Generative AI has changed the ways we work, study and even pray. Here are some highlights of an astonishing year of change – and what we can expect next.
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As AI developers indiscriminately suck up online content to train their models, artists are seeking ways to fight back.
Federal and state governments have just released a national framework for generative AI in schools. This paves the way for generative AI to be used routinely in classrooms around the country.
Since ChatGPT was released a year ago, we have been asking Australian university students and academics about their use of generative AI.
ChatGPT’s interface fueled the technology’s phenomenal rise to prominence. By being good at talking with us, it spoke to us.
Learning about Generative AI should include supporting collaborative interdisciplinary research and writing ethical prompts to help discover what it can do.
Political scientists have begun to investigate ways AI can help people understand politics better and get more voices into the public sphere.
The Guardian has accused Microsoft of reputational damage, after it displayed one of its articles alongside an inappropriate AI-generated poll.
Chatbots are proving to be productive and useful but they can be unreliable and make mistakes.
Search engines run by generative AI could fundamentally change the online ecosystem.
Teaching students how to assess digital content can involve looking for clues about text origins, understanding the process of gathering and assessing evidence and grasping how content is generated.
It might seem creepy but digital necromancy is a natural extension of how we grieve in the age of AI.
Language model AIs seem smart because of how they string words together, but in reality they can’t do anything without many people guiding them every step of the way.
The Canadian government’s attempts at public consultations have fallen short when developing regulatory frameworks for AI. More needs to be done to ensure that policies serve the public.
AI can streamline the painstaking work of mixing and editing tracks. But it’s also easy to see how AI-generated music will make more money for giant streaming services at the expense of artists.
As a composer who has used creative AI in my music, I see that many artists will need to renegotiate terms of their labour, but there are also opportunities for different forms of collaboration.
What would you do if the industry you work in could clone your skills, style and even the way you look and sound?
Hollywood has been using artificial intelligence for 20 years. But the current actors’ and writers’ strikes are specifically concerned about generative AI.
Visual artists draw from visual references, not words, as they imagine their work. So when language is in the driver’s seat of making art, it erects a barrier between the artist and the canvas.
There has been a huge amount of speculation about what ChatGPT means for university study. But has actually been happening? A new survey looks at the first semester with this new technology.
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Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Associate professor, Deakin University
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Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Affiliate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School Of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Digital Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, UMass Boston
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor, Director of Speech Pathology, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of English Language and Literature; University Research Chair & Founding Director, Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo
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Professor Emerita of Linguistics, American University
