Monday, November 04, 2024
OpenAI reportedly plans to release its Orion AI model by December - Maxwell Zeff, Tech Crunch
The AI Paradox: Why Automation Will Fuel a Creative Revolution - Alina Okun, Future Skill
AI isn't replacing human workers. It's opening up a new frontier for them. As routine tasks get automated, we have more freedom to focus on the uniquely human skills that machines can’t replicate: Creativity, Critical thinking, and Innovation. This is what I call the AI Paradox: the more tasks AI takes over, the more space we have to lean into the things that machines simply can’t do. Let’s explore how this shift is evolving and why creativity is quickly becoming the most valuable skill in the workplace.
https://www.futureskillpro.com/p/the-ai-paradox-why-automation-will
Sunday, November 03, 2024
Memorandum on Advancing the United States’ Leadership in Artificial Intelligence; Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fulfill National Security Objectives; and Fostering the Safety, Security, and Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence - the White House
Anthropic’s agentic Computer Use is giving people ‘superpowers’ - Taryn Plumb, Venture Beat
Saturday, November 02, 2024
SynthID: Identifying AI-generated content with SynthID - Google Deep Mind
Being able to identify AI-generated content is critical to promoting trust in information. While not a silver bullet for addressing problems such as misinformation or misattribution, SynthID is a suite of promising technical solutions to this pressing AI safety issue. This toolkit is currently launched in beta and continues to evolve. It’s now being integrated into a growing range of products, helping empower people and organizations to responsibly work with AI-generated content. SynthID uses a variety of deep learning models and algorithms for watermarking and identifying AI-generated content.
Intelligent Agents in AI Really Can Work Alone. Here’s How. - Tom Coshow, Gartner
Friday, November 01, 2024
Can Anthropic’s Claude control your PC? - Martin Crowley, AI Tool Report
Anthropic unveiled an updated Claude 3.5 Sonnet (which is available in public beta) with a new feature, called ‘Computer Use,’ which completes tasks on a computer like a human does. ‘Computer Use’ can understand and interact with any PC desktop app, and can control a PC—by moving the cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text—based on human prompts. For example, when Claude was asked to plan an outing with two friends, to see the Golden Gate Bridge, it opened Chrome, searched for the ideal viewing spot and times, and then used the calendar app to create and send invites out. All by itself. Claude can now see what’s on the PC screen (something it couldn't do, previously) and break the prompt down into a list of computer commands, like move the cursor, click here, or type this, to complete the task.
Ellucian's AI Survey of Higher Education Professionals Reveals Surge in AI Adoption Despite Concerns Around Privacy and Bias - Ellucian
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Geoffrey Hinton Reveals the SCARY Future of Employment - Technomics, YouTube
Claude 3.5's New AI Agents Are GAME CHANGING (Claude 3.5 Agents + New Models) - Andrew Black, The AIGrid YouTube
- Improved performance: Claude 3.5 Sonet shows substantial improvements in various benchmarks, particularly in coding where it surpasses all other models, including specialized ones. It also shows marked improvement in graduate reasoning, general QA, and high school math competitions.
- Agentic capabilities: The new models, particularly Claude 3.5 Hau, demonstrate strong performance in agentic coding and tool use, setting a new standard for AI models and indicating the future direction of AI development.
