Post AWX0G21O2cuvTb9dJY by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AWX0FSkVBPcA55z9dY by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-03T20:00:17Z
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If I was about to pitch an empirical project on generative AI in education, I would focus it on the emerging pedagogical industry of AI training, and I would call that project PedagoGPT. It probably wouldn't get funded (unless it promised to superpower such courses), but I reckon the public and industry pedagogies of AI are going to be very significant...
(DIR) Post #AWX0FUgJzvSW4i2qOm by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-03T20:08:32Z
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Anyone remember Andrew "Coursera" Ng? He has a PedagoGPT firm now: "DeepLearning.AI was founded in 2017 by machine learning and education pioneer Andrew Ng to fill a need for world-class AI education." It's been doing AI training on Coursera a while, but now... https://www.deeplearning.ai/about/
(DIR) Post #AWX0FWXt4Fttr878Wu by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-03T20:17:28Z
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Apparently Andrew Ng has just released 3 new free online courses on generative AI on DeepLearning.ai: https://twitter.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1664663173394321410?s=20I bet there are loads of other courses like this online too. Studying this emerging PedagoGPT industry would be fascinating. What's the curriculum? Is it pure CompSci? Do they do ethics - and if so is it "existential risk" silliness? Who enrolls? How is it credentialed? Who takes these credentials seriously? What industries stand to benefit?
(DIR) Post #AWX0FZxsM5TISbIQxE by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-03T20:45:58Z
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If they don't exist already, there are going to be PedagoGPT courses for prompt engineers, courses for SMEs, NGOs, think tanks, consultancies (KPMGPT?), courses for kids ... most probably on #EdTech platforms like Coursera, or off the shelf from Amazon, or LaMDA courses from Google, courses on ethics and risks of variously extreme/existential or grounded kinds...
(DIR) Post #AWX0FeBUfOk1XzhMjg by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-03T20:51:14Z
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Every technology requires users for its completion, and that requires a kind of pedagogical infrastructure of training, accustomization and habituation. Andrew Ng's new courses are, I imagine, just the first signals of an emerging PedagoGPT industry to habituate the world to operating with generative AI. AI won't replace us; it needs us.
(DIR) Post #AWX0FfpaXoPKedSts0 by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-03T21:47:57Z
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And *of course* Amazon is on the generative AI training business:"Programmes like Machine Learning University can help, but it’s important to think bigger. Skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving will become even more vital. We ultimately want people, assisted by AI, to solve real business challenges..." https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/how-technology-leaders-can-prepare-for-generative-ai/
(DIR) Post #AWX0Fhbpvub0AZ2wiG by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-03T22:32:21Z
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And yes, obviously, there is a Google Bard course on Udemy too, for £24.99. Learn how to use Bard "responsibly" for the price of a few beers, in 2.5 hours. The PedagoGPT industry is habituating users to generative AI, via #EdTech platforms, and tethering all kinds of aims to tech that (however impressive) sometimes spouts shit, gobbles energy and concentrates corporate tech power...
(DIR) Post #AWX0Fl1TF3sokw3xaK by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-03T22:44:29Z
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Generative AI probably isn't an existential risk. What it is, much more mundanely, is a grab for users and more network effects. That's what the investors want to see: engagement metrics. People therefore need training to become engaged AI users. The PedagoGPT industry is integral to this aim. (And if you're interested in the £24.99 responsibe Bard course on Udemy, sign up for your data to be extracted and assetized here: https://www.udemy.com/course/google-bard-lamda-language-model-for-dialogue-application/ )
(DIR) Post #AWX0FlLK3FlLkVLoWm by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-03T22:44:45Z
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Generative AI probably isn't an existential risk. What it is, much more mundanely, is a grab for users and more network effects. That's what the investors want to see: engagement metrics. People therefore need training to become engaged AI users. The PedagoGPT industry is integral to this aim. (And if you're interested in the £24.99 responsibe Bard course on Udemy, sign up for your data to be extracted and assetized here: https://www.udemy.com/course/google-bard-lamda-language-model-for-dialogue-application/ )
(DIR) Post #AWX0Fmz3wz94q2x46q by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-04T16:28:45Z
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And right on cue, Google's dropped a bunch of free online generative AI courses. These pedagogic interventions are going to do the work of normalising AI use for everything. https://twitter.com/akshay_pachaar/status/1665335120595922950?s=20
(DIR) Post #AWX0ForgxMRCflWCtk by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-08T21:33:52Z
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Just another example of the pedagogic industry forming around AI now: "While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons."It starts with an "Amazon-sponsored lesson in artificial intelligence" in a public school and an "M.I.T. initiative on “responsible A.I.” whose donors include Amazon, Google and Microsoft"... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/business/ai-literacy-schools-amazon-alexa.html
(DIR) Post #AWX0FqhU8HSgMgl5Ga by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-08T21:38:25Z
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"But the one-hour Amazon-led workshop did not touch on the company’s data practices."
(DIR) Post #AWX0FsP7nVxneKBRvU by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T17:34:54Z
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There is actually an Andrew Ng course over at his DeepLearning.ai outfit called "ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers" produced in partnership with ... OpenAI! This is a perfect example of PedagoGPT - training the world to "effectively utilize LLMs"... It's free for a limited time, so the freemium subscription biz model for future monetization is in place too https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-engineering-for-developers/
(DIR) Post #AWX0Fu9FJWRz3elnSC by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T17:47:11Z
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If anyone was worried that these new generative AI courses don't cover issues of AI ethics or responsible AI, Microsoft's "Introduction to Azure OpenAI Service" has it on the curriculum ... covering "OpenAI's access and responsible AI policies" in 3 minutes...
(DIR) Post #AWX0FygMSLJf7WIIcq by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T18:04:34Z
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Woop I completed the Microsoft "Introduction to Azure Open AI Service" course and I'm pleased to say I aced the assessment scoring 3 out of 3 correct answers and winning 200XP points! My course feedback? I think this PedagoGPT course was quite easy, and took less than the estimated 38 mins to complete. Can I build a chatbot now? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/explore-azure-openai/
(DIR) Post #AWX0G21O2cuvTb9dJY by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T20:20:29Z
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If you too want to take a PedagoGPT course and learn generative AI so you can help work it into every possible industry, business, sector, and practice, then ClassCentral has 3,842 courses for you https://www.classcentral.com/search?q=generative%20ai
(DIR) Post #AWX0G3j1hrQ2lEZzyS by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T20:47:38Z
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The PedagoGPT industry of generative AI courses sure is expanding fast, as I imagined last week. It's like a global educational enterprise habituating users from schoolkids to SMEs, big biz and civil society orgs to the promises of AI, tethering personal desires to AI providers, and training organizations to integrate chatbots into their products, with gestures to ethics and responsibility - the educational purpose being to normalize big tech AI everywhere, for everything, in everyone's lives.
(DIR) Post #AWX0G7K0KpmRumu4Wm by BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T21:25:47Z
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AI needs people to operationalize it - in offices, labs, studios, factories, homes, hospitals, schools - and so these pedagoGPT courses, crappy as some appear to be, are educating people to make AI happen. PedagoGPT is a massive public pedagogy to accustom people to automation.