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Today’s students will enter careers that haven’t even been imagined yet. With AI and automation reshaping entire industries, the skills employers once valued are being overtaken by the need for creativity, adaptability and technological fluency. But how can schools equip students with these essential competencies?Brian JohnsrudDirector of Education Learning and Advocacy, AdobeTo explore this challenge, EdSurge sat down with Brian Johnsrud, the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe. He shares insights into how schools can leverage creative tools to equip students with the skills they’ll need to thrive in a world where the only constant is change. Adobe,…
In a nutshell: Developers were supposed to be among the biggest beneficiaries of the generative AI hype as special tools made churning out code faster and easier. But according to a recent study from Uplevel, a firm that analyzes coding metrics, the productivity gains aren’t materializing – at least not yet. The study tracked around 800 developers, comparing their output with and without GitHub’s Copilot coding assistant over three-month periods. Surprisingly, when measuring key metrics like pull request cycle time and throughput, Uplevel found no meaningful improvements for those using Copilot. Matt Hoffman, a data analyst at Uplevel, explained to…
Explore the top 18 generative AI tools revolutionizing customer service, from advanced chatbots like … More Cognigy and IBM WatsonX Assistant to comprehensive platforms like Salesforce Einstein Service Cloud and Zendesk AI.Adobