Adoption of AI tools has been rapid, but not immediate or universal

AI News/Updates:

• Hollywood on cutting edge of the fight against AI and staring down the barrel of a triple strike - the Hollywood writers are already on strike, and two other major entertainment guilds, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA), also have looming contract expiration dates. All three unions have never gone on strike at the same time, in the history of Hollywood.

  • Why Hollywood Really Fears Generative AI and why Hollywood's Screenwriters Are Right to Fear.

    • Here’s a surreal example of how AI-generated video is changing film.

    • AI Is About to Turn Book Publishing Upside-Down - every function in trade book publishing today can be automated with the help of generative AI.  

• Here’s how A.I.-backed tools can help with worker stress and mental health

  • AI chatbots like ChatGPT can also help employees manage everyday stressors.

  • Companies are turning to AI-powered mental health tools to help workers deal with stress and burnout.

  • Half of workers experience anxiety symptoms and over half of workers have depression symptoms, according to a recent Deloitte survey and workers want employers to offer more mental health resources.

• Here’s what business leaders and policymakers need to know about AI and its uses in entertainment, healthcare, politics and more:

  • Generational gaps are playing a critical role in adoption and outlooks on AI - older Americans tend not to trust AI-generated content, and don’t expect AI to take their jobs in the near future.

  • Millennials and Gen Z, on the other hand, are more likely to predict that AI will transform the workforce —for better and for worse.

  • Trust will be a major hurdle.

  • Adoption of AI tools has been rapid, but not immediate or universal. People are enthusiastic about some uses for AI — but others, not so much.

• AI and ML are transforming SEO and creating new opportunities and challenges for SEO professionals. They are changing

  • how search engines rank websites and how users search for information

  • how SEO professionals optimize their websites and content for search engines and users.

  • the skills and strategies needed to succeed.

• OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight A.I. 'hallucinations', ChatGPT now lets you create and share links to your chatbot conversations and here’s how to delete all your data from ChatGPT

• A man made an AI-generated design firm in one weekend. Alex Cornell, an interface designer, created a fake design firm with AI tools in one weekend. Cornell said he used OpenAI's GPT-4 and AI art tool, Midjourney. Take a look.

• Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It

• The 15 Biggest Risks Of Artificial Intelligence

• AI Is Being Used to 'Turbocharge' Scams

AI in Education:

• Harvard professor taps A.I. to help teach world’s most popular online computer class. CS50, an introductory course in computer science attended by hundreds of students on-campus and over 40,000 online, plans to use artificial intelligence to grade assignments, teach coding and personalize learning tips, according to its Professor David J. Malan. CS50’s use of AI could highlight its benefits for education, particularly in improving the quality and access of online learning — an industry that Grand View Research forecasts to grow to $348 billion by 2030, nearly tripling from 2022.

• The 6 Best AI Tools for Researchers and Teachers.

• As AI-Enabled Cheating Roils Colleges, Professors Turn to Oral examinations, which date at least to ancient Greece, are getting new attention.Nearly two-thirds of students report they are more highly motivated to learn the subject when they have an oral exam, according to the research of Qi and her team. Grades increase by about 10%. The lowest-performing students have shown the greatest improvement.

• Top 10 Tools for Detecting ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, and Claude. You can use it to detect a wide range of AI-generated text, including text from the latest models like Bard (PalM 2), ChatGPT, GPT-4, and others.

AI Learning

• The University of Texas at Austin this week opened applications for its first-ever online master’s degree in artificial intelligence. The first of its kind in the nation, the program debuts next spring in partnership with EdX. UT estimates there will be 97 million new AI-related jobs globally over the next two years. The university has received ~10,000 inquiries about its new program. “Organizations, companies are in dire need of people with these skills. But there aren’t enough people out there to hire,” said Eric Busch, UT’s Managing Director of Computer and Data Science Online.

• Future-Proof Your Career: 10 Essential Steps For Thriving In An AI-Dominated Workforce

• 6 Podcasts to Make Sense of A.I.