Today, OpenAI researchers are releasing a new scientific paper on the company’s website and on arXiv.org (embedded below) revealing a new algorithm they’ve developed by which large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 (which powers some versions of ChatGPT) can learn to better explain themselves to their users. The paper is titled “Prover-Verifier Games Improve Legibility of LLM Outputs.” This is critical for establishing trustworthiness in AI systems especially as they become more powerful and integrated into fields where incorrectness is dangerous or a matter of life-or-death, such as healthcare, law, energy, military and defense applications, and other critical infrastructure.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Ex-OpenAI co-founder launches AI school - Martin Crowley, AI Tool Report
Andrej Karpathy, who co-founded OpenAI and was previously Tesla’s Director of AI has launched Eureka Labs, an AI research startup aimed at creating “a new kind of school”, built from the ground up, using AI. What will Eureka Labs do? According to Karpathy, Eureka will build AI-powered teaching assistants (who will be modeled on real people, namely ‘elite educators’) designed to support (rather than replace) teachers and bring personalized, interactive courses and educators to students, worldwide, regardless of geographical and language barriers.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look - Lance Fortnow, Wired
We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful. The reverse implication is that for someone without a vast enough intellect, processes such as a coin flip would appear random. The language of computation lets us formalize this connection.
How is AI shaping the future of music? - Virginia Berger, PRS for Music
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and music creation represents a complex, evolving dynamic carrying significant implications for human artistry. While AI undoubtedly augments certain technical aspects of the music production process, its ability to replicate the totality of the creative experience remains hotly debated. As this technological frontier rapidly advances, it is crucial to examine it through a measured lens — one that neither overstates AI’s capabilities nor dismisses its potential to fundamentally transform how music is created.
Monday, July 29, 2024
Opinion: How liberal arts colleges can lead and thrive in the AI era -Nicholas B. Creel, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Many universities have responded to the latest technological developments by doubling down on the already overbearing push to get students to focus on STEM fields, particularly data science and coding. In so doing, we continue casting aside the likes of history, philosophy and sociology. While highly technical skills are undoubtedly valuable, the demand that we develop graduates with such a narrow focus misses the broader implications of AI’s ascendance. The reality is that AI systems are amazing at taking on highly technical tasks. As such, those students who are specialists — siloed in a singular field — will find themselves the most vulnerable to job loss as AI inevitably progresses.
What teachers call AI cheating, leaders in the workforce might call progress: What AI literacy might look like in a new era - C. EDWARD WATSON and JOSÉ ANTONIO BOWEN, Hechinger Report
Some of this could be good. AI is a fabulous tool for getting started or unstuck. AI puts together old ideas in new ways and can do this at scale: It will make creativity easier for everyone. The new realities of work also must be considered. A shift in employers’ job postings rewards those with AI skills. Many companies report already adopting generative AI tools or anticipate incorporating them into their workflow in the near future. A core tension has emerged: Many teachers want to keep AI out of our classrooms, but also know that future workplaces may demand AI literacy.
Sunday, July 28, 2024
“Generative AI in Higher Education: Seeing ChatGPT Through Universities’ Policies, Resources, and Guidelines” - Gary Price, Library Journal
Most universities actively respond and provide diverse types of resources, such as syllabus templates, workshops, shared articles, and one-on-one consultations focusing on a range of topics: general technical introduction, ethical concerns, pedagogical applications, preventive strategies, data privacy, limitations, and detective tools. The findings provide four practical pedagogical implications for educators in teaching practices: accept its presence, align its use with learning objectives, evolve curriculum to prevent misuse, and adopt multifaceted evaluation strategies rather than relying on AI detectors. Two recommendations are suggested for educators in policy making: establish discipline-specific policies and guidelines, and manage sensitive information carefully.
How AI Is Changing Higher Education - Chronicle of Higher Education
Not everyone is opposed to AI’s growth in higher education. Some professors are eager to experiment with ChatGPT and other gen AI models in the classroom. They say doing so can help students learn how to use AI ethically, analyze the tools critically, and even improve writing skills. AI chatbots can offer students personalized tutoring and mental-health support. Colleges are also using gen AI to improve efficiency. An admissions office can use AI to flag which high schools on a recruitment list are most likely to produce students who enroll. A marketing office can use AI to churn out copy for blog posts and ads promoting the college. As ChatGPT and other generative AI tools evolve, higher education will have to answer important questions — such as where to draw lines on AI use and how to train faculty and staff on AI literacy.
