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Education AI News: Week Ending 02/09/2024

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Prompt engineering is a bad name as it implies both that prompting AI is well-understood & deterministic (engineering) and that is should be done by STEM folks (engineers). But prompting can also be thought of as teaching or managing. Humanities can help.

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/magic-for-english-majors

“Are Large Language Models good at language? A recent paper by Dentella, Günther, & Leivada (DGL) argues no: LLMs can’t distinguish grammatical sentences. We re-analyzed their data and found that LLMs are highly accurate and capture fine-grained variation in human judgments. 1/10” / X – https://twitter.com/_jennhu/status/1754891894704746789

“It is an amazing time to work in the cognitive science of language. Here are a few remarkable recent results, many of which highlight ways in which the critiques of LLMs (especially from generative linguistics!) have totally fallen to pieces.” / X – https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1755293775197548789 

Oslo buys Chat GPT for 110,000 students and teachers – Digi.no – https://www.digi.no/artikler/oslo-kjoper-chat-gpt-til-110-000-elever-og-laerere/543339

Email Grader – https://www.sellscale.com/email-grader 

Grounded language acquisition through the eyes and ears of a single child | Science – https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1374

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