Sora, OpenAI's new AI video generation platform, which finally launched on Monday, is a surprisingly rich platform that offers simple tools for almost instantly generating shockingly realistic-looking videos. Even in my all-too-brief hands-on, I could see that Sora is about to change everything about video creation. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and company were wrapping up their third presentation from their planned "12 Days of AI," but I could scarcely wait to exit that live and, I assume, not AI-generated video feed to dive into today's content-creation-changing announcement.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
OpenAI wants to pair online courses with chatbots - Kyle Wiggens, TechCrunch
If OpenAI has its way, the next online course you take might have a chatbot component. Speaking at a fireside on Monday hosted by Coeus Collective, Siya Raj Purohit, a member of OpenAI's go-to-market team for education, said that OpenAI might explore ways to let e-learning instructors create custom "GPTs" that tie into online curriculums. "What I'm hoping is going to happen is that professors are going to create custom GPTs for the public and let people engage with content in a lifelong manner," Purohit said. "It's not part of the current work that we're doing, but it's definitely on the roadmap."
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/openai-wants-to-pair-online-courses-with-chatbots/
Friday, December 20, 2024
Sam Altman FINALLY Reveals the Truth About "the AGI moment", Elon Musk Lawsuit and Microsoft Rift - Wes Roth, YouTube
Timeline for Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): Altman believes that ASI is surprisingly close, possibly within a few thousand days, and that we will have systems by 2025 that will shock even skeptics. Scaling Laws and AI Progress: Altman dismissed concerns about AI progress hitting a wall, stating that there are multiple frontiers for improvement, including compute, data, and algorithms. Relationship with Microsoft: While acknowledging some challenges and misalignments, Altman views the relationship with Microsoft as positive overall and doesn't see the need for OpenAI to own its processing power. Elon Musk's Lawsuit: Altman expressed sadness over the lawsuit, viewing it as a result of competition and a misunderstanding of OpenAI's structure and intentions. He defended the company's shift towards a for-profit model as necessary due to the immense capital required for AI research and development. Competition in the AI Space: Altman acknowledged Amazon and Elon Musk's xAI as serious competitors and emphasized the importance of continuous innovation in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
No letup in financial pressure on colleges in 2025, Fitch says - Ben Unglesbee, Higher Ed Dive
A declining body of first-year students, uncertain international enrollment and high costs are weighing on many institutions, the ratings agency said. In a Tuesday report, the credit rating agency said “uneven enrollment dynamics, rising competitive pressures and continuing margin pressures will challenge credit factors across the sector.” Added to those challenges are flat public funding, elevated wage costs, constraints on revenues and rising capital spending needs. Those challenges “will continue to chip away at more vulnerable higher education institutions in 2025,” and that’s even if inflation eases and interest rates come down, Fitch Senior Director Emily Wadhwani said in the report.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Predictions 2025: Insights for Online & Professional Education - UPCEA
As we look toward 2025, the landscape of higher education is poised for significant transformation driven by technological advancements, shifting demographics, and evolving economic realities. This series of predictions from UPCEA’s team of experts highlights key trends that will shape institutions and student experiences alike. From the rise of outsourcing in C-suite roles to the increasing demand for microcredentials and the integration of AI in academic programs, these trends reflect a broader movement towards flexibility, efficiency, and a focus on outcomes. Explore what 2025 has in store for online and professional education, and use these 23 expert predictions to gain an understanding of what it means for you and your organization.
"SOCRATIC AI by Google DeepMind Just BROKE LIMITS – Learning TOO FAST"- AI Revolution
DeepMind is revolutionizing the field of AI with its innovative projects. They're developing "personality agents" that can analyze and understand human behavior with impressive accuracy, potentially transforming fields like mental health, marketing, and robotics. Another groundbreaking project, Socratic learning, allows AI systems to learn and evolve independently through self-play and the creation of new "language games." This eliminates the need for massive datasets and human oversight, leading to faster and more adaptable AI.
https://youtu.be/3i3H_miMGAE?feature=shared
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Semester Without End: An Idea Resurrected - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
More than two decades ago, I advocated enabling students to follow the evolving developments and topics in the classes I taught through news blogs. I called the concept “semester without end.” Now, OpenAI is suggesting that custom GPTs be created to accompany classes, facilitating learning during the semester, extending learning on the topic “and let[ting] people engage with the content in a lifelong manner.” Particularly in rapidly changing fields such as technology, it is important to provide updates after the class term is over. It is for that reason that I have blogged news updates on topics related to educational technologies for the past quarter century, and that more recently, I developed my own GPT, Ray’s eduAI Advisor. I remain hopeful that this will become a standard practice for higher learning in the future. Just imagine each class that is offered continues to provide insights and new updates in an open format into the future.
