Large language models could ‘revolutionise the finance sector within two years’

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to improve efficiency and safety in the finance sector by detecting fraud, generating financial insights and automating customer service, according to research by The Alan Turing Institute.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2024/03/27/large-language-models-could-revolutionsise-the-finance-sector-within-two-years/

As OpenAI targets Hollywood with Sora, Runway’s CEO is waiting for the $86 billion Goliath with a ‘sling and a stone’

When I talk to Valenzuela on a winter afternoon, the conversation is about why some scary creatures—even the most menacing giants—aren’t really scary if you know how to destroy them. We’re talking about slings and stones because of the imposing shadow stretching over Valenzuela’s company.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://fortune.com/2024/03/28/runway-video-ai-tools-text-to-video-openai-sora-hollywood/

The End of Foreign-Language Education

Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language. A few days ago, I watched a video of myself talking in perfect Chinese. I’ve been studying the language on and off for only a few years, and I’m far from fluent.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/generative-ai-translation-education/677883/

Experts Concerned by Signs of AI Bubble

As investors pour billions of dollars into the AI frenzy, analysts are starting to become wary of an "AI bubble" that could leave investors out to dry.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/experts-signs-ai-bubble

With Quiet-STaR, language models learn to think before speaking

Join us in Atlanta on April 10th and explore the landscape of security workforce. We will explore the vision, benefits, and use cases of AI for security teams. Request an invite here. Up until now, AI models have, naturally, struggled in this area.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/with-quiet-star-language-models-learn-to-think-before-speaking/

Amazon reportedly to spend $150B to build data centers needed for AI boom, ‘get closer to customers’

Amazon is reportedly planning to spend a whopping $150 billion within the next 15 years on building data centers — a move that will position the tech giant to be able to handle an expected explosion with artificial intelligence applications and other digital services.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/business/amazon-pours-150b-into-data-centers-to-handle-expected-ai-boom/

BBC Justifies Use of AI After Actress Shares She's Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence

Is it a harbinger of things to come, or what the entertainment industry has been fearing -- actors and actresses getting replaced by artificial intelligence -- or is it really not as serious as all that?

ORIGINAL LINK: https://toofab.com/2024/03/28/bbc-justifies-ai-actress-replaced-artificial-intelligence/

ChatGPT, Bard, Copilot, Khanmigo: What AI Tools Do Teachers Use?

Teachers are slowly trying out and embracing generative artificial intelligence tools, a year after ChatGPT ignited conversations about using AI in education.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.edweek.org/technology/chatgpt-bard-copilot-khanmigo-what-ai-tools-do-teachers-use/2024/02

Announcing Grok-1.5

A new feature in Grok-1.5 is the capability to process long contexts of up to 128K tokens within its context window. This allows Grok to have an increased memory capacity of up to 16 times the previous context length, enabling it to utilize information from substantially longer documents.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://x.ai/blog/grok-1.5?utm_source=www.therundown.ai&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=elon-musk-s-xai-reveals-the-newest-chatbot

Assessing ChatGPT’s Writing Evaluation Skills Using Benchmark Data

Tools like ChatGPT are changing writing instruction, literacy initiatives, and science of writing research in previously unimaginable ways. Teacher Adam Sparks of Short Answer weighs in on what these changes mean for learning advances and how teachers are adapting their instruction.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://the-learning-agency.com/insights/assessing-chatgpt-writing-evaluation-skills-using-benchmark-data/

AI chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/27/ai-chatbot-letdown-hype-reality

Teachers are split on the impact of ChatGPT and generative AI in the classr

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/27/teachers-chatgpt-generative-ai-careers

The global market for humanoid robots could reach $38 billion by 2035

Will robots become the next smartphones? The worldwide market for humanoid robots is forecast to be bigger than analysts in Goldman Sachs Research expected even a year ago.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/the-global-market-for-robots-could-reach-38-billion-by-2035.html

I just had a conversation with EVI — the new empathic AI voicebot from Hume

I recently had one of the more bizarre conversations of my life. I was not talking with a human but with an artificial intelligence model capable of monitoring, predicting, and matching my mood.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-had-a-conversation-with-evi-the-new-empathic-ai-voicebot-from-hume

