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AI and the Future of HE

Claude 3 is here... and it's amazing (Anthropic)

Crunchy McGrummels Sells Snacks to a Baby

Anthropic has launched the Claude 3 model family and it is very impressive. Multimodal out of the box, with the enormous context window that has made it a...

2024: the year of Open (Source) AI?

Senior Leadership Is Happily Failing Universities

So 2023 was unquestionably OpenAI (and Microsoft)’s year. Even with the Succession/Game of Thrones drama they put us through towards the end of November last...

A storm in a teacup (OpenAI's Sora, 2023)

Pirate Ships Battling Inside a Cup of Coffee

It seems like Google is making up for lost time. A week or two back, Google Bard was rebranded and formally launched as Google Gemini. Gemini features 3 models...

Bill Gates x Sam Altman (Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates)

Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift Teach Calculus Now

So who doesn’t have a podcast these days? Turns out even Bill Gates (whose $113 billion fortune makes him the 4th richest person in the world) has jumped on...

The future of AI in Europe?

When AI Made Every Lawyer Look Like the Best One

Europe’s new rules for AI, proposed in December 2023, have taken a large step forward this week with EU countries agreeing on the technical details of the Act...

Biden and Trump enjoying an icecream together - clearly a deepfake but easy to do and pretty convincing all the same (Midjourney + PS Generative Fill)

Three Percent Said the Chatbot Saved Their Life

You’ve probably heard about the deepfake pornographic images of Taylor Swift on X and Telegram - viewed tens of millions of times before being taken down...

A human student and their AI classmate (Midjourney)

Ferris State's Two Freshmen Are Not Human

Following on the steps of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Act (2023), the US Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected requests from Apple and Disney to...

Midjourney v6 Alpha Release Guide (Rory Flynn, 2023)

My AI Clone's Vietnamese Needed Subtitles

2023 was a big year full of change for all for us - including for the big names in the field of AI research. Reportedly, when asked in 2022 when AI would...

The Wizard of AI (Open Data Institute, 2023)

Google's $144 Billion Marketing Mistake

Bar their absolutely historic marketing disaster in February (probably history’s most expensive - costing Alphabet/Google $144bn?!) Google was almost...

Twenty Minutes With a Humpback Whale Named Twain

This is a very interesting one: the New York Times have filed suit against both OpenAI and Microsoft for billions in damages - and they might have a strong...