This is more important than IQ when it comes to success

Some students aim at performance goals, while others strive toward learning goals. In the first case, you're working to validate your ability. In the second, you're working to acquire new knowledge or skills. People with performance goals unconsciously limit their potential. If your focus is on validating or showing off your ability, you pick challenges you're confident you can meet. You want to look smart, so you do the same stunt over and over again. But if your goal is to increase your ability, you pick ever-increasing challenges, and you interpret setbacks as useful information helps you to sharpen your focus, get more creative and work hard.

More than IQ, it's discipline, grit, and a growth mindset that imbue a person with a sense of possibility and the creativity and persistence needed for higher learning and success. Study skills and learning skills are inert until they're powered by an active ingredient the active ingredient is the simple but nonetheless profound realization the power to increase your abilities lies largely within your own control.

Peter C. Brown and Henry L. Roediger III, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

The Best Professors

The best professors.. were no longer high priests, selfishly guarding the doors to the kingdom of knowledge to make themselves look more important. They were fellow students – no, fellow human beings – struggling with the mysteries of the universe, human society, historical development, or whatever. They found affinity with their students in their own ignorance and curiosity, in their love of life and beauty, in their mixture of respect and fear, and in that mix they discovered more similarities than differences between themselves and the people who populated their classes. A sense of awe at the world and the human condition stood at the center of their relationships with those students.

Most important, that humility, that fear, that veneration of the unknown spawned a kind of quiet conviction on the part of the best teachers that they and their students could do great things together.

Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do

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Work while you wonder

Work while you wonder. Practice while you philosophize. Create while you contemplate. -TK Coleman

14 Quotes about AI Dangers

The risk is that AI models will inevitably converge on a point at which they all share the same enormous training set collectivizing whatever inherent weaknesses that set might have. AIs don't know what they don't know. And that can be very dangerous. Axios 

The perennial problem is that technology and computing are portrayed in popular media as magic. Even in this Mission Impossible movie, the idea is once the good guys get a key to access the Entity’s source code, the AI can be controlled. That’s a misunderstanding. Even if you had the actual source code of an AI, it wouldn’t tell you what you need to know. -Alex Hanna, director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. Washington Post

Experts are raising alarms about the mental health risks and the emotional burden of navigating an information ecosystem driven by AI that's likely to feature even more misinformation, identity theft and fraud. Axios

“If you look at phishing filters, they have to learn first, and by the time they learn, they already have a new set of phishing emails coming,” Srinivas Mukkamala, chief product officer at cybersecurity software company Ivanti, told reporters. “So the chances of a phishing email slipping your controls is very, very high.” Route 55

AI technologies are bad for the planet too. Training a single AI model – according to research published in 2019 – might emit the equivalent of more than 284 tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is nearly five times as much as the entire lifetime of the average American car, including its manufacture. These emissions are expected to grow by nearly 50% over the next five years. The Guardian  

Tools like Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and Microsoft-owned GitHub Copilot suggest new code snippets and provide technical recommendations to developers.  By using such tools, it is possible that engineers could produce inaccurate code documentation, code that doesn’t follow secure development practices, or reveal system information beyond what companies would typically share. Wall Street Journal 

Attackers are using artificial intelligence to write software that can break into corporate networks in novel ways, change appearance and functionality to beat detection, and smuggle data back out through processes that appear normal. Washington Post 

Doctored photos are "a nifty way to plant false memories" and "things are going to get even worse with deep fake technology," psychologist Elizabeth Loftus said at the Nobel Prize Summit last month that focused on misinformation. Axios

In a world where talent is as scarce and coveted as it is in AI right now, it’s hard for the government and government-funded entities to compete. And it makes starting a venture capital-funded company to do advanced safety research seem reasonable, compared to trying to set up a government agency to do the same. There’s more money and there’s better pay; you’ll likely get more high-quality staff. Vox

“It’s possible that super-intelligent A.I. is a looming threat, or that we might one day soon accidentally trap a self-aware entity inside a computer—but if such a system does emerge, it won’t be in the form of a large language model.” New Yorker 

AI will be at the center of future financial crises — and regulators are not going to be able to stay ahead of it. That's the message being sent by SEC chair Gary Gensler, arguably the most important and powerful regulator in the U.S. at the moment. Axios

The challenge with generative AI is that the technology is developing so quickly that companies are rushing to figure out if it introduces new cybersecurity challenges or magnifies existing security weaknesses. Meanwhile, technology vendors have inundated businesses with new generative AI-based features and offerings—not all of which they need or have even paid for. Wall Street Journal

An estimated 3,200 hackers will try their hand at tricking chatbots and image generators, in the hopes of exposing vulnerabilities. “We’re trying something very wild and audacious, and we’re hopeful it works out.” Semafor

Researchers have found an AI-driven attack that can steal passwords with up to 95% accuracy by listening to what you type on your keyboard. Metro

Ask Yourself

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman.

