AI Definitions: Temperature
/Temperature - A setting within some generative AI models that determines the randomness of the output. The higher the temperature set by the user the more variability there is in the result.
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The AI Lens
/Striving to create an AI strategy will likely force employees to look at everything through an AI lens. Right now, it seems like AI is seen as the solution, whatever the problem is. But just because it’s getting all the attention today doesn’t mean that will continue. There will be other technologies that are coming downstream, and focusing too much on AI will crowd out other solutions to other problems a company might have. -Wall Street Journal
12 Articles about AI & Audio
/AI at the microphone: The voice of the future? - The Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
Audio Tech Focus: AI Has Plenty of Potential — and Potential Pitfalls — for Broadcast Sports – Sports Video
These AI powered earbuds pack a secret — you can record and translate speech – Tom’s Guide
What audio artists working in games think of AI – The Conversation
Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online – ArsTechnica
AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it – NBC News
How AI can turn audio recordings into accurate images – Data Science Central
Holiday Terms & Conditions — A Christmas Album (created by AI) - Grex
Illuminate is a new AI podcasting tool from Google - The Conversation
All Madeline wanted was to talk to her deceased husband, Eli, again. She recreated his voice with A.I. – New York Times
Celine Dion warns fans to beware of fake, AI-generated songs appearing online – CNN
Memories are Overrated
/A comment I heard from a member of the audience after a lecture illustrates the difficulty of distinguishing memories from experiences. He told of listening raptly to a long symphony on a disc that was scratched near the end, producing a shocking sound, and he reported that the bad ending “ruined the whole experience.” But the experience was not actually ruined, only the memory of it. The experience itself was almost entirely good, and the bad end could not undo it, because it had already happened. My questioner had assigned the entire episode a failing grade because it had ended very badly, but that grade effectively ignored 40 minutes of musical bliss. Does the actual experience count for nothing?
Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling cognitive illusion – and it is the substitution that makes us believe a past experience can be ruined. The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keep score and governs what we learn from living, and it is the one that makes decisions. What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self.
We have strong preferences about the duration of our experiences of pain and pleasure. We want pain to be brief and pleasure to last. But our memory (represents) the most intense moments of an episode of pain or pleasure and the feelings when the episode was at its end. A memory that neglects duration will not serve our preferences for long pleasure and short pains.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
16 Webinars this Week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, March 24 - Reporting on university DEI changes
What: As universities respond to state laws and federal mandates to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs, student journalists share their tips for covering the changes, including using open records to uncover the effects on campus. Three students will talk about covering DEI changes on their own campuses and a SPLC rep will walk through his suggestions for using public records to report on these issues.
Who: McKinnon Rice from the North Texas Daily; Nora Igelnik and Reilly Ackermann from Ohio State's The Lantern; and Ismael Belkoura, a graduate student at Northwestern University and SPLC extern.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Student Press Law Center
Mon, March 24 - Writing Compelling Fact-Based Stories
What: Some of the techniques journalists and nonfiction writers can use to make their work more cinematic and, in the process, more engaging to their readers.
Who: Award-winning nonfiction author Lee Gutkind, the founding editor of Creative Nonfiction Magazine, who has written more than 30 books that have made an impact on the craft of journalism. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Good Morning America, and NPR's All Things Considered.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists, DC Chapter
Mon, March 24 - From Inbox to Impact: Perfecting Your Nonprofit Email Marketing Strategy
What: This presentation is designed for professionals involved in marketing, development, or donor engagement who want to maximize the impact of their email campaigns. This session dives into strategies to cut through the digital noise and drives meaningful action, whether it's donor stewardship, fundraising appeals, or event promotions. Attendees will learn proven methods to boost open rates, click-through rates, and donor response by leveraging data-driven insights and audience segmentation. The webinar also explores how to design segmented email lists and craft personalized messaging to better resonate with supporters. Additionally, participants will gain practical tips for setting up effective welcome series, drip campaigns, and event-based communications.
Who: Beth Brown of Humanitru.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
Tue, March 25 - Legal Considerations for Environmental Journalists
What: An exploration of the legal threats faced by environmental journalists, and provide practical advice and support.
Who: Sabah A., Media Defence Lawyer; Barış Altıntaş, Journalist & Co-Director, Media and Law Studies; Association; Maciek Piasecki – Freelance Environmental Journalist.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Media Defence and Journalismfund Europe
Tue, March 25 - 10 Essential Adobe Photoshop Tips for eLearning Workflows
What: This session is packed with practical tips to help you make the most of Photoshop in your eLearning projects.
Who: Pooja Jaisingh, Associate Vice President, Digital Learning and Product Enablement, Icertis.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenSesame
Tue, March 25 - Public Health Journalism: Covering public health policy in the current political landscape
What: Advice to adapt to this shifting environment while discovering innovative ways to tell critical public health stories.
