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  1. Aug 2023
    1. he viewpoint of the human persons’ central position.
    2. principally anthropocentric.
    3. which informs their basic worldviews and/or ontology.
    4. has the welfare or wellbeing of the human person as its key attribute.
    5. adigan explains that Renaissance Humanists did try to broaden the domain of the Triune God and that it hardly objected to the Christian interpretation; that Enlightenment Humanists were satisfied with a God who did not need to intervene in human affairs but who sets the universe in motion under rational foundations. Romantic Humanists looked to a personal deity who was closer to the joys of life than a policeman figure type of God; Religious Humanists on their own part aim at discovering the vital force or world spirit which could be tapped into by all humanpersons when and where necessary; and Secular Humanists, according to this explanation, from their atheistic and agnostic perspective fall in line with Nietzsche who declared that “God is dead” while searching rather for ethical principles from among the people themselves.
    6. uns through them is theirrejection of supernaturalism while relying mainly on reason and science, democracy and human compassion
    7. It shares with Renaissance Humanism a love for learning and an advocacy of free inquiry, but it is as skeptical of the occult as it is of religion; it agrees with the Enlightenment thinkers that the use of reason is our best guide for understanding, but it tries to avoid the former’s near-deification of rationality; it affirms the romantic stress on the importance of human emotions, but it is wary of the anti-civilization aspects of this movement; and like Religious Humanism, it seeks to chart out the common moral decencies found throughout the denominations of humankind, but it does not desire to establish a secular denomination, a religion of man to take their place (Madigan 330).

      Great summary of various type sof humainsm.