- Computer use: A groundbreaking feature in public beta allows Claude to interact with computers like humans, using a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text. This opens up possibilities for automating tasks, building and testing software, and conducting open-ended research. (summary assisted by GenAI)
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot Studio - Charles Lamanna, Microsoft
Microsoft's upgraded Copilot Studio is like a LEGO set for building AI agents - David Gewirtz, ZDnet
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
AI has potential to revolutionize education - Khmer Times
Transforming Pedagogy For Generative AI Era: A Vision For The Future - Beata M. Jones, Forbes
Education is at a pivotal crossroads. As generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and NotebookLM continue to advance, their potential impact on education is undeniable. Experts forecast that by 2025 universities are projected to invest up to $20 million over the next five years in AI-driven curricula, a clear sign of the growing commitment to integrating AI into higher education. They also predict that AI could boost graduation rates by 43%.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Career Prep Tip: Teaching Entrepreneurship Students to Self-Teach With AI - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
Meta’s unbelievable AI breakthrough - Martin Crowley, AI Tool Report
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Keeping artificial intelligence real - Navrina Singh, McKinsey Digital
Harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence in New Jersey: The time is now - written by ChatGPT, edited by Andrew Zwicker, NJ.com
By investing in AI education for all students, from K-12 through higher education, the state will cultivate a workforce prepared to engage with and build on these new technologies. By fostering AI research and development in our four-year universities, New Jersey will create a talent pipeline with the skills and creativity to invent the next generation of problem-solving AI tools and fill high-demand roles across the industry spectrum. Similarly, we must invest in our community colleges, ensuring equitable access to the AI education and training that will be needed to fill jobs that don’t require an advanced degree. Community colleges will also be vital to quickly and nimbly providing opportunities for all workers to obtain new AI skills as they emerge, and to retrain workers whose jobs do disappear.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
NotebookLM - Google Blog
NotebookLM is a tool for understanding, built with Gemini 1.5. When you upload your sources, it instantly becomes an expert, grounding its responses in your material and giving you powerful ways to transform information. And since it’s your notebook, your personal data is never used to train NotebookLM. Millions of people are already using NotebookLM to understand and engage with complex information, and today we’re removing the product’s “Experimental” label and releasing another round of features.
Embodied AI - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
Friday, October 25, 2024
Not using AI is “disservice” to students - Polly Nash, the PIE
OpenAI unveils experimental ‘Swarm’ framework, igniting debate on AI-driven automation - Michael Nuñez, Venture Beat
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Adobe aims to teach AI, online content skills to 30 million - Steven Melendez, Fast Company
Scientists design new 'AGI benchmark' that indicates whether any future AI model could cause 'catastrophic harm' - Keumars Afifi-Sabet, Live Science
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
The AI Revolution Is Coming for Your Non-Union Job - Molly Kinder, Mark Muro, & Xavier de Souza Briggs, Time
OpenAI’s Swarm AI agent framework: Routines and handoffs - Bryson Masse, Venture Beat
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Reimagining the future of AI in the education ecosystem - Fareed Kaviani, Monash University
Google's Sycamore quantum computer chip can now outperform the fastest supercomputers, new study suggests - Keumars Afifi-Sabet, Live Science
Quantum computers can outpace our fastest classical computers in very specific areas, a groundbreaking experiment suggests. Google Quantum AI researchers have discovered a "stable computationally complex phase" that can be achieved with existing quantum processing units (QPUs), also known as quantum processors. This means that when quantum computers enter this specific "weak noise phase," they can perform computationally complex calculations that outpace the performance of the fastest supercomputers. The research — which was led by Alexis Morvan, a quantum computing researcher at Google — was published Oct. 9 in the journal Nature.