Saturday, July 27, 2024
AI News: A Massive Week For AI Advancement! - Matt Wolfe, YouTube
Matt explains in detail the earthshaking development this week. Meta's newest model 405 Billion Parameter Llama 3.1. This Version is being released as OPEN SOURCE! That is worth shouting via uppercase. The new release has tested as generally equal or above the top-level AI models from OpenAI, Google, and more. This step means that every large university, government agencies, corporations, and dedicated individuals are launching testing of creating agents and other advanced GenAI applications. With a world-wide base of unrestricted developers, we will soon have a new wave of applications from around the world in 22 different languages, serving as many uses as you can imagine! AI this week hit a very important inflection point!
For College Students—And For Higher Ed Itself—AI Is A Required Course - Jamie Merisotis, Forbes
While nobody knows how many jobs will be lost—or created—due to artificial intelligence, it’s already clear that AI, besides being a great subject for learning, will make it cheaper and more convenient to upskill and prepare for the future. AI will also be ubiquitous. Most major computer applications now have an AI assistant. Understanding how to use those and interpret what they share will help leverage human ability in our interaction with machines.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Embracing The Convergence Of Academic Learning And Technology - Sachin Parate, Forbes Technology Council
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the convergence of academic learning and technology has become a critical factor in shaping the future of education and leadership. As technology continues transforming how we learn, work and lead, leaders must embrace this convergence and harness its potential to drive innovation, foster growth and create a more inclusive and accessible learning environment. Let's explore the significance of academic learning and technology convergence and highlight a few key strategies and considerations for leaders to navigate this transformative era effectively.
Zuckerberg says open source agents perhaps by end of year?! - Wes Roth, YouTube
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Majority of Grads Wish They’d Been Taught AI in College - Lauren Coffey, Inside Higher Ed
A new survey from Cengage Group, an education-technology company, released today, found that 70 percent of graduates believe basic generative AI training should be integrated into courses; 55 percent said their degree programs did not prepare them to use the new technology tools in the workforce. “That’s spot on to what I’ve seen and heard,” said Ray Schroeder, senior fellow at UPCEA, an online and professional education association, and a contributor to Inside Higher Ed. Schroeder encouraged universities to require students to take either an introductory course on generative AI that culminates in a project they can use in their portfolio or a senior-year capstone course that ensures they get the most up-to-date skills.
12 Ways AI in Education is Transforming the Industry - Sudeep Srivastava, Appinventiv
AI in education can personalize learning experiences, redefine teaching practices, offer real-time feedback, and support educators with advanced tools and insights, leading to more effective and engaging educational environments. What’s more? Artificial intelligence in education holds immense potential to address the gaps that global education systems are struggling with and revolutionize the entire industry with its diverse use cases. This is why educators worldwide are increasingly leveraging AI, with successful pilot projects and broader implementations underway. This merger of AI and education has brought a whole new concept of learning into the industry vertical.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Is AI Going To Transform Higher Education And How? - Gil Press, Forbes
Ethan Mollick, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has attracted a large Substack following by reporting on his many experiments with generative AI in the classroom. In “The future of education in a world of AI,” Mollick wrote: “Education will be able to adapt to AI far more effectively than other industries, and in ways that will improve both learning and the experience of instructors… Change is coming to classrooms, and I think it is important to focus on a positive vision to help guide [us] through the uncertain times ahead.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2024/02/14/is-ai-going-to-transform-higher-education-and-how/
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Malaysian university seeks approval for AI-taught degree - Helen Packer, Times Higher Education
A Malaysian university expects to be the first to launch a degree programme taught and assessed entirely by artificial intelligence, following research into technology that scans students’ brain signals. Sasa Arsovski, dean of the Faculty of AI and Robotics at the privately owned Raffles University, has developed a platform called MyAi Teaching Assistant that allows academics to upload their lecture presentations, which are then turned into text notes by AI. The technology also creates an avatar based on an image of the lecturer and can clone their voice, allowing the avatar to deliver a virtual class from the notes on behalf of the academic.
From Books To Bytes: The Role Of Technology In Shaping Future Education – OpEd - Numra Aamir, Eurasia Review
Technology has completely transformed how we teach and learn. Educational technology has brought us many tools, ways of learning, interactive multimedia, and most importantly, artificial intelligence (AI). AI has changed our world by making information just a click away. Online learning platforms have made it easy for anyone to access education. With technology playing a bigger role, we’re getting more engaging and creative content, multimedia in classrooms, easy-to-access information, and opportunities for lifelong learning. The internet and online courses are giving the next generation the skills they need. AI helps us understand data better, and technologies like virtual and augmented reality create exciting learning experiences.
