GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about | MIT Technology Review

Since OpenAI first described its new AI language-generating system called GPT-3 in May, hundreds of media outlets (including MIT Technology Review) have written about the system and its capabilities. Twitter has been abuzz about its power and potential. The New York Times published an op-ed about it. Later this year, OpenAI will begin charging companies…
— Read on www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-openai-language-generator-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion/

Quantum Computing for the Next Generation of Computer Scientists and Researchers — Campus Technology

As a distinguished scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Travis Humble shares his unique perspectives on the advancement of quantum computing and its entry into higher education curricula and research.
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Big and open linked data analytics: a study on changing roles and skills in the higher educational process | International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | Full Text

The concept of openness and information sharing (linking) together with increasing amounts of data available significantly affect the current educational system. Institutions as well as other stakeholders are facing challenges how to successfully deal with them and potentially profit from them. In this regard, this paper explores opportunities of big and open linked data analytics in the educational process intended to develop the new set of skills. A comprehensive literature review resulted in a framework of relevant skills, namely soft, hard, and data analytics skills. Their importance was evaluated using a Delphi method. In order to determine the relationships between involved stakeholders, their roles and requirements, a stakeholder theory is utilized. It resulted in the identification of current and emerging roles of stakeholders in the data analytics ecosystem. A structural classification of stakeholders’ influences and impacts then represents a necessary background for establishing strategies for the development of the right skills needed to gain the value from these data. This paper provides a comprehensive view on big and open linked data analytics in the educational context, defines and interlinks data-related with current roles as well as the skills required to perform data analytics.
— Read on educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41239-020-00208-z

How to Clean Up Your Social Media Accounts Without Deleting Them

There are many reasons to avoid wanting a social media digital paper trail of your entire life. Maybe there are posts there you think your new employer won’t like, or that your new partner’s parents won’t like, or even ones that you don’t believe in anymore. But wiping the slate clean and starting again is only one of your options—you can still tidy up your existing accounts without deleting them.
— Read on gizmodo.com/how-to-clean-up-your-social-media-accounts-without-dele-1844723849

MIT Develops Open Source Tool to Support Spontaneous Online Conversations — Campus Technology

Researchers at MIT’s Sloan School of Management have developed a new software platform for having private, on-the-spot conversations online. Called Minglr, the open source tool is designed to replicate the kinds of interactions people might have before and after meetings, in the lobby during breaks of conferences and around the office coffee machine, in a virtual environment.
— Read on campustechnology.com/articles/2020/08/05/mit-develops-open-source-tool-to-support-spontaneous-online-conversations.aspx