Employ your time

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. -Socrates

14 quotes worth reading about students using AI

Bots like ChatGPT show great promise as a “writing consultant” for students. “It’s not often that students have a chance to sit down with a professor and have long discussions about how to go about this paper, that paper, how to approach research on this topic and that topic. But ChatGPT can do that for them, provided…they know how to use the right ethics, to use it as a tool and not a replacement for their work.” CalMatters 

Don’t rely on AI to know things instead of knowing them yourself. AI can lend a helping hand, but it’s an artificial intelligence that isn’t the same as yours. One scientist described to me how younger colleagues often “cobble together a solution” to a problem by using AI. But if the solution doesn’t work, “they don’t have anywhere to turn because they don’t understand the crux of the problem” that they’re trying to solve. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Janine Holc thinks that students are much too reliant on generative AI, defaulting to it, she wrote, “for even the smallest writing, such as a one sentence response uploaded to a shared document.” As a result, wrote Holc, a professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland, “they have lost confidence in their own writing process. I think the issue of confidence in one’s own voice is something to be addressed as we grapple with this topic.” Chronicle of Higher Ed

It’s a conversation that can be evoked at will. But it’s not different in the content. You still have to evaluate what someone says and whether or not it’s sensible. CalMatters 

Helena Kashleva, an adjunct instructor at Florida SouthWestern State College, spots a sea-change in STEM education, noting that many assignments in introductory courses serve mainly to check students’ understanding. “With the advent of AI, grading such assignments becomes pointless.” Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Given how widely faculty members vary on what kinds of AI are OK for students to use, though, that may be an impossible goal. And of course, even if they find common ground, the technology is evolving so quickly that policies may soon become obsolete. Students are also getting more savvy in their use of these tools. It’s going to be hard for their instructors to keep up. Chronicle of Higher Ed 

In situations when you or your group feel stuck, generative AI can definitely help. The trick is to learn how to prompt it in a way that can help you get unstuck. Sometimes you’ll need to try a few prompts up until you’ll get something you like.  UXdesign.cc

Proponents contend that classroom chatbots could democratize the idea of tutoring by automatically customizing responses to students, allowing them to work on lessons at their own pace. Critics warn that the bots, which are trained on vast databases of texts, can fabricate plausible-sounding misinformation — making them a risky bet for schools. New York Times

Parents are eager to have their children use the generative AI technology in the classroom. Sixty-four percent said they think teachers and schools should allow students to use ChatGPT to do schoolwork, with 28 percent saying that schools should encourage the technology’s use. Ed Week

Student newspaper editors at Middlebury College have called for a reconsideration of the school’s honor code after a survey found two-thirds of students admitted to breaking it—nearly twice as many as before the pandemic. Wall Street Journal 

If you are accused of cheating with AI Google Docs or Microsoft Word could help. Both offer a version history function that can keep track of changes to the file, so you can demonstrate how long you worked on it and that whole chunks didn’t magically appear. Some students simply screen record themselves writing. Washington Post 

There is no bright line between “my intelligence” and “other intelligence,” artificial or otherwise. It’s an academic truism that no idea exists in an intellectual vacuum. We use other people’s ideas whenever we quote or paraphrase. The important thing is how. Chronicle of Higher Ed

Quizlet has announced four new AI features that will help with student learning and managing their classwork, including Magic Notes, Memory Score, Quick Summary, and AI-Enhanced Expert Solutions.  ZDnet 

James Neave, Adzuna’s head of data science, recommends interested job applicants build up their AI skills and stand out from the competition in three key ways: Stay on top of developments, use AI in your own work, and show how you’ve used AI successfully to achieve a specific goal. CNBC

Become Yourself

God creates each person as an individual and in effect says to each human being: “Become yourself, be the person I made you to be.” -C. Stephen Evans

Preparing Media Students for their AI Future

When I was teaching at a journalism school some 15 years ago, many professors were wringing their hands about digital media. “Would print survive?” they wanted to know. The focus was on their past rather than the students’ future. By asking the wrong questions, they were leading themselves into irrelevance and their students unprepared.

