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AI’s WILD YEAR | DECEMBER 2022 – APRIL 2023 – NEWSLETTER #54

 

April 2023

• AWS Will Sell Access to Multiple LLMs Through a New Service Called ‘Amazon Bedrock’

• Databrick Releases an Improved Open Source LLM Licensed For Reuse and Commercial Use

• The AI Apps Associated Themselves with ChatGPT Generated Hefty Revenue

• Cerebras Releases as Open Source Seven Large LLMs with 13 Billion Parameters

• International Baccalaureate Assessment System Allows Students to Use ChatGPT

• Bloomberg Introduces a 50-Billion Parameter LLM Built For Finance

• The OpenAI’s CEO Envisions a Universal Income Society to Compensate for Jobs Replaced by AI

• Artificial Intelligence Enters a New Phase of Corporate Dominance

• Udacity Incorporates an OpenAI Provided Chatbot

• Italy Bans ChatGPT While Elon Musk and 1,100 Signatories Call to a Pause on AI [Open Letter]

March 2023

• Generative AI Will Impact Labor Market and Have Notable Economic, Social, and Policy Implications

• Adobe Unveils Firefly, a Family of Creative Generative AI Models Coming to Its Products

• Quora Released its Poe Chatbot, A Tool That Includes GPT-4, Claude and ChatGPT

• Databricks Launches Dolly, an Open Sourced LLM Clone of Stanford’s Alpaca Model

• Microsoft Search Engine Bing Adds DALL-E’s Image AI Creator

• Google Provides Limited Access to Bard, Its “Early Experiment Chatbot”

• OpenAI Starts to Roll Out Plugins in ChatGPT

• Canva Unveils New AI-Powered Design Tools

• GitHub Launches an Upgraded AI Assistant for Developers, Copilot X, With GPT-4

• Anthropic Launched ‘Claude’ A More Ethical Bot That Competes With ChatGPT

• Google Shows What AI-Embedded Writing Will Look Like in Gmail and Google Docs

• Microsoft Corp Embeds Generative AI Into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams

• Duolingo and Khan Academy Are Integrating the GPT-4 Model Into Their Offer

• Bing, Microsoft’s Search Engine, Crossed 100 Million Daily Active Users

• Stripe Integrates OpenAI’s New GPT-4 AI Into Its Digital Payment Process

• OpenAI Introduced Its GPT-4 Model That Accepts Image and Text Inputs

• OpenAI Positions Itself as a Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit Business

• Microsoft Made ChatGPT Available On Its Azure OpenAI Service

• DuckDuckGo Unveils a Feature that Summarizes Information Using Generative AI

• Grammarly Announces a Generative AI Writing Assistant

• Microsoft Releases an AI Chatbot for Marketers, Customer Reps, and Sales People

• Salesforce Issues a ChatGPT-Style AI Agent For Writing Marketing Content

• Israeli Start-Up D-ID’s API Enables Face-to-Face Chats with AI

• OpenAI Expects Revenue of $200M In 2023, After Making $30M Last Year

• Character.ai, an Alternative to ChatGPT, Valued at $1 Billion

• OpenAI Will Offer A Dedicated ChatGPT Platform for Businesses

• OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT. Quizlet and Shopify, Among the Early Adopters

• Microsoft Releases a Windows 11 Update that Includes AI-Powered Bing Chatbot

February 2023

• Snapchat Introduces My AI, a ChatGPT-Powered Artificial Intelligence Bot Into Its App

• JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs Block Access to ChatGPT

• Microsoft Released the Bing and Edge Mobile Apps Powered by ChatGPT

• Meta Released LLaMA, an Open Large Language Model with 65-Billion-Parameters

• AWS Partners With Hugging Face, an AI Startup Rival to ChatGPT Working on Open Source Models

• The Most Expensive School in the World, Swiss Rosenberg, Teaches How to Use ChatGPT

• GitHub Copilot, which Suggests Code in Real-Time through Generative AI, Launches Its Business Offer

• A Rush of Early Adopters In the Corporate World to Avoid Falling Behind on Generative AI

• The Domain AI.com Now Takes Users to ChatGPT

• Open AI: “Aligning AI Systems with Human Values Is a Top Priority for Our Company”

• Opera Will Release a New Browser with Built-In Access to ChatGPT and Other AI Services

• “Students Need to Learn How to Prompt an AI, and Evaluate Its Accuracy and Originality”

• Over 1 Million People Signed Up for the Bing Waitlist; Microsoft Shows Viva Sales Emails