Who: Julie Rovner, the chief Washington correspondent at KFF Health News
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Common Health Coalition and The National Press Club Journalism Institute
Tue, March 25 - Empowering Research Through Responsible AI on ScienceDirect
What: Join this webinar to learn about Generative AI (GenAI) developments on ScienceDirect and meet the team enabling researchers to explore, compare, and uncover trusted evidence from deep within peer-reviewed literature. This webinar is ideal for library staff and anyone interested in the application of GenAI in full text search and discovery. The ScienceDirect ambition is to make knowledge discovery more efficient and rewarding for researchers, faculty, and librarians.
Who: Judson Dunham Senior Director, Product Management Elsevier; Emily Singley Vice President, North American Library Relations Elsevier.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Elsevier
Tue, March 25 - Webinar: Newsletter Strategies That Drive Engagement and Grow Your Subscriber Base
What: We’ll dive into proven strategies to create newsletters that not only captivate readers but also grow your subscriber base. Learn how to craft compelling subject lines, optimize content for your audience’s needs, and use personalization to boost open rates and click-throughs. We’ll also explore how to leverage segmentation, automation, and analytics to refine your strategy and keep your readers coming back for more.
Who: David Arkin, CEO of David Arkin Consulting.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Local Media Association
Tue, March 25 - How Colleges Are Responding to AI
What: AI Strategies and real-world implementation models as panelists share the goals they set for themselves, the reasoning behind those goals, and the concrete steps they’ve taken to bring them to life. From policy development and curricular reform to faculty development and classroom innovation, this discussion will provide a roadmap of practical approaches that institutions can use to navigate AI’s evolving role in education. Whether you're an administrator, faculty member, instructional designer, or student success professional, you’ll gain actionable insights to help your institution plan for success with AI.
Who: Nicole Bosca, Director of the Center for Educational Innovation and Excellence New Jersey Institute of Technology; Anoshua Chaudhuri, Senior Director of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning San Francisco State University; Beck Krefting Director of the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning Skidmore College; Desiah Melby, Communication Instructor Mid-State Technical College; Theresa Merrick Senior Instructor of English and Assistant Director of the Writing Center Kansas State University; Shelli Wynants Director of Online Education and Training California State University, Fullerton; C. Edward Watson Vice President for Digital Innovation AAC&U.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: AAC&U (American Association of Colleges and Universities)
Wed, March 26 - AI and the Future of News 2025
What: This day-long event will have sessions on topics like Power, profit and plurality in the age of generative AI; Are journalists telling the most relevant AI stories to their audiences? How three prominent newsrooms are using AI; How will AI reshape society?
Who: Presentations and panel discussions with experts from the University of Oxford and journalists from around the world.
When: 6 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Reuters Institute
Wed, March 26 - Writing and Writing Instruction in the Era of AI
What: This session will examine the core issues around writing in college today and discuss strategies that promote academic integrity, maintain engagement, and encourage learning. Those attending this session will leave with practical solutions for addressing the core issues around college writing today and clarity regarding future trends in writing instruction as AI continues to advance.
Who: Laura Dumin, Professor of English and Technical Writing University of Central Oklahoma; Kyle Jensen, Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs Arizona State University; Sarah Johnson, Academic Integrity Officer, Chair of First-Year Composition, and Writing Center Director Madison Area Technical College; Bethany Miller, Associate Provost and Chief Data Officer Macalester College; Anna Mills English Instructor College of Marin; C. Edward Watson, Vice President for Digital Innovation AAC&U.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: AAC&U (American Association of Colleges and Universities)
Wed, March 26 - GenAI in Action: Demo and Real-World Case Studies Transforming Medical Writing in Global Pharma
What: An off-the-shelf generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) powered medical and regulatory authoring platform, proven in global pharmaceutical deployments. This webinar will showcase real-world case studies via the AuroraPrime platform—a trusted Word add-in already implemented by 10 global pharmaceutical companies and several leading contract research organizations (CRO).
Who: Sharon Chen, Founder and CEO, AlphaLife Sciences; Karen Devcich, ice President, Medical Writing, Quality & Editing and Clinical Trial Transparency, ICON plc; Cieayrra Boozer, Product Solution Specialist, AlphaLife Sciences.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: American Medical Writers Association
Thu, March 27 - AI for journalists
What: How AI can work as your research partner, helping to brainstorm ideas, mine data, uncover angles and streamline workflows.
