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IBL News | New York

What AI agents are needed beyond tutoring and content creation in universities?

Critical areas relate to student recruitment, admission, enrollment, management, and support. Curriculum design, delivery, and research are also crucial. Strategy, business management, and marketing are other areas that require agents.

Student Recruitment:
– Domestic Student Recruitment
– International Student Recruitment

Student Admission:
– Study Application Management
– Learning Recognition Management

Student Enrolment:
– Matriculation
– Enrollment
– Student Allocation
– Timetable Management

Student Management:
– Scholarship Management
– Student Liability Management
– Student Academic Progress Management
– Cross-Institutional Study
– Placement Management
– Examination Management
– Special Consideration Management
– Research Candidature Management
– Student Misconduct Management

Student Support:
– Careers Advice
– Academic Advice
– Core Skills Development
– Financial Advice
– Student Grievance Management

Student Assessment:
– Learning Assessment
– Student Research Assessment

Curriculum Management:
– Curriculum Planning
– Curriculum Design
– Curriculum Production
– Curriculum Accreditation
– Offering Management
– Curriculum Improvement
– Curriculum Disestablishment

Curriculum Delivery:
– Learning & Teaching Resource Preparation
– Learning & Teaching Resource Management
– Learning & Teaching Delivery
– Student Supervision

Completion Management:
– Completion Award

Research Opportunities & Planning:
– Research Opportunity Management
– Collaborative Opportunity Management
– Research Project Design

Research Funding:
– Research Fund Sourcing
– Research Grant Management

Research Assurance:
– Research Ethics Management
– Research Integrity Management
– Research Performance Management
– Research Quality Management

Research Management:
– Research Funds Management
– Research Program Management

Research Delivery:
– Research Data Management
– Research-Creation
– Research Infrastructure Management
– Research Resource Management

Research Dissemination:
– Research Output Management
– Research Outcome Management
– Research Impact Management
– Research Commercialization Management

Business Capability Management:
– Business Planning
– Enterprise Architecture
– Customer Experience Management
– Business Process Management
– Service Management
– Change Management
– Portfolio & Program Management
– Project Management
– Product Management
– Benefits Management

Strategy Management:
– Vision & Strategy Development
– Strategic Plan Management

Advancement Management:
– Alumni Management
– Development & Fundraising
– Donor, Sponsor & Philanthropist Management

Marketing Management:
– Advertising
– Campaign
– Market Research
– Marketing Planning
– Communication

Library Administration:
– Library Collection Management
– Collection Access Management

Government, Risk & Compliance:
– Policy Management
– Quality Management
– Risk Management
– Compliance Management
– Business Continuity Management
– Incident Management
– Investigation Management
– Internal Audit
– Complaint & Compliment Management

Joe Sabado, from UC Santa Barbara, created a compelling diagram about AI agents:

Curriculum Management:
– Curriculum Planning
– Curriculum Design
– Curriculum Production
– Curriculum Accreditation
– Offering Management
– Curriculum Improvement
– Curriculum Disestablishment

Student Recruitment:
– Domestic Student Recruitment
– International Student Recruitment

Student Admission:
– Study Application Management
– Learning Recognition Management

Student Enrolment:
– Matriculation
– Enrollment
– Student Allocation
– Timetable Management

Student Management:
– Scholarship Management
– Student Liability Management
– Student Academic Progress Management
– Cross-Institutional Study
– Placement Management
– Examination Management
– Special Consideration Management
– Research Candidature Management
– Student Misconduct Management

Student Support:
– Careers Advice
– Academic Advice
– Core Skills Development
– Financial Advice
– Student Grievance Management

Curriculum Delivery:
– Learning & Teaching Resource Preparation
– Learning & Teaching Resource Management
– Learning & Teaching Delivery
– Student Supervision

Student Assessment:
– Learning Assessment
– Student Research Assessment

Completion Management:
– Completion Award

Research Opportunities & Planning:
– Research Opportunity Management
– Collaborative Opportunity Management
– Research Project Design