Monday, July 22, 2024
Intuit's CEO Just Said AI Is the Reason He's Laying Off 1,800 Employees. - Jason Aten, Inc.
The latest example comes from Intuit's CEO, Sasan Goodarzi, who announced the company would lay off around 1,800 employees, or 10 percent of its workforce. As I've shared many times, the era of AI is one of the most significant technology shifts of our lifetime. This is truly an extraordinary time -- AI is igniting global innovation at an incredible pace, transforming every industry and company in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago. Companies that aren't prepared to take advantage of this AI revolution will fall behind and, over time, will no longer exist. In fact, Goodarzi goes on to explain that, while he's laying off 1,800 people, the company plans to hire that same number of employees "primarily in engineering, product, and customer-facing roles such as sales, customer success, and marketing." With the inclusion of "engineering," the implication is pretty clear.
Role of universities in the AI era - Changhee Kim, Korea Times
Today, we are witnessing digital technology and artificial intelligence impacting the higher education sector, demanding a transformation of the traditional university business model. Accordingly, the need to redefine universities' social role and responsibilities for the medium- to long-term perspective is becoming increasingly urgent. Universities must now move beyond the traditional "teaching and research" model based on the expertise of their faculty and instead build an ecosystem that encompasses universities, industry and society, playing a pivotal role within it. While the traditional roles of fostering knowledge and nurturing future generations remain paramount for universities, the rapid and drastic changes in the world around us demand universities go beyond these traditional boundaries. This means that they need to reflect the rapidly changing technology and society while making social contributions.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education: The dynamics of ethical, social, and educational implications - Abdulrahman M. Al-Zahrani & Talal M. Alasmari, Nature
Employing a quantitative approach through an online survey questionnaire (N = 1113), this study reveals positive attitudes toward AI in higher education. Stakeholders recognize its potential to enhance teaching and learning, streamline administration, and foster innovation. Emphasis is placed on ethical considerations and guidelines for AI implementation, highlighting the imperative need to address issues such as privacy, security, and bias. Participants envision a future characterized by personalized learning experiences, ethically integrated AI, collaboration, and ongoing support for lifelong learning. Furthermore, the results illuminate the intricate interplay between AI usage, purposes, difficulties, and their impact on attitudes, perceptions, and future implications. Accordingly, the research underscores the necessity for a comprehensive understanding of AI integration, considering not only its technical aspects but also the ethical, social, and educational dimensions. By acknowledging the role of AI uses, AI usage purposes, and addressing associated difficulties, educational stakeholders can work towards harnessing the benefits of AI while ensuring responsible and effective implementation in teaching and learning contexts.
Research shows risks and opportunities of GenAI for dyslexic, neurodivergent and disabled students - Nottingham Trent University
The ability of ChatGPT to process natural language and generate human-like conversational explanations is often claimed to make learning more accessible and engaging for students. This recent rise in the use of Generative AI (GenAI) tools has sparked the interest of support teams across schools and universities in considering recommending them to aid the learning of dyslexic, neurodivergent and disabled students. For example, for use with tasks such as explaining concepts and ideas and summarizing articles. We worked with an undergraduate student to get the views of these students on GenAI in higher education. Specifically, we were interested in understanding how the students use this tool in their daily lives and the benefits and risks to their learning.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
ChatGPT and Google Gemini Pass Ethical Hacking Exams - GovTech
Researchers at the University of Missouri say the automation and speed of large language models could be useful in cyber defense, but they can’t yet replace human cybersecurity experts. In a time when artificial intelligence is increasingly used in cyber attacks, a research team at the University of Missouri asked, “What would happen if we recruited AI to the other side?” They found that large language models could be used to study and address basic cybersecurity issues. “These AI tools can be a good starting point to investigate issues before consulting an expert,” Prasad Calyam, the director of the university’s Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure Center, said in a news release about the study this week. “They can also be good training tools for those working with information technology or who want to learn the basics on identifying and explaining emerging threats.”
Demystifying AI in higher education - ASU
Behind the cutting-edge research and technology-driven projects at Arizona State University lies a critical, often unseen force: ensuring the university's AI initiatives have a solid foundation. Zohair Zaidi, director of AI technology for Enterprise Technology’s AI Acceleration team, is focused on making groundbreaking ideas a reality for the ASU community — with a specific focus on ensuring the technology is accessible to as many users as possible. “AI has the potential to be a true equalizer in presenting knowledge and education in ways that cater to the diverse learning styles of students,” Zaidi said. “Traditionally, even with technology, a professor can only present teachings in a limited number of ways that may apply to some students in a class, but not all.”
