Artificial Intelligence

Some 12 percent of Houston’s workforce is at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence systems in the next five years, according to a recent study from a business research company.

CIO Khaled Tawfik says the city is eyeing the possibility of one day using a generative AI that is specially tailored for city governments, and it is now looking to learn more before finalizing policies.

Georgia Tech and Southern Regional Technical College are among many partners on a $65 million grant to build a technical workforce training incubator and talent pipeline for autonomous and AI technologies.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles fed GPT-3 a battery of tests, and it solved about 80 percent of given problems correctly, compared to just below 60 percent of the 40 undergrads who participated.

With a mission to help future first-generation college students, the nonprofit AVID is giving member schools access to Packback’s AI-enabled writing tool, because writing can be a gateway to more advanced coursework.

Lawyers can run into trouble with generative AI, and a few courts have pushed back on its use. Others, however, see the tech as a time-saver. Deepfaked evidence, meanwhile, is a growing concern.

According to a national survey of over 1,000 13- to 17-year-olds by research firm Big Village, 44 percent of them said they're likely to use AI to do their schoolwork for them, while 60 percent consider that cheating.

A survey of students and educators at both high school and college levels found less then half of them think AI has had a positive impact on student learning, although educators seem more optimistic than students.

Generative AI tools could potentially create videos for courthouse visitors or rewrite legal documents with accessible language to help people navigate the system. But the tool must be handled carefully.

Addressing a recent conference for the STEM Leadership Alliance, Norwalk Public Schools Superintendent Alexandra Estrella emphasized the need to prepare students for a world in which AI will be part of daily life.

Even some of the most stupendous potential impacts of AI on politics won’t be all bad, and we can draw some fairly straight lines between the current capabilities of AI tools and real-world outcomes.

More than a quarter of surveyed workers in professional, scientific and technical services said AI will help more than hurt them. But lower-paid workers with limited contact with AI products are somewhat more wary.

The Norway-based Inspera, which expanded to the U.S. market last year, has added Crossplag’s AI Content Detector and other anti-plagiarism tools to its suite of digital assessment and remote proctoring software.

The nonprofit International Society for Technology in Education is developing Stretch, an AI chatbot intended to be factually reliable, by training it only on information created or approved by educators.

The Legislature may be able to regulate some portions of artificial intelligence as its use increases, but some experts during a legislative committee hearing say it's unlikely lawmakers can stop it from proliferating.

As some of the biggest players in the artificial intelligence game vow to adopt transparency and security measures, the White House is saying that those measures are only the first step in creating safeguards around the technology.

The kind of computing power needed to keep artificial intelligence running is significant, leading some to ask whether the technology is capable of finding new innovations to balance it all out.

An annual series of STEM camps for middle and high school students in Colorado challenged them to embed artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies into a 1/18th scale race car.