Who: Harriet Meyer, an experienced financial journalist.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: £5 members (membership is £10 for students)
Sponsor: Women in Journalism
Thu, March 27 - Navigating the AI Revolution
What: In late 2024, AAC&U and Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center surveyed senior college and university leaders to discern how they believe AI is affecting higher education and what they think will emerge in the future. This session will begin with a brief overview of key findings from the recently published report on the survey, followed by a conversation among leaders in higher education who will reflect on the findings and offer their perspectives on what lies ahead.
Who: Connie Book President Elon University; Mike Flores, Chancellor Alamo Colleges District Lynn Pasquerella President AAC&U; Lee Rainie, Director of the Imagining the Digital Future Center Elon University; Yves Salomon-Fernandez Yves Salomon-Fernández, President Urban College of Boston C.; Edward Watson, Vice President for Digital Innovation AAC&U.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: AAC&U (American Association of Colleges and Universities)
Thu, March 27 - Prototyping AI concepts to reality with AI-in-a-Box Presented by
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Who: Prosenjit Biswas Lead Ecosystem Solution Architect, APAC, Red Hat; Jacky Lee Director, AI Innovation Hub (APJ), Dell Technologie.
When: 11 am, Singapore Time
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Red Hat and Dell Technologies
Thu, March 27 – Introduction to Reporting on AI
What: Designed for reporters interested in starting but with minimal or no knowledge of AI. We will dissect what makes a good AI accountability story, from quick turnaround stories to more ambitious investigations, and dig deeper into a few examples.
Who: Mago Torres, The Examination's data editor
When: 12 pm, Pacific
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center and the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism
AI Definitions: Vibe Coding
/Vibe Coding – This is coding using AI where the user forgets that the code even exists. Its building software with an LLM without reviewing the code it writes. This is not the same as software development where the user reviews the AI coding and can explain it. Vibe coding platforms would include Claude Artifacts and Cursor.
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AI & Academic Research Prediction
/A recent survey by Wiley found that while the majority of researchers believe AI skills will be critical within two years, more than 60 percent said lack of guidelines and training keep them from using it in their work. -Inside Higher Ed
Who creates better memes—humans or AI?
/Researchers in the EU found:
When humans got help from an AI, there were more ideas produced with less work, but the quality wasn’t better.
AI memes did better than human-only collaborative creations though the top-performing memes were human-created
The researchers concluded: “These findings highlight the complexities of human-AI collaboration in creative tasks. While AI can boost productivity and create content that appeals to a broad audience, human creativity remains crucial for content that connects on a deeper level.”
Imagineering
/Imagine yourself as reaching into your mind and one by one removing your worries. A small child possesses an imaginative skill superior to that of adults. A child responds to the game of kissing away a hurt or throwing away a fear. This simple process works for the child because in his mind he believes that that is actually the end of it. The dramatic act is a fact for him and so it proves to be the end of the matter. Visualize your fears being drained out of your mind and the visualization will in due course be actualized.
Imagineation is a source of fear, but imagination may also be the cure of fear. “Imagineering” is the use of mental images to build factual results, and it is an astonishingly effective procedure. However, it is not enough to empty the mind, for the mind will not long remain empty. It must be occupied by something. It cannot continue in a stat of vacuum. Therefore, upon emptying the mind, practice refilling it. Fill it with thought of faith, hope, courage, expectancy.
A half-dozen times each day crowd your mind with such thoughts as those until the mind is overflowing with them. In due course these thoughts of faith will crowd out worry. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no room left for fear.
Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
Why Most Companies Shouldn’t Have an AI Strategy
/Studies show that most organizations are immature when it comes to AI. By that, I mean that throughout the ranks—from the top executives through the rank and file—there is little knowledge of, and experience with, AI and its capabilities, and a reluctance to embrace data-assisted decision-making. All of this will mean any AI strategy will be misguided and inexecutable. If you are the leadership team and you aren’t familiar with AI, how are you going to build a strategy for AI? You can’t. -Wall Street Journal
Love is confused
/Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence. -Fred (Mister) Rogers (born March 20, 1928)
13 Articles about AI & Religion
/A Houston pastor is making the evolving technology an integral part of his ministry – Houston Chronicle
Power of Babel: Real-Time AI Translation May Be Coming to Church Near You - Julie Roys Blog
When the Word Is Not Just Flesh: Reporting on A.I. in Religion – New York Times
AI Jesus' avatar tests man's faith in machines and the divine – Associated Press
What AI knows and doesn’t know about Islam – WIRED
Religion goes digital with AI-powered faith assistants - DW
Silicon Valley’s Obsession With AI Looks a Lot Like Religion – The Reader
At the Intersection of A.I. and Spirituality - New York Times
Explore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Made with AI – Open Culture
Austin church holds AI-generated service, uses ChatGPT – KXAN
How much should AI influence preaching prep? – The Baptist Paper
Notre Dame receives grant to support development of faith-based frameworks for AI ethics – Notre Dame
Citing ‘Shadow of Evil,’ Vatican Warns About the Risks of A.I. – New York Times
Lax AI Security in Schools
/The implementation of AI surveillance tools has surged since the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent investigation revealed that reporters from The Seattle Times and Associated Press inadvertently accessed nearly 3,500 sensitive student documents due to inadequate security measures surrounding the district's surveillance technology. These documents included personal writings about depression, bullying, and even LGBTQ+ struggles — information that should have remained confidential. -Read more at Mic
Underlying Emptiness
/Think of the person (who) loses a job or a girlfriend and then finds himself in despair. The real cause of the despair is not the man’s loss of the job or the girlfriend. What the loss of the job or girlfriend really reveal is that the person was in despair all along, that his identity was built on something too fragile to be the basis of selfhood. When this fragile basis for identity is shattered, the self’s underlying emptiness was revealed.