Friday, July 19, 2024
Exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education: The dynamics of ethical, social, and educational implications - Abdulrahman M. Al-Zahrani & Talal M. Alasmari, Nature
The increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education underscores the necessity to explore its implications on ethical, social, and educational dynamics within the sector. This study aims to comprehensively investigate the impact of AI on higher education in Saudi Arabia, delving into stakeholders’ attitudes, perceptions, and expectations regarding its implementation. The research hones in on key facets of AI in higher education, encompassing its influence on teaching and learning, ethical and social implications, and the anticipated role of AI in the future. Employing a quantitative approach through an online survey questionnaire (N = 1113), this study reveals positive attitudes toward AI in higher education.
Where to next with AI in higher education? - University of Queensland
University of Queensland researchers are playing a key role in the education sector’s response to the new learning environment. Associate Professor Jason Lodge from UQ’s School of Education is developing a systematic approach to guide educators on how they can adapt to generative AI. “Fundamental changes are underway in the education sector and while the tech companies are leading the way, educators should really be guiding that change,” Dr Lodge said. “We’re currently focused on the acute problem of cheating, but not enough on the chronic problem of how – and what – to teach.” Dr Lodge said there are 5 key areas the higher education sector needs to address to adapt to the use of AI,
Thursday, July 18, 2024
The Synthetic Professor - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
The role of the college professor has evolved over the centuries, but several core responsibilities have remained central to the position for many years. The four-part mission of tenure-track faculty at many colleges and universities continues to include teaching, advising, research and service. Emphases among these areas vary with the individual and institution. Now generative AI has arrived on the scene with the ability to assist with most all of the work that a traditional professor does.
With AI, we need both competition and safety - Tom Wheeler and Blair Levin, Brookings
Regulatory oversight of AI must encourage collaboration on AI safety without enabling anticompetitive alliances. Regulation must close the gaps in voluntary commitments with an AI safety model that includes a supervised process to develop standards, a market that rewards firms who exceed standards, and ongoing oversight of compliance activities.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Humane leaders quit to form a fact-checking Search Engine! - Martin Crowely, AI Tool Report
Following a disastrous launch, with scathing customer reviews, AI Pin company, Humane, has lost two of its key leaders: Strategic Partnerships Lead, Brooke Hartley Moy and Head of Product Engineering, Ken Kocienda, who have left to start their own company–called Infactory–which has nothing to do with AI hardware. Infactory is an AI-powered fact-checking search engine, with a difference. Unlike Google’s AI Overviews, which uses AI to provide information summaries, Infactory uses AI to pull information from a variety of trusted sources (citations included). They are prioritizing quality data over general content sources to ensure answers are accurate and not hallucinogenic.
My trip to the frontier of AI education - Bill Gates, Gates Notes
In May, I had the chance to visit the First Avenue Elementary School, where they’re pioneering the use of AI education in the classroom. The Newark School District is piloting Khanmigo, an AI-powered tutor and teacher support tool, and I couldn’t wait to see it for myself. I’ve written a lot about Khanmigo on this blog. It was developed by Khan Academy, a terrific partner of the Gates Foundation. And I think Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, is a visionary when it comes to harnessing the power of technology to help kids learn. We’re still in the early days of using AI in classrooms, but what I saw in Newark showed me the incredible potential of the technology.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Morehouse to use AI teaching assistants this fall - Wilborn P. Nobles III, Axios
Morehouse College is planning to use AI teaching assistants to help crack the code of education. Why it matters: Morehouse professor Muhsinah Morris says every professor will have an AI assistant in three to five years. Morris says the technology has taken off in the last 24 months faster than it has in the last 24 years. Meanwhile, baby boomers are leaving the workforce amid national teacher shortages and burnout.
How it works: Morehouse professors will collaborate with technology partner VictoryXR to create virtual 3D spatial avatars. The avatars use OpenAI to have two-way oral conversations with students.
These free ChatGPT apps will analyze data, copyedit text, and improve productivity - Jeremy Caplan, Fast Company
To use ChatGPT more creatively, you can now pick from thousands of free apps called “GPTs.” Each AI app has a special super power. GPTs can help you create images, diagrams, and videos, or get help with negotiating, designing, or presenting. Read on for my favorites and how to make the most of these Custom GPTs.