    8. emphasis on human emotions (as against the primacy of the human reason of the enlightenment era)
    9. Voltaire is a perfect example of this group.
    10. he primacy of human reason.
    11. on sweet reason as the best guide to knowledge and they remained highly critical of organized religion.
    12. in relation to classical letters and a new wave of confidence in human ability to decipher between truth and falsehood via the reasoning faculty.
    13. xamples of Renaissance Humanists are Petrarch, Erasmus of Rotterdam and Picodella Mirandola.
    14. over human interests, human welfare and happiness or fulfillment.
    15. he death of God philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
    16. In Ludwig Feuerbach, for instance, we also find the “modern hyper deification of man”
    17. to Marxists humanism which sees religion as the opium of the masses
    18. e human person is called upon to make the best of life in this world, take delight in earthly achievements and build a better life here on earth, thereby “rejecting religious asceticism, narrow scholasticism and humble piety”
    19. s such, so much emphasis is placed on the decisive influence of social, economic and psychological structures, in which case, man is left as only a pawn in the game of life, or rather, that the self determination of the individual is only an illusion (Mautner 256)
    20. ased on a belief in man’s capacity for self-cultivation and self-improvement, and in the progress of mankind...In contemporary French philosophy, humanism is the conception of self-determination, together with the assumption that an individual’s choices can make a real difference to a society, or to the course of history (Mautner 256
    21. As it were, the neo-humanists (Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Von Humboldt, etc.) of the 18thcentury espoused the ideal of a rich flourishing of individual potentiality, bolstered by the study of classical language and literature
    22. It “adopted an ideal of the full development of the individual
    23. even the Renaissance humanists pointed backwards to the Greek and Roman philosophers (among the Sophists, Skeptics, Stoics and the Cynics) who variously attempted finding solution to human existence in man (Madigan 326-327).
    24. human sovereignty as opposed to the divine or supernatural, and thereby a synonym for atheism or egoism.
    25. in its ethical sense it relates to the need for according compassion and respect to fellow humans; in the sociological context, it entails viewing social structures as productsof human agents; the historical sense of meaning is depicted in the different epochs such as that of Renaissance or Enlightenment when the human person became the focus of scholarly attention.
    26. s also inalienably anchored on the communalistic or relational nature of the African society.
    27. It was primarily based on the perceived need for liberation, freedom, independence, rebirth, emancipation, enlightenment and intellectual awakening on African personality and identity.
    28. As noted in this definition of humanism, matters pertaining to justice or human rights are very central in this sphere.
    29. “Africans are not one but many peoples and races with a diversity of cultural beliefs and traditions” (Okolo 25).
    30. It is at the heart of our traditional culture... the West have its Technology and Asia its Mysticism. Africa’s gift to the world culture must be in the realm of human relationships (22).
    31. the African outlook is ontologically anthropocentric, since everything in it is viewed in terms of its relation to the human person.
    32. “African Humanism”.
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    1. Thus, the Ubuntu philosophy attributes, as discussed above, would constitute an indispensable input towards the redesigning process of the Balanced Scorecard model.
    2. In general, within the Ubuntu philosophy, the importance and value of the human being (munthu) and the community are pivotal.
    3. One of the profound lessons on Ubuntu is that it integrates African organisations with the local communities. The reviewed literature also reveals that organisations are able to realise synergies through communalism and collectivism that arise from the Ubuntu principles.
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    1. through listening to elders
    2. (Experience is the best teacher)
    3. the idea of knowledge in Africa resides in the community and not in the individuals that make up the community.
    4. arguing that reason is the source of knowledge while others view experience or the use of the senses as the gateway to knowledge.
    5. Communities are allowed to exercise their free will but remain responsible for the choices they make as well as their actions.
    6. the community is the source, author and custodian of moral standards and personhood is defined in terms of conformity to these established moral standards whose objective is to have a person who is communo-centric than one who is individualistic.
    7. The CMP is not a position established by one person as is the case with Plato’s justice theory, Aristotle’s eudaimonism, Kant’s deontology or Bentham’s hedonism (2012: 11).
    8. Metaphysics is onto-triadic or tripartite in character. It involves the Supreme Being (God), other lesser spirits (ancestral/alien and avenging) and human beings.
    9. to remark that the idea of being has its full expression through participation.
    10. the idea of being is relational.
    11. a human being is always in communion with other human beings as well as with the spiritual world. Sekou Toure (1959) calls this “the communion of persons” whereby being is a function of the “us” or “we” as opposed to the “I” as found in “the autonomy of the individuals”
    12. Yes in the sense that in non-Western cultures being is also explained in terms of appearance and reality as well as change and permanence and no in the sense that non-Western philosophies, especially the hunhu/ubuntu traditional philosophy of Southern Africa has a communal character, not an individual character.
    13. What is reality?
    14. The objective is to show that while Western philosophy is persona-centric and is summarised by Descartes’ famous phrase, Cogito ergo sum which when translated to English means “I think therefore I am”; hunhu/ubuntu traditional philosophy, on the other hand, is communo-centric and is summarised by Pobee’s famous dictum, Cognatus ergo sum which when translated to English means, “I am related by blood, therefore, I exist.”
    15. This is quite understandable because in Western societies, the individual is conceived of as the centre of human existence and so there is need to respect his or her rights to privacy. 
    16. Ubuntu is the idea that no one can be healthy when the community is sick. Ubuntu says I am human only because you are human. If I undermine your humanity, I dehumanise myself.
    17. African humanism, on the other hand; would, then, refer to an ideology or outlook or thought system that values peaceful co-existence and the valorisation of community.  In other words, it is a philosophy that sees human needs, interests and dignity as of fundamental importance and concern (Gyekye 1997: 158).
    18. I have located three texts from the 1970s in which Ubuntu is identified as ‘African humanism.’ The texts do not explain what African humanism is, so it is possible that their authors understood African humanism as something different from a human quality.
    19. his means that Ubuntu as a traditional thought has not been restricted to the academy alone but has also found its place in the public sphere where it has been utilised to solve political conflicts and thereby bring about socio-political harmony
    20. “the single main ingredient that made the achievements of the TRC possible was a uniquely African ingredient – Ubuntu.”
    21. a person through other persons. This maxim, for Metz, “has descriptive senses to the effect that one’s identity as a human being causally and even metaphysically depends on a community.”
    22. A person’s humanity is dependent on the appreciation, preservation and affirmation of other person’s humanity. To be a person is to recognize therefore that my subjectivity is in part constituted by other persons with whom I share the social world.

      It also introduces much more nuanced epystemology.

