Another News & Research episode this week, and lots of interesting links and research discussed. Here's the weblinks for everything!

News

Deception and Deepfakes - How genAI is Changing Cyber Safety
Course: https://spsc.thinkific.com/courses/take/deceptionanddeepfakes/ 

Leon Furzes online course, where he made a free course about deepfakes hosted by a deepfake, with deepfake content about deepfakes
https://leonfurze.teachable.com/p/this-course-is-ai-generated 

McKinsey surveyed 1363 working professionals across countries, industries, and demographics about the use of generative AI at their work places. 
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai 

The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2303/2303.06219.pdf 

Satya Nadella shared 200 examples globally of companies using AI
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11/12/how-real-world-businesses-are-transforming-with-ai/ 

Rose Luckin's Beyond the Hype report 
https://www.educateventures.com/beyond-the-hype 

Brad Smith shares a Digital Twin of St Peters Basilica in Rome
https://youtu.be/5dQI_TXYJbU 

Research

Spotting Research Fraud - a website that's fascinating
https://www.academ-ai.info/ 

AI or Human? Evaluating Student Feedback Perceptions in Higher Education
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/6zm83 

Teacher Learning Network Journal - AI in Education special
https://tln.org.au/Web/Web/TLN-Journals/TLN%20Journal%20Public.aspx 

Adoption and Impact of ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: A Case Study on a Database Administration Course
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12145 

Follow-Up Questions Improve Documents Generated by Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12017 

Educational Personalized Learning Path Planning with Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11773