Here we are again, only this time it is generative AI. Much of what’s called AI is mislabeled or overrated, but it doesn’t matter. Media students will need help understanding how to use it effectively and ethically. Employers will be expecting it from them. The students also need an idea as to where AI is inadequate—this will inform them as to which parts of the media process they will need to do themselves.

There is no way to do this without having a clear understanding of the goal: understanding what separates “great” writing/audio/video from “good” writing/audio/. They have always needed to be able to evaluate their own writing to get better. And now, they must be able to evaluate what the AI produces for them.

The advent of digital platforms changed the process and tools of journalism and media. The goal remained the same. Likewise, generative AI will impact the process but not the ultimate goal.

Stephen Goforth

How bad do you want it?

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory 

9 Articles about AI & Politics

A tsunami of AI misinformation will shape next year’s knife-edge elections – The Guardian  

The AI rules that US policymakers are considering, explained – Vox

A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did. – New York Time

D.C. aides learn about AI at Stanford boot camp - Washington Post

AI’s Rapid Growth Threatens to Flood 2024 Campaigns With Fake Videos – Wall Street Journal

New Zealand’s National party admits using AI-generated people in attack ads – The Guardian

3 Guidelines for Crafting a Strong Federal AI Policy – FedTech

How AI is already changing the 2024 election - Axios

ChatGPT’s creators can’t figure out why it won’t talk about Trump – Semafor

The right’s new culture-war target: ‘Woke AI’ – Washington Post

You don't have wait until you know who you are to start creating

So many people get stuck on things like “being a writer” or “being an entrepreneur” and they never get around to getting things done because they’re too busy trying to figure out if their ontological state gives them permission to do the thing they want to do.

Forget about your state of being for a second. Forget about your identity for a moment. Just do something. If you’re interested in it right now, then that’s enough to try it out. You’ll find out the most valuable information about yourself not by naval gazing and analyzing your soul all day long, but by getting to know what the creative process actually feels like. 

Your sense of self will evolve and expand until the day you die. So you’ll be waiting around forever if you insist on knowing who you are before beginning the work you feel compelled to do in the moment.

Knowledge of self is the effect, not the cause of all these things.

TK Coleman, 5 Ways to Steal Like An Artist

7 Free Webinars this Week about Media & Journalism

Mon, Aug 14 - Fact-checking 101: How to distinguish fact from feeling

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Tue, Aug 15 - How Reporters Can Use NAEP Tools to Examine Achievement Gaps

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Tue, Aug 15 - Developing a Website That Tells Your Story

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Wed, Aug 16 - Amplify Your Social Media Presence with Canva

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Thur, Aug 17 - Generative AI: What journalists need to know about ChatGPT and other tools

What: Understanding the AI capabilities that have emerged and what we do about those and how we take advantage of those, while also really trying to make sure we are poised for what feels like another wave upon wave of progress over the next couple of years as well. During the webinar, the Knight Center will announce a new massive open online course (MOOC) on generative AI and journalism.  

Who: Marc Lavallee, director of technology product and strategy for journalism at Knight Foundation; Aimee Rinehart, senior product manager of AI strategy for the Associated Press’ Local News AI initiative; and Sil Hamilton, a machine learning engineer and AI researcher-in-residence at the journalism organization Hacks/Hackers.

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Thu, Aug 17 - Assessing the 988 mental health hotline   

What: Panelists will discuss the national 988 mental health crisis line: How well has the hotline functioned, has it result in distressed people being involuntarily committed to psychiatric hospital wards and has it put callers at risk of trauma by sending armed police untrained in mental health interventions?

Who: Vincent Atchity, president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado; Heather Saunders, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kaiser Family Foundation Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured; Katti Gray, AHCJ's health beat leader for behavioral and mental health.

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17 articles about the Misuse of AI

Facial Recognition Software leads Detroit Police to Wrongly Arrest Pregnant Woman – Click on Detroit

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas – The Guardian

AI is being used to give dead, missing kids a voice they didn’t ask for – Washington Post

AI is sleepwalking us into surveillance – UX Design

The dangers of open source AI - Axios 

Single mother taking night classes evicted after facial recognition software flagged the movements of her babysitter– Futurism  

FBI issues warning about AI malware assaults – Analytics Insights

The $1 billion gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity – Vox

ChatGPT falsely accused me of sexual harassment. Can we trust AI?  USA Today 

A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks – New York Times

Don't get scammed by fake ChatGPT apps: Here's what to look out for – ZD Net

Seven AI companies commit to safeguards at the White House's request – Engadget  

The 'AI Apocalypse' Is Just PR – The Atlantic  

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Like AI (the problems with facial recognition)  - Above the Law

