News of the week: New AI center at AU and AI-evaluated exam papers in Oslo

Aarhus University has just launched a new research center, Center for Language Generation and AI (CLAI)

The center brings together 22 researchers in different disciplines to investigate artificially intelligent language models, such as ChatGPT. With an interdisciplinary approach (from linguistics to philosophy), the center will delve into the technology behind these models and possibly develop a Danish version. In addition, the center will shed light on the pedagogical, ethical, and practical aspects of using these models.

Artificial intelligence as an auxiliary tool for exam assignments

Assistant Professor Karl Philip Lund from Kristiania University College in Oslo has written an interesting blog post about how he has reduced the correction time on bachelor theses. Using AI, he spends an average of 15 minutes per task, with a scope of 30-60 pages. With the help of systematics, the right prompting strategies, and Humat, he can quickly scan and judge the content. In conclusion, he took out part of the text and examined the student's writing style here. This is very interesting because this practice will make correction work considerably easier.

However, AI researchers have met resistance to Karl Philip Lund using artificial intelligence in this way, and they claim that he violates the Personal Data Regulation. However, since he does not upload assignments with the student's name to Humata, there should not be a violation. You can read about the whole case on the university's website.

New articles on Viden.AI

We have only published one article in the past week, but we have some ready for the coming week. Claus has tested MiniGPT-4, which can analyze and describe images:

Artificial intelligence news

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Researcher breaks through AI security shields with ChatGPT

10 August 2023 - BOK365 (Norwegian)
Forbanr maskinoversettelser

9 August 2023 - Berlingske
ChatGPT is losing users and getting dumber. Has the world's most hyped ai monster lost its breath?

9 August 2023 - Communication Forum
K people are getting faster and better with ChatGPT

8 August 2023 - Time
The Creative Ways Teachers Are Using ChatGPT in the Classroom

August 8, 2023 - Version 2
$3 an hour to moderate ChatGPT: 'It's hurt my mental health'

August 8, 2023 - ING:compliance tech
Big French AI ambitions: Will create harmony between GDPR and ChatGPT

Facebook groups

If you want to be updated via Facebook, there are two interesting groups:

The first, called "Artificial Intelligence", compliance techis overarching and gives a good insight into the latest possibilities in the subject. The group covers all aspects of artificial intelligence and does not only focus on the education sector.

The second group is about artificial intelligence in primary and lower secondary schools and aims to explore how we can use the technologies in everyday school life.

Both groups are worth joining because there will be many useful links and discussions.

Conferences and seminars

We also focused equally on CLAI and their seminar on the didactic use of ChatGPT in education. You can sign up below and can participate physically or online:

Recommendation of the week

If you want more knowledge about AI writing journalism, DR has launched a podcast called Prompt. The first section talks about artificial intelligence that can make recipes for bombs. Marcel Mirzaei-Fard and Henrik Moltke are hosts and, in this episode, are visited by journalist Ida Ebbensgaard, a fellow at SDU.

Listen to the first episode here: https://www.dr.dk/lyd/special-radio/prompt