The age of AI BS

Maybe AI will kill us all. Maybe it will steal our jobs. Maybe it will be awesome and improve our lives beyond our imaginations. Or, perhaps, this is all hype, and it's doomed to go the way of the metaverse.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/generative-ai-exaggeration-openai-nvidia-microsoft-chatgpt-jobs-investors-markets-2024-3

The Best Generative AI Tools Transforming Education

Whether you’re a schoolteacher or university student, a workplace upskiller or a lifelong learner, there are generative AI tools you can use to make education more accessible, efficient and affordable.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2024/03/21/the-best-generative-ai-tools-transforming-education/

Claude takes the top spot in AI chatbot ranking — finally knocking GPT-4 down to second place

Claude 3 Opus, the next-generation artificial intelligence model from Anthropic has taken the top spot on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, pushing OpenAI’s GPT-4 to second place for the first time since it launched last year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/claude-takes-the-top-spot-in-ai-chatbot-ranking-finally-knocking-gpt-4-down-to-second-place

Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model

This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms connected via Zoom to learn if they had succeeded in building a top artificial intelligence language model.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/dbrx-inside-the-creation-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-open-source-ai-model/

Most Teens Think AI Won’t Hurt Their Mental Health. Teachers Disagree

High school theater teacher Lisa Dyer has noticed in recent years that her students are more reluctant to take risks or make what she calls “big choices” on stage.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.edweek.org/technology/most-teens-think-ai-wont-hurt-their-mental-health-teachers-disagree/2024/03

Artificial intelligence, real emotion. People are seeking a romantic connection with the perfect bot

NEW YORK (AP) — A few months ago, Derek Carrier started seeing someone and became infatuated. He experienced a “ton” of romantic feelings but he also knew it was an illusion.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://apnews.com/article/ai-girlfriend-boyfriend-replika-paradot-113df1b9ed069ed56162793b50f3a9fa

Ready or not, AI chatbots are here to help with Gen Z’s mental health struggles

WASHINGTON (AP) — Download the mental health chatbot Earkick and you’re greeted by a bandana-wearing panda who could easily fit into a kids’ cartoon. Start talking or typing about anxiety and the app generates the kind of comforting, sympathetic statements therapists are trained to deliver.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://apnews.com/article/chatbots-mental-health-therapy-counseling-ai-73feb819ff52a51d53fee117c3207219

The Law Has Not Caught Up With AI Deepfakes

In Saturday's New York Times, an article by Nicholas Kristof titled The Online Degradation of Women and Girls That We Meet With a Shrug can be read in its entirety by clicking here. His op-ed discusses how artificial intelligence deepfakes are becoming a major problem. A recent study

ORIGINAL LINK: https://elissamalespina.substack.com/p/the-law-has-not-caught-up-with-ai

36% Of Gen Z Feel Guilty About Using ChatGPT And AI At Work

In recent years, there has been growing concern about artificial intelligence's impact on the future of work. While some argue that AI will lead to job losses and increased inequality, others believe it can enhance productivity and create new opportunities.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lucianapaulise/2024/03/23/36-of-gen-z-feel-guilty-about-using-chatgpt-and-ai-at-work/

Eric Mazur, academic dean at Harvard: ‘Failure is essential and grades stigmatize it’

Thirty years ago, Eric Mazur (Amsterdam, 1954) decided to stop giving lectures in class and instead introduced Peer Instruction, through which his students learn about a topic by debating in a group.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://english.elpais.com/education/2024-03-23/eric-mazur-academic-dean-at-harvard-failure-is-essential-and-grades-stigmatize-it.html

The Best Generative AI Tools Transforming Education

Whether you’re a schoolteacher or university student, a workplace upskiller or a lifelong learner, there are generative AI tools you can use to make education more accessible, efficient and affordable.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2024/03/21/the-best-generative-ai-tools-transforming-education/

Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench, 450 researchers compiled a list of 204 tasks designed to test the capabilities of large language models, which power chatbots like ChatGPT.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/how-quickly-do-large-language-models-learn-unexpected-skills/

Iowa Educators and Students Find Growing Use Cases for AI

Before the November 2022 introduction of the chatbot sparking the artificial intelligence craze, "technology nice" may have meant putting a case around a smartphone or not overloading a laptop with too many files.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/iowa-educators-and-students-find-growing-use-cases-for-ai

ChatGPT is everywhere. What’s fair use for students trying to get into university?