Monday, July 15, 2024
Will UBI Solve AI Job Disruption? - Julia McCoy, Youtube.com
In an age of total automation, what if money was considered a basic right to life - a stewardship we all took part in? Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a social welfare concept that’s never been implemented successfully on a wide scale. Could UBI be necessary in an economy not driven by human production, but run by AI? In the next decade, for the FIRST time in history, humans won't have to work to see consistent production occur to fuel consumption. This necessitates a massive change in economics – an entire overhaul. I believe we have to be open to whatever will work best to help humans thrive in the AI age, no matter if it has a stigma attached to it, if it comes from a party we typically disagree with, etc. I've challenged my own viewpoints on many things as I learned about the true history of UBI.
Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy - Michael LePage, New Scientist
Artificial intelligence systems can now create remarkably accurate reconstructions of what someone is looking at based on recordings of their brain activity. These reconstructed images are greatly improved when the AI learns which parts of the brain to pay attention to. “As far as I know, these are the closest, most accurate reconstructions,” says Umut Güçlü at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part - Microsoft and LinkedIn 2024 Trend Index Annual Report
The data is in: 2024 is the year AI at work gets real. Use of generative AI has nearly doubled in the last six months,1 with 75% of global knowledge workers using it. And employees, struggling under the pace and volume of work, are bringing their own AI to work. While leaders agree AI is a business imperative, many believe their organization lacks a plan and vision to go from individual impact to applying AI to drive the bottom line. The pressure to show immediate ROI is making leaders inert, even in the face of AI inevitability.
What does it mean for students to be AI-ready? - David Joyner, Times Higher Education
Not everyone wants to be a computer scientist, a software engineer or a machine learning developer. We owe it to our students to prepare them with a full range of AI skills for the world they will graduate into, writes David Joyner. Too often, traditional education prepares students for the worlds into which their schools and universities emerged, not the world they exist in now. Part of AI literacy will be ensuring students are ready to interrogate the content they consume; coexisting with AI will mean understanding how it influences what we see.
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold Small improvements can lead to big changes - ETHAN MOLLICK, One Useful Thing
At some point, the current wave of AI technologies will hit their limits and progress will slow, but no one knows when this will occur. Until that happens, it is worth contemplating the concluding lines to OpenAI’s new paper on using AI to debug AI code: “From this point on, the intelligence of LLMs… will only continue to improve. Human intelligence will not.” We know this may not be true forever, but, in the meantime, the steady improvement in AI ability is less important than the thresholds of change. Keep an eye on the thresholds.
Home Quantum Computer Emulator Launched on Kickstarter - Bernice Baker, IOT World Today
Australian researchers have developed what they say is the first consumer quantum computing product that can be purchased on Kickstarter for less than $400. About the same size and shape as an Amazon Echo Dot puck, the Quokka is said to emulate a fault-tolerant, 30-qubit quantum computer. It connects to a regular laptop or desktop computer via a USB cable. and features the smiling face of its namesake marsupial. Currently in pilot trials, the system has been brought to market by Eigensystem, a spinout from the Center for Quantum Software and Information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney.
Friday, July 12, 2024
OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward `Human-Level' Problem Solving - Rachel Metz, Bloomberg
OpenAI executives told employees that the company believes it is currently on the first level, according to the spokesperson, but on the cusp of reaching the second, which it calls “Reasoners.” This refers to systems that can do basic problem-solving tasks as well as a human with a doctorate-level education who doesn’t have access to any tools. According to the levels OpenAI has come up with, the third tier on the way to AGI would be called “Agents,” referring to AI systems that can spend several days taking actions on a user’s behalf. Level 4 describes AI that can come up with new innovations. And the most advanced level would be called “Organizations.”
Co-Intelligence: How to Live and Work with AI - Ethan Mollick and Stefano Puntoni, Knowledge at Wharton
“The best way to work with it is to treat it like a person, so you’re in this interesting trap,” said Mollick, co-director of the Generative AI Lab at Wharton. “Treat it like a person and you’re 90% of the way there. At the same time, you have to remember you are dealing with a software process.” This anthropomorphism of AI often ends in a doomsday scenario, where people envision a robot uprising. Mollick thinks the probability of computers becoming sentient is small, but there are “enough serious people worried about it” that he includes it among the four scenarios sketched out in his new book, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
AI fast-tracks software tasks - McKinsey
Generative AI (gen AI) tools can significantly increase the productivity of software product managers, especially for content-heavy tasks. Research by senior partner Chandra Gnanasambandam and coauthors finds that when using gen AI programs, product managers can complete certain tasks, such as writing press releases and creating product backlogs, in 40 percent less time than they would without the tools. However, gen AI capabilities have a smaller impact on content-light tasks, such as gathering and summarizing data for presentations, reducing time spent by 15 percent.
Can Large Language Models Reason? - MELANIE MITCHELL, AI Guide Substack
But are these behaviors actually driven by true abstract reasoning abilities, or by some other less robust and generalizable mechanism—for example, by memorizing their training data and later matching patterns in a given problem to those found in training data? Why does this matter? If robust general-purpose reasoning abilities have emerged in LLMs, this bolsters the claim that such systems are an important step on the way to trustworthy general intelligence. On the other hand, if LLMs rely primarily on memorization and pattern-matching rather than true reasoning, then they will not be generalizable—we can’t trust them to perform well on “out of distribution” tasks, those that are not sufficiently similar to tasks they’ve seen in the training data.
Runway ML Gen-3 The King of AI VIDEO is here. It's all over... - Wes Roth, YouTube
In this podcast edition, Wes Roth digs into the state of the art in text-to-video tools. His focus is on RunwayML Roth rates videos and compares details within the images. Of particular note is the final quarter of the video where he examines the text-prompt terms along with the visuals that those terms actually generate.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Can AI and Data Analytics Create More Personalised Educational Journeys? - ET Education
Educational institutions are increasingly finding creative and impactful ways to utilise AI and data analytics, breaking away from traditional methods and exploring new possibilities. Adv. Suyash Vijay Pradhan who is Vice Principal of Satish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College, Thane shared how their institution uniquely utilises data analytics. While data analytics is commonly used for admissions to determine student placement and interests, their approach includes two noteworthy features.He also expressed, how his university is using robots for absent professors and the college's CS/IT department is developing a robot that can substitute for absent professors, ensuring that academic activities remain unaffected. Secondly, the institution emphasises energy conservation, using data analytics to identify areas for cost reduction and reallocating resources to benefit students.
AI and Higher Education III – AI and Research - University World News
Research that uses generative AI is expanding rapidly across fields, and is accelerating and transforming scientific knowledge. For three months University World News has published a weekly series of articles on ‘AI and Research’, exploring the multiplying ways in which AI is involved in higher education research, and culminating in this Special Report. The growing integration of AI tools is catalysing a new era of ‘human-AI collaboration’ in research, signalling a profound shift in how academics approach their scholarly work. This shift is not just about increasing productivity and scale – it represents a fundamental change in the research paradigm.
Tuesday, July 09, 2024
Best AI image generators of 2024 - Ryan Morrison, Tom's Guide
In less than two years we’ve gone from tools like Midjourney being able to create a low-resolution, barely recognizable depiction of a human to high definition, photorealistic images you can barely distinguish from those taken with a camera. We also now have inpainting, consistent character and upscaling tools from StabilityAI, well utilized by companies like Leonardo and NightCafe, as well as text on images from OpenAI in DALL-E 3 and Ideogram, the AI startup from former Google engineers.
Gen-3 Alpha: Available Now - Runway
Gen-3 Alpha is the first of an upcoming series of models trained by Runway on a new infrastructure built for large-scale multimodal training. It is a major improvement in fidelity, consistency, and motion over Gen-2, and a step towards building General World Models. All of the videos linked below were generated with Gen-3 Alpha with no modifications.
Watch this astounding view generated from text in Gen-3 Alpha.
Monday, July 08, 2024
Bill Gates Reveals Superhuman AI Prediction - Bill Gates, The Next Big Idea
Bill Gates has played a leading role in every major tech development over the last half-century, and he’s got a pretty good track record when it comes to forecasting the future. Back in 1980, he predicted that one day there’d be a computer on every desk; today on the show, he says there will soon be an AI agent in every ear. In this episode of the Next Big Idea podcast, host Rufus Griscom and Bill Gates are joined by Andy Sack and Adam Brotman, co-authors of an exciting new book called “AI First.” Together, they consider AI’s impact on healthcare, education, productivity, and business. They dig into the technology’s risks. And they explore its potential to cure diseases, enhance creativity, and usher in a world of abundance.
The the root cause behind evils is scarcity, which can be solved with AGI - Julia McCoy, YouTube
Once again, Julia McCoy digs down into the key elements of change that we are experiencing with the advent of AGI/ASI (artificial general intelligence/artificial super intelligence) in the 4IR (fourth industrial revolution). She emphasizes that a world of AGI could mean an end to scarcity. AGI will assist us in solving many of the negative challenges that we face.
