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Education AI News: Week Ending 05/17/2024

May 17, 2024

I decided to try a theme with this week’s cover imagery to see how creative MidJourney could be with simple prompts. Each category cover image is a name tag + art style. It was pretty neat to see the variances. The goal is not perfection. By posting the mistakes, we’ll get to see how imagery improves over time. Here is the prompt for the cover:

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“This demo is insane. A student shares their iPad screen with the new ChatGPT + GPT-4o, and the AI speaks with them and helps them learn in *realtime*. Imagine giving this to every student in the world. The future is so, so bright.

This demo is insane.

A student shares their iPad screen with the new ChatGPT + GPT-4o, and the AI speaks with them and helps them learn in *realtime*.

Imagine giving this to every student in the world.

The future is so, so bright. pic.twitter.com/t14M4fDjwV
— Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) May 13, 2024

“GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction. It will be available for free users and via the API. If you enjoyed this, check out

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction.

It will be available for free users and via the API.

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— Lior⚡ (@AlphaSignalAI) May 13, 2024

“There are a ton of little things that could be improved to make this a better tutor… but it is impossible to watch this video & not see a coming transformation in education, given this is GPT-4o out of the box. We need to decide how to integrate it into education, starting now

There are a ton of little things that could be improved to make this a better tutor… but it is impossible to watch this video & not see a coming transformation in education, given this is GPT-4o out of the box.

We need to decide how to integrate it into education, starting now pic.twitter.com/BvuLkTXHY6
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) May 17, 2024

AI Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students – The New York Times

“Insane news 🤯 In addition to $1,000 in compute credits from @replicate + @modal_labs , @hwchase17 has entered the arena w/🎁 each student $250 in Langsmith Credits. We’ve extended enrollment given this development (1/3)

Insane news 🤯 In addition to $1,000 in compute credits from @replicate + @modal_labs , @hwchase17 has entered the arena w/🎁 each student $250 in Langsmith Credits.

We've extended enrollment given this development (1/3)https://t.co/9oMI3CZB7C
— Hamel Husain (@HamelHusain) May 16, 2024

“300 hours of curated courses focused on Machine Learning Engineering. There are 15 courses. From beginner to advanced. From Google. For free. (Link in the image ALT) https://twitter.com/svpino/status/1791091253255545217

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AI News #33: Week Ending 05/17/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 Links

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