terms of use. No mention of getting consent from these children, who cannot consent so I guess no mention of getting consent from their parents. No mention of privacy no mention of anything critical.

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Autumm Feb 1, 2023

Let's turn this into a slow thread 🧵 and keep looking at this "Educator considerations for #ChatGPT" document from OpenAI

So much going on in just these two sentences.

That link to the Terms of Use then links to include the Service Terms, Sharing & Publication Policy, Usage Policies, the Privacy Policy and "other documentation" but it just passes right on by in this little sentence.

Also, paid version in the works! Will free go away? Incorporate advertising?

So many questions.

Autumm Jan 19, 2023

"Instead of “playing” with #ChatGPT (cough, nota toy, cough) in your class you could play the Data, Privacy, and Identity game developed by Jeannie Crowley, Ed Saber, and Kenny Graves"

This is just one idea I've curated and published in "Prior to (or instead of) using ChatGPT with your students" a new post on my personal blog

https://autumm.edtech.fm/2023/01/18/prior-to-or-instead-of-using-chatgpt-with-your-students/

#EdTech #FacDev #Privacy

Autumm Jan 18, 2023

Eastern Market
Detroit, Michigan

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