Another week has passed, filled with news about artificial intelligence. We have selected the most important ones that can be related to or have significance for the education sector.

The biggest story in Denmark has been the publication of the government's expert group's recommendations for developing and using artificial intelligence. While they are trying to rein in the technology, a report from SDU has made it clear that Danes have difficulty decoding when content is generated by artificial intelligence. That is why it is also interesting when the Office package with built-in artificial intelligence comes out in Danish, and technologies such as EMO - Emote Portrait Alive, come to influence the media image. Therefore, as a school, we must educate young people to understand the technologies. The Directorate of Education in Norway has prepared a page with advice on including artificial intelligence in schools. At the same time, Danske Gymnasier has published its new digitization strategy.

The newsletter has become a bit long, but quite a lot is happening now, and we hope you can follow along. In any case, we are glad that you are reading along, and we hope that the newsletter helps to illuminate both challenges and opportunities with technology in the education sector.

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The Danish government's expert group is out with recommendations on the development and use of artificial intelligence

On 29 February, the expert group presented 13 recommendations on how society can take advantage of the possibilities of artificial intelligence but also ensure that the technology is not misused. The chairman of the expert group, Mikkel Flyverbom, a professor in digital transformations at CBS, tells DR that "all content will become potentially untrustworthy in the future" and that it will become more difficult to distinguish true from false.

Tech giants' co-responsibility for information credibility on their platforms

  • Efforts against harmful and misleading content generated by artificial intelligence.
  • Tech giants must declare content generated by artificial intelligence on their platforms.
  • Influential researcher and authority access to artificial intelligence models.

Protection of children and young people from harmful use and development of artificial intelligence on the services of tech giants

  • Chatbots must be turned off by default, not require payment to opt-out, and be free of manipulative design.
  • The design of artificial intelligence must take into account children and young people as vulnerable consumers.
  • Protection of children and young people against artificial intelligence in toys.
  • Sharpened focus on the risks of artificial intelligence for children and young people.

Regulation of tech giants' unauthorized use of copyrighted material

  • The tech giants must document that they are not infringing copyright.
  • EU rules on license agreements concerning using copyrighted material and establishing European supervision.
  • European right of appeal for rights holders.

The market dominance of the tech giants in the development of artificial intelligence

  • Better framework for developing artificial intelligence solutions as an alternative to the tech giants.
  • Guidelines for the use and procurement of artificial intelligence in the public sector.
  • European regulation of artificial intelligence against the tech giants must be enforced and further developed

Read all the recommendations below (in Danish):

Kunstig intelligens har store potentialer, men kræver ansvarlighed
Regeringens ekspertgruppe om tech-giganter har i dag præsenteret sine anbefalinger til, hvilke rammer der bør være for tech-giganters udvikling og anvendelse af kunstig intelligens.
Erhvervsministeriet
Her er ekspertgruppes 13 anbefalinger om kunstig intelligens og techgiganter
Regeringens ekspertgruppe om techgiganter er kommet med 13 anbefalinger under fire hovedtemaer om informationstroværdighed, børn og unge, ophavsret og markedsdominans. Se dem her. 
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New report: Danes' understanding of, attitudes towards, and use of (generative) artificial intelligence

The Digital Democracy Centre, the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark, has published a new report examining Danes' understanding of and attitudes towards and using artificial intelligence.

The report highlights that the interest in and understanding of artificial intelligence is highest among men, the young, highly educated, and digitally skilled, which can help to reinforce digital inequalities. Danes generally find it challenging to identify AI-generated content. 71% of the population believes that generative artificial intelligence can exacerbate challenges with fake or misleading content.

In addition, the report shows that 40% of Danes have used generative artificial intelligence. Skepticism and lack of trust in AI are widespread, with only 15% of the population having a lot of confidence in the technology.

Read the entire report on SDU's website (in Danish).

Danskernes forståelse af, holdninger til og brug af (generativ) kunstig intelligens
University of Southern DenmarkLorenzen, Mia Stenbro

Copilot in Office365 comes in Danish

Microsoft has announced that their version of artificial intelligence built into the office suite, Copilot, will be released in March/April. At the same time, Microsoft Copilot will also be available in their mobile app.

What’s New in Copilot for Microsoft 365
Welcome to the first edition of What’s new in Copilot for Microsoft 365.
TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COMTJ Devine

EMO: Emote Portrait Alive

Last week, a new research paper from Alibaba's Institute for Intelligent Computing was also published with a new audio-to-video project. They have trained a model on over 150 million images and 250 hours of talking heads videos. EMO converts the sound and image into video, and tries to capture the small subtle facial movements that exist when people speak.

Below, we have selected two examples that show the new possibilities.