Monday, October 21, 2024
OpenAI Releases Swarm: An Experimental AI Framework for Building, Orchestrating, and Deploying Multi-Agent Systems - Asif Razzaq, MarktechPost
'The way of the future:' MU professors are integrating AI tools in law classrooms - Evan Holden, Columbia Missourian
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Penn's Graduate School of Education joins global consortium on artificial intelligence in education - Finn Ryan, Daily Pennsylvanian
Machines of Loving Grace - Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
AI Just Reached Human-Level Reasoning – Should We Be Worried - AI Revolution, YouTube
AI has just reached human-level reasoning with OpenAI’s 01 model, marking a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence. This advancement is transforming industries like quantum physics and military operations, showcasing the ability of AI to outperform humans in complex tasks. As AI continues to evolve, it brings both incredible potential and significant risks, reshaping our understanding of technology and its role in society. This video explores the profound advancements in AI that are reshaping industries and pushing the limits of what technology can achieve. As AI models reach human-level reasoning, they bring incredible opportunities and challenges that could redefine the way we live, work, and think.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
ChatGPT disrupting global elections? - Martin Crowley, AI Tool Report
OpenAI has disrupted over 20 foreign-influence groups, that have been using their AI to influence opinion ahead of elections. In its latest 54-page quarterly threat report, OpenAI disclosed that, since the beginning of the year, it had discovered and managed to disrupt over 20 campaigns, run by foreign actors, that were using its AI technology—namely, ChatGPT and Dall-E—to influence public opinion ahead of global elections. These groups—which mainly came from countries like China, Russia, Iran, Rwanda, and Vietnam—were using ChatGPT and Dall-E to generate websites, articles, and social media profiles, respond to messages, and other similar tasks to support their efforts to sway public opinion. But while OpenAI acknowledged that these bad actors were able to “experiment” with its AI technology, they were unable to successfully spread their influence.
https://www.aitoolreport.com/articles/chatgpt-disrupting-global-elections
Generative AI, the American worker, and the future of work - Molly Kinder, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Mark Muro, and Sifan Liu, Brookings
Friday, October 18, 2024
CMU to build AI research center with $6 million from federal agency - Evan Robinson-Johnson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Can an AI Chatbot Be Your Friend? - Stefano Puntoni, Knowledge at Wharton
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Unraveling the dynamics of ChatGPT adoption and utilization through Structural Equation Modeling - Khalida Parveen, et al; Nature Scientific Reports
WPI Researcher Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Study How Humans Interact With Artificial Intelligence - WPI
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Altera uses GPT-4o to build a new area of human collaboration - OpenAI
The early success of Altera’s vision has generated widespread interest, particularly for their first product—a digital human that can play and interact in virtual environments like Minecraft. It’s also laying the foundation for future, and more complex, multi-agent simulations. Altera plans to scale its efforts to create entire societies of digital humans capable of nuanced, long-term interactions, with applications ranging from gaming to productivity and many others. Their collaboration with OpenAI has positioned Altera to lead the charge in creating a world where digital and human lives intersect in thought-provoking ways.
The Sound of Progress: How AI is Revolutionizing Audio in E-Learning - Zenyai Zenyai, Medium
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Huge ChatGPT Upgrade - Introducing “Canvas” - Matthew Berman, YouTube
This podcast is about a new feature released by OpenAI for ChatGPT called Canvas. Canvas allows users to collaborate with ChatGPT in new ways for writing and coding tasks. The host, Matthew Berman, explains how Canvas allows users to give ChatGPT instructions to edit specific parts of text or code, and to iterate on those edits in real-time. He demonstrates how to use Canvas to write a story, making changes to the length, reading level, and even adding emojis. He also shows how to use Canvas to generate code for a game, change the programming language, add comments, and fix bugs. (summary of description completed with Gen AI assistance)
OpenAI New AI Operating System LAUNCHED | Is "Canvas" the New God-Tier Coder? - Wes Roth, YouTube
Monday, October 14, 2024
AI in higher education: bridging students’ and educators’ views - Business World
71% of Australian uni staff are using AI. What are they using it for? What about those who aren’t? - Stephen Hay, et al; the Conversation
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Employers Say Students Need AI Skills. What If Students Don’t Want Them? - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
Colleges and universities are considering new ways to incorporate generative AI into teaching and learning, but not every student is on board with the tech yet.“The big picture is that it’s not going to slow down and it’s not going to go away, so we need to work quickly to ensure that the future workforce is prepared,” says Shawn VanDerziel, president and CEO of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). “That’s what employers want. They want a prepared workforce, and they want to know that higher education is equipped to fill those needs of industry.”