• “ChatGPT is High Tech Plagiarism; It Undermines Education,” Says Noam Chomsky

• Microsoft Reaches a $2 Trillion Market Cap Helped with the Rise of ChatGPT

• Microsoft Presented Its New Bing Search, Powered by ChatGPT

• Google Announces ‘Bard’, a Testing, ChatGPT-Style AI Service

• ChatGPT and Upcoming AI Bots Will Make Jobs Obsolete in Several Industries

• Top Contenders Challenge ChatGPT. Google Invests $300M In Anthropic

• ChatGPT Surpasses 100 Million Users in January, with 13 Million Daily Visitors

• Microsoft Launches Teams Premium with Features Powered by ChatGPT

• OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Plus, a $20/Month Premium Service

• OpenAI Issues a Free Tool to Help Determine If Any Text Is Written by ChatGPT

January 2023

• China’s Baidu Will Soon Launch an AI Platform Similar to ChatGPT

• MusicML, a Research Project by Google, Generates Songs From Text Descriptions

• An AI Application Allows Asking Questions and Gain Insights About Documents

• BuzzFeed Will Use ChatGPT to Help Generate Online Content and Quizzes

• “Everybody is Cheating,” Says a Wharton Professor; He Has Adopted an AI Policy

• ChatGPT Passes Law School Exam Signaling the Risk of Widespread Cheating

• ChatGPT Alternatives Start to Emerge Throughout the Internet

• Microsoft Announces an Investment of $10 Billion in OpenAI to Advance ChatGPT Technology

• ChatGPT Passes an MBA Exam at UPenn’s Wharton

• Augmenting GTP-3 with Additional Information Prompts New Coding Businesses

• ChatGPT and Its Consequences on Work and Life Are the Talk of the Business Leaders in Davos This Year

• OpenAI CEO Refuses to Confirm If Chat GPT—4 Will Be Released This Year [Video]

• Coursera Will Integrate ChatGPT into Its Course Catalog This Year [Video]

• Microsoft CEO Says at Davos that the Company Plans to Flood its Products with Chat GPT [Video]

• Microsoft Starts Offering Access to Azure OpenAI [Video]

• Microsoft Will Make OpenAI’s Language Models Available on Its Azure Cloud Services

• Chat GPT ‘At Capacity’ Due to Its Massive Popularity

• ChatGPT Prepares a Paid Version to Monetize Its Wildly Successful Tool

• Language Models – Based Tools Will Radically Change Education

• Microsoft Might Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI’s ChatGPT

• Quora Tests Its Own Chatbot, Which Will Be Connected to More AI Agents

• Princeton Student Launches an App that Detects Plagiarism from ChatGPT

• Microsoft Works to Incorporate ChatGPT Into Its Bing Search Service

• An AI Chatbot Promises to Help You to Become the Best Version of Yourself

• ChatGPT-4, the Fined Tuned Version of ChatGPT-3, Might Prompt a Major Shift

December 2022

• Cheating on Essays in Higher Education through ChatGPT Alarms Academia

• The University of Phoenix Makes Its Chatbot More Engaging After Three Years of Experience

• The Year of ChatGPT and the Large Language Models

• Image Generator Lensa AI App Goes Viral with Its Magic Selfies Feature

• AI Adoption Plateaus and Talent Shortages Threaten the Shift

• The Release of OpenAI Keeps Educators and Professionals Processing the Implications

• Cutting-Edge AI Chatbot Attracts Over a Million People In One Week

• OpenAI Releases ChatGPT, an Advanced Text-Generating AI

2023 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!

• Education Calendar 2023  – APRIL | MAY | JUNE | Conferences in Latin America & Spain

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OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2022 – NEWSLETTER #53  |  Breaking news at IBL News  |  Noticias en Español

 

Trends

• Pandemic-Disrupted Teaching and Learning Effects Will Continue for Decades, Stanford Says

• Higher Ed Experts Craft Their Vision to Evolve into a Hybrid Learning Scenario

• “Career Readiness and Skill Competency Are Key Factors to Measure Student Success”

• Learners Prefer the “Anytime-Anyplace” Approach Along with Blended Technology

• Online Learning Is Now Seen in Positive View Among Learners, Wiley Says

• Around 771 Million People Lack Basic Literacy Skills Today

• Confidence In the Teaching Profession Continues to Decline in the U.S.