    23. is not only an ontological and epistemological concept; it is also an ethical concept.
    24. This means that the diversity that characterise African people, in terms of geographical location, history and ethnicity, does not take away the fact that Africans have “a unified form of knowledge” that is based on group identity or community. 
    25. ethno-philosophy as a system of thought that deals with the collective worldviews of diverse African people as a unified form of knowledge based on myths, folk wisdom and the proverbs of the people.

      Definition of ethno-philosophy

    26. We also have second generation scholars of Ubuntu such as Michael Onyebuchi Eze (2010), who is credited for his critical historicisation of the term Ubuntu,  Michael Battle (2009) who is credited for some deep insights on the linguistic meaning of the term Ubuntu as well as his famous claim that Ubuntu is a gift to the Western world; Fainos Mangena (2012a and 2012b) who is credited for defining Hunhu/Ubuntu and extracting from it the idea of the Common Moral Position (CMP) and Thaddeus Metz (2007) whose search for a basic principle that would define African ethics has attracted a lot of academic attention; Christian BN Gade (2011; 2012 and 2013) who has taken the discourse of Hunhu/Ubuntu to another level by looking at the historical development of discourses on Ubuntu as well as the meaning of Ubuntu among South Africans of African Descent (SAADs).  Finally, we have Martin H Prozesky who has outlined some of the distinctive qualities/features of Hunhu/Ubuntu philosophy that are important for this article.

      This is second generation of Ubuntu thinkers.

    27. we have first generation scholars of Ubuntu such as Mogobe Bernard Ramose (1999; 2014), who is credited for his definition of Ubuntu as humaneness, Stanlake Samkange and Tommie Marie Samkange (1980) who link Hunhu/Ubuntu with the idea of humanism and Desmond Tutu (1999) who sees Ubuntu as a conflict resolution philosophy. These three are regarded as first-generation scholars of Ubuntu because historically, they are among the first black philosophers hailing from Africa to write about Hunhu/Ubuntu as a philosophy.

      First generatoin of Ubuntu thinkers.

    28. Thus, Hunhu/Ubuntu, as an aspect of African philosophy, prides in the idea that the benefits and burdens of the community must be shared in such a way that no one is prejudiced but that everything is done to put the interests of the community ahead of the interests of the individual.
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    1. But AI is probably only about 10% of the secret sauce. The other 90% lies in the combination of data, experimentation, and talent that constantly activate and inform the intelligence behind the system. Personalization is the goal; it’s what constitutes a company’s strategic brawn.
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    1. Generative AI’s greatest potential is not replacing humans; it is to assist humans in their individual and collective efforts to create hitherto unimaginable solutions. It can truly democratize innovation.
    2. However, the challenge of communicating their concepts in written or visual form restricts vast numbers of people from contributing new ideas.
    3. the technology makes co-creation of new offerings much easier and less expensive.
    4. ChatGPT determined that the food-donation app could encourage people to use up their food before it goes bad and reduce food waste by giving unopened, edible food to those in need.
    5. onsider an innovation challenge where the goal is to identify ways to minimize food waste.
    6. where the functions are determined first and the form is then designed to accommodate them.
    7. We asked it to generate ideas through a process of trisociation by connecting three distinct entities (an extension of the bisociation creativity technique).

      Connecting distinct entities.

    8. Generative AI can support divergent thinking by making associations among remote concepts and producing ideas drawn from them.
    9. companies have trouble seeing the forest for the trees.
    10. “democratizing innovation”

      element for bottom-up AI

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    1. Notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent.

      ||StephanieBP|||||StephanieBP|| There is ambiguity in terms of reference. According to this line, they will ask for the consent. The only problem is 'nothwistanding the above'. Let us analyse it carefully. 'Small print' will bring new risks for AI era.

