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• Publishers Embrace AI as Research Integrity Tool - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
  The academic publishing industry is adopting AI-powered tools to improve the quality of peer-reviewed research and speed up production. The latter goal yields “obvious financial benefit” for publishers, one expert said. But the $19 billion academic publishing industry is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to speed up production and, advocates say, enhance research quality. Since […]
• Most college students are taking online classes, but they’re paying just as much as in-person students - Jon Marcus, Hechninger Report
  Among the surprising answers is that colleges and universities are charging more for online education to subsidize everything else they do, online managers say. Huge sums are also going into marketing and advertising for it, documents show. Universities and colleges “see online higher education as an opportunity to make money and use it for whatever […]
• AI that can match humans at any task will be here in five to 10 years, Google DeepMind CEO says - Ryan Browne, CNBC
  Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said he thinks artificial general intelligence, or AGI, will emerge in the next five or 10 years. AGI broadly relates to AI that is as smart or smarter than humans. “We’re not quite there yet. These systems are very impressive at certain things. But there are other things they can’t […]
• Supporting the Instructional Design Process: Stress-Testing Assignments with AI - Faculty Focus
  One of the challenges of course design is that all our work can seem perfectly clear and effective when we are knee-deep in the design process, but everything somehow falls apart when deployed in the wild. From simple misunderstandings to complex misconceptions, these issues typically don’t reveal themselves until we see actual student work—often when […]
• Quantum Supremacy Claimed for Real-World Problem Solving - Berenice Baker, IOT World Today
  D-Wave Quantum said that its Advantage2 annealing quantum computer achieved quantum supremacy on a practical, real-world problem. A new peer-reviewed paper published in Science, "Beyond-Classical Computation in Quantum Simulation," said D-Wave's system has outperformed classical supercomputers in simulating quantum dynamics in programmable spin glasses, complex magnetic material simulations with significant business and scientific applications. In […]
• Beyond big models: Why AI needs more than just scale to reach AGI - Sascha Brodsky, IBM
  While today’s AI models can generate fluent text, recognize images and even perform complex problem-solving tasks, they still fall short of human intelligence in key ways. Most surveyed AI researchers believe that deep learning alone isn’t enough to reach AGI. Instead, they argue that AI must integrate structured reasoning and a deeper understanding of cause […]
• Why Online Learning Teams Should Read ‘Co-Intelligence’ - Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed
  Applying Ethan Mollick’s four principles to our work designing, developing, teaching and marketing online programs. Given this state of affairs, I’d like to make a modest proposal. From now on, all attendees of any AI higher education–focused conversation, meeting, conference or discussion must first have read Ethan Mollick’s (short) book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With […]
• Higher ed is at a crossroads — will AI and digital learning lead the way? - Higher Ed Dive
  Overwhelmingly, the expense of higher education is seen as burdensome, according to 82% of respondents who are moderately to extremely concerned about the overall cost of postsecondary academic experiences. An evaluation of the impacts of today’s learning environment on the perceived value of higher education indicates students are open to change. Institutions looking to drive […]
• OpenAI and Google ask the government to let them train AI on content they don’t own - Emma Roth, the Verge
  OpenAI and Google are pushing the US government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted material. Both companies outlined their stances in proposals published this week, with OpenAI arguing that applying fair use protections to AI “is a matter of national security.” The proposals come in response to a request from the White […]
• The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value - Alex Singla, et al, McKinsey
  Organizations are starting to make organizational changes designed to generate future value from gen AI, and large companies are leading the way. The latest McKinsey Global Survey on AI finds that organizations are beginning to take steps that drive bottom-line impact—for example, redesigning workflows as they deploy gen AI and putting senior leaders in critical […]
• Perspectives of Academic Staff on Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Exploring Areas of Relevance (Provisionally accepted) - Dana-Kristin Mah, et al; Frontiers
  Despite the recent increase in research on artificial intelligence in education (AIED), studies investigating the perspectives of academic staff and the implications for future-oriented teaching at higher education institutions remain scarce. This exploratory study provides initial insight into the perspectives of 112 academic staff by focusing on three aspects considered relevant for sustainable, future-oriented teaching […]
• TxAgent: An AI agent for therapeutic reasoning across a universe of tools - Shanghua Gao, et al; Zitniklab
  Precision therapeutics require multimodal adaptive models that generate personalized treatment recommendations. We introduce TxAgent, an AI agent that leverages multi-step reasoning and real-time biomedical knowledge retrieval across a toolbox of 211 tools to analyze drug interactions, contraindications, and patient-specific treatment strategies. TxAgent evaluates how drugs interact at molecular, pharmacokinetic, and clinical levels, identifies contraindications based […]
• Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready. - Kevin Roose, NY Times
  I believe that over the past several years, A.I. systems have started surpassing humans in a number of domains — math, coding and medical diagnosis, just to name a few — and that they’re getting better every day. I believe that very soon — probably in 2026 or 2027, but possibly as soon as this […]
• Online Education Market CAGR to be at 20.62% By 2034 | Revolutionizing Learning in the Digital Age - Market Research Future
  The online education market has witnessed exponential growth in recent years, driven by technological advancements, increasing internet penetration, and the growing demand for flexible learning solutions. The shift towards digital learning has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced educational institutions, businesses, and individuals to adopt remote learning models. Online education encompasses various segments, […]
• Navigating the landscape of AI literacy education: insights from a decade of research (2014–2024) - Yuqin Yang, et al; Nature
  This study systematically selected 335 relevant articles from databases, including Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and Science Direct, following PRISMA guidelines. Our methodology involved keyword co-occurrence mapping to trace the development paths and thematic evolution within the field. By examining publication trends and thematic clusters, we provide insights into the progression and focal points […]
• ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’ - the Guardian
  The company behind ChatGPT has revealed it has developed an artificial intelligence model that is “good at creative writing”, as the tech sector continues its tussle with the creative industries over copyright. The chief executive of OpenAI, Sam Altman, said the unnamed model, which has not been released publicly, was the first time he had […]
• University students describe how they adopt AI for writing and research in a general education course - Rebecca W. Black & Bill Tomlinson, Nature Scientific Reports
  University students have begun to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in many different ways in their undergraduate education, some beneficial to their learning, and some simply expedient to completing assignments with as little work as possible. This exploratory qualitative study examines how undergraduate students used AI in a large General Education course on sustainability and technology […]
• No End in Sight for AI’s Invasion into Higher Education - Peter Biles, Mind Matters
  ChatGPT has thrown colleges across the country a major curveball ever since it hit the digital ecosystem in November 2022. Students in high school and college classrooms immediately began employing the large language model to generate essays without doing an ounce of the work required to compose a thoughtful piece of writing. I’ve been teaching […]
• The Value of a Ph.D. in the Age of AI - Kim Isenberg, Forward Future
  Artificial intelligence has been undergoing an extraordinary development process for several years and is increasingly achieving capabilities that were long reserved exclusively for humans. Particularly in the area of research, we are currently experiencing remarkable progress: so-called “research agents”, specialized AI models that can independently take on complex research tasks, are rapidly gaining in importance. […]
• ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’ - Dan Milmo, the Guardian
  The company behind ChatGPT has revealed it has developed an artificial intelligence model that is “good at creative writing”, as the tech sector continues its tussle with the creative industries over copyright. The chief executive of OpenAI, Sam Altman, said the unnamed model, which has not been released publicly, was the first time he had […]