HAPPY 2024: in this 74th year since The Economist started mediating futures of brainworking machines clued by the 3 maths greats NET (Neumann, Einstein, Turing) people seem to be chatting about 5 wholly different sorts of AI. 1BAD: The worst tech system designers don't deserve inclusion in human intel at all, and as Hoover's Condoleezza Rice . 2 reports their work is result of 10 compound techs of which Ai is but one. Those worst for world system designs may use media to lie or multiply hate or hack, and to perpetuate tribal wars and increase trade in arms. Sadly bad versions of tv media began in USA early 1960s when it turned out what had been the nation's first major export crop, tobacco, was a killer. Please note for a long time farmers did not know bac was bad: western HIStory is full of ignorances which lawyer-dominated societies then cover up once inconvenient system truths are seen. A second AI ecommerce type (now 25 years exponential development strong) ; this involves ever more powerful algorithms applied to a company's data platform that can be app'd to hollow out community making relatively few people richer and richer, or the reverse. You can test a nation's use of this ai by seeing if efinance has invested in the poorest or historically most disconnected - see eg bangladesh's bklash, one of the most populous digital cash systems . Digital money is far cheaper to distribute let alone to manually account for so power AI offers lots of lessons but whether its good or not depends in part on whether there are enough engineers in gov & public service to see ahead of what needs regulating. There are 2 very good ai's which have only scaled in recent years that certainly dont need regulating by non engineers and one curious ai which was presented to congress in 2018 but which was left to multiply at least 100 variants today the so-called chats or LLMs. Lets look at the 2 very good ai's first because frankly if your community is concerned about any extinction risks these AI may most likely save you, One I call science AI and frankly in the west one team is so far ahead that we should count ourselves lucky that its originator Hassabis has mixed wealth and societal growth. His deep mind merged with google to make wealth but open sourced the 200 million protein databank equivalent to a billion hours of doctorate time- so now's the time for biotech to save humanity if it ever does. Alongside this the second very good AI graviates around Fei-Fei Li) in developing 20 million imagenet database so that annual competitions training computers to see 20000 of the most everyday sights we humans view around the world including things and life-forms such as nature's plants and animals. Today, students no longer need to go back to 0.1 programming to ask computer about any of these objects; nor do robots or and autonomous vehicles - see fei-fei li's book worlds i see which is published in melinda gates Entrepreneurial Revolution of girl empowermentED , VN Hypothesis: in 21st C brainworking worlds how people's times & data are spent is foundational to place's community health, energy and so natural capacity to grow/destroy wealth -thus species will depend on whether 1000 mother tongue language model mediates intelligence/maths so all communities cooperatively celebrate lifetimes and diversity's deep data ) . Check out "Moore exponential patterns" at year 73 of celebrating Game : Architect Intelligence (Ai) - players welcome .. some jargon
Saturday, July 30, 2022
rocketman ed3 #390 economistlearning sub-editors are searching for good versions of human selves in web3 ; we'd love to collab with likeminded people - onw way is to enter this year round competition www.sdgmetaverseprize.org - some other experimental versions are: lunchclub algorith dates 50 minute zooms with your alter egos; linkedin (I am trying to recode my thousand teaches connections by age and sdg concern with bonus if they have a UN2.o concern - advice welcome chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Vriti Saraf (@vritisaraf), founder of k20 Educators (@k20educators), is building the Eduverse on web3, a free metaverse space for educators to connect, collaborate, learn, and earn. k20 has been recognized as the world's top 200 most innovative edtech companies by Global Silicon Valley. She is also the co-founder of Ed3DAO (@Ed3DAO), a web3 digital co-op (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) for educators by educators, aiming to catalyze innovation at scale.
Vriti Saraf (@vritisaraf), founder of k20 Educators (@k20educators), is building the Eduverse on web3, a free metaverse space for educators to connect, collaborate, learn, and earn. k20 has been recognized as the world's top 200 most innovative edtech companies by Global Silicon Valley. She is also the co-founder of Ed3DAO (@Ed3DAO), a web3 digital co-op (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) for educators by educators, aiming to catalyze innovation at scale. Vriti's goal is to break down silos among educators through web3. Her free newsletter, Metaverse for Education (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/k20Educators), contextualizes web3 for educators. Vriti has served as a teacher, dean, & director in public, private, & charter schools both locally & internationally across k12 & higher education.
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By:Vriti Saraf and Dr. Mike Peck
Are you a coffee drinker? Well, Starbucks just announced the launch of their web3 rewards program. Maybe you’re a student… Pearson is selling their textbooks as NFTs now. Or perhaps you’re into fashion. Gucci is accepting a cryptocurrency token called “apecoin” for its products.
Today, every facet of the world market is exploring or building on something called web3. If you’re not deeply immersed in this new technology, you might be thinking one of three things:
What is web3?