      ||sorina||||Pavlina||||JovanNj||||anjadjATdiplomacy.edu||||VladaR||

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    1. Marcus Aurelius to develop stoic qualities. Elon Musk to build a start-up. Alan Watts to find purpose and meaning in life. Carl Jung to assist in personal growth, and so on.
    2. round the table, there are Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Steve Jobs, and other great minds.
    3. a personal board of advisors.
    4. To get the mental juices flowing, all you need to do is ask a question.
    5. o teach people critical thinking is to teach them to write.
    6. Reflecting on your thoughts and feelings makes you understand yourself better, find uncovered self-knowledge, and improve your overall mental health & fitness.
    7. I believe the world’s most valuable skill is clarity of thought.
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    1. At least Shakespeare and Freud would have understood the power of the irrational that provoked these and other madmen to destroy the human fabric of Yugoslavia.
    2. A semi-heroic, semi-tragic figure, Marković failed, but at least he had fought the cancer instead of adjusting to it.
    3. Whatever his motives, it was a disastrous political mistake. Serbia, Bosnia’s vastly more powerful neighbor, now had the pretext it needed to strike—the claim that 1.3 million Serbs were being taken out of “Yugoslavia” against their will. I believe that Milošević and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić had already decided to annex the majority of Bosnia by military force (Milošević had spoken to me of 70 percent). The EC’s irresponsibility, the United States’ passivity, and Izetbegović’s miscalculation made their job easier.
    4. On December 17, 1991, an EC summit decided to grant recognition. Carrington and Vance both complained loudly and publicly. The State Department’s statement, to avoid ruffling the EC, was nuanced. War in Bosnia, which had until then been probable, now became virtually inevitable.
    5. Izetbegović, briefed by the German ambassador to Yugoslavia on how to make his point with Genscher that EC recognition would bring violence to Bosnia, unaccountably failed to do so in his November meeting with the German foreign minister. The omission can only have led Genscher to assume that he had a green light from Izetbegović for recognition.
    6. However, between July 1991 and March 1992, the United States was not a major factor in the Yugoslav crisis. In the fall of 1991, at a U.S. ambassadors’ meeting in Berlin, a friend from the State Department’s European Bureau told me that Yugoslavia had become a tar baby in Washington. Nobody wanted to touch it. With the American presidential election just a year away, it was seen as a loser.
    7. He and Vance both argued—as did the U.S. government—that there should be no Western recognition of the independence of any Yugoslav republic until all had agreed on their mutual relationships. If this simple principle had been maintained, less blood would have been shed in Bosnia.
    8. Unlike the JNA, they welcomed foreign journalists, to whom they retailed the epic struggle of their tiny republic against the Yugoslav colossus. It was the most brilliant public relations coup in the history of Yugoslavia.
    9. Baker did, however, leave a strong political message. He said to Prime Minister Marković, a conduit to the army, “If you force the United States to choose between unity and democracy, we will always choose democracy.”
    10. Baker told Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Slovene President Milan Kučan that the United States would not encourage or support unilateral secession; he hoped they would not secede, but if they had to leave, he urged them to leave by negotiated agreement. H
    11. t midyear that Secretary of State James Baker arrived in Belgrade on June 21, 1991.
    12. The incident illustrated three important traits of Milošević’s character: his cynicism about Yugoslavia’s unity and institutions, his natural mendacity, and the pains he always took to avoid direct responsibility for aggressive actions. The third trait was to become particularly relevant to Milošević’s hidden hand in the Bosnia crisis.
    13. “Serbia will always act in the spirit of the highest democratic principles,” replied Milošević, who was always at his most mellifluous when expatiating on his devotion to democracy. “There will be a democratic vote in the presidency.”
