AI Tutors Start Changing How Kids Study in the U.S.

AI tutors are quietly changing how kids study in the U.S. According to data from Data.ai in May, five of the top 20 education apps in the U.S. Apple Store are AI agents that help students with their school assignments and can remember students' learning habits. These AI tutors, who help with everything from writing history papers to solving physics problems, are mostly constrained to text-based interactions. However, soon they will be able to speak to students, optimizing each student’s learning style, whether that means a more empathetic, humorous, or creative style. In May 2024, OpenAI’s GPT-4o demonstrated an AI assistant that can generate voice responses in various emotive styles. Interestingly, the three most popular AI helpers in the U.S. are Chinese-owned (although published by Singaporean entities): Question AI, with six million downloads, TikTok's Gauth, and Answer AI.

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OpenAI Hired Former Director of the NSA and Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone

OpenAI announced this month it hired Paul M. Nakasone, a retired U.S. Army general and former director of the National Security Agency, for its Board of Directors. "A leading expert in cybersecurity, Nakasone’s appointment reflects OpenAI’s commitment to safety and security, and underscores the growing significance of cybersecurity as the impact of AI technology continues to grow," explained the company. Nakasone will join the Board’s Safety and Security Committee, which recommends protecting the large AI training supercomputers and securing our sensitive model weights and data. "AI has the potential to deliver significant benefits in this area for many institutions frequently targeted by cyber attacks like hospitals, schools, and financial institutions," said the company. General Nakasone stated, "I look forward to contributing to OpenAI’s efforts to ensure artificial general intelligence is safe and beneficial to people around the world." He was pivotal in the creation of U.S. Cyber Command, the longest-serving leader of USCYBERCOM, and also led the National Security Agency, where he was charged with safeguarding the United States' digital infrastructure and advancing the country's cyber defense capabilities. Nakasone joins current board members Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, Bret Taylor and Sam Altman, as well as some new board members the company announced in March: Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, former executive vice president and global general counsel of Sony; and Fidji Simo, CEO and chair of Instacart. OpenAI on Monday announced a partnership with Apple that includes a ChatGPT-Siri integration as well as the hiring of two top executives: • Sarah Friar, previously CEO of Nextdoor and finance chief at Square, is joining as chief financial officer. • Kevin Weil, an ex-president at Planet Labs, will be the new chief product officer. Weil was previously a senior vice president at Twitter and a vice president at Facebook and Instagram.   They've gone full mask-off: 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 trust @OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc). There is only one reason for appointing an @NSAGov Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth. You have been warned. https://t.co/bzHcOYvtko — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) June 14, 2024

NVIDIA Released Open Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Training LLMs

NVIDIA announced Nemotron-4 340B, a family of open models developers can use to generate synthetic data for training LLMs for commercial applications across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, retail, and other industries. Robust datasets with high-quality training data are prohibitively expensive and difficult to access. Synthetic data mimics the characteristics of real-world data. Through a uniquely permissive open model license, Nemotron-4 340B gives developers a free, scalable way to generate synthetic data that can help build powerful LLMs. The Nemotron-4 340B family includes base, instruct, and reward models that form a pipeline to generate synthetic data for training and refining LLMs. The models are optimized with NVIDIA NeMo, an open-source framework for end-to-end model training, including data curation, customization, and evaluation. They’re also optimized for inference with the open-source NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM library. Nemotron-4 340B can be downloaded from Hugging Face. Nemotron 340b…wow pic.twitter.com/zYlDCGjZKc — MatthewBerman (@MatthewBerman) June 18, 2024

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"Generative AI Is More Creative than 99% of People," Stated a Research

Researchers at The University of Arkansas found that AI is more creative than 99% of people. They presented these findings in a paper published in Scientific Reports. The study showed how 151 humans were put against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered an indicator of creative thought. "Not a single human won," they stated. Not surprised. A new study by the University of Arkansas pitted 151 humans against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative thought. Not a single human won. pic.twitter.com/Ps1lNtEqPo — Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) May 15, 2024

Pluralsight Introduced AI Prompt and Cloud Sandboxes

Pluralsight introduced AI Sandboxes this month, a tool that allows developers to experiment with multiple LLMs and improve data output by comparing results. In addition, users can experiment with sandbox sessions on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud without accidental charges. A no-setup SageMaker Studio simplifies the process of coding in multiple languages. According to Pluralsight, this hands-on tool facilitates automating, generating, classifying, summarizing, debugging, refactoring, coding, scripting, and innovating.

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