Why should I care?
Is web3 a fad?
Let’s cut through the jargon and get to the core of it: Web3 is the evolution of the world wide web. The web has gone through three iterations as a result of emerging technologies.
Web1 (Read)
The first generation of the web allowed users to consume information from largely static web pages. Most people didn’t know how to code, many didn’t have access to high speed internet, and some didn’t have access to computers at all. This meant modest adoption of the web.
Web2 (Read, Write)
As access to the web became easier with the adoption of mobile devices and nearly ubiquitous high speed internet, we saw the emergence of social media, which changed how we engaged with the web and with one another. Without knowing code, we were able to build virtual identities, unveil our inner thoughts to the world, build global relationships, and find resources for our learning, earning, and living.
Web2 also came with trade offs. It allowed big corporations to poach and store our personal identifying information and user data into centralized databases. Free products afterall, had a price. As sculptor Richard Serra said in 1973: “if something is free, you’re the product”.
Clickbait, doom scrolling, fake news, and misinformation became key ways for advertisers to monetize off of our engagement.
Web3 (Read, Write, Own)
Today, there is a beacon of hope for reversing the culture of monopolies and ads through the next iteration of the web. You’ve probably heard about blockchain, NFTs, metaverse, cryptocurrency, and other concepts that are often described with complex jargon. These technologies have actually been around for decades. Blockchain was invented in 2008, metaverse was coined in 1992, and virtual gamified environments have been around since 1962. We are finally ready for this confluence of tech because today, most of our activity lives on the web, and because COVID helped accelerate our virtual interactivity.
Web3 is grounded more in ethos than it is in tech. Here are the most important principles in web3:
Web3 is about decentralization and self-organization.
A great overview @vriti.eth and @mpeck ! A nice tap into a potentially new audience. Not always a fan of TvA but he has a wide audience, so that is a win!
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@Allie
Omg i missed the networking event🥹 is it up to be uploaded later??
vriti.eth — Yesterday at 4:01 PM
we'll have one every month!
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@mbteach
@vriti.eth you know y'all are jealous
vriti.eth — Yesterday at 4:01 PM
omg i love mouse trap!!!
@crespoarts
Hey, Friends! Hope everyone is well. I’m quietly watching you all do incredible things.
vriti.eth — Yesterday at 4:02 PM
yay good to see you in here again! we miss you!
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@Dr. Ryan Straight | UArizona
I've mentioned it before here somewhere but https://eth.build/ is one of the coolest things I've run across. It's "An Educational Sandbox for Web3" but it's much better if you just jump in and take a look. Such a great tool from Austin Griffith at the Ethereum Foundation.
mbteach — Yesterday at 4:35 PM
This looks like it should be awesome but it makes no sense to me at first glance. Guess I should be doing some research
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Dr. Ryan Straight | UArizona — Yesterday at 4:51 PM
Super excited that my stats class has been available for over 24 hours and nobody's dropped yet.
@mpeck
gm gm @ED3 Educators Happy Tuesday everyone! The community team will be posting daily thoughts, questions, and prompts to start some conversation. Today is: Tech Tip Tuesday We are seeing all sorts of cool new tools emerge in web3. We would love to here from you all what some of your favorite new tools are. If you're looking for some inspiration our very own @pford is building some awesome stuff with https://www.toools.tools/. Let's see some tools and be sure to give us a little description to tell everyone about it!
Jessie — Yesterday at 6:32 PM
I’m super excited to share with @Anth0ny about free tools to build educational virtual spaces for students on Friday!!! We’ll be sharing stuff about Frame VR and Mozilla Hubs. It’s free and open to anyone who wants to create cool experiences for students. Join us!! https://discord.gg/mSzd9XYF?event=1009199267384135841
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Join ED3 community members Jessie and Anthony exploring free virtual world building tools for education. Attendees will leave with ideas for use and will have their own PD virtual world to return to as a repository of session learning. Open to all!!
gm gm @ED3 Educators Happy Tuesday everyone! The community team will be posting daily thoughts, questions, and prompts to start some conversation. Today is: Tech Tip Tuesday We are seeing all sorts of cool new tools emerge in web3. We would love to here from you all what some of your favorite new tools are. If you're looking for some inspiration our very own @pford is building some awesome stuff with https://www.toools.tools/. Let's see some tools and be sure to give us a little description to tell everyone about it!
