How AI is changing education; Bard and ChatGPT are reshaping our relationship with the internet; tech companies chase wearable AI; Gemini goes into Google Cloud
Microsoft wants to use nuclear to power its AI servers; Meta's AI will soon be available on its Ray Ban glasses; Nvidia is a leading investor in AI companies; Fortune hosts Brainstorm AI conference.
AI holds the promise of revolutionizing education, making it more personalized, engaging, and accessible to all.
Today, advances in large language models present new opportunities to transform how teachers invest their time. Freed from repetitive tasks, teachers could find more time to focus on building meaningful mentoring relationships, on inspiring students’ passions, and sparking their curiosity.
And in the very near future, we will see a generation of AI tutors that will be able to deliver highly personalized and adaptive lessons, provide real-time feedback, and identify gaps in student knowledge. Examples include Youdao’s virtual language tutor Echo or Sizzle, a free AI-powered learning app that generates step-by-step answers to math equations and word problems. However, while these AI models excel at knowledge retrieval and content delivery, they lack emotional intelligence and reasoning which are critically important to a student's academic journey - making teachers and classrooms irreplaceable for now.
But if we fast forward to when frontier AI models get closer to human intelligence, we may have to re-envision the role of teachers and students. We will need to overhaul teacher training programs, establish rigorous foundations in AI application, ethics and emotional intelligence, and perhaps even completely change our current education system and curriculum to focus more on lifelong learning programs.
I had this video in my drafts for a while and I thought about sharing it this week, as I’ve come across so many articles related to the impact of AI in education - see here, here, here, here, and here.)
And now, here are this week’s news!
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Our top news picks for the week - your essential reading from the world of AI
2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren’t sure what to do about it [AP]
ChatGPT Is Turning the Internet Into Plumbing [The Atlantic]
Now we know what OpenAI’s superalignment team has been up to [MIT Technology Review]
Will European AI regulation crush its hottest AI startups? [Sifted]
Nvidia emerges as leading investor in AI companies [Financial Times]
Mistral AI bucks release trend by dropping torrent link to new open source LLM [VentureBeat]
Europe Puts Stake in the Ground With First Pact to Regulate AI [Bloomberg]
Artificial: The OpenAI Story [Wall Street Journal podcast series]
Microsoft Targets Nuclear to Power AI Operations [Wall Street Journal]
AI is forcing teachers to confront an existential question [Washington Post]
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests [New York Times]
How Google Bard is changing our relationship with YouTube [Jules Terpak]
AI and Everything Else [Benedict Evans]
Former French Official Pushes for Looser AI Rules After Joining Startup [Bloomberg]
OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft Chase Wearable AI [The Information]
Chatbot Hype or Harm? Teens Push to Broaden A.I. Literacy [New York Times]
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AI in the wild: how artificial intelligence is used across industry, from the internet, social media, and retail to transportation, healthcare, banking, and more
Distributional wants to develop software to reduce AI risk [TechCrunch]
Agility is using large language models to communicate with its humanoid robots [TechCrunch]
Spotify is testing AI-generated playlists [Engadget]
Intel Core Ultra processors debut for AI-powered PCs [VentureBeat]
Bedfordshire Police use AI to save hours on admin duties [BBC]
This new system can teach a robot a simple household task within 20 minutes [MIT Technology Review]
Grammarly's AI writing help comes to your iPhone. Here's how to use it today [ZDNet]
Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem [MIT Technology Review]
Google unveils MedLM, a family of healthcare-focused generative AI models [TechCrunch]
With AI Studio, Google launches an easy-to-use tool for developing apps and chatbots based on its Gemini model [TechCrunch]
Instagram now lets you make AI-generated backdrops for your Stories [The Verge]
