Newsletters News of the Week: Hearing on Digital Technology Understanding This week, we focus on the proposal to introduce digital technology literacy as a compulsory subject in primary and lower secondary schools. With the advent of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies, it has become more critical that students understand the increasingly important role of technology in our society. This Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Newsletters News of the week: Ezri - a new Danish AI chatbot The past week has been an autumn break, so not much has been written about artificial intelligence in teaching. However, there has been an interesting article in Version 2 about a new language model named Ezri. On Viden.AI, we regularly talk to Gustav Grimberg about their project, and we Per Størup Lauridsen • 6 min read
Newsletters News of the week: Autumn break and DKK 100 million for AI research It is autumn vacation, and we have chosen to adapt our newsletter so that you may have a little more time than usual, and thus also the opportunity for more immersion. We start with the fact that the government has allocated 100 million to research into artificial intelligence that ChatGPT Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Newsletters News of the week: New Danish language model trained on Danish data Another week has passed, and it offers new surprises in AI and education. New Danish language model trained on Danish data and running on Danish servers Mads Henrichsen has been working on a Danish language model trained on Danish data since December 2022. He estimates he has spent around 950 Per Størup Lauridsen • 6 min read
Newsletters News of the Week: GPT-4 equalizes skills, ChatGPT searches the web again and becomes multimodal ChatGPT becomes multimodal Just before last week's newsletter's deadline, OpenAI launched an app version of ChatGPT with built-in speech and image recognition features. In the application, which is available for both iOS and Android, they have initially made it possible to make speech-to-text Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Newsletters News of the week: Copilot in Windows, GPT UiO from the University of Oslo and DALL-E 3 set new standards in AI In the past week, a lot has happened, and we have chosen to focus on three news: Microsoft has just announced Copilot in Windows and has set a date on when the Office suite (which has changed its name to Microsoft 365) will be launched, and the University of Oslo Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Newsletters News of the Week: Exploring Bias in Language Models One of the significant challenges in language models is that they contain Bias, which can be difficult to do anything about. Therefore, it is pretty interesting that a language model has been developed that can be used to explore the Bias built into the training set. Using Bias in Language Per Størup Lauridsen • 7 min read
Newsletters News of the Week: UNESCO Launches AI Tutorial and Webinar on Generative AI In this newsletter, we take a closer look at the past week's events. UNESCO has just published a guide on a humanistic approach to regulating generative AI. We recommend that anyone involved in education policy or research or considering generative AI in education review this guide. In addition, Per Størup Lauridsen • 7 min read
Newsletters News of the week: Google unveils Gemini and OpenAI creates learning resources This week, we focus on Google's new language model, and OpenAI has created a website directly aimed at teachers and students. Google is on its way with its new language model Gemini Google's new language model is called Gemini, and we have chosen to include it Per Størup Lauridsen • 4 min read
Newsletters News of the week: New GDPR-friendly chatbot and Danish ChatGPT on the drawing board This week's non-AI-generated news about artificial intelligence and education is ready. We have selected two main stories and many links to exciting news. This week, we haven't written much ourselves, but we'll soon publish an article looking at the challenges and opportunities Per Størup Lauridsen • 5 min read
Newsletters News of the week: New technology center, dyslexics want help with AI, and Djøf investigates the use of AI Herewith the week's news gathered in a small knowledge post. There have been several interesting news stories in the past week, and here we have selected the most important ones. New knowledge center for technology understanding receives DKK 50 million for development The six university colleges, Aarhus University Per Størup Lauridsen • 5 min read
Newsletters 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 Per Størup Lauridsen • 4 min read
Newsletters News of the week: High school teacher's digital clone in education and AI in scientific search engines High school teacher wants to clone himself: Zetland (behind login) has written an interesting article about how far we have come with digital AI assistants. In a classroom in Frederiksberg, high school teacher Kira Valeur Nielsen shows a video of a digital clone based on artificial intelligence. It is a Per Størup Lauridsen • 3 min read
Newsletters Newsletter: July 2023 In this newsletter, we pick up on what has happened during the summer. For many, July means summer vacation, so it is for us at Viden.AI. This also means there have been no new articles for some time, but we have several articles ready for August. For now, however, Per Størup Lauridsen • 6 min read
Newsletters Newsletter: May 2023 Here is a newsletter with all the new things regarding artificial intelligence and education in the past period. We know it can be difficult to stay updated, but we hope these newsletters can provide a good overview because things are going really fast at the moment. We will publish many Per Størup Lauridsen • 6 min read
Newsletters Newsletter: April 2023 We have selected some new articles that we think are worth reading if you want to stay updated on artificial intelligence in education. In our newsletters, we also focus on a topic that is up to date. This time, it's about leadership with artificial intelligence, and we link Per Størup Lauridsen • 7 min read
Newsletters Newsletter January 2023 New technological opportunities have greatly impacted the end of 2022, and students have already embraced OpenAI's ChatGPT as an assistive tool. 2023 will be a wild tech year that will change our entire perception of how teaching can be adapted to the new digital reality - but also when Per Størup Lauridsen • 5 min read
Newsletters Newsletter: December 2022 In this post, we round up the most important news from the past period. If you have any news or anything else that we should include, please feel free to send an email to [email protected] Terese has allowed her students to use Google Translate. November 8, 2022 Many Per Størup Lauridsen • 2 min read
