CSU students and faculty get access to ChatGPT. Not everyone’s happy – LAist
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Today on AirTalk, CSU students and faculty now have access to ChatGPT; a new investigation finds that C-sections have become the most common inpatient surgery; traditional Filipino baked goods with San and Wolves Bakeshop and FilmWeek.
Starting this year, all California State University students and faculty will have access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu, a bespoke version of one of the world’s leading chatbots. Some educators have welcomed the university system’s pivot to artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, the system put out a call for proposals, asking faculty to come up with strategies to integrate AI literacy into the curricula. By May, the CSU received more than 400 proposals. Ultimately, 63 of them were awarded up to $60,000 in grants. But the system’s investment in AI has not been universally embraced. The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 CSU professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches, denounced the move over concerns about faculty job security. Faculty also expressed concern about AI’s toll on the environment; mounting surveillance; language learning models with built-in racial and gender biases; and other related issues. Joining to discuss is LAist higher education reporter, Julia Barajas, CSU’s chief information officer, Ed Clark, and an associate vice president for lecturers at the California Faculty Association, Elaine Bernal.
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For nearly two decades now, over thirty-percent of births in the U-S are performed via c-section. That figure is a magnitude greater than the world health organization’s “ideal” rate, which hovers between 10% and 15%. This large jump has made c-sections the most common inpatient surgery in America. But some 50 years ago, only about 5% of babies were delivered by c-section. A new article by Business Insider senior investigations editor Hannah Beckler explores the financial incentives that could explain the rise. Today on AirTalk, she joins Josie Huang to share her findings.
Having originally started as a pop-up in 2017 in New York, San & Wolves has made a name for itself with traditional Filipino baked goods, with a twist — being both nut and soy-free. The pop-up, started by Kym Estrada and Arvin Torres, eventually made its way across the coast in Los Angeles. Having grown in interest, the bakery opened its first brick-and-mortar in Long Beach this year! For this week’s Food Friday, we’re joined in-studio by Kym Estrada, lead pastry chef, and Arvin Torres, operations manager for the Filipino bakery San & Wolves.
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