Sunday, July 07, 2024
How will AI Impact Racial Disparities in Education? - Hoang Pham, et al; Stanford Center for Racial Justice
AI’s rapid expansion in society has had a profound impact on our education system. Although education technology has been implemented in K-12 schools for decades, this more recent wave involving generative AI has brought significant optimism about how AI can transform education and improve outcomes for the most marginalized students, especially while schools still try to recover from learning loss caused by remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, many have also expressed grave concerns about the dangers of AI in education, including its potential to exacerbate already persistent inequalities.
ChatGPT Forces Universities To Adapt Or Retreat - Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes
Some institutions are taking action to mitigate the perceived threat. The University of Glasgow is transitioning from open-book online exams back to in-person exams that are invigilated, for third and fourth-year Life Science students. The university's aim is to assure students, accreditation bodies and future employers that the grades awarded are a true reflection of students' knowledge and abilities. While this approach may safeguard against immediate concerns, it raises questions about whether reverting to traditional methods prepares students for a world where AI is increasingly ubiquitous. Many educators see this moment as an opportunity for transformative change. They argue that instead of retreating to outdated methods, universities should embrace this challenge as a catalyst for innovation in assessment practices.
Saturday, July 06, 2024
Broadening the Gains from Generative AI: The Role of Fiscal Policies - Fernanda Brollo, et al; International Monetary Fund
Generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) holds immense potential to boost productivity growth and advance public service delivery, but it also raises profound concerns about massive labor disruptions and rising inequality. This note discusses how fiscal policies can be employed to steer the technology and its deployment in ways that serve humanity best while cushioning the negative labor market and distributional effects to broaden the gains. Given the vast uncertainty about the nature, impact, and speed of developments in gen AI, governments should take an agile approach that prepares them for both business as usual and highly disruptive scenarios.
The ingenuity of generative AI - IBM
Generative AI has seemed almost too good to be true. It cuts coding time from days to minutes, personalizes products down to the tiniest detail, and spots security vulnerabilities almost as soon as they appear. And it’s helped skyrocket AI ROI from 13% to 31% since 2022. While this largely reflects the success of pilots, sandbox experimentation, and other small-scale investments, these early results have business leaders rethinking what’s possible. Our latest proprietary survey of 5,000 executives across 24 countries and 25 industries reveals that most executives are more optimistic about the generative AI opportunity than they were last year. More than three in four (77%) say gen AI is market ready, up from just 36% in 2023, and nearly two-thirds (62%) now say gen AI is more reality than hype.
Friday, July 05, 2024
AI can beat university students, study suggests - Ian Youngs, BBC News
University exams taken by fake students using artificial intelligence beat those by real students and usually went undetected by markers, in a limited study. University of Reading researchers created 33 fictitious students and used AI tool ChatGPT to generate answers to module exams for an undergraduate psychology degree at the institution. They said the AI students' results were half a grade boundary higher on average than those of their real-life counterparts. And the AI essays "verged on being undetectable", with 94% not raising concerns with markers.
ChatGPT 5: What to Expect and What We Know So Far - AutoGPT by Mindstream
Another anticipated feature is the AI’s improved learning and adaptation capabilities. ChatGPT-5 will be better at learning from user interactions and fine-tuning its responses over time to become more accurate and relevant. So when can we expect ChatGPT 5? Late 2024 or Early 2025! The enhancements in ChatGPT-5 are not just theoretical but have practical implications that can transform various sectors:
Content Creation
With enhanced capabilities, ChatGPT 5 could be a valuable tool for writers, helping generate high-quality articles, scripts, and creative content with ease. It could assist in brainstorming ideas and refining drafts.
Education
Personalized tutoring and interactive learning tools could adapt more closely to individual student needs with ChatGPT 5. It most likely would offer tailored explanations and interactive learning experiences.
Thursday, July 04, 2024
Collaborate with Claude on Projects - Anthropic
Our vision for Claude has always been to create AI systems that work alongside people and meaningfully enhance their workflows. As a step in this direction, Claude.ai Pro and Team users can now organize their chats into Projects, bringing together curated sets of knowledge and chat activity in one place—with the ability to make their best chats with Claude viewable by teammates. With this new functionality, Claude can enable idea generation, more strategic decision-making, and exceptional results. Projects are available on Claude.ai for all Pro and Team customers, and can be powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet, our latest release which outperforms its peers on a wide variety of benchmarks. Each project includes a 200K context window, the equivalent of a 500-page book, so users can add all of the relevant documents, code, and insights to enhance Claude’s effectiveness.
Survey Suggests Trend Toward Use of AI in Legal Education - Johnny Jackson, Diverse Education
About 55% of law schools that responded reported that they offer classes dedicated to teaching students about AI. Eighty-three percent of responding law schools reported the availability of curricular opportunities for students to learn how to use AI tools effectively. About 85% are contemplating changes to their curricula in response to the increasing prevalence of AI tools. The survey also found that 69% of institutions have adapted their academic integrity policies in response to generative AI. But 62% of law school had not decided how to approach the use of generative AI by applicants.