    14. The fifth-largest army in Europe, well supplied by the Soviet Union and an enormous domestic arms industry, it was seen by many as the most important unifying institution in Yugoslavia. Its officer corps, however, had a Serbian majority who, when events forced them to choose, followed Milošević.
    15. Izetbegović was succinct with me: “If Croatia goes independent, Bosnia will be destroyed.”
    16. Milošević almost never delivered; Tudjman sometimes did.
    17. Neither Milošević nor Tudjman could understand why we cared so much about people who were murdered, tortured, abused, or harassed.
    18. The people being helped, and those who will succeed them, are part of the “other Serbia” and the “other Croatia”—the core of the democratic revival that in time must replace the current nationalist hysteria.
    19. I urged Milošević to meet with the disciplined and impressive Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, who was urging a policy of peaceful resistance. Rugova agreed. Milošević refused, saying of the leader of some two million Albanian subjects of Serbia, “Who does he represent?”
    20. Revealingly, Milošević was unwilling to give the Albanians in Kosovo the same right of self-determination that he demanded for Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia.
    21. He presided over serious violations of the rights of Serbs, who made up 12 percent of the population of Croatia. They were dismissed from work, required to take loyalty oaths, and subjected to attacks on their homes and property.
    22. If Milošević recalls a slick con man, Tudjman resembles an inflexible schoolteacher.
    23. In their drive to separate from Yugoslavia they simply ignored the 22 million Yugoslavs who were not Slovenes. They bear considerable responsibility for the bloodbath that followed their secession.
    24. Nationalism is by nature uncivil, antidemocratic, and separatist because it empowers one ethnic group over all others
    25. confirmed that unity and democracy were the Siamese twins of Yugoslavia’s fate. The loss of one meant that the other would die.
    26. The new Yugoslav prime minister, Ante Marković, a dynamic Croatian committed to economic reform and other Western policies, was pressing for both these objectives. The United States supported him and persuaded the West European governments to do so as well.
    27. When the Slovenian and Croatian independence movements, together with Milošević’s own disruptive actions in the name of unity, made the preservation of Yugoslavia impossible, he fell back on an even more aggressive approach
    28. for him, people are groups (Serbs, Muslims) or simply abstractions.
    29. His cherubic cheeks do not fit the strongman image; in fact, he has to work hard at looking tough for his public posters. His manner is affable and displays his light side. Unfortunately, the man is almost totally dominated by his dark side.
    30. When Tito died, leaving a Yugoslavia too decentralized for any ethnic group to dominate, it became inevitable that a Serbian nationalist would rise up to redress the perceived wrongs dealt his people.
    31. Serbs are a naturally talented and ebullient people with an instinctive liking for Americans that is based partly on a shared garrulity and partly on a military alliance spanning both world wars.
    32. he later cited it as the reason he waited nearly a year before agreeing to meet me.
    33. if Yugoslavia wanted to continue its close relations with the United States, it would have to curb human rights abuses in the province.
    34. But I would add that the United States could only support unity in the context of democracy; it would strongly oppose unity imposed or preserved by force.
    35. Yugoslavia no longer enjoyed the geopolitical importance that the United States had given it during the Cold War.
    36. Like an unusually large number of Foreign Service officers—myself included—he served twice in Yugoslavia.
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    1. "Yes, the words "aiphobia" and "aiphobic" have been used to describe a fear or aversion to artificial intelligence. The word "aiphobia" is a portmanteau of the words "artificial" and "phobia", and it was first used in print in 1998. The word "aiphobic" is an adjective that means "having or showing a fear or aversion to artificial intelligence'."

