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Marketing AI Week in Review 9/14/24

Written by Matt Cyr | Sep 14, 2024 7:49:16 PM

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.