Our usual monthly round up of everything AI:
Reports & Papers
To What Extent Has Artificial Intelligence Impacted EFL Teaching and Learning? A Systematic Review A review of research papers published from 2020 – 2023 around how AI has impacted EFL (English as a foreign language) teaching and learning.
Educate Beyond the Hype report. This report presents the findings from a comprehensive self-assessment completed by 256 institutions in England between February and May 2024
The Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL] is a private member’s bill proposed by Lord Holmes of Richmond (Conservative), which would introduce a new body, the AI Authority, which would have various functions designed to help address AI regulation in the UK. It would also put regulatory principles for artificial intelligence into law.
Thinking about using AI? Here’s what you can and (probably) can’t change about AI’s environmental impact. This briefing is intended to help people with a responsibility for AI projects understand the considerations around their direct negative environmental impact arising from AI
Useful Articles
First pro vice-chancellor for artificial intelligence appointed. Professor filling first-of-its-kind role says universities need to encourage students to use AI in their studies, or risk them falling behind.
Michael Parkinson AI podcast creator defends project Deep Fusion Films’ Ben Field says ‘we couldn’t have this experience with a human host’
I quit teaching because of ChatGPT “I found myself spending more time giving feedback to AI than to my students”.
‘I used AI to cheat at uni and regret it’. Hannah says she is lucky she wasn’t thrown out of university after being caught using AI.,
AI and Skills Loss: It’s Not That Simple. A lot of the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in education centres on the idea that AI will inevitably lead to skills loss and that this is an inherently bad thing.
AI and British Sign Language: Transforming Rail Travel for Deaf Passengers AI-powered tech with South Western Railway delivers real-time British Sign Language updates, transforming rail travel for Deaf passengers.
Vendor News
Snapchat has launched Educator tools and resources
Google just gave its AI access to Search hours before OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search Google launches real-time search integration for Gemini AI platform at $35 per 1,000 queries, while OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Search on the same day, setting up a major battle for the future of AI-powered search technology.
OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December The Orion model has been teased by an OpenAI executive as potentially up to 100 times more powerful than GPT-4.
Google launches SynthID – watermarks and identifies AI-generated content by embedding digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text or video.
European Parliament Revolutionises Archive Access with Claude AI \ Anthropic. European Parliament uses Anthropic’s Claude AI to power Archibot, dramatically improving access to 2.1 million documents and cutting search time by 80%.
Microsoft just announced that new agentic capabilities are coming to Copilot and Dynamics 365, allowing users to create their own or utilize pre-built agents to enhance processes across the platforms.
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