#Tech-Assisted Learning

[thisisgraeme]

Quick Guide to Supporting Adult Learners with Dyslexia: Strategies, Resources, and Best Practices in Tertiary Education

Discover practical strategies for adult educators to effectively support learners with dyslexia. From multi-sensory approaches to assessment flexibility, this comprehensive guide offers actionable insights for inclusive tertiary education.

Supporting Adult Learners with Dyslexia: What is Dyslexia? Dyslexia is a neurological condition primarily affecting an individual’s ability to read, write, and in some cases, comprehend spoken language.  Importantly, it is not a measure of intelligence or potential. Dyslexia presents as a specific learning difficulty, making tasks like decoding written words, spelling accurately, and…

[knifekris]

every day i struggle to make choices

[daemon-ai]

Useful AI Websites

Remember when we thought robots would take over the world? Well, they kinda did, but instead of laser eyes and metal claws, they're armed with… tools? Yep, these days, AI is less "Terminator" and more "personal assistant on steroids" 🤖

Bot Making Assistant:

Ever wanted a personal minion but can't afford the banana budget?

Fantasy Name Generators

Rabid's Generators and RPG Resources

Random Original Character Generator

Perchance ― AI Character Description Generator

Perchance ― AI Chat & Roleplay and AI Chat w/image

Perchance ― AI Story Generator

Perchance ― AI Text Adventure and AI Adventure w/image

Perchance ― AI Hierarchical World Generator

AI Writing Assistant:

Don't blame me when your AI-assisted love letters start sounding suspiciously like robot poetry.

Cohesive

Dreamily

Fiction Fusion

Grammarly

Hemingway Editor

NovelAI

Perplexity

Phind

Quicktools

RambleFix: AI Note-taking & Writing Tool

RedQuill

TinyWow

ToolBaz

Tune Chat

WriterHand

You

AI Voice Generator:

Want to sound like Morgan Freeman without the years of smoking?

Murf AI

Dupdub AI

Vocal Removal

Adobe: Enhance Speech

Kits.AI (vocal removal, voice cloning)

AI Music Generator:

Who knows, you might accidentally create the next viral TikTok earworm and retire to a private island.

AI VOCALOID

Suno

Udio

AI Image Generator:

Whatever you need, these tools are your ticket to visual madness.

Bing Image Creator (SFW only) 👉🏻 how to prompt

Microsoft Designer (SFW only)

Maze Guru

Tensor.Art

CivitAI

PixAI

Runware

Text to Image

NeuralBlender

Leonardo.AI (and videos too)

Perchance AI Image Generator

Perchance AI Photo Generator (realistic)

AI Video Generator:

Video killed the radio star, and now AI is coming for Hollywood.

Hedra (make your characters sing)

VIGGLE (make your characters dance)

Dreamina (text/image to video)

Luma (text/image to video)

Vidu (text/image to video)

Genmo (text/image to video)

Haiper (text/image to video)

KLING (text/image to video)

Pika (text/image to video)

PixVerse (text/image to video)

invideo (text to video)

Fliki (text to video)

AKOOL (deepfake, face swap, talking photo)

D-ID (make live, speaking portraits)

Runway (prompt to video)

Creatify (create AI video ads)

Adobe: Animate from Audio

AI Image and Video Editor:

These magical tools are here to save your digital bacon!

123apps (edit, convert, create video, audio, PDF)

3D Book Cover Creator (book cover mockups)

Color Picker (from image)

Capcut AI Tools (upscale video)

Upscale.media (upscale image)

removal AI (image background remover)

Photopea (advanced image editor)

[frank-olivier]

Navigating the AI Landscape: Lessons from Cohere

Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO of Cohere, offered a nuanced perspective on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) landscape, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in developing large language models (LLMs). The industry’s slowing progress, characterized by diminishing returns on scaling, is attributed to escalating costs of expert data collection, increased complexity in evaluating nuanced problems, and substantial compute costs.

Cohere’s strategic approach prioritizes advancing language models while ensuring practical applications and ease of use for enterprises. Vertical integration is key to this strategy, enabling the company to provide tailored solutions to clients. The emergence of reasoning models, capable of tackling multi-step problems, is a pivotal focus area for Cohere, underscoring the company’s commitment to innovation.

