Multimodal Magic
A couple weeks ago, I was flying to St. Louis for a three-day client workshop and, like I often do, got to wondering what I was flying over. I've alwa...
Every week, I'll summarize the week's top AI news, with an emphasis on higher education and healthcare marketing.
| OpenAI's new model o1 (aka 🍓) is capable of "reasoning" (OpenAI website): This creates new possibilities in genetics, mathematics, cognition and so much more. |  |
| Yale invests $150M in AI (New Haven Register): Funds will go to building GPUs, creating a proprietary generative AI platform, recruiting new faculty, funding grants and more. | 
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| Rice University research could make weird AI images a thing of the past (Rice website): Too many fingers, backwards heads, faceless faces, extra legs. Am I the only one who will miss the bonkers images and videos created by AI? | 
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AACU launches a new AI Institute (Inside Higher Ed): 124 institutions are coming together to deal with the challenges presented by AI in the classroom. |
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Google and Others Are Developing AI That Can "Hear" Signs of Sickness (Bloomberg): The technology could bring inexpensive diagnostic tools to poor and rural places for diseases like TB.
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