When Marisa Modeski first took ChatGPT for a spin, she was interested in it for two reasons.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://macleans.ca/education/chatgpt-ai-university-admissions/

Second Largest US School District Taps AI to Reach Non-English-Speaking Students

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is rolling out an AI-powered educational tool that it says will provide students with personalized learning plans and resources. The tool, dubbed Ed, can translate personalized learning plans into over 100 languages, a much-needed resource.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.pcmag.com/news/second-largest-us-school-district-taps-ai-to-reach-non-english-speaking

Journal Article: Many Publicly Accessible AI Assistants Lack Adequate Safeguards to Prevent Mass Health Disinformation

Many publicly accessible artificial intelligence (AI) assistants lack adequate safeguards to consistently prevent the mass generation of health disinformation across a broad range of topics, warn experts inThe BMJ today.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.infodocket.com/2024/03/22/journal-article-many-publicly-accessible-ai-assistants-lack-adequate-safeguards-to-prevent-mass-health-disinformation/

What are the factors that influence LIS students' behavioral intention to use chatGPT?

Factors that influence students' behavioral intention to use ChatGPT in higher education include relative advantage, compatibility, ease of use, observability, and trialability .

ORIGINAL LINK: https://typeset.io/questions/what-are-the-factors-that-influence-lis-students-behavioral-17v7tpwndn

Second Largest US School District Taps AI to Reach Non-English-Speaking Students

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is rolling out an AI-powered educational tool that it says will provide students with personalized learning plans and resources. The tool, dubbed Ed, can translate personalized learning plans into over 100 languages, a much-needed resource.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.pcmag.com/news/second-largest-us-school-district-taps-ai-to-reach-non-english-speaking

Q&A: Researchers warn of danger, call for pause in bringing AI to schools

In K-12 schools across the country, a new gold rush of sorts is underway: Classrooms nationwide are racing to bring the latest artificial intelligence tools, such as platforms powered by the chat bot ChatGPT, into the classroom.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-qa-danger-ai-schools.html

‘The Backlash on AI Is Coming': 3 Early Lessons for K-12 Education

Figuring out how to navigate a world increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence isn’t just a job for technology leaders.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.edweek.org/technology/the-backlash-on-ai-is-coming-3-early-lessons-for-k-12-education/2024/03

Microsoft focuses on Copilot as new AI Surface products revealed

Microsoft has unveiled a slew of AI-integrated products, including the new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, with its chatbot, Copilot, taking center stage. The tech giant has been stepping up its game in the field of AI, with Copilot at the forefront of its innovations.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://readwrite.com/microsoft-focuses-on-copilot-as-new-ai-surface-products-revealed/

AI images and conspiracy theories are driving a push for media literacy education

Videos, images and text created by generative artificial intelligence tools are turning up in elections, for sale on Amazon and even in court documents. Learning to identify the growing flood of deepfakes, along with online conspiracy theories, is becoming a rite of passage for students.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/03/21/ai-images-and-conspiracy-theories-are-driving-push-for-media-literacy-education

GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update to ChatGPT

When OpenAI launched its GPT-4 AI model a year ago, it created a wave of immense hype and existential panic from its ability to imitate human communication and composition.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/openais-gpt-5-may-launch-this-summer-upgrading-chatgpt-along-the-way/

Elon Musk releases code for his AI chatbot Grok. Here's why it matters

Some of the world’s largest companies and richest people are fighting over a question that will help shape the future of AI: Should firms reveal exactly how their products work?

ORIGINAL LINK: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-musk-releases-code-ai-chatbot-matters/story?id=108239418