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Dec 29

CTV News: Omar Sachedina sits down with popular children's entertainer Raffi to discuss the message he hopes fans will take away from his latest release, 'ABC Democracy.' https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/popular-childrens-entertainer-releases-new-single-in-response-to-rise-of-fascism/

Dec 17

We tested one of the most common prompting techniques: giving the AI a persona to make it more accurate. It doesn't work. We found that telling the AI "you are a great physicist" doesn't make it significantly more accurate at answering physics questions, nor does "you are a lawyer" make it signifi...Read more

We tested one of the most common prompting techniques: giving the AI a persona to make it more accurate. It doesn't work. We found that telling the AI "you are a great physicist" doesn't make it significantly more accurate at answering physics questions, nor does "you are a lawyer" make it significantly worse. This doesn't mean that personas can't be useful - for example, they change how the AI answers questions, the format of output, and maybe other factors as well. However, you aren't going to make the AI suddenly more accurate through role-play. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_we-tested-one-of-the-most-common-prompting-activity-7403830246401114112-1e3v

Dec 8

New #UofT teaching examples added to Teaching with GenAI webpage - our U of T Teaching Examples has been recently expanded to include a diverse range of examples from across disciplines and levels of AI engagement. https://teaching.utoronto.ca/teaching-uoft-genai/at-u-of-t/

Dec 2

"I believe the 'Police and Punish' model must now be replaced," writes Mike Larsen. "A reliance upon detection was perhaps once a necessary evil but it has never aligned with the fundamental values of higher education. The assumption that policing student behaviour is the only way to safeguard stand...Read more

"I believe the 'Police and Punish' model must now be replaced," writes Mike Larsen. "A reliance upon detection was perhaps once a necessary evil but it has never aligned with the fundamental values of higher education. The assumption that policing student behaviour is the only way to safeguard standards no longer applies." https://www.downes.ca/post/78534

Nov 28

"a powerful social network in which some, depending on what they knew, were perhaps able to look away because they had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering: the financial meltdowns some in the network helped trigger, the misbegotten wars some in the network pushed, the overdos...Read more

"a powerful social network in which some, depending on what they knew, were perhaps able to look away because they had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering: the financial meltdowns some in the network helped trigger, the misbegotten wars some in the network pushed, the overdose crisis some of them enabled, the monopolies they defended, the inequality they turbocharged, the housing crisis they milked, the technologies they failed to protect people against. ... that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good. They are right to resent that there are infinite second chances for members of this group even as so many Americans are deprived of first chances. " https://the.ink/p/essay-my-deep-dive-into-the-epstein