• Students Say that College Is Worth What They Pay Despite the Financial Struggle

 

AI, ML, Analytics

• National Louis University Shared Data Model Used For Student Onboarding, Academics, and Support

• Key Research on Data Analytics Shows How AI/ML Will Shape the University of the Future

• Most Higher Ed CIOs Are Ready to Invest More in Analytics, Says Gartner

• “We Need More From Technology,” Says Educause While Presenting the 2022 Top 10 Issues

• AI Language Model GPT-3 Arrives into Higher Education

• 74% of Users Prefer AI Chatbots for Answers to Simple Questions

• 85% of Data is Unstructured and Not Ready for AI Use, Industry Experts Say

• Data Mismanagement Jeopardizes the AI Achievement, Says an MIT Report

 

Universities

• CUNY Unveils a $1.6B Plan to Build a Science Park and Research Campus in Manhattan

• A Duke Administrator and Cell Biologist Researcher Named MIT’s 18th President

• Arizona State University Opens a Lab that Will Create a Metaverse with Zoom

• UCLA Acquires Marymount California University’s Campuses for $80 Million

• Stanford Law School Launches Controversial Income-Share Agreements as a Pilot Program

• Harvard Business School Will Offer Its Two-Year MBA Program for Free to 200 Students

 

Higher Ed

• Students Name the Best Colleges in the U.S. in Princeton Review’s Annual Survey

• U.S. Colleges and Universities Saw an Increase of 80% in International Student Enrollment

• Stanford, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern Law Schools Join the Exodus from U.S. News Rankings

• Harvard, Yale, and Berkeley Criticize U.S. News Rankings Methodology and Decide Not to Participate

 

Enterprise

• Amazon Will Invest $5,250 Per Year For Each Delivery Partner By Providing Educational Programs

• IBM Teams with 20 Black Universities to Address the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage

• Oracle Launches a Cloud Infrastructure that Allows ISVs to Run their Own Services

 

Biden Administration

• The FTC Sues Chegg for Exposing Millions of Users’ Social Security Numbers and Other Key Data

• The Biden Administration Launches the Official Application for the Student Debt Relief

• Six Republican-Led States Sue Biden Administration Over Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

• President Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation Plan Will Cost $400 Billion

• Fintech Donation Start-Up Give Campus Raises Massive Funding

 

Conferences

• The OLC Conference Awarded Twelve Educators for Innovation in Online Learning

• The OLC Accelerate 2022 Conference Posts Its Program

• Educause Recognized Five Top Educators for Their Accomplishments in Higher Ed IT

 

2022 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!

• Education Calendar 2022  – NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | Conferences in Latin America & Spain

 

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AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2022 – NEWSLETTER #52  |  Breaking news at IBL News  |  Noticias en Español

 

Higher Ed

• Biden Announced Its Plan to Cancel $10,000 in Student Loan Debt for Most Borrowers

• The U.S. Government Cancels $3.9 Billion in Loans for Deceived ITT Students

• Higher Ed’s Data and Analytics Infrastructure Is Outdated, Finds an Educause Report

• A Majority of Higher Ed Institutions Were Hit by Ransomware Attacks

• New York State Government Alerts of Scam Practices in Higher Ed

 

Universities

• Harvard University Starts the Search for Its Next President

• The University of Michigan Appoints a Canadian and Asian Descendant as Its 15th President

• The University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC) Buys the OPM Business of Zovio

• A Leading Cognitive Scientist Will Be the First Woman to Lead Dartmouth

• A Singapore Firm Buys a Private U.S. University and Will Create a Version in the Metaverse

 

Trends

• A Cengage’s Report Reveals that the Degree Stigma Causes Employment Crisis

• Half of the Students Prefer a Hybrid Class Format, While Faculty Favor In-Person Learning

• Learning Soft Skills Is Critical to Be Hired, Says a Majority of Employers

• Skill-Based Premium Pay: An Effective Way to Attract IT Talent, Says Gartner

• About 222 Million School-Aged Children Around the World Need Education Support

 

Initiatives

• AWS Introduces Paid Subscriptions for Learners Looking to Bolster Cloud Skills

• Google Releases an Android App that Encourages Children to Practice Reading

• YouTube Launches the Shorts Feature to Compete with TikTok

• FINRA Will Invest $90M Coming from Fines to Robinhood to Educate Newer Investors

 

Open Source

• An AI Model Named BLOOM, Larger than OpenAI’s GPT-3 and MetaAI’s OPT, Will Be Open Sourced

• META Engineers Build a Universal Translator of 200 Languages in Open Source Software

 

Financials

• College Endowments Lost 10% In the Last Year

• O’Reilly Says Its Business Grew at 45% Through Its New Platforms

• ClassDojo Achieves the Unicorn Status at a $1.25 Billion Valuation

• Web3 Learning and Talent UK’s Neol Attracts $5.2 Million from Investors

 

2022 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!

