Tech-Neill-ogy #11 - 6 August 2023

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

Author

Jeffrey Neill
August 07, 2023

Welcome to newsletter #11!

There has been a lot of AI news as of late: some good, some bad. I was particularly struck by this article about GPT-4 passing Harvard classes. It is an interesting time to be observing the impact of technology on our world. That said, we are back to school this week down here in Sāo Paulo, so things are heating up. Hopefully, you can pick up a trick or two, regardless of where you are in the academic cycle.

I'm always here to answer your questions, so don't hesitate to reach out to me. I also encourage you to share any interesting tools or resources you come across during your journey. Feel free to drop me an email at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you!

Enjoy this week’s newsletter!

Students can use AI on applications, Arizona State law school says

A week after The University of Michigan Law School banned the use of popular artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT on student applications, at least one school is going in the other direction.

www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/students-can-use-ai-applications-arizona-state-law-school-says-2023-07-28

I’m a Hack, by ChatGPT

I know that I’m one of the issues in the W.G.A. strike, but I won’t be able to write myself out of a paper bag for decades.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/07/im-a-hack-by-chatgpt

Humata - ChatGPT for all your files

Humata is GPT for your files. Ask the AI anything about your data. Ask questions about your data and get answers powered by AI instantly. Learn, summarize, synthesize, and extract valuable data from your files 100X faster. This is a dream come true for those of us with folders full of data files.

www.humata.ai

SmartWithPoints.com

Convert your credit card and travel points to get the most value out of your points. I’ve just begun to toy with this one, but there seems to be great usefulness in this one for those of us who travel a lot. Ask your questions, get some suggestions, have a great trip…

smartwithpoints.com/chat

Monic.ai - Learn anything faster with AI

Use the power of GPT-4 to generate learning content and assessments from anything! This is a key for teachers… another one you may want to share with your teacher friends! But it has great utility for college counselors, too!

beta.monic.ai

Here is a great example of the ways that ChatGPT and other generative AI can assist college counselors in the more mundane parts of their work. Consider this prompt below, and try it out. If you’d like to see a little more, check out this blog post. 

Write a draft of an email to parents of high school seniors to invite them to a college counseling event.

If you have any great prompts or questions about prompting, send me a note at [email protected]. And you can always see past prompts here!

As I said, I’m back to work this week. Regardless of where you are in your academic year, I hope you find something worthwhile in this newsletter. Please share this with any networks you have. The more followers, the better! For now, enjoy the month of August! More next week!

Happy counseling,

Jeff