Research Funding:
– Research Fund Sourcing
– Research Grant Management

Research Assurance:
– Research Ethics Management
– Research Integrity Management
– Research Performance Management
– Research Quality Management

Research Management:
– Research Funds Management
– Research Program Management

Research Delivery:
– Research Data Management
– Research Creation
– Research Infrastructure Management
– Research Resource Management

Research Dissemination:
– Research Output Management
– Research Outcome Management
– Research Impact Management
– Research Commercialization Management

Strategy Management:
– Vision & Strategy Development
– Strategic Plan Management

Business Capability Management:
– Business Planning
– Enterprise Architecture
– Customer Experience Management
– Business Process Management
– Service Management
– Change Management
– Portfolio & Program Management
– Project Management
– Product Management
– Benefits Management

Library Administration:
– Library Collection Management
– Collection Access Management

Government, Risk & Compliance:
– Policy Management
– Quality Management
– Risk Management
– Compliance Management
– Business Continuity Management
– Incident Management
– Investigation Management
– Internal Audit
– Complaint & Compliment Management

Advancement Management:
– Alumni Management
– Development & Fundraising
– Donor, Sponsor & Philanthropist Management

Marketing Management:
– Advertising
– Campaign
– Market Research
– Marketing Planning
– Communication

IBL News | New York

With Donald Trump’s victory for a second presidential term and a Congress potentially under unified G.O.P. control, colleges feel politically and culturally weaker and fear that new proposed policies can have a wider impact, The New York Times wrote. Who President-elected Trump chooses to lead the Education Department could play an important role.

During his campaign, President-elected Trump said he thought that colleges needed to be reclaimed from “Marxist maniacs,” while his running mate, JD Vance, has described universities as “the enemy.” (Both men attended Ivy League institutions.)

In the last years, republicans have portrayed colleges as bastions of leftism, promising to reshape higher education by rooting out progressive ideology.

Additionally, universities have been under increasing pressure from lawmakers, and public confidence in colleges has fallen.

Last year, two Ivy League presidents resigned following the way they handled pro-Palestinian activists on their campuses. Other top university leaders have resigned amid criticism over protest responses.

IBL News | New York

Microsoft is adding AI-powered text editing to its Windows 11 Notepad.

This feature, called Rewrite, allows users to rephrase sentences, adjust tone, and modify the length of the content based on preferences. It uses a model named GPT.

To make it work, the user highlights the text he or she wants to improve.

The user can rewrite a sentence to sound more formal or make a paragraph more concise. He can also customize the tone of your writing to match your needs, from casual to professional.

After selecting your desired option, Notepad will generate three variations of the rewritten text.

IBL News | New York

OpenAI officially opened its New York office this month. It’s located at the iconic Puck Building. “This new office reflects our mission to harness the potential of GenAI to empower people to solve complex problems right here in New York,” said the company that created ChatGPT

At the same time, OpenAI announced a partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) through their startup accelerator program, the Founder Fellowship.

IBL News | New York

Paris-based AI startup Mistral launched a new API for content moderation last week. This addresses growing concerns about data privacy, latency, and compliance, which can prove especially attractive to European companies subject to strict data protection regulations.

This API powers the moderation service in Mistral’s Le Chat. Powered by a fine-tuned model (Ministral 8B), it can be tailored to specific applications and safety standards.

Mistral is releasing two end-points: one for raw text and one for conversational content.

The API is the same API that powers moderation in Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot platform.

It includes English, French, and German languages into one of nine categories: sexual, hate and discrimination, violence and threats, dangerous and criminal content, self-harm, health, financial, law, and personally identifiable information.

Mistral says the moderation API can be applied to raw or conversational text.

The moderation API is available through Mistral’s cloud platform, with pricing based on usage.

