The Turing Test - News and Research

Another episode rounding up the latest news and research on AI in Education. The links below go straight to all the news stories and research papers discussed this week   NEWS Victorian "Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy" for government schools. https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/generative-artificial-intelligence/policy   Meeting the AI Skills Boom https://techcouncil.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Meeting-the-AI-Skills-Boom-2024.v2.pdf   LAUSD shelves its hyped AI chatbot to help students after collapse of firm that made it https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-03/lausds-highly-touted-ai-chatbot-to-help-students-fails-to-deliver   A class above: UNSW Sydney uses AI to power personalised paths to student success https://news.microsoft.com/en-au/features/a-class-above-unsw-sydney-uses-ai-to-power-personalised-paths-to-student-success/     Research Detecting ChatGPT-Generated Essays in a Large-Scale Writing Assessment: Is There a Bias Against Non-Native English Speakers? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131524000848#bib23   GenAI Detection Tools, Adversarial Techniques and Implications for Inclusivity in Higher Education https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19148   Avoiding embarrassment online: Response to and inferences about chatbots when purchases activate self-presentation concerns https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcpy.1414   Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Multimodal Learning Analytics: A Guiding Framework https://osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/adxuq   How Can I Get It Right? Using GPT to Rephrase Incorrect Trainee Responses https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00970   AI Conversational Agent Design for Supporting Learning and Well-Being of University Students https://osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/w4rtf   The Neglected 15%: Positive Effects of Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring Among Students with Disabilities https://osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/y52ew   The GPT Surprise: Offering Large Language Model Chat in a Massive Coding Class Reduced Engagement but Increased Adopters Exam Performances https://osf.io/preprints/osf/qy8zd   The Future of Feedback: Integrating Peer and Generative AI Reviews to Support Student Work https://osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/x3dct   Is ChatGPT Transforming Academics' Writing Style? https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08627   Can AI Provide Useful Holistic Essay Scoring? https://osf.io/preprints/osf/7xpre Read the excellent article about this paper in the Heching Report   Best Practices for Using AI When Writing Scientific Manuscripts https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsnano.3c01544   A real-world test of artificial intelligence infiltration of a university examinations system: A "Turing Test" case study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0305354