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  • OpenAI Aims to Embed Its AI Assistants Into Universities, Following the Footsteps of Google and Microsoft

    OpenAI Aims to Embed Its AI Assistants Into Universities, Following the Footsteps of Google and Microsoft

    Mikel Amigot, IBL News | New York

    OpenAI is selling premium AI services to universities trying to “become part of the core infrastructure of higher education,” said Leah Belsky, OpenAI’s vice president of education and former manager at Coursera, in an interview with The New York Times [in the picture above].

    At the same time, it’s running a marketing campaign targeting students and courting them as future customers — essentially as rivals like Google and Microsoft have been doing for years, pushing their computers and software into schools.

    The startup envisions students graduating with their AI assistants and utilizing them throughout their careers in the workplace, like they do with their school-issued Gmail accounts.

    On their side, Elon Musk’s xAI and Google have been offering free AI services for college students during the exam period.

    Overall, OpenAI aims to embed its AI technology within universities by providing students with AI assistants to help tutor and guide them from orientation through graduation, featuring tools such as chatbots, practice job interview tools, voice model tools, and tools to quiz aloud ahead of a test.

    Meanwhile, faculty members can build custom chatbots for their students by uploading course materials, such as lecture notes, slides, videos, and quizzes, into ChatGPT.

    OpenAI’s sales pitch has been named “AI-native universities.”

    Three of its clients are the University of Maryland, California State University (with 460,000 students across its 23 campuses), and Duke University (through a platform called DukeGPT).

    Millions of college students regularly use AI chatbots for writing essays and term papers, researching, composing code, and generating ideas.

    The San Francisco–based startup service for universities, ChatGPT Edu, offers additional features, including specific privacy protections, compared to the company’s free chatbot. ChatGPT Edu also enables faculty and staff to create custom chatbots for use within the university.

    OpenAI states that it does not utilize the information entered by students, faculty, and administrators into ChatGPT Edu for training its AI.

  • Harnessing AI for transforming pharmacy education and research

    Harnessing AI for transforming pharmacy education and research


    Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming pharmacy education and research, offering powerful tools for personalization, efficiency, and innovation.

    Source: Youtube

  • Has Europe already lost the AI arms race?

    Has Europe already lost the AI arms race?


    Has Europe already lost the AI arms race?

    Source: Youtube

  • AI technology causing surge in electricity prices

    AI technology causing surge in electricity prices


    Artificial intelligence may already be affecting your life even if you know nothing about it. It turns out the energy required by this evolving technology could mean higher cooling bills this summer.

    Source: Youtube

  • Amazon CEO says AI will lead to fewer corporate jobs

    Amazon CEO says AI will lead to fewer corporate jobs


    Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says artificial intelligence will lead to fewer corporate jobs at the company.

    Source: Youtube

  • Why do wolves howl? With the help of AI, we’re getting closer to an answer

    Why do wolves howl? With the help of AI, we’re getting closer to an answer


    Why do wolves howl? With the help of AI, we’re getting closer to an answer.

    Source: Youtube

  • AI’s impacts ‘inevitable at this point’

    AI’s impacts ‘inevitable at this point’


    Victoria Song, senior reporter at The Verge, discusses the announcement by Amazon CEO that AI will reduce its corporate workforce over the next few years.

    Source: Youtube

  • Harvard Releases a Dataset that Contains a Book Collection of 394 Million Titles

    Harvard Releases a Dataset that Contains a Book Collection of 394 Million Titles

    IBL News | New York

    Harvard University has released a dataset of library books, named Institutional Books 1.0, for researchers, which contains over 394 million records, according to the AP.

    These materials, preserved and organized by generations of librarians, comprise nearly one million books in 254 languages, dating back to the 15th century.

    The largest concentration of works is from the 19th century, on subjects such as literature, philosophy, law, and agriculture.

    Supported financially by Microsoft and OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, the Harvard-based Institutional Data Initiative is collaborating with libraries and museums worldwide on how to prepare their AI collections for the public.

    “Librarians have always been the stewards of data and the stewards of information,” said Aristana Scourtas, who manages research at Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab.

    These datasets were shared this month on the Hugging Face platform, which hosts open-source AI models that anyone can download.

     

  • OpenAI Gets a $200 Million Contract to Develop AI Models for the Pentagon

    OpenAI Gets a $200 Million Contract to Develop AI Models for the Pentagon

    IBL News | New York

    OpenAI was awarded a $200 million, one-year contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop “prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.”

    The Defense Department specified that the contract is with OpenAI Public Sector LLC.

    The new contract represents a small portion of OpenAI’s revenue, which is generating over $10 billion in annualized sales. In March, the company announced a $40 billion financing round at a valuation of $300 billion.

    In April, Microsoft, which supplies cloud infrastructure to OpenAI, announced that the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency had authorized the use of the Azure OpenAI service with classified information.

    Also, this year, OpenAI said it would collaborate with defense technology startup Anduril to deploy advanced AI systems for “national security missions.”

    Currently, OpenAI is working to build additional AI infrastructure in the U.S. under the $500 billion Stargate project.

    In 2024, Anthropic, an OpenAI rival, announced plans to collaborate with Palantir and Amazon to provide its AI models to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.

  • AI & future of workforce: Andrew Yang on how the technology will impact jobs

    AI & future of workforce: Andrew Yang on how the technology will impact jobs


    AI & future of workforce: Andrew Yang on how the technology will impact jobs.

    Source: Youtube