The release follows Mistral’s recent announcement of high-profile partnerships, including deals with Microsoft Azure, Qualcomm, and SAP.

IBL News | New York

Llama open-source AI model is increasingly used by U.S. government agencies, contractors in national security, and large companies such as Accenture, AWS, Azure, Anduril, Booz Allen, Databricks, Deloitte, IBM, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, Scale AI, and Snowflake.

Meta talked publicly about it to combat the perception that it is aiding foreign adversaries like China. Last week, Reuters reported that Chinese research scientists linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the military wing of China’s ruling party, used an older Llama model, Llama 2, to develop a tool for defense applications.

“These Llama uses will also help establish U.S. open-source standards in the global race for AI leadership,” said the company.

“Also, open-source systems have helped to accelerate defense research and high-end computing, identify security vulnerabilities, and improve communication between disparate systems.”

• Lockheed Martin incorporated Llama into its AI Factory, accelerating various use cases such as code generation, data analysis, and enhancing business processes.

Scale Ai is fine-tuning Llama to support specific national security team missions, such as planning operations and identifying adversaries’ vulnerabilities.

Meta believes “a global open-source standard for AI models is likely to emerge, as it has with technologies like Linux and Android.”

 

IBL News | New York

CEOs of major tech companies congratulated Donald Trump and JD Vance on their victory in the U.S. presidential election this Wednesday.

They all wished Trump success in the Oval Office and stated they looked forward to working with him.

Amazon’s Founder and owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, said in a post on X that it was “an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory.”

IBL News | New York

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The concept of AI actors, or “virtual actors,” is gaining traction as advancements in Generative AI continue to evolve.

These AI actors are entirely digital creations, capable of performing in films, commercials, video games, and other media without the need for human counterparts.

One of the latest companies in the field is aiactors.app. 

In the same field, other companies are Soul Machines, Synthesia, and HeyGen.

introducing aiactors (dot) app – hire ai actors for 25X cheaper

❌ $50/video
✅ $2/video

use it instantly for product demos, announcements & more pic.twitter.com/5bNzkepjYU

— Ansh Chopra (@anshchopra_) August 19, 2024

HeyGen is absolutely great but a bit different and people don’t get the difference cause it’s hard:

So HeyGen takes a 1-3 min REAL video (or longer) of yourself speaking

It trains an AI voice of you (like ElevenLabs does)

You then write a script

It then
1) generates the AI… https://t.co/5Xgx102qoc

— @levelsio (@levelsio) August 11, 2024

IBL News | New York

LLMs (large language models), still in their infancy, are becoming “more of a commodity,” said Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella.

A common view in the industry is that it is hard to separate OpenAI’s latest GPT from Anthropic’s Claude or Google’s Gemini.

On the consumer side, Meta said last week that 500 million people are now looking at its Meta.AI at least once a month,

However, today, OpenAI’s ChatGPT’s dominance is undisputed. Its 250 million users a week and a $20 monthly subscription fee paid by a small minority result in annualized revenue of $3.6 billion.

Also, ChatGPT can point to a favored position on the iPhone, thanks to a deal with Apple.

On the downside, OpenAI, without a functional business model yet, is on track to burn through over 5 billion of cash this year,

Experts say that OpenAI’s biggest challenges are the lack of deep moats around its business and its intense competition, as the costs of querying for other LLMs have fallen rapidly.

In addition, the capabilities of open-source AI models have advanced quickly, making them viable alternatives and raising the possibility of the commodification of LLMs.

Meta’s Llama hasn’t yet become “the Linux of AI,” as Mark Zuckerberg suggested last week.

OpenAI’s latest voice-powered GPT-4o model has been credited with breaking new ground in naturalistic voice interaction, potentially opening up new consumer markets to AI.

Also, its GPT-o1 is the first model capable of breaking a complex problem.

For now, OpenAI, backed by investors at a $150 billion valuation, maintains an edge in model-building despite powerful companies in tech closing fast.