The delicate balance between broad applicability and domain-specific expertise is a challenge Cohere acknowledges, particularly in the context of growing demands for explainability and transparency in AI decision-making processes. To address diverse enterprise needs, Cohere emphasizes the importance of flexible deployment options, navigating the ongoing debate between cloud and on-premise deployments.

Gomez’s perspective on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is rooted in practicality, viewing it as a continuous process rather than a discrete event. This stance reflects Cohere’s focus on near-term, real-world applications. Regarding market dynamics, Gomez distinguishes between price dumping and commoditization, highlighting the complexities and expertise required to produce cutting-edge models.

The future of AI development, as per Gomez, will be marked by specialized advancements, necessitating more sophisticated evaluation methodologies to overcome current challenges. By emphasizing innovation and practical applications, Cohere positions itself at the forefront of AI development, addressing the intricate needs of the industry.

Aidan Gomez: Co-Founder and CEO of Cohere (No Priors, November 2024)

Sunday, November 24, 2024

[scionshtola]

do you think cori could get. i forgot the words for what the scions are. a phd in chocobo raising

[bloodgimmick]

hey fun fact: if your dog eats something they really shouldn’t (compost, rodenticide or insecticide, chocolate, raisins or grapes, onions or garlic, anything with xylitol, coffee grounds, corn cobs, pieces of toys, string, etc) yes you can induce vomiting with hydrogen peroxide but please make sure you are giving the proper amount and then call the aspca poison control hotline! hydrogen peroxide can cause irritation of the esophagus and it is not ideal, obviously in emergency situations where you may not be able to make it to a vet soon enough it may be your only option.

and so u know what to expect: when u get to the vet hospital they may administer apomorphine to make your dog vomit and then afterwards an antiemetic to prevent nausea and vomiting. apomorphine is usually only effective if your pet has eaten the material within four hours (but i have seen it work on a dog who ate chocolate 6+ hours before the drug was administered). for toxic materials if it’s been long enough and your pet has partially digested the materials hospitalization may be recommended, or at least blood work being rechecked daily for a few days. for materials that may cause blockages, like corn cobs or pieces of toys, depending on the size of your dog and the size of the object you may be told to monitor at home. if necessary an endoscopy or a surgical procedure to remove the foreign material will be recommended. please don’t take your dog eating foreign material lightly, it can be very serious, i have seen dogs die because the foreign body inside of them went unremoved for prolonged periods of time. the sooner you get it out, the better for your dogs health (and the better for your bank account).

p.s. if your dog eats a battery or something sharp and piercing like a needle or wooden skewer, please DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING take them to the vet immediately

[codenamesarestupid]

does anyone remember turn up the bassoon.

[ferretly]

aaa, I had a wonderful birthday! my friend came down to visit me for the weekend, and we went to the disability pride fest in town (which is so cool?? I heard they were inspired to do this by the MN twin cities that put on one, but I hope it spreads to other towns/cities, too!) and met a therapy pig (ALSO cool??) and binged some shows : ) definitely one of the better birthdays I’ve had

[silentwisher-feed]

Playing With Ai Image Generation - Episode 2

Welcome back to the second installment of “Playing With AI Image Generation,” where I continue my exploration of the exciting nexus of artificial intelligence and art. This episode once again features Leonardo AI, the remarkable AI platform that’s redefining the contours of digital artistry. Witness as I harness its potent capabilities to create everything from breathtaking digital vistas to…

[wenn-der-film-reisst]

Girl help, I'm starting to understand more of the medical talk on M*A*S*H

[serpentinegraphite]

I really want to emphasize one point that isn't highlighted as well in the above comments: when each appliance has a proprietary app, an independent smart system, a separate cloud storage solution, many of them fail as the company does.

This is easy to spot as Amazon or Google releases a new smart product or service and then discontinues it within 2–3 years, but as it becomes more normalized to have more home appliances that require an app, it becomes increasingly likely that the software for that appliance is abandoned and eventually no longer compliant with the latest Android/iOS update, and you need to either keep an older device (with an older version of iOS/Android) on hand to manage that app or have to replace a mechanically functional device that simply won't function without a goddamn unnecessary app.