'ChatGPT is the new crypto': Meta warns hackers are exploiting interest in the AI chatbot – CNN

A.I. Needs an International Watchdog, ChatGPT Creators Say – New York Times

IBM researchers show ways ChatGPT, Bard can be tricked into helping with hacks – Axios  

Your brain power on distraction

Imagine your task is to ride a bicycle for 10 miles. You begin to pedal and just as you build up speed and start making progress, something unexpectedly makes you hit the brakes. Because you had to stop, you’ve lost your momentum and have to expend more effort to get going again. Imagine you are forced to brake every time you start to go faster. You can never coast. You have to pedal — hard — all the time. How much longer do you think it’s going to take you to get to your destination? How much more difficult and frustrating do you think it’s going to be? This is your brain power on distraction, and it causes unsatisfying, unfulfilling work days.

Maura Thomas writing in the Harvard Business Review

10 Things AI Can Do Now

Stability AI has now released a code generator called StableCode – VentureBeat

AI is already helping 911 operators. Here’s what the future of emergencies looks like – Fast Company

Generative AI: Here are the use cases across industries – Economic Times

How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead – BBC  

How AI is Revolutionizing the Insurance Industry - Stack Diary

How to Create QR Code Art using Stable Diffusion – Urvashi on Medium

8 questions CISOs should be asking about AI – CSO

How to Use A.I. for Family Time – New York Times

Sweetspot is an AI search engine for the U.S. government contract maze - Semafor

ChatGPT Code Interpreter: What is It and What Can You Do With It – Stack Diary 

dull activities can spark creative thinking

What if boredom is a meaningful experience—one that propels us to states of deeper thoughtfulness and creativity? That’s the conclusion of two fascinating recent studies. Boredom might spark creativity because a restless mind hungers for stimulation. Maybe traversing an expanse of tedium creates a sort of cognitive forward motion. A bored mind moves into a “daydreaming” state, says Sandi Mann, a psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire.

The problem, the psychologists worry, is that these days we don’t wrestle with these slow moments. We eliminate them (with mobile devices). This might relieve us temporarily, but it shuts down the deeper thinking that can come from staring down the doldrums. Noolding on your phone is “like eating junk food,” she says.

So here’s an idea: Instead of always fleeing boredom, lean into it. Sometimes, anyway. When novelists talk about using Freedom, the software that shuts down one’s Internet connection, they often say it’s about avoiding distraction. But I suspect it’s also about enforcing a level of boredom in their day—useful, productive monotony.

And there is, of course, bad boredom. The good type motivates you to see what can come of it: “fructifying boredom,” as the philosopher Bertrand Russell called it. The bad type, in contrast, tires you, makes you feel like you can’t be bothered to do anything. (It has a name too: lethargic boredom.)

A critical part of our modern task, then, is learning to assess these different flavors of ennui—to distinguish the useful kind from the stultifying. (Glancing at your phone in an idle moment isn’t always, or even often a bad thing.) Boredom, it turns out, may be super-interesting.

Clive Thompson writing in Wired Magazine

9 Articles about the Impact of AI on Medicine

Cigna Accused of Using AI, Not Doctors, to Deny Claims: Lawsuit – Medscape

Here's what AI-powered doctor's visits are like – CNBC

 AI-supported mammogram screening increases breast cancer detection by 20%, study finds – CNN

New AI tool can help treat brain tumors more quickly and accurately, study finds – The Guardian  

Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals – The Verge  

The AI Opportunity for Life Sciences and Pharma in the Age of ChatGPT – Expert.ai 

A mental health tech company ran an AI experiment on real users. Nothing’s stopping apps from conducting more – NBC News  

IBM is using generative systems to develop new semiconductors and molecules that can help fight cancer or bacterial infection – IMB  

AI-Generated Data Could Be a Boon for Healthcare—If Only It Seemed More Real – Wall Street Journal

AI-brain implant helped patient gain feeling in his hand again – Mobile Syrup  

Worry Deadlines

Parkinson’s Law, which states that work expands to the time we allow it. Put simply, if you give yourself one month to create a presentation, it will take you one full month to finish it. But if you only had a week, you’d finish the same presentation in a shorter time.   

I’ve observed a similar principle among sensitive strivers — that overthinking expands to the time we allow it. In other words, if you give yourself one week to worry about something that is actually a one-hour task, you will waste an inordinate amount of time and energy.

Melody Wilding writing in the Harvard Business Review