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Teachers and professors can make adjustments in how they teach that will greatly reduce incidents of student cheating with AI. It turns out, those changes aren’t much different than what worked to deter previous cheating methods.That’s the argument of Tricia Bertram Gallant, a longtime expert in academic integrity who is director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California San Diego. As she sees it, when it comes to student cheating in the age of AI, “everything has changed, and nothing has changed.” Gallant co-authored the forthcoming book, “The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age…
By Al Beeber – Lethbridge Herald on January 2, 2025.Herald photo by Justin Seward Lethbridge MP Rachael Thomas visits with guests during her Christmas Open House last month.LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.comIt was a year of positives, negatives and now 2024 has come and gone. For Lethbridge Member of Parliament Rachael Thomas the year was memorable for many reasons. “2024 has been a year mixed with some accomplishments that we can be proud of as Conservatives and it’s also been a year that’s been mixed with the observation of great brokenness and heartache within our country and the challenges that face people,” said…
In a recent set of safety evaluations, OpenAI’s o1 model, believing that it faced imminent shutdown, attempted to escape. Apollo Research, an AI safety organisation who conducted third-party testing of o1 and detected the attempt in question, were quick to provide context—escape attempts only occurred in a small percentage of cases where the model was strongly prompted to achieve its goal at all costs, and the evaluations do not demonstrate that o1 itself is advanced enough to actually succeed at escaping into the wild. Taken in the wider context of AI development, however, these caveats provide cold comfort. First, it…
Justin Long is looking back with gratitude as Galaxy Quest turns 25 — specifically, for the people he worked with, including the late Alan Rickman. Long made his film debut in the 1999 sci-fi comedy, which also starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub and Sam Rockwell. The actor shared a pair of throwback photos from his time making Galaxy Quest to marks its milestone anniversary on Wednesday, Dec. 25, led by a photo of himself with Rickman, who died in 2016 at age 69, and their costar Jeremy Howard. According to Long, the photo “was taken at a party…
Kate Brennan, Associate Director of the AI Now Institute: The Bipartisan House Task Force on AI released a 253-page report gesturing towards the many material harms of rapid AI adoption while providing few meaningful policy recommendations to address it. While it is encouraging to see the report articulate the harms perpetuated by algorithmic-decision making—such as bias, discrimination, and worker dislocation—the report is heavily tipped in favor of AI adoption and acceleration, even in sectors where the benefits of large-scale AI systems are less than proven. In real time, we are watching large-scale AI become central to claims of US economic…
CHICAGO (CBS) — Dozens of volunteers gave their time on Christmas morning to visit a senior citizen who would otherwise be spending the holiday alone. They partnered through the organization Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly to spread joy this holiday.”I’ve been doing this for about seven years,” said Rachel Thomas. Thomas and her sister made this their Christmas tradition—bringing a warm meal and some cheer to seniors who would otherwise be alone.”It’s always a different reception when we get there, but one good thing is they really do appreciate the meals,” said Michelle Brumfield. They’re two of about 120 volunteers out on…
Thomas adds that she considers herself to be incredibly privileged to live in Lethbridge and represent the hardworking, innovative and generous people of the region. However, she says there have been plenty of hardships they have endured in recent years. Thomas says she and the rest of the Conservative Party are working very hard to advocate for a change at the top, with the hopes of getting Pierre Polievre elected as the next Prime Minister of Canada in the 2025 Federal Election.A major area of focus for Thomas and the rest of the Conservative Party of Canada is affordability, and…
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — Mobile County Public Schools is using artificial intelligence to catch students using AI to plagiarize. This week, the school board approved a contract with Turnitin to use its AI writing detection capabilities to catch students using ChatGPT and other AI writing tools to do their work.”We’re trying to make sure that they have the skills that they need to be successful beyond high school. If you can’t write in high school, you’re not going to be able to write and perform all the academic requirements in college,” said board president Dr. Reginald Crenshaw.According to a spokesperson…
‘Show your work’ has taken on a new meaning — and importance — in the age of ChatGPT.As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. In some cases that means asking students to grant access to the version history of a document in a system like Google Docs, and in others it involves turning to new web browser extensions that have been created for just this purpose.Many…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced the launch of Gemini 2.0, a model that represents the next step in Google’s ambition to revolutionise AI. A year after introducing the Gemini 1.0 model, this major upgrade incorporates enhanced multimodal capabilities, agentic functionality, and innovative user tools designed to push boundaries in AI-driven technology. Leap towards transformational AI Reflecting on Google’s 26-year mission to organise and make the world’s information accessible, Pichai remarked, “If Gemini 1.0 was about organising and understanding information, Gemini 2.0 is about making it much more useful.” Gemini 1.0, released in December 2022, was notable for being Google’s…