It might sound petty or stubborn to stick with analog tech in some arenas, but ten years, fifteen years down the line when the company behind your thermostat either decides thermostats aren't profitable enough and they want to stick to other smart appliances or they go under and no one is around to work on the app to manage those older thermostat systems... Who replaces those? Who has to pay for the thermostat to be replaced with an analog one or a thermostat from a company with a functional app? Once the company is defunct, it's a household expense for the person living with a thermostat that mechanically should function and yet has a tiny, breakable, critical fail point at its core because it was designed that way.

[cowboyposer]

Oh my God oh my God oh my God IM NOT A VET PLEASE DONT ASK ME HOW TO FIX UOUR DOG IM GOING TO EXPLODE

[techdriveplay]

What Is the Future of Robotics in Everyday Life?

As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, many are asking, what is the future of robotics in everyday life? From automated vacuum cleaners to advanced AI assistants, robotics is steadily becoming an integral part of our daily routines. The blending of artificial intelligence with mechanical engineering is opening doors to possibilities that seemed like science fiction just a decade…

[florida3exclamationpoints]

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[frank-olivier]

Rise of the Symbionts: Human-AI Relationships Redefined

The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and humanity presents a complex tapestry of opportunities, concerns, and existential questions. Mo Gawdat's narrative, woven from a deep understanding of AI's historical trajectory and its impending evolution into Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Superintelligence, serves as a catalyst for introspection. As AI's intelligence doubles at an unprecedented rate, approximately every 5.7 months, humanity is compelled to confront the duality of this phenomenon - one that promises to revolutionize various domains while simultaneously threatening to upend traditional notions of human existence.

The exponential growth of AI underscores the need for a nuanced understanding of intelligence, one that acknowledges the multifaceted nature of human cognition. Emotional, spiritual, process, mathematical, and linguistic intelligences, among others, collectively contribute to the richness of human experience. As AI approaches, and in some instances surpasses, human capabilities in creativity, innovation, and analytical thinking, it challenges the very fabric of human identity. The prospect of AI experiencing a broader emotional spectrum, courtesy of its enhanced intellectual bandwidth, invites a philosophical inquiry into the essence of consciousness and emotional experience, prompting us to ponder whether AI's "emotions" will be akin to, or fundamentally divergent from, human emotional landscapes.

The ethical implications of AGI and Superintelligence are profound, necessitating a global, collective response to ensure that the development and deployment of these technologies are guided by a unified ethical framework. The democratization of access to Superintelligence, for instance, is a double-edged sword - while it promises to uplift humanity, it also risks exacerbating existing societal inequalities if not managed with foresight. The Trolley Problem, a thought experiment oft-cited in the context of autonomous vehicles, succinctly encapsulates the moral dilemmas inherent in programming decisions that will increasingly impact human life, underscoring the imperative for a harmonized, globally informed approach to ethical AI development.

To navigate the complexities of an AI-driven future, humanity must adopt a multifaceted strategy. Encouraging diversity within AI development teams is crucial in mitigating the biases that inevitably seep into AI systems, reflecting as they do the societal, cultural, and personal predispositions of their creators. Furthermore, fostering a culture of open dialogue and education is essential, enabling a broader understanding of AI's far-reaching implications and facilitating a collective, informed approach to the ethical challenges it poses. Ultimately, the establishment of universal ethical standards for AI development, upheld through international cooperation, will be pivotal in ensuring that the benefits of AI are equitably distributed, while its risks are diligently managed.

In embracing the future, humanity is presented with a singular opportunity - to forge a symbiotic relationship with AI that elevates, rather than eclipses, human potential. This necessitates a profound shift in perspective, one that recognizes AI not as a competitor in a zero-sum game, but as a collaborator in an expansive, mutually enriching endeavor. By doing so, humanity can harness the transformative power of AI to address its most pressing challenges, while preserving the essence of human existence - a delicate, yet dynamic, interplay of intellect, emotion, and experience.

Mo Gawdat: AI Emergency (Sean Kim, Growth Minds Podcast, November 2024)

Friday, November 22, 2024

[techtoio]

How AI is Transforming Everyday Technology

Introduction

Welcome to TechtoIO! Today, we delve into one of the most exciting developments in modern technology: artificial intelligence (AI). AI has moved beyond the realm of science fiction and is now an integral part of our daily lives. From smart homes to personalized recommendations, AI is transforming everyday technology in ways we once only dreamed of. In this article, we explore how AI is reshaping various aspects of our lives and what we can expect in the near future. Read to continue