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Future of AI

News on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Libraries

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Practice Anything with ChatGPT

You can rehearse for just about anything with the help of ChatGPT. It can be rigged as a “practice engine,” becoming a generalized system that allows a user to rehearse for any encounter.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/@jordan_gibbs/practice-anything-with-chatgpt-42ca177c2c14

Project Strawberry, OpenAI’s Leaked Breakthrough

The Discovery We Needed? In a world exclusive, Reuters has leaked OpenAI’s latest breakthrough: a new model codenamed Strawberry that might hold the key to AI’s true moat: reasoning.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/@ignacio.de.gregorio.noblejas/project-strawberry-openais-leaked-breakthrough-e9b3551138f9

Why Llama 3.1 405B Is So Much Better Than GPT-4o And Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Llama 3.1 405B is the first open-source model that performs on par with leading proprietary AI models in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use, and multilingual translation, among other capabilities. Meta announced the launch of Llama 3.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://pub.towardsai.net/why-llama-3-1-405b-is-so-much-better-than-gpt-4o-and-claude-3-5-sonnet-here-the-result-d58bb2a3a53e

Concise Is Nice: The Perfect AI Text Length Every Time

Do you remember your high school days? And if your essay only had 600 words, you’d fail. If it had 799 words, you’d fail.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://generativeai.pub/concise-is-nice-the-perfect-ai-text-length-every-time-0e6c9ee89fb8

Friday, August 9, 2024

There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent, and That's a Systemic Risk

Mimicry of intelligence isn't intelligence, and so while AI mimicry is a powerful tool, it isn't intelligent.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug24/AI-mimicry8-24.html

‘Never say goodbye’: Can AI bring the dead back to life?

In a world where artificial intelligence can resurrect the dead, grief takes on a new dimension. From Canadian singer Drake’s use of AI-generated Tupac Shakur vocals to Indian politicians addressing crowds years after their passing, technology is blurring the lines between life and death.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/never-say-goodbye-can-ai-bring-the-dead-back-to-life

Creating your own Microsoft Copilot chatbot is easy but making it safe and secure is pretty much impossible says security expert

We could all use our own dedicated, custom-built chatbot, right? Well, rejoice because Microsoft's Copilot Studio is a handy tool for the less technical (those of us who don't dream in Fortran) to create their own chatbot.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/creating-your-own-microsoft-copilot-chatbot-is-easy-but-making-it-safe-and-secure-is-pretty-much-impossible-says-security-expert/