Category: Note
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Paper – Reclaiming voice with AI
Mirza, F. N., Bogan, A., Beam, A. L., Manrai, A. K., & Ali, R. (2024). Reclaiming Voice with AI. NEJM AI, 1(12). In a world-first application, OpenAI’s Voice Engine was used to clone Ms. Bogan’s voice from just 15 seconds of preexisting audio, sourced from a school project she had filmed a few years prior. This enabled…
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Tesla gives Optimus robot a new hand with improved grip and sensors
https://the-decoder.com/tesla-gives-optimus-robot-a-new-hand-with-improved-grip-and-sensors/ Tesla has updated its Optimus humanoid robot with a new hand design that features 22 degrees of freedom, plus three more in the forearm. The company added a soft protective layer to the fingers and palm that preserves the hand’s tactile sensing capabilities while enabling it to handle delicate objects.
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Link: AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse
https://restofworld.org/2024/ai-reshaping-call-center-work-philippines “The co-pilot is helpful,” he says. “But I have to please the AI. The average handling time for each call is 5 to 7 minutes. I can’t go beyond that.”“It’s like we’ve become the robots,” The thing is, a human being has set those limits. AI doesn’t have the agency to create the environment…
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Claude.ai can now adapt its writing style to yours
https://the-decoder.com/claude-ai-can-now-adapt-its-writing-style-to-yours/
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Podcast – How it feels to have your mind hacked by AI
https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/mind-hacked-by-ai-a-cautionary-tale-from-a-lesswrong-users-confession Nathan discusses a tragic incident involving AI and mental health, using it as a springboard to explore the potential dangers of human-AI interactions. He reads a personal account from LessWrong user Blaked, who details their emotional journey with an AI chatbot. The episode delves into the psychological impact of AI companionship, the ethical concerns…
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Link: Google’s Gemini chatbot will now remember your interests and adjust its answers to match
https://the-decoder.com/googles-gemini-chatbot-will-now-remember-your-interests-and-adjust-its-answers-to-match/
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Next version of OpenAI’s LLMs might not be much smarter than GPT-4
Matthias Bastian (2024-11-10). OpenAI’s New “Orion” Model Reportedly Shows Small Gains Over GPT-4. OpenAI’s next major language model, codenamed “Orion,” delivers much smaller performance gains than expected. OpenAI researchers point to insufficient high-quality training data as one reason for the slowdown. Most publicly available texts and data have already been used. The slowdown in LLM…
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Runway adds precise camera control to Gen-3 Alpha Turbo AI video generator
https://the-decoder.com/runway-adds-precise-camera-control-to-gen-3-alpha-turbo-ai-video-generator/ The pace at which complanies are iterating and building new functionality is astounding.
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Get rid of essays
Mark Carrigan (2024). Are We Deluding Ourselves About GAI-proof Assessment? We need to get rid of essays to the greatest extent possible, scaffolding them in new ways when we can’t abandon them without distorting the pedagogical intention of a unit, ideally to be replaced by forms of assessment which are processual in their scope and/or…
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DfE to stop grading English schools based on proportion of Russell Group students
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/26/dfe-to-stop-grading-english-schools-based-on-proportion-of-russell-group-students
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Google has updated NotebookLM
Google has released an updated version of NotebookLM that allows you to customise the audio output.
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Possible cancer vaccine
Andrew Gregory (2024-05-30). NHS Patients in England to Be Offered Trials for World-First Cancer Vaccine. The gamechanging jabs, which aim to provide a permanent cure, are custom-built for each patient in just a few weeks. They are tailored to the individual’s tumours and work by telling their body to hunt and kill any cancer cells…
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OpenAI introduces experimental multi-agent framework “Swarm”
https://the-decoder.com/openai-introduces-experimental-multi-agent-framework-swarm/ OpenAI has released a new open-source framework called “Swarm” on GitHub. The company describes it as an experimental tool for creating, orchestrating, and deploying multi-agent systems. Swarm aims to make agent coordination and execution lightweight, highly controllable, and easily testable…
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Google makes its Imagen 3 image AI available to all Gemini users
https://the-decoder.com/google-makes-its-imagen-3-image-ai-available-to-all-gemini-usersgoogle-releases-image-ai-imagen-3-for-all-gemini-users-even-in-free-accounts/ Google is rolling out its latest image generation AI, Imagen 3, to all Gemini users worldwide, including free accounts. I’ve experimented a little with Imagen 3 and think it’s pretty good. But I still find myself going back to Copilot for image generation. Which is weird because I don’t like Copilot for almost everything…
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Podcast – Students ‘cheating’ with Generative AI
Notes Two years on from the initial panic around Chat GPT and student cheating we catch with Phill Dawson from Deakin’s ‘Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning’. Phill reflects on what universities have got wrong in their responses to GenAI, and why this might be a good time to entirely rethink the notion…
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Solo is a free, AI-supported website builder from Mozilla
Solo is a free website build from Mozilla that uses AI to help create websites by suggesting: Business names, Text composition, Content organisation, SEO optimisation, and Image suggestions.
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Embrace the weirdness of LLMs
The value of generative AI isn’t that it helps us do mundane things better; it’s that it opens up possibilities for doing new things.
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Podcast: Assessment and swiss cheese (with Phillip Dawson)
https://aipodcast.education/assessment-and-swiss-cheese-phill-dawson-episode-9-of-series-9 This week’s guest is Professor Phillip Dawson, who is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University in Australia. In addition to Phill’s website, we recommend following Phill on LinkedIn, or Twitter, where shares a lot of his work on the future of assessment…You can find Phill’s research papers…
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Generative AI logbook
https://nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2024/08/21/embracing-generative-ai-in-fashion-education In the fashion subject area, we have introduced and piloted a digital tools logbook. This logbook allows students to document their entire journey with Generative AI, showcasing how they use these tools to support the development of their creative concepts and evidence their journey. Staying with the theme of developing AI literacy, I quite like…