The latest GIANT events and news & The GIANT AI Report!͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 
The GIANT Room

GIANT Family Event this Weekend, What’s up with ChatGPT, and More!

 

Family Event: GIANT Light Through the Darkness Art Workshop at Jewish Museum

Join us December 3rd at The Jewish Museum for a very special Hanukkah Family Day, where we will be making an array of mixed media projects inspired by artist Marta Minujin’s Arte! Arte! Arte! exhibit to celebrate the Festival of Lights!

Recommended for ages 3 and up

FORMAT: In Person at The Jewish Museum 1109 5th Ave &, E 92nd St New York, NY 10128

DATE: Sunday, December 3rd

TIME: 12:30pm-2:30pm

PRICE: $18 Adult; $12 Senior; $8 Student; free for children and Jewish Museum members. Includes Museum Admission

 RSVP 
 

Things We Love:

Arte! Arte! Arte! by Marta Minujin Exhibit at Jewish Museum

Arte! Arte! Arte! We felt Marta Minujin’s bold and colorful spirit reflected in her new exhibit at The Jewish Museum, which is open now through March 31st. Throughout six decades Marta Minuijin has and continues to create multimedia installations, interactive events, paintings, and sculptures. 

Read more

 

Creative STEM in Action:

Coding Class at the Zaha Hadid Building

We are so grateful to our friends and partners at the Zaha Hadid Building for allowing us a space to provide a coding class specifically for students at Avenues The World School. This particular group of kids has been learning coding with GIANT for three years, and we’ve been learning and growing our coding curriculum along with them!

Read more

Learn. Play. Grow. At The Corlears School

For the past three years, The GIANT Room has had the honor of participating in The Corlears School’s “Learn. Play. Grow.” events! Corlears announces a theme for each event, and we here at GIANT scheme up some fun activities to lead. We are always inspired by what the kids at Corlears create at these events.

Read more

A GIANT First: Half Day STEAM Camp at PS 33

We had a GIANT first on Thursday, November 2nd — we held our very first STEAM Camp offsite at a school! Public schools around New York City had a half day due to parent-teacher conferences, so we here at GIANT wondered: “what does this mean for after school? The fun and learning doesn’t have to be put on pause just because a bunch of grown ups need to talk!”

Read more

Mensa Teams Up With The GIANT Room

Mensa, the globally recognized High IQ Society, boasts a membership of over 150,000 individuals spanning across over 90 countries. This diverse community covers all age groups and offers a spectrum of engaging opportunities for social, cultural, and intellectual interaction. Remarkably, membership is open to students as young as three years old.

Read more

 

Have You Checked out The GIANT Comic Book: A Gratitude Journal?

The GIANT Comic Book: A Gratitude Journal!

Spark joy and gratitude with the first gratitude journal of its kind! Co-designed and co-written by more than 60 GIANT kids, AI, and multidisciplinary team of artists, educators, and writers at The GIANT Room, our gratitude journals are presented in an irresistible comic book format.

Your kids can independently draw or write their responses centered around gratitude, inspired by Appreciation Avatars created by GIANT kids throughout our Gratitude Mission. Families can also create meaningful connections while crafting responses together.

Use code GIANTSALE for 20% off your entire order! Free shipping for orders over $25!

 The GIANT Comic Book: A Gratitude Journal 
 

The GIANT AI Report!

The fast-paced AI landscape may seem overwhelming, as we are constantly inundated with new developments and breaking news. The GIANT AI Report is here to break it down into digestible bite-sized pieces that are currently relevant to parenting and education.

GIANT Kids holding their AI-generated Avatars

What’s going on with ChatGPT?

With ChatGPT dominating the headlines lately with the firing then rehiring of Sam Altman, the musical chairs played by the board, and the ominous bridge to AGI, Q* (pronounced Q-star), looming over it all, we wanted to stop and ask, How have YOU used ChatGPT since it was introduced to the public about a year ago? A quick survey in our GIANT community yielded some interesting use cases including creating a seven-child soccer carpool schedule (successfully!), checking third grade math homework (fail!), and writing a poem about The GIANT Room (undecided)!

Some other parents are turning to ChatGPT to plan birthday parties or assign age-appropriate chores. But, we would really love to hear about your ChatGPT experiences! Perhaps you’ve built your own GPT solution, and you’re ready to go head to head with OpenAI or Anthropic! OR, perhaps your child has encountered it in the classroom? Either way, please send us an email and tell us about your use cases-whether useful, or useless, or downright avant garde! We will share our findings in a future GIANT AI Report. And, we will gladly share our ChatGPT-generated GIANT Room poem to anyone who participates!

Godmother of AI: Fei-Fei Li on Tech Development: “The Power Lies Within People” Many doubted her, but now Fei-Fei Li is a crucial leader and innovator in the world of technology when it comes to AI. The system she built years ago, “ImageNet,” is what many AI models today are based upon. These days, Li is an advocate for incorporating artificial intelligence into healthcare, and the co-founder of AI4ALL, an organization that aims to bring more diversity into the field. Hers is truly an underdog story.

Read more

OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets

In recognition of the inherent flaws in current AI model training data, which often reflects U.S.- and Western-centric perspectives and includes biases, OpenAI has launched Data Partnerships, aiming to collaborate with external organizations to develop improved, diverse data sets for AI model training. The initiative seeks to address biases and toxic language present in existing data, with the goal of creating safer and more beneficial AI. OpenAI plans to collect large-scale data sets representing human society, spanning various modalities, and will work with partners to ensure privacy and inclusivity in the process.

Read more

A Prisoner’s Dilemma Shows AI’s Path to Human Cooperation

New research reveals that ChatGPT's engine tends to cooperate more than humans but also tends to overestimate human collaboration. The study, based on the prisoner's dilemma game-theory problem, suggests valuable insights for deploying AI in real-world applications. The findings indicate potential applications beyond natural language processing, such as urban traffic management and energy consumption, where AI could guide cooperative decision-making for more efficient outcomes. The study emphasizes the need for transparency, ethical guidelines, and responsible deployment practices as AI models adopt aspects of human nature.

Read more

Google's AI-powered search feature goes global with a 120-country expansion

Google's Search Generative Experience (SGE), initially introduced at I/O 2023, is now expanding to Search Labs users in 120 countries and territories. SGE, which provides generative AI summaries at the top of search results, now supports additional languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Indonesian. New features include an improved follow-up function for direct questions on the search results page, assistance in clarifying ambiguous translation terms, and the expansion of interactive definitions to coding and health-related searches.

Read more

 

Please forward this newsletter to a family that would like to be in the mix!

 JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER 
The GIANT Room
instagram facebook twitter email

The GIANT Room, 25 Broadway, 12th floor, New York, NY 10004, United States

Unsubscribe