mariagalanis.eth — Yesterday at 7:28 PM
I remember hearing about this a little while back. A social media app, built on
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I remember hearing about this a little while back. A social media app, built on DeSo — the Decentralized Social Blockchain. A monetizable social network. Has anyone used it? You can create an account with Google or DeSo seed. https://diamondapp.com/
mpeck — Yesterday at 7:42 PM
Interesting….Google account blockchain?? Seems like acronyms
@mpeck
Interesting….Google account blockchain?? Seems like acronyms
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Sunday, July 10, 2022
Witness the launch of an acclaimed new book, Disruptive Literacy: A Roadmap for Urgent Global Action that shines a light on how to emerge from a post-pandemic educational crisis
A new book on solutions to the global literacy crisis, titled Disruptive Literacy: A Roadmap for Urgent Global Action was launched on 11 July during a two-day summit in Delhi focusing on how to make India literate in months, not years. The conference featured such high-profile guests as Rajnath Singh, the Hon. Defence Minister of India, who used a video link to exhort the group to work together for universal literacy. Dr Abdullah Rashid, the Hon. Minister of State for Education, the Republic of Maldives, was the chief guest, unveiling the partnership between DEVI Sansthan and the government of Maldives to accelerate foundational literacy and numeracy at the nationwide level, in all its public and private schools.
Here are the glimpses from the book launch at the Synergy Summit on 11th July at India International Centre, New Delhi
The book highlights the scale of the global educational crisis: as per UNICEF, over 70% of 10-year-olds lack foundational literacy and numeracy skills. The book strikes an optimistic tone, though, arguing that major breakthroughs are possible through a mass movement which involves all of society, including corporations, schools & colleges, NGOs, media and ordinary individuals. It is high time to replicate the experience of Ernakulam, which used a literacy movement to become the first Indian district to attain universal literacy, at the nationwide level to reap immediate gains and become a global example.
Watch Hon'ble Defence Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh hailing the book through a video message
Disruptive Literacy provides a roadmap for how to reach universal literacy, taking lessons and case studies from successful mass movements around the world. The government must play a crucial leadership role to conduct the campaign in a mission mode. The book argues that a paradigm shift is needed as the old teacher-centred rote-learning based education system has failed, leaving tens of millions of children and adults behind even before the Covid crisis. The book advocates the groundbreaking Accelerating Literacy for All program, which uses peer learning and the power of questions to unlock rapid literacy gains for both children and adults.
Disruptive Literacy has been hailed by politicians, international academics, literacy experts and educational changemakers alike, with figures as diverse as Yogi Adityanath, Ernesto Schiefelbein (a leading Latin American educationist), Vicky Colbert (former Vice-minister of education, Columbia) and Fred Mednick (founder, Teachers Without Borders) offering endorsements. Anil Swarup, former Secretary of Education, has described it as a ‘must read for policymakers and all those involved in the struggle against illiteracy’. Disruptive Literacy is published by Bloomsbury and available as a paperback or ebook in bookstores and online.
For followers of peer networks gravitated by Von Neumann's Intel that 100 times more tech per decade 2035 back for 1935 would either end in sustainability for all or none of human species (systems/chaos maths just doesn't spiral to some middle ground by mathematical definition) its joyful that AI for good is the centrepiece of the 9 interlocking ways forward Engineer Guterres has designed into digital roadmapping UN2.0 the brand that needs to lead the world's collaborative and effectiveness rankings
UN2.0 is not just a benchmark for UN but all govtech and open society
AI is multiplying out of at least 50 practice services of the UN such as the FAO's food or the WHO's health but its deepest exponentials are multiplying out of Geneva ITU (back in 1865 the world's most collaborative brand as nobody wanted 2 telegraph standards or telecoms or satellite telecoms or ...) and 3 new headquarters focused teams in ny all closely clustered around Guterres - tech envoy, deep data's global pulse, OC - lot longer tour at our world record jobs briefing on Guterres- BELOW ARE glimpses of aIforgood tours 24/7/365 massively openly online cooperated out of Geneva with extra commentary from wikipedia
AI for Good is a year round digital platform of the United Nations, where AI innovators and problem owners learn, discuss and connect to identify practical AI solutions to advance the UN SDGs. The impetus for organizing global summits that are action oriented, came from existing discourse in artificial intelligence (AI) research being dominated by research streams such as the Netflix Prize (improve the movie recommendation algorithm).[1] AI for Good aims to bring forward Artificial Intelligence research topics that contribute towards more global problems,[2][3] in particular through the Sustainable Development Goals. AI for Good came out of the AI for Good Global Summit 2020 which had been moved online in 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. AI for Good is organized by the Standardization Sector of ITU (ITU-T). Since moving online, AI for Good developed into three main programme streams: Learn, Build, and Connect. AI for Good also helps organize ITU's Global Standards Symposium.. In 2022 this as moved the "Neural Network" platform.[4] Speakers include:[5]
The ITU also relaunched its Journal ICT Discoveries during the 2018 Global Summit, with the first edition being a special on Artificial Intelligence.[12]
Several similar terms have been used to describe related applications of AI to global issues. These include "AI for Earth", referring specifically to environmental applications;[15][16] "Humanitarian AI", referring to applications for humanitarian ends;[17][18] and "AI for Healthcare".[19]
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