      Mroe about AIphobia.

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    1. Vicuna is good at general chat and not good at math/coding.

      Not bad for us.

    2. Choose appropriate datasets: select a dataset that is representative of your task and large enough to cover various scenarios without causing overfitting.

      ||JovanNj||||anjadjATdiplomacy.edu|| It always boil down to datasets.

    3. My final suggestion is to use learning curves as you tune your model. Keep track of the methods you use, how much data you are using, and the model performance. By tracking all of this, you can make a better quantitative assessment of whether to keep fine-tuning, get more data or if you have hit a point of diminishing returns and can stop.

      We should have logging of our experience with these models.

    4. The PEFT package is typically my starting point. It includes techniques like Low-Rank Adaption of LLMs which is gaining popularity.
    5. The most frequent problem is fitting the model on a single GPU. That’s why it’s important to use parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques like Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models (LoRA) and LLM Adapters. Also, use low precision like Brain Floating Point Format (bfp16), or 4-bit precision from QLoRA paper. The Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) package is a starting point.

      ||anjadjATdiplomacy.edu||||JovanNj|| Da li mozemo nesto od ovog da koristimo.

    6. It is crucial to have a deep understanding of the dataset you will use for fine-tuning including its nuances and biases.

      We have it at Diplo.

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    1. in all areas except cybersecurity.

      I am not sure it is the case. Why should be cybersecurity stated separately. According to the law of diplomatic immunity, any archive and asset in whatever format (including digital) is protected wherever it is located (including beyond Switzerland).

    2. Strictly speaking, Switzerland offers international organisations the same legal framework as Luxembourg that ensures their digital and physical integrity. Although the ICRC does not have the status of an embassy in Switzerland, its buildings, land and infrastructure, as well as its IT service providers, which hold Red Cross data, are subject to the “principle of inviolability”.

      Exactly. I do not understand what is the point of Luxembourg offering something which CH does not offer.

      On the top, ICRC has sui generis immunity.

    3. Favarger chocolate

      owned by Croatian businessman

    4. “We first had discussions with Geneva and Bern about our needs in terms of digital immunity and reported that we were in discussion with other states.”

      Swiss funcitonal immunity used by WEF, GAVI covers immunity for activiteis. ICRC also has immunity per se. What was the problem.

    5. On 13 July 2022, the Luxembourg parliament almost unanimously ratified the so-called headquarters agreement with the ICRC, making the establishment of the ICRC cyber delegation official.

      What does it include pratically?

    6. it provides the services of a highly secure, high-performance data centre.

      This is critical to have companies that can provide high security.

    7. lasting several weeks

      It was one day attack.

    8. The first customer was Estonia, an ideal candidate for the test. The Baltic country is not only Europe's model state when it comes to digitisation, but it also knows what it means to be in the crosshairs of hackers.

      Not necessary. Estonia's embassy is 'country backup' in the case of attack. Estonia does not want to experience what happened during the Second world war when complete nacional achieve of Estonia was taken by Soviet Union.

    9. built up its own digital sovereignty

      What does it mean in practice? Does it mean to be physically or technically secure?

    10. Luxembourg politicians like to apply the fortress metaphor to other areas, Schmit said, to the financial industry as a “safe haven for money” and to cyberspace as a “safe haven for data”.

      Geneva has been also fortress for private banking with good and bad connotations.

    11. to create a digital emblem for humanitarian data protection. 
    12. only a staggering 21 per cent of Swiss NGOs make full backups of their data or use two-factor authentication to log online securely.

      It is optimistic estiamte.

    13. which enjoy diplomatic protection.

      What does it mean? Is it functional and/or physical diplomatic immunity? Switzerland has unique scheme for 'functional immunity'. Is it the same?

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    1. The Kyiv city military administration said it was the eighth day in a row that Russia had launched Iran-made Shahed drones at the capital.

      ||Jovan|| could you check this paragraph

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    1. The Enlightenment is a complete delusion, because the Enlightenment is the idea that today’s rather reduced human beings can replace with their own feeble minds the true primordial tradition. And it just gets worse, because the Enlightenment leads to various other characteristics of modernity: for example, the ideas of equality, democracy and progress.
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    1. Debunking Common Misconceptions about Prompt Engineering

      Misconcpeetions about AI prompting

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    1. Free courses and guides for learning Generative AI

      ||Jovan|| Course on Generative AI

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    1. "Teaching staff will need to continuously develop new methods of assessment that assess students at a level beyond the levels of AIs," it said.

      This is of direct relevance for you.

    2. Monash University described how it has tested using AI "personalised course advisers" to help students navigate their degrees and classes, AI-powered mock job interviews for real positions and simulated customers or clients for learning.

      What is Monash University doing?

    3. using more oral or other supervised exams, practical assessments and the use of portfolios.

      This is suggestion of Australian universiteis.

    4. Monash submitted that even if regulations were introduced to require AI tools to inject "watermarks" into their code to make AI detectable, other generative AI technologies could still be used to strip out those watermarks.

      Monash is active in this context.

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    1. Figure 3: Components, types,and subfields of AI based on Regona et al (2022).

      ||JovanNj||||sorina|| A very nice summary of AI (visual and content).