Tesla Shows Off Optimus Gen 2 Robot With Improved Hands, Slimmer Figure [Bloomberg]
OpenAI and Axel Springer strike unprecedented deal to offer news in ChatGPT [CNBC]
Companies will soon be able to build internal search engines — with no coding needed — using Google Gemini AI [Business Insider]
Robo dogs and AI inspectors might be coming to the border [Axios]
China’s WeRide tests autonomous buses in Singapore, accelerates global ambition [TechCrunch]
Machine learning is set to speed up the detection of contamination in food factories [TechCrunch]
Output’s AI-powered software automatically generates music sample packs from text prompts [Engadget]
Laredo wants to use GenAI to automate dev work [TechCrunch]
In the educational AI race, Merlyn Mind focuses on classrooms, not individual students [Fast Company]
Meta’s AI for Ray-Ban smart glasses can identify objects and translate languages [The Verge]
AI companion robot helps some seniors fight loneliness, but others hate it [Ars Technica]
AI-Enhanced Employee Onboarding: A New Era In HR Practices [Forbes]
Casio engineers use A.I., for the first time, to develop a one-of-a-kind 40th anniversary version of the popular G-Shock watch [New York Times]
Dream of Talking to Vincent van Gogh? A.I. Tries to Resurrect the Artist. [New York Times]
Snapchat+ subscribers can now create and send AI-generated images [TechCrunch]
From head to heart to diet, AI is learning to make a map of elite athletes’ bodies [CNBC]
Tenyx aims to fix LLMs’ catastrophic forgetting problem [VentureBeat]
Hiscox to use AI for underwriting process in tie-up with Google [Financial Times]
How AI can cut two hours of work into 15 minutes with SAP CTO Juergen Mueller [VentureBeat]
Scientists use brain-like tissue in advance for ‘biocomputing’ research [Financial Times]
Ocado to ramp up use of robotic arms to speed-pack shopping [Financial Times]
Google's AI-infused NotebookLM note-taking app is open to everyone in the US [Engadget]
AI doctor's offices at the mall and gym will let you test your own blood — with no trained medics onsite [Business Insider]
ChatGPT rival Pi launches on Android [VentureBeat]
These robots know when to ask for help [MIT Technology Review]
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Interesting trends and developments from various AI fields, companies and people
Linux Foundation advances open source vision with Generative AI Commons
Midjourney Alpha is here with AI image generations on the web [VentureBeat]
Salesforce strengthens AI play with vector database support, enhanced Einstein Copilot [VentureBeat]
The promise and peril of AI at work in 2024, according to Deloitte's Tech Trends report [ZDNet]
Google debuts Imagen 2 with text and logo generation [TechCrunch]
Google’s GitHub Copilot competitor is now generally available and will soon use the Gemini model [TechCrunch]
How AI can help math teachers improve their students’ skills [Ars Technica]
Turing test on steroids: Chatbot Arena crowdsources ratings for 45 AI models [Ars Technica]
The Rise of ‘Small Language Models’ and Reinforcement Learning [The Information]
BitHuman introduces lifelike AI agents for enterprises [VentureBeat]
Equinix enables private AI infrastructure for businesses [VentureBeat]
Ocient scales hyperscale data warehouse for machine learning [VentureBeat]
Lightning AI debuts ‘iPhone approach’ to new AI dev platform [VentureBeat]
Multimodal AI puts on quite a show, but it’s still in its infancy [Fortune]
Freelancers are embracing gen AI tools at far higher rates than the rest of the workforce, according to Upwork [Fast Company]
Japanese tech giant Rakuten plans to launch proprietary AI model [CNBC]
Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds [VentureBeat]
Microsoft releases Phi-2, a small language model AI that outperforms Llama 2, Mistral 7B [VentureBeat]
Oxford students told to use AI to help write essays [The Telegraph]
Intel Labs and Mila Collaborate on State-of-the-Art Language Model for Materials Science [Intel Newsroom]
Fastweb to develop native Italian trained AI language model [Reuters]
Stanford and Meta inch towards AI that acts human with new ‘CHOIS’ interaction model [VentureBeat]
AWS chief Adam Selipsky talks generative AI, Amazon’s investment in Anthropic and cloud cost cutting [AP]
AMD Unveils AI Accelerators From Cloud To Client With MI300 Leading The Charge [Forbes]
Big Tech’s Ability to Deliver on AI Profits Looms Over S&P 500 [Bloomberg]
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