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AI and the Future of HE
There's No Such Thing as a Non-AI Assessment Now
Anthropic have just dropped a sneak peek at the future of agentic AI - they’ve released a public Claude beta that can use computers the same way people do.
AI Detectors Now Flag Pre-AI Essays
Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic)’s recent l̶o̶v̶e̶ ̶l̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ essays on the potential of AI in the not too distant future has me thinking...
Two Students, Smart Glasses, a Stranger's Address
Dario Amodei , CEO of Anthropic (the lab behind AI fan-favourite, Claude) is a glass-half-full kinda guy when it comes to AI. In a recent essay titled Machines...
The New Bloom's Taxonomy Has No 'Remember' Level
Microsoft has just announced significant updates to its Copilot AI platform, introducing features such as Copilot Voice for natural conversations, Copilot...
The 2023 Photo Has Only One Survivor Now
What a difference a year or two makes ⏳. As we start to wind down into Q4 2024, AI is increasingly ubiquitous with ~40% of US adults aged 18-64 US using AI in...
Harvard's AI Tutor Taught Twice as Fast
\"The technology is too important, and the stakes are too high, to rely only on market forces and a fragmented patchwork of national and multilateral action\"...
OpenAI Dropped a Thinking Machine on an Ordinary Thursday
OpenAI's latest marvel, the o1-preview model, dropped last week and they may have changed the world … again. Known as \"Strawberry,\" o1 marks a significant leap...
£27,000 a Year for a Classroom With No Teacher
Imagine an economic boost larger than the current output of China and India combined. That's the potential impact of AI by 2030, according to PwC's recent...
Kermit Becomes Immortan Joe
Hold onto your GPUs! A new study from Epoch AI suggests that we're just getting started with AIs and they could get a lot smarter yet. The study suggests AI...
Bigger, Worse, and Coming Next Year, Says Schmidt
Eric Schmidt (ex-CEO of Google) gave a recent talk at Stanford - which, given who he is and the vantage point this gives him on the whole AI thing, are very...
ChatGPT's Voice Clone Bug Sounds Like Black Mirror
Imagine talking to ChatGPT, getting through some work - maybe doing some shopping together, and it starts talking back to you - in your own voice...
The Internet Is Freeware, Says Microsoft's AI Chief
So much has happened in the last week or so that I could write a whole post about these alone. That said, a whole bunch of other things have happened as well...
Digital Employees Got Fired in Three Days
Big move by Meta/Zuckerberg: they have just released Llama 3.1 405B - an open source AI on par with the best of the closed source ones. With a techworld...
Karpathy Is Opening an AI-Native School
In the last post, as part of a conversation on Global AI Regulations, I cracked what I thought was half a joke about emotionally-intelligent vending machines...
AI Diagnosed Sam Altman's Mood From One Photo
The Gartner Hype cycle maps the maturity, adoption, and social application of AI technologies - helping organisations understand which AI technologies are...