    2. Educators are also aware of new risks

      List of worries for educators

    3. AI can be defined as “automation based on associations.”

      It is a very interesting definition of AI!!! ||JovanNj||

    4. We will consider “educational technology” (edtech) to include both (a) technologies specifically designed for educational use, as well as (b) general technologies that are widely used in educational settings

      Q: What is educational technology?

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    1. created a safe corridor for Ukraine’s grain exports from three Ukrainian ports – Odesa, Yuzhny and Chornomorsk.

      Could have more theory about this?

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    1. metacognitive prompts.
    2. hile AI has the potential to help students learn

      I disagree with this statement.

    3. In this scenario, the AI aids with personalized, readily available tutoring and coaching outside of the classroom and the classroom transforms into ahub of systematic engagement
    4. Such changes foster an active learning environment, inviting each student to engage with class concepts, articulate reasoning, and actively construct knowledge
    5. AI as Simulators: Build Your Own
    6. AI as Simulator: Creating Opportunities for Practice

      ||Dragana||||Andrej||||JovanNj||||sorina||||anjadjATdiplomacy.edu||||VladaR||

      We can use AI to help us with simulation exercises.

    7. applying that concept actively in a novel situation requires a level of automation –students have to “think on their feet” as they apply what they know in a new way
    8. Your assessment should focus on how well the AI has explained and illustrated the concept, not on the quality of its creative output; consider how the AI has applied the concept and not whether the poem or dialogue is engaging or unique.
    9. Students can assess the AIs examples and explanations, identify gaps or inconsistencies in how the AI adapts theories to new scenarios,and then explain those issues to the AI.The student’s assessment of the AI’s output and their suggestions for improvement of that output is a learning opportunity.
    10. By asking students to explicitly name what the AI gets wrong (or right) and teach the AI the concept, the prompt challenges student understanding of a topic and questionstheir assumptions about the depth of their knowledge
    11. This is because teaching involves “elaborative interrogation” or explaining a fact or topic in detail and this requires a deep processing of the material and invokes comparison mechanisms: to generate an explanation, students much compare concepts and consider differences and similarities between concepts.
    12. Teaching others helps students learn
    13. AI as Coach: Reflection Prompt

      ||JovanNj||||anjadjATdiplomacy.edu|| Krenuo sam u izradu modela za ucenje - za nas prvi kurs o AI u diplomatiji. Ovo je odlican tekst koji objasnjava pisanje promptova za razlicite svrhe. Ovde mi nije jasno da li mi treba da ubacimo ovaj ceo prompt u ChatGPT ili deo po deo.

    14. Metacognition plays a pivotal role in learning, enabling students to digest, retain, and apply newfound knowledge.
    15. This type of metacognition involves“reflection after action”
    16. Metacognitive exercises can help students generalize and extract meaning from an experience or simulate future scenarios.
    17. AI Tutor: Instructions for students
    18. students get more opportunities to restate ideasin their own words, explain, think out loud, answer questions, and elaborate on responses than they would in a classroom, where time is limited and one-on-one instruction isn’t possible
    19. Tutoring is inherently interactive and can involve a number of learning strategies including:questioning(by both the tutor and the student); personalized explanations and feedback(the tutor can correct misunderstandings in real-time and provide targeted advice based on the student's unique needs); collaborative problem-solving(tutors may work through problems together with students, and not justshow them the solution); and real-time adjustment(based on the student's responses and progress, a tutor mayadjust the pace, difficulty level, making the learning process dynamic and responsive)
    20. Tutoring,particularly high-dosage tutoring,has been shown to improve learning outcomes
    21. n a paragraph,briefly discuss what you learned from using the tool. How well did it work? Did anything surprise you? What are some of your takeaways in working with the AI? What did you learn about your own work? What advice or suggestions did it give you? Was the advice helpful?
    22. hat reflection can also serve as a springboard for a class discussion that serves a dual purpose: a discussion about the topic or concept and about how to work with the AI
    23. Getting feedback on their work from the AI is an opportunity to practiceand improve,but that feedback should be considered critically, and students should be asked to articulate how and why the feedback they received is effective (or not).
    24. Unlike educators in classroom,it doesn’t know the students or understand the students’ context; while the feedback may be helpful it should be coupled with an in-class discussion and clear guidelines
    25. s one possible form of feedback
    26. That feedback should be concrete and specific, straightforward, and balanced (tell the student what they are doing right and what they can do to improve)
    27. an also give you a sense of where students are in their learning journey
    28. Students should report out their interactions with the AI and write a reflection about the guidance and help the AI provided and how they plan to incorporate (or not) the AI’s feedback to help improve their work.
    29. While ongoing, tailored feedback is important, it is difficultand time-consuming to implement in a large class setting. The time and effort required to consistently provide personalized feedback to numerous students can be daunting.
    30. When feedback is coupled with practice itcreates anenvironment that helps students learn
    31. Researchers notethe significance of incorporating feedback intothe broader learning process, as opposed to providing it at the conclusion of a project, test, or assignment.