C. Stephen Evans, Kierkegaard: An Introduction
AI Definitions: Convolutional neural networks
/Convolutional neural networks (CNNs or ConvNet) – These deep learning artificial neural networks, often used in computer vision for object recognition, are trained on thousands of images—and even then, they often fail when they encounter the same objects under new lighting conditions or from a different angle. CNNs were first introduced in 1989 by NYU professor Yann LeCun and have been used with autonomous vehicles and security camera systems.
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14 Articles about AI & Data Privacy
/Agentic AI has “profound” issues with security and privacy, Signal President says – Tech Radar
Why AI needs a kill switch – just in case – Information Age
AI Surveillance Is Being Installed In Schools To Keep Kids Safe. But That’s Not All It’s Doing - MIC
Schools use AI to monitor kids, hoping to prevent violence. Our investigation found security risks – OC register
How to embrace AI while protecting personal information and data – NBC News
Bloomberg The DeepSeek AI Revolution Has a Security Problem – Bloomberg
AI, huge hacks leave consumers facing a perfect storm of privacy perils – Washington Post
AI Expert: More Must Be Done to Protect Data Privacy in the AI Age – Inside AI News
AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes – Spectrum
How generative AI security helps mitigate risks in enterprise environments – Silicon Angle
Malware's AI time bomb - Axios
Unpacking the Role of AI in Physical Security – EdTech Magazine
A.I. chatbots becoming popular but worry privacy advocates – NBC News
Search Thought LeadersAI’s Data Dilemma: Privacy, Regulation, and the Future of Ethical AI – Unite AI
AI Rollouts
/Less than half (45%) of employees think their company's latest AI rollouts have been successful versus 75% of the C-suite. -Axios
25 Recent Articles about AI & Teaching
/Using AI to foster self-directed learning – Times Higher Ed
More Teachers Say They’re Using AI in Their Lessons. Here’s How – Ed Week
I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats – The Walrus
There’s a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat – Wall Street Journal
In the age of AI, colleges need to rethink how students learn – Washington Post
AI detectors are poor western blot classifiers: a study of accuracy and predictive values – PeerJ
AI: Cheating Matters, but Redrawing Assessment ‘Matters Most’ – Inside Higher Ed
Stanford AI Teaching Guides – Stanford
Here’s How Teachers Are Using AI to Save Time – Ed Week
Integrate AI as a peer reviewer in writing classrooms - KJZZ
How AI is reshaping teachers’ jobs – Ed Week
Arizona’s getting an online charter school taught entirely by AI – Tech Crunch
OpenAI Unveils New A.I. That Can ‘Reason’ Through Math and Science Problems – New York Times
Arizona charter school to be taught by AI, not teachers - LinkedIn
ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later – Arstechnica
How to identify AI-generated text: 7 ways to tell if content was made by a bot – Mashable
OpenAI releases a teacher’s guide to ChatGPT, but some educators are skeptical – Tech Crunch
Cheating Has Become Normal – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Employers Say Students Need AI Skills. What If Students Don’t Want Them? – Inside Higher Ed
AI-powered tutor, teaching assistant tested as a way to help educators and students – CBS
The Course Is About Literature. Its Textbook Was Generated by AI. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
California college professors have mixed views on AI in the classroom – Ed Source
Instead of policing student use of AI, California teachers need to reinvent homework – Cal Matters
AI-detection software isn’t the solution to classroom cheating — assessment has to shift – The Conversation
Feeling Superior
/I need to fill up my emptiness by feeling superior to you, pretending to be someone I am not.
AI becoming sentient
/It appears there’s no need to fear AI becoming sentient and replacing us humans. We’ll phase ourselves out long before the robots ever become self-aware. -Jim Nielsen