Wednesday, July 03, 2024
AI Reshapes Higher Ed and Society at Large by 2035 - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
There are important steps to be taken in higher education as we prepare for the deep societywide changes that will take place in the next five to 10 years. Almost certainly the fall 2025 semester, or shortly thereafter, we will see the expanding use of generative AI as instructors. We already rely on apps to help us construct course syllabi, learning outcomes, grading rubrics and much more. AI conducts discussion boards, serves as tutors such as Khanmigo and orchestrates adaptive learning. The advent of synthetic instructors, perhaps supervised at first by human “master instructors,” will create a notable milestone along the way of AI progress in higher education. The premise of our system of colleges and universities is founded on teaching and learning for humans. If the workforce of the educated and skilled drops by nearly half, there would seem to be implications for our institutions.
A New Guide for Responsible AI Use in Higher Ed - Lauren Coffey, Inside Higher Ed
Generative artificial intelligence holds “tremendous promise” in nearly every facet of higher education, but there need to be guardrails, policies and strong governance for the technology, according to a new report. The report from MIT SMR Connections, a subsection within MIT Sloan Management Review, classifies itself as a “strategy guide” for responsibly using generative AI in higher ed. It points toward several institutional practices that have reaped positive results in the last two years, following the debut of ChatGPT in November 2022, which kicked off a flood of AI tools and applications.
Tuesday, July 02, 2024
Six Ways to Address the AI Leadership Deficit - Russell Reynolds
In the six months since we first asked leaders about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), confidence in the technology’s potential has remained high. According to Russell Reynolds Associates’ most recent Global Leadership Monitor, there’s significant enthusiasm around how AI might revolutionize organizations, with 74% of leaders reporting excitement around AI’s potential to dramatically improve team productivity, and 58% believing in AI’s potential to create new revenue streams in their organization (Figure 1). And while it’s impossible to avoid wondering about the potential downstream impacts on workforces, leaders are far more likely to believe that AI will create new jobs in their organizations than they are to be worried about AI causing layoffs (57% vs 15% strongly agree/agree).
AI Agents and Education: Simulated Practice at Scale - Ethan R. Mollick, et al; SSRN
This paper explores the potential of generative AI in creating adaptive educational simulations. By leveraging a system of multiple AI agents, simulations can provide personalized learning experiences, offering students the opportunity to practice skills in scenarios with AI-generated mentors, role-players, and instructor-facing evaluators. We describe a prototype, PitchQuest, a venture capital pitching simulator that showcases the capabilities of AI in delivering instruction, facilitating practice, and providing tailored feedback. The paper discusses the pedagogy behind the simulation, the technology powering it, and the ethical considerations in using AI for education. While acknowledging the limitations and need for rigorous testing, we propose that generative AI can significantly lower the barriers to creating effective, engaging simulations, opening up new possibilities for experiential learning at scale.
Monday, July 01, 2024
Ahead of GPT-5 launch, another test shows that people cannot distinguish ChatGPT from a human in a conversation test - Wayne Williams, Tech Radar
In the study, 500 participants were assigned to one of five groups. They engaged in a conversation with either a human or one of the three AI systems. The game interface resembled a typical messaging app. After five minutes, participants judged whether they believed their conversation partner was human or AI and provided reasons for their decisions. The results were interesting. GPT-4 was identified as human 54% of the time, ahead of GPT-3.5 (50%), with both significantly outperforming ELIZA (22%) but lagging behind actual humans (67%). Participants were no better than chance at identifying GPT-4 as AI, indicating that current AI systems can deceive people into believing they are human.
How to use ChatGPT to digitize your handwritten notes for free - Sabrina Ortiz, ZDnet
When OpenAI supercharged the free version of ChatGPT with GPT-4o in May, users gained the ability to upload files, including images and documents, and to interact with images in multiple ways, such as extracting text. Also: How to use ChatGPT to analyze PDFs for free. This means you can upload handwritten documents, from sticky notes to meeting and class notes to packing lists, and convert them into text. Then, you can use that text to create new content by copying and pasting it into presentations, emails, outlines, essays, Quizlets, and more. Sounds too good to be true? I thought the same, but after testing the tool, I can assure you that it works efficiently and quickly. Getting started is simple, and you will not want to stop once you start.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-digitize-your-handwritten-notes-for-free/
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