      Importance of continious feedback

    32. Effective feedback pinpoints gaps and errors, and offers explanations about what students should do to improve
    33. Making mistakes can help students learn. particularly if those mistakes are followed by feedback tailored to the individual student
    34. Large Language Models are prone to producing incorrect, but plausible facts, a phenomenon known as confabulation or hallucination.

      AI risks

    35. Prompts are simply the text given to the LLM in order to produce an output.

      Q: What are prompts?

    36. Our guidelines challenge students to remain the “human in the loop” and maintain that not only are students responsible for their own work but they should actively oversee the AIs output, check with reliable sources, and complement any AI output with their unique perspectives and insights. Our aim is to encourage students to critically assess and interrogate AI outputs, rather than passively accept them.

      Aim of the approach

    37. increasing metacognition
    38. : to help students learn with AI and to helpthem learn about AI

      Dual approach of relevance for Diplo's AI approach.

    39. how and when to use AI as they instill best practices in AI-assisted learning.
    40. hese tools offer the potential for adaptivelearning experiences tailored to individual students’needs and abilities, as well as opportunities to increase learning through a variety of other pedagogical methods.
    41. This paper examines the transformative role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in education and their potential as learning tools, despite their inherent risks and limitations. The authors propose seven approaches for utilizing AI in classrooms: AI-tutor, AI-coach, AI-mentor, AI-teammate, AI-tool, AI-simulator, and AI-student, each with distinct pedagogical benefits and risks. The aim is to help students learn with and about AI, with practical strategies designed to mitigate risks such as complacency about the AI’s output, errors, and biases. These strategies promote active oversight, critical assessment of AI outputs, and complementation of AI's capabilities with the students' unique insights. By challenging students to remain the "human in the loop", the authors aim to enhance learning outcomes while ensuring that AI serves as a supportive tool rather than a replacement. The proposed framework offers a guide for educators navigating the integration ofAI-assisted learning in classrooms.

      ||Andrej||||Dragana||||sorina||||Jovan||

      this seems to be a paper worth consulting for our approach of using AI in the learning process

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    1. A company that doesn’t like the rules could threaten to pack up and leave. Then what? 
    2. “Keeping the details of AI technologies secret is likely to thwart good-faith researchers trying to protect the public interest, as well as competition, and open science,”
    3. agreed not to share: the parameters that are known as the “weights” of their algorithms.
    4. a detailed metadata trail that reflects the history of a given image.
    5. It is also not clear who those experts will be, how they will be chosen, whether the same experts will be tasked with examining all the systems, and by what measure they will determine risk.

      ||sorina|| Good point

    6. he outlined a plan to bring lawmakers up to speed on emerging technology by convening at least nine panels of experts to give them a crash course in A.I. and help them craft informed legislation.

      ||sorina||||StephanieBP||||VladaR||||Pavlina|| Our training with US embassy is timely. The similar initiative is proposed by the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Summer for members of senate.

      Sorina, you may share this parallel with US Embassy.

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    1. foundation model providers generally do not comply with draft requirements to describe the use of copyrighted training data, the hardware used and emissions produced in training, and how they evaluate and test models.
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    1. I support an Anti-AI movement in the sense that we should have some opposition questioning what's going on.

      ||sorina|| Do you agree with this reference?

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