Tech-savvy sixth-grade teachers save hours of preparation time while still delivering high-quality, interactive lessons all thanks to AI.
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How 2 teachers use AI behind-the-scenes to build lessons & save time.
Two sixth-grade teachers in a small New York district are leveraging artificial intelligence to create lesson plans, translate content, and save time on classroom preparation.
GPT-4 Turbo reclaims ‘best AI model’ crown from Anthropic’s Claude 3.
OpenAI’s latest update, GPT-4 Turbo, has regained the top spot on the Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS) Chatbot Arena, impressing users with its enhanced capabilities in coding, reasoning, and writing.
Mistral CEO says AI Companies are trying to build God.
Arthur Mensch, CEO of Europe’s rising AI firm Mistral, challenges the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as an unrealistic and potentially misguided quest, comparing it to the desire to create a deity.
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How 2 teachers use AI behind-the-scenes to build lessons & save time
By using AI tools, they can generate summaries, exit questions, and student activities, reducing lesson planning time from hours to seconds.
- Teachers Janice Donaghy and Jean D’Aurio use AI to craft lesson plans, including summaries, exit questions, and student activities.
- AI tools can break down a lesson plan into step-by-step directions and offer sample projects for students to complete.
- While AI can sometimes hallucinate facts, reading through the generated content can help avoid this problem.
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Instagram Adds Generative AI Chatbot to Direct Messaging
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Google Photos’ AI Editing Tools are now available to everyone
Starting May 15, Google Photos will offer a range of AI-powered editing tools, including Magic Eraser, Photo Unblur, and Portrait Light, to all users for free.
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Lawhive raises $12M to expand its legal tech AI platform for small firms
U.K.-based legal tech startup Lawhive has raised £9.5 million ($11.9 million) in a seed round to expand its AI-driven services for “main street” law firms, targeting the thousands of small law firms and solo lawyers that have been largely overlooked by other legal tech startups.
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Big Tech’s ad transparency tools are still woeful, Mozilla research report finds
Mozilla has released a report titled “The State of Ad Transparency in 2024,” which analyzes the transparency of political ads on major social media platforms and calls for increased regulation.
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VCs are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Bittensor
Despite venture capitalists investing heavily in generative AI search engines, users continue to prefer established search giants like Google and Bing.
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GPT-4 Turbo reclaims ‘best AI model’ crown from Anthropic’s Claude 3
As of April 13, 2024, the updated version of GPT-4 Turbo holds the lead in the overall, coding, and English categories, while Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus ranks second.
- GPT-4 Turbo’s improved performance is attributed to its advanced coding, math, logical reasoning, and writing capabilities.
- Users on the Chatbot Arena can engage in conversations with two LLMs simultaneously and evaluate their responses without knowing their identities.
- The Chatbot Arena website offers an Arena (side-by-side) option to compare the performance of gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09 against other LLMs.
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Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in Abu Dhabi’s G42
Microsoft has made a strategic investment of $1.5 billion in G42, a leading UAE-based artificial intelligence technology holding company, to strengthen their collaboration on bringing the latest Microsoft AI technologies and skilling to the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.
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Adobe’s generative AI in Premiere Pro looks like a total game-changer for video editing
Adobe is set to launch some of the latest AI innovations it has been brewing for Premiere Pro at the upcoming Adobe Max event in London, which are poised to change the video editing landscape.
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5 ways to make money online with AI in 2024
AI is reshaping and reimagining almost every aspect of our professional lives, providing opportunities to make money online by changing existing income streams or launching new ventures.
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Humane AI Pin is more comic relief than iPhone-killer
Humane, a startup founded by former Apple employees, has launched its first product, the AI Pin, which aims to challenge the iPhone’s dominance but falls short of expectations with its bulky design and limited functionality.
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15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024
The AI Index 2024 report, released by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), reveals that global AI development and adoption have continued to accelerate over the past year, with significant advancements in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics.
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Mistral CEO Says AI Companies Are Trying to Build God
The CEO Arthur Mensch differentiates himself from his Silicon Valley counterparts by focusing on building AI that can put Europe on the map, rather than creating human-level artificial intelligence.
- Mensch, a self-proclaimed atheist, expressed his skepticism towards AGI, stating that “the AGI discourse is akin to creating a God.”
- Mensch believes that AI models are generating content and shaping our cultural perception of the world, and the values of France and the United States differ subtly but importantly in this context.
- Mensch predicts that labor changes brought about by AI will occur much more rapidly, within the next two years, rather than being a 10-year process.
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