• Education Calendar 2022  – AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | Conferences in Latin America & Spain

 

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MAY – JUNE 2022 – NEWSLETTER #51  |  Breaking news at IBL News  |  Noticias en Español

 

Trends

• Andreessen Horowitz Creates with Columbia and Stanford a Research Lab on Crypto and Web3

• Americans Support Student Loan Forgiveness Up to $10,000

• The New York Times Against Canceling Student Debt, which Reached $1.7 Trillion

• A Report Shows that Businesses Must Dramatically Improve their Open Source Software Security

• The Some College No Credential Population Rose to 39 Million in the U.S.

• The Metaverse Virtual-Reality Technology Might Contribute $3 Trillion to GDP

• Data Shows that Remote Work Is Disappearing: Less than 10% Work at Home

 

Universities

• UC San Diego Reaches $3 Billion in Its Fundraising Campaign

• The University of Phoenix President Resigned Amid an Inquiry

• An Op-Ed Calls to Rename George Washington University for Its “Systemic Racism”

• Boston University and Other Colleges Raise Tuition Price, Attributing It to Inflation

• Bentley University Becomes One of the First Colleges Accepting Crypto for Tuition Payments

• ASU Creates a Certified Program for Churches Facing Declining Membership

 

Harvard, MIT, Stanford

• MIT, Cambridge, and Stanford Are the World’s Best Universities, According to the QS Ranking

• Harvard University’s President Will Step Down in June 2023

• Harvard University Endowment Saw a Decline of 43% in Its Stock Portfolio in 2022

• Stanford Will Launch a Summer Program for High-Growth Start-Ups

• Sanjay Sarma, Director at MIT Open Learning and Digital Learning, Steps Down

 

Policy

• “Arming Our Teachers It’s Just Ludicrous,” Says Education Secretary Cardona

• The Biden-Harris Administration Will Forgive $5.8B in Federal Loans to Students of Corinthian Colleges

• The FBI Alerts that U.S. Academic Access Credentials Are on Sale on the Dark Web

• A San Antonio School District Will Allow Qualified Teachers to Carry a Firearm

• Advanced Technology Will Boost the Global Market to One Trillion by 2030

 

Initiatives

• Georgia State University Study Showed that Chatbots Helped Students

• IMS Global Rebrands As 1EdTech Consortium

• MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Selects Key Leaders and Features Innovative Start-Ups

• The Obamas and Airbnb’s CEO Launch a $100M Scholarship Fund for Public Service

• IBM Signed a Multi-Year Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services

 

2022 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!

• Education Calendar 2022  – JUNE | JULY |  AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | Conferences in Latin America & Spain

 

 

 

This newsletter was created in collaboration with IBL Education, a New York City-based company specializing in AI-driven, skills open source learning platforms. We also film and produce courses for universities and business organizations. Read the latest IBL Newsletter   |  Archive of Open edX Newsletters

 

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JANUARY 2022 – NEWSLETTER #48  |  Breaking news at IBL News  |  Noticias en Español

 

Covid-19 Omicron

• Colleges Start to Move Classes to Distance Learning Due to the Fast Spread of Omicron

• Harvard Will Not Require SAT or ACT Test Scores Due to the COVID-19 Outbreak

• Cornell and Princeton Move Final Exams Online After the Rapid Spread of the Omicron Variant

 

Universities

• SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras Resigns Over Text Messages to Cuomo Victim

• Georgetown University Launches a New Master’s in Strategic Digital Transformation

• Colleges and Universities Face a Surge in Mental Health Cases Among Students

 

Trends

• Falling Stocks Reduced Valuations by Between 30% and 60% on Cloud Software Start-Ups

• 8 in 10 College Students Experience Significant Stress or Anxiety

• AI and Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, and 5G Will Dominate in 2022

 

Corporate Learning

• Moderna Will Train Its Employees in AI, In Partnership With Carnegie Mellon University

• The U.S. Air Force Partners with Udacity to Develop Programs on Data Science, Cloud, Programming, and UX

• AWS Launches a Free Tool to Create Machine Learning Projects

 

Industry

• Wiley Continues Its Acquisition Strategy with the purchase of Knowledge Unlatched

• Five Major Publishers Sue Shopify for Allowing Textbook Vendors to Commit Piracy

 

2022 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!

• Education Calendar  – 2022 |  Conferences in Latin America & Spain

 

 

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