New funding to scale the benefits of AI - OpenAI
We are making progress on our mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Every week, over 250 million people around the world use ChatGPT to enhance their work, creativity, and learning. Across industries, businesses are improving productivity and operations, and developers are leveraging our platform to create a new generation of applications. And we’re only getting started. We’ve raised $6.6B in new funding at a $157B post-money valuation to accelerate progress on our mission. The new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that help people solve hard problems.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
OpenAI introduces new tools to fast-track building of AI voice assistants - Reuters
France appoints first AI minister - Jack Aldane, Global Government Forum
Friday, October 11, 2024
The Future Of Learning: How AI Is Revolutionizing Education - Khushi Bhanushali, Youth Incorporated
New AI models are more likely to give a wrong answer than admit they don't know - Anna Desmarais, Yahoo! News
Thursday, October 10, 2024
ChatGPT-4o Shows ‘Friendly’ Behavior - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Education
The app initiates personalized conversations and offers responses without a prompt. This signals a shift toward agentic AI, where models act more like colleagues. In any case, this capability is a startling advancement with GPT moving into a “coworker” or “friend” mode. Here’s what happened: Some users of 4o noticed last month that without a prompt, the multimodal app spoke first—or wrote first. It recalled a prior conversation with the person using the log-on and asked a relevant question.
Bowdoin Secures Major Grant for AI Teaching and Learning Initiative - Tom Porter, Bowdoin
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
EverCo launches 2,000 AI agents for universities
Does AI Have a Place in Higher Education? Academics Say Yes, with a But - Patrick Harbin, Kennesaw State
Now that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot allow students to create essays, complex calculations, and discussion posts in seconds, how can colleges and universities guarantee students are learning rather than simply learning to use AI? According to Kai Larsen, a renowned AI researcher and the keynote speaker at Kennesaw State University’s recent “AI in Higher Education” symposium, educators shouldn’t be afraid of AI. Instead, faculty should teach students to use the tools confidently while continuing to measure their ability to perform the same tasks on their own.
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Students as co-creators in online learning - Dean Fido & Gary F. Fisher, Times Higher Ed
Future You is an interactive experience for cultivating self-reflection and long-term thinking - MIT
Inspired by studies showing how increased “future self-continuity”—the degree of continuity an individual feels with their future self—can positively influence saving behavior, academic performance, mental health, and subjective quality of life, our interactive, web-based chat platform seeks to similarly help users develop more long-term thinking and behavior by strengthening their relationship with a relatable yet virtual version of their future selves. The conversation with the future self is generated in real-time via a large language model that has been personalized based on a pre-intervention survey assessing user future goals and personal qualities. Have a chat with your future self!
Monday, October 07, 2024
AI in Education: Student Usage in Online Learning - Nikolas McGehee, Michigan Virtual
The integration of AI in education has the potential to revolutionize the learning experience for students. AI-powered tools and platforms can provide personalized learning experiences tailored to individual students' needs, learning styles, and abilities. Most other current research on the effectiveness of AI in education is focused on adult learners and generally leans towards the positive when concerned with achievement and perceptions (Kumar & Raman, 2022; Zheng et al., 2023).These studies also show that adult students believe AI is best served for usage by students and teachers in assistance of assignment creation or completion, as well as tutoring systems or research assistants as opposed to automated assessment use cases.
https://michiganvirtual.org/research/publications/ai-in-education-student-usage-in-online-learning/
How AI is Transforming the eLearning Industry [A Comprehensive Overview] - DDI
As the world continues to go digital, the eLearning industry is also undergoing significant changes. One of these changes is the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into eLearning. According to research, the e-learning market is projected to reach $848.12 billion by 2030. At the same time, the AI market in education is expected to exceed USD 30 billion by 2032. Big things are coming. Business owners in the education sector need to be aware of the impact of AI on eLearning to stay ahead of the competition and provide their learners/employees with the best learning experience. In this case, AI software development for eLearning needs may be required. It can be AI in an LMS or AI integrated into another employee management system. In this article, we'll discuss how AI is transforming the eLearning industry, what benefits it can offer businesses, and how to use AI to stay one step ahead.