Adoption of ChatGPT in Higher Education-Application of IDT Model, Testing and Validation - V.V. Devi Prasad Kotni, et al; IEEE
ChatGPT refers to a latest AI tool which is natural language processing (NLP) based, an interactive Chatbot, which can do conversation with identified and notable users for various purposes like content creation, writing, auditing and providing answers to day-to-day questions. ChatGPT is been used by many users belong to different professions, ages, genders etc. As of now, but most of the users of ChatGPT are found to be students' category, who are using ChatGPT for their academic learning purpose. With this background, an attempt has been made to understand the factors influencing adoption of ChatGPT by the higher education students.
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
AI can predict neuroscience study results better than human experts, study finds - University College London, Medical Xpress
The findings, published in Nature Human Behaviour, demonstrate that large language models (LLMs) trained on vast datasets of text can distill patterns from scientific literature, enabling them to forecast scientific outcomes with superhuman accuracy. The researchers say this highlights their potential as powerful tools for accelerating research, going far beyond just knowledge retrieval. Lead author Dr. Ken Luo (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) said, "Since the advent of generative AI like ChatGPT, much research has focused on LLMs' question-answering capabilities, showcasing their remarkable skill in summarizing knowledge from extensive training data. However, rather than emphasizing their backward-looking ability to retrieve past information, we explored whether LLMs could synthesize knowledge to predict future outcomes.
'This is a marriage of AI and quantum': New technology gives AI the power to feel surfaces for the 1st time - Keumars Afifi-Sabet, Live Science
Scientists have given artificial intelligence (AI) the capacity to "feel" surfaces for the first time — opening up a new dimension for deploying the technology in the real world. Tapping into quantum science, the scientists combined a photon-firing scanning laser with a new AI model trained to tell the difference between different surfaces imaged with the lasers. The system, outlined in a new study published Oct. 15 in the journal Applied Optics, blasts a series of short light pulses at a surface to "feel" it, before back-scattered photons, or particles of light, return carrying speckle noise — a type of flaw that manifests in imagery. This is normally considered detrimental to imaging, but in this case the researchers processed the noise artifacts using AI — which enabled the system to discern the topography of the object.
Monday, December 16, 2024
The Evolution of Robots: The Blurring Lines Between People and Machines - Thomas Frey, Futurist Speaker
As we delve into this future, the implications are profound. The ability to download one’s “personhood” into an advanced AI robot could redefine our concepts of mortality, identity, and continuity of life. Such a transfer would not only preserve an individual’s consciousness in a form that could potentially outlive the physical body but also enable humans to interact with their environment in ways previously unimaginable. This technological leap would necessitate not just advancements in hardware and software but also deep philosophical and ethical considerations about the nature of life, self, and synthetic life forms. The journey toward this future involves navigating complex technological, moral, and societal landscapes, marking a pivotal moment in human evolution.
AWS Launches Program to Help Customers Get Started in Quantum - Berenice Baker, IOT World Today
AWS has launched Quantum Embark, a jargon-free advisory service program that aims to help organizations explore how quantum computing could support their business. It consists of three modules designed to encourage customers to work backward from their most critical and compute-intensive use cases to formulate their own quantum roadmap.
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Tech jobs are mired in a recession - Aki Ito, Business Insider
Now, new data from LinkedIn — which tracked how often its users landed new jobs — shows which white-collar jobs are being hit the hardest. Some of them are the usual suspects in a downturn. You don't need recruiters when you're not recruiting, so hiring in human resources has slumped by 28% since 2018. Hiring in marketing, another department that's often the first to lose its budget in leaner times, is down 23%. But the most surprising feature of the job freeze is the pullback in tech. Hiring has plunged 27% in IT, 32% in quality assurance, and 23% in product management. In Bach's field of program and project management, recruitment has slumped 25%.
Getting started with AI agents (part 1): Capturing processes, roles and connections - Babak Hodjat, Venture Beat
Here is a sample system prompt that can be used to turn an agent into an AAOSA agent.
When you receive an inquiry, you will:
- Call your tools to determine which down-chain agents in your tools are responsible for all or part of it
- Ask down-chain agents what they need to handle their part of the inquiry.
- Once requirements are gathered, you will delegate the inquiry and the fulfilled requirements to the appropriate down-chain agents.
- Once all down-chain agents respond, you will compile their responses and return the final response.
- You may, in turn, be called by other agents in the system and have to act as a down-chain to them.
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