I've been absorbing as much AI talk and info as possible. Truthfully, I can handle only so much in a day or even a week. Enough AI! Do something outside! That has become my daily mantra. Ask me how’s it going. 😭
Since ChatGPT became mainstream, some people have been wondering, WHERE'S GOOGLE in all this? Hasn’t Google been in the AI business for the at least the past decade? How did OpenAI come and steal the show? Well, Google is being loud now. They just announced at Google I/O 2023 developers conference on May 10th that Chatbot-Style answers are coming to their search results. This is pretty huge. Instead of getting the top-ranked sites that can maybe help you answer your query, Google will answer your searches for you first (using all the data in the world and your websites that they currently already have access to) and list helpful websites second. It’s not live yet; however, you can sign up for a waitlist for the new Google Search, which will first launch in the United States, via the Google app or Chrome desktop browser. Google is going to limit the access while they test it. I went ahead and signed up for it. RIP Firefox. Guess I’m going back to Chrome.
I found an amazing 2-part YouTube video sponsored by the AIGA Design Educators Community titled "Ethics of AI in the Design Classroom: Listening Session 1," which was posted in March 2023. So many great talking points, and I have only listened to the first part. I am looking forward to part 2. The consensus so far: AI is here. We have to make students aware of its current ethical and unethical use in the industry, we have to talk to people actively using it in the industry, and we need to keep the conversation of its inherent bias and ethical implications at the forefront even though we don't have answers or data yet. It is the Wild West, y'all.
Regarding using AI in my daily life, I made a personal breakthrough. I have yet to take any AI or prompting class to get the most out of AI, and really...which one do I take?! (OVERWHELMED) but I will catch the odd social post and article late at night. I ran across Goda Jusk out of Germany, who is effectively YouTubing the YT; however, she showed me how to train ChatGPT very straightforwardly! Here’s the secret: Have it ask YOU questions. She recommends treating it like an "assistant" that has no idea who you are and what you are doing. So you tell it as much or as little as you want to and then tell it to ask you 20 questions to help "it" help you! Y'all. It works so well! With this process, I am learning so much just by answering questions. It asks questions I SHOULD be thinking about, but wasn’t. It has been so helpful in organizing me just through the questions it asks. Below is a taste of the questions it asked. Case studies for my camp workshop to follow.
I can't help but see the potential of AI assisting in the planning and organization of my courses and how to reveal issues that I may not even knew I had in about 10 seconds. More rabbit holes to go down, but ENOUGH AI! Do something outside!
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