Sunday, October 06, 2024
How AI Impacts Online Learning - Chris Haroun, Forbes
Consider Udemy (disclaimer: I sell some of my courses on this platform). In its November 2023 earnings call, the company’s president and CEO, Greg Brown, noted: “We will continue to invest in innovation that leverages generative AI to provide more personalized skills-development experiences, help enterprise customers achieve business outcomes and supercharge instructors’ ability to create highly effective content.” In my view, Brown was pointing to a key way AI stands to impact education, especially online education: greater personalization. The students of the future, I believe, will have more power to shape their learning how they see fit. And personalized learning is just one key way AI stands to impact education.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/12/12/how-ai-impacts-online-learning/
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Online Learning - Rebecca Burylo, Faukner University
Saturday, October 05, 2024
120 IQ AI: Threat or Opportunity? - Peter H. Diamandis, Diamandis.com
Generative AI adoption surpasses early PC and internet usage, study finds - Michael Nuñez, Venture Beat
Friday, October 04, 2024
Quantum sensing’s untapped potential: Insights for leaders - Henning Soller and Niko Mohr, McKinsey Digital
OpenAI CEO: “SuperIntelligence within 1000’s of Days” - Matthew Berman, YouTube
Thursday, October 03, 2024
AI + Blue Collar Work: Will Automation Take Over Skilled Trades? - Julia McCoy, YouTube
Announcing the OpenAI Academy
New initiative will fuel innovation by investing in developers and organizations leveraging AI, starting in low- and middle-income countries. OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Academy, which will invest in developers and organizations leveraging AI to help solve hard problems and catalyze economic growth in their communities. The Academy will ensure that the transformative potential of artificial intelligence is accessible and beneficial to diverse communities worldwide, starting in low- and middle-income countries. Developers and mission-driven organizations tackle critical challenges in their communities, driving economic opportunity. Having access to cutting-edge technology like AI can help enhance efforts to drive sustainable development.
Wednesday, October 02, 2024
AI Pioneer Shows The Power of AI AGENTS - "The Future Is Agentic" - Matthew Berman, Youtube
The Rise of GPT-5: What to Expect from AI in 2024 - Sumedha Sen, Analytics Insight
The advancements in artificial intelligence continue to reshape various industries and aspects of daily life, transforming everything from customer service to complex problem-solving. One of the most highly anticipated developments in AI is the release of GPT-5, the next iteration in OpenAI's Generative Pre-trained Transformer series. As the world prepares for this major milestone in 2024, many are eager to explore what new features and enhancements GPT-5 will bring. In this article, we’ll delve into the evolution of GPT models and what we can expect from GPT-5 and the broader AI landscape.
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
The Future of AI in Higher Education - EDUCAUSE
Artificial intelligence and the Futures of Learning - UNESCO
Monday, September 30, 2024
Humanoids Set to Add $24 Trillion to Economy: Will This Bring UBI? - Julia McCoy, YouTube
Julia McCoy cites Ark Invest claims that humanoid robots will generate $24 trillion to the economy. The report says that if humanoid robots are able to operate at scale, they will create new jobs in both household and manufacturing sectors. The video discusses the potential impact of these robots on the workforce and the economy. Julia McCoy believes this will lead to a post-labor economy. She argues that robots will take over most of the jobs and humans will receive universal basic income (UBI) from the profits generated by these robots. The video also mentions that there are challenges to overcome before we get to this utopian future. One challenge is developing generalized robots that can automate multiple tasks. Another challenge is figuring out how to transition to a post-labor economy without causing an economic collapse. (this summary assisted by Gen AI)
Artificial Intelligence for Beginners - A Curriculum
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Addressing evolving challenges to research security in the age of AI - Times Higher Education
A data leader’s operating guide to scaling gen AI - McKinsey Digital
Saturday, September 28, 2024
OpenAI Hires Former Coursera Executive to Expand AI Use in Schools - Shirin Ghaffary, Bloomberg
Even as ChatGPT becomes ubiquitous, A.I. pioneers warn of existential risks - Karen D'Souza, EdSource
Friday, September 27, 2024
