Welcome back, from what was hopefully a good summer break. We have a whole raft of news articles and vendor announcements for you.
Research Papers
The Adoption of ChatGPT, by Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard – May 9, 2024. large-scale survey (Nov 2023 – Jan 2024) of 100,000 workers from 11 exposed occupations, linked to labour market histories, earnings, wealth, education and demographics to characterise the nature of adoption of ChatGPT.
Useful Articles
OECD have published The potential impact of Artificial Intelligence on equity and inclusion in education
University of Waterloo, Canada have published their Guide to Assessment in the Generative AI Era
Using Gen AI to add subtitles on BBC Sounds Subtitles and transcripts generated by AI will be added to a select range of audio content on BBC Sounds as part of a trial
UK’s first ‘teacherless’ AI classroom set to open in London A private school in London is opening the UK’s first classroom taught by artificial intelligence instead of human teachers. They say the technology allows for precise, bespoke learning while critics argue AI teaching will lead to a “soulless, bleak future”.
Tony Blair’s AI mania sweeps Britain’s new government The former PM sees artificial intelligence as a silver bullet for ailing public services, government inefficiency and a stagnant economy. Is he right?
Arizona State University personalizes learning and advances research with ChatGPT. Today, ASU is enhancing educational outcomes by integrating ChatGPT Edu into projects across teaching, research, and operations.
Charlotte Deane: AI ‘will change every scientific discipline’. EPSRC chair discusses AI, UK science ambitions and research council leadership
Light bulbs have energy ratings — so why can’t AI chatbots? The rising energy and environmental cost of the artificial-intelligence boom is fuelling concern. Green policy mechanisms that already exist offer a path towards a solution.
Replacing my Right Hand with AI Breaking my hand forced me to write all my code with AI for 2 months. I’m never going back.
A deep dive into deepfakes that demean, defraud and disinform. As new Ofcom research reveals the prevalence of online deepfakes, we look at what can be done to tackle those that cause harm.
Malaysian university seeks approval for AI-taught degree. New technology that allows AI avatars to deliver lectures could be used to ‘democratise’ access to higher education, says professor
Integration of AI into our national curriculum has never been more important. Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant dream or a speculative buzzword; it’s the beating heart of modern innovation.
Assessment and curriculum design can’t ignore how students use AI. Instead of viewing GenAI only as a threat, we should embrace it as an opportunity to reform our outdated approaches, says Dorottya Sallai
AI and digital neocolonialism: Unintended impacts on universities The rapid integration of AI technologies, including generative pre-training transformers (GPT), generative adversarial networks, convolutional neural networks, and reinforcement learning models, has profoundly influenced various global sectors, with a notable impact on higher education.
Vendor News
Perplexity AI plans to start running ads in fourth quarter as AI-assisted search gains popularity Following months of controversy surrounding plagiarism allegations, Perplexity AI is about to start selling ads alongside AI-assisted search results.
OpenAI signs deal to train on Condé Nast content, surface stories in ChatGPT OpenAI has inked a deal with Condé Nast — the publisher of storied outlets such as The New Yorker, Vogue, and Wired — to surface stories from its properties in OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT and its search prototype SearchGPT.
OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK’s Financial Times, including content use. OpenAI, maker of the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT, has netted another news licensing deal in Europe, adding London’s Financial Times to a growing list of publishers it’s paying for content access.
ChatGPT firm OpenAI strikes deal with Vogue owner. OpenAI and global magazine giant Condé Nast have announced a partnership to allow ChatGPT and its search engine SearchGPT to display content from Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ and other well known publications.
Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o. Fine-tune custom versions of GPT-4o to increase performance and accuracy for your applications.
This New Grammarly Tool Aims to Tell If AI Wrote a Document The software firm is launching a product, Grammarly Authorship, that’s like a chain-of-custody tracker for words.
Microsoft share What’s new in Copilot
Be My Eyes Launches Initiative to Make AI Models More Inclusive. An initiative that will provide video data to organizations to train their AI models in a more inclusive way.
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