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Character: Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston Vocal Source: Ed Sheeran - Perfect. Covered by Samantha Harvey

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Character: AI Lady from SORA Vocal Source: Where We Go From Here with OpenAI's Mira Murati

We include it in our newsletter because EMO can be a good source if you have to work with deepfakes and misinformation as part of the teaching. Their many examples lead to an ethical and professional discussion about the possibilities for misuse of the technology.

See all examples on EMO's website.

EMO
EMO: Emote Portrait Alive - Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video Diffusion Model under Weak Conditions
Linrui Tian

Advice on artificial intelligence in school

In Norway, the Directorate of Education has created a page where they share their collaboration with schools, municipalities, universities, and colleges within artificial intelligence. Here, they ask some basic questions about school and education:

  • What kind of society and working life should the school prepare students for when AI leads to significant and rapid changes? How will it affect school content and student learning?
  • Which values ​​become particularly important to cherish in schools when technological developments contribute to increasingly uncertain sources of reliable information?

On the page, you can find a lot of good advice about including artificial intelligence in school, and much of it can be translated into a Danish context.

Råd om kunstig intelligens i skolen | udir.no
Dette er en oppsummering fra Udirs samarbeid med skoler, kommuner, universiteter og høgskoler. Her har vi samlet kunnskap og utviklet støtte til skoler og skoleeiere i arbeidet med kunstig intelligens (KI). Denne siden vil bli revidert jevnlig.
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Danske Gymnasier publishes its new digitization strategy

Danske Gymnasier writes in their new strategy for digital technology that there is an urgent need to change both teaching and exam forms in high school. They suggest that all curricula be updated at least every five years and that an ambitious continuing education effort be launched so that upper secondary school teachers become familiar with the technological possibilities in their subject. In addition, they want digital technology understanding to be integrated into the existing subjects and at the same time introduced as a new compulsory subject in general upper secondary education.

Read the entire strategy here:

News of the week

AI forandrer undervisning og truer eksamen: Ministeren afviser dog hurtige løsninger
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Gymnasier vil have politikere ud af starthullerne: “Den nationale standard for studentereksamen er truet”
Der er akut behov for at modernisere undervisningen i gymnasiet, slår Danske Gymnasier fast i en ny strategi. Dansk Industri bakker op, mens ordførere er delt i spørgsmålet.
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How Generative AI Will Change The Jobs Of Teachers
Generative AI is revolutionizing the field of education by augmenting teaching skills, enabling personalized learning, and automating routine tasks.
ForbesBernard Marr
Bring Human Values to AI
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Les kommentaren.
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Danske elever har både positive og | MagasinetSkolen.dk
Danske skoleelever i 8. klasse har store forventninger til Europas fremtid, ligesom de i høj grad ser sig selv som europæere.
MagasinetSkolen.dk
The AI Cheating Crisis: Education Needs Its Anti-Doping Movement (Opinion)
What the Tour de France can teach us about artificial-intelligence use—and why we can’t just accept “AI doping” as the new normal.
Education WeekNoor Akbari
ChatGPT er en forslugen robot
Der er mange gode grunde til at være forsigtig med ChatGPT, skriver Maria Jensen, AI-ekspert for Ingeniørforeningen IDA og medstifter af Neurospace.
IDAOle Hoff-Lund
Råd om kunstig intelligens i skolen | udir.no
Dette er en oppsummering fra Udirs samarbeid med skoler, kommuner, universiteter og høgskoler. Her har vi samlet kunnskap og utviklet støtte til skoler og skoleeiere i arbeidet med kunstig intelligens (KI). Denne siden vil bli revidert jevnlig.
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Scientific articles

Below, we select articles or tools with a slightly more scientific perspective. These are articles that we read ourselves to stay up-to-date, and at the same time, we also know very well that they are not that interesting for most people.

Ground-breaking development in streamlining language models

Developments in language models aim to make them much more efficient. The latest method is to convert and develop language models to be 1-bit, which researchers from Microsoft Research and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed. BitNet b1.58 has the same performance as the 16-bit models, but is more efficient in energy consumption, responsiveness, speed and processing power.

However, taking full advantage of 1-bit language models will require developing1 new specialized hardware.

The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits
Recent research, such as BitNet, is paving the way for a new era of 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce a 1-bit LLM variant, namely BitNet b1.58, in which every single parameter (or weight) of the LLM is ternary {-1, 0, 1}. It matches the full-precision (i.e., FP16 or BF16…
arXiv.orgShuming Ma

StarCoder2

Artificial intelligence has been used in programming for a long time, and now, a new model called StarCoder2 has arrived. It is ServiceNow, Nvidia and Huggingface that have come together and created the model that is optimized for coding. The model has been trained on over 80 programming languages ​​and has a large context window.

We recommend you check out their website if you are interested in programming.

StarCoder2 and The Stack v2
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
bigcode/starcoder2-15b · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.