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Future of AI

News on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Libraries

Thursday, October 17, 2024

The robot will walk among you

Over the weekend, Elon Musk revealed updates on a bunch of products, like robovans, robotaxis, and self-driving cars. Wall Street didn't believe his timelines, I guess, because Tesla stock immediately dropped 25%.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.understandably.com/p/the-robot-will-walk-among-you

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Meet Aria: The New Open Source Multimodal AI That's Rivaling Big Tech

Artificial intelligence just got a new player—and it's fully open-sourced. Aria, a multimodal LLM developed by Tokyo-based Rhymes AI, is capable of processing text, code, images, and video all within a single architecture.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://decrypt.co/286132/aria-new-open-source-multimodal-ai-rivaling-big-tech

I Will Never Use AI To Help Me With My Writing Again

Despite that, I always wanted to be a big writer. So, I started with personal blogs, moved to news, and this year, with books. My first book was a romantic fiction novel that I finished in March of this year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/practice-in-public/why-i-will-never-use-ai-to-help-me-with-my-writing-again-ac6c09009360

Friday, October 11, 2024

How to Say No to Our A.I. Overlords

Big tech brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Meta have all unleashed tech that they describe as artificial intelligence. Soon, the companies say, we’ll all be using A.I. to write emails, generate images and summarize articles. But who asked for any of this in the first place?

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/technology/personaltech/turn-off-ai-overviews-google-meta.html

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Big Tech’s experimental AI can’t beat old-school productivity gems

The “Chat” in ChatGPT’s name neatly encapsulates a major element of why OpenAI’s AI-infused assistant has had such epoch-shifting impact. We’ve been using PCs and phones to chat with humans for years—at least since the era of AOL Instant Messenger.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.fastcompany.com/91205083/chatgpt-canvas-notebooklm-bear-scrivener

Monday, October 7, 2024

I test ChatGPT features for a living, and this new one really did supercharge my productivity

OpenAI is constantly adding new features to ChatGPT to make it more functional for everyday needs and more essential in our workflows. The most recent of these updates is a new canvas feature -- unveiled last week -- that has left me beyond impressed. 

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-test-chatgpt-features-for-a-living-and-this-new-one-really-did-supercharge-my-productivity/