Everything You Need to Know about AI Agents - Peter H. Diamandis interviews Emad Mostaque
The video talks about AI agents and the concept of AI Atlantis. AI Atlantis is a metaphor for the vast number of AI agents that are being created. These AI agents are like interns or grads who are still under development. They can be trained to do specific tasks such as translation, painting or SEO. The cost of training these AI agents has dropped significantly. The speaker believes that these AI agents will eventually have physical bodies and will become even more intelligent and capable. The video also discusses how AI agents are being integrated with other technologies and how they are learning from how people use them. (Summary assisted by Gen AI)
A Near-Future Vision of AI in Higher Ed - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
Thursday, September 26, 2024
ChatGPT o1 is the new 'strawberry' model from OpenAI — 5 prompts to try it out Hands-on - Ryan Morrison, Tom's Guide
Survey: When Should College Students Use AI? They’re Not Sure - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
The Intelligence Age - Sam Altman
Forget GPT-5! OpenAI launches new AI model family o1 claiming PhD-level performance - Carl Franzen, Venture Beat
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
New certificate program helps students unlock and understand artificial intelligence - Jen Schneider, Boise State News
Three Artificial Intelligence Bills Endorsed by Federation of American Scientists Advance from the House Committee - Federation of American Scientists
Monday, September 23, 2024
How to prompt on OpenAI’s new o1 models - Emilia David, Venture Beat
2025 AI : 10 Things Coming In 2025 (A.I In 2025 Major Predictions) - the AIGrid
Sunday, September 22, 2024
The case for promoting the geographic and social diffusion of AI development - Mark Muro and Julian Jacobs, Brookings
These 5 AI tools are the most popular among students - Micah Ward, University Business
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Georgia Professors Enlist AI for Assistance, Personalization - Vanessa McCray, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
AI as tutor and critic: using tech to personalise education - Michael Butler, Times Higher Education
Friday, September 20, 2024
AI in Education Is Here - Avrel Seale, UT Austin
AI detectors are easily fooled, researchers find - Colin Wood, EdScoop
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Academic Integrity in the Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Context - University of Bath
- Understand the university's Academic Integrity Statement and its implications.
- Identify the different categories of assessments in relation to GenAI usage and apply them to your work.
- Reference and acknowledge the use of GenAI correctly in your academic work.
Benefits of AI outweigh the risks in education, report finds - Julie Hare, Australia Financial Report
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
New AI Seed Grants Support Trustworthy Tech - Tom Ventsias, Maryland Today
Teaching Repository for AI-Infused Learning - University of Central Florida
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Success Program Launch: AI-Supported Clinical Training - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
4 Breathtaking Tech Breakthroughs on My Mind - Peter H. Diamandis, blog
Monday, September 16, 2024
Enlighten Me: How the University of Delaware is using AI to build study tools, support students - Kyle McKinnon, Delaware Public Media
An Ethics Expert’s Perspective on AI and Higher Ed - Johnni Medina, Pace University
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Stony Brook University Launches AI Innovation Institute - Stony Brook News
Yale's $150 million, five-year AI investment is about 'shaping the future' - Brian Zahn, New Haven Register
Yale University's announcement last week that it would invest $150 million in the development of artificial intelligence programs over five years was met with praise from higher education officials within and outside of the Yale community. In an Aug. 28 letter to the Yale community, Yale Provost Scott Strobel said the investment follows a report from the Yale Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and will be allocated to fulfill four main goals: building 450 graphics processing units on a staggered basis to allow researchers to process large data sets and conduct advanced simulations; launching a proprietary generative AI platform called Clarity; recruiting "more than twenty" faculty members with an academic focus on AI technology and piloting curriculum review grants; and promoting collaboration and innovation between departments.
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/yale-150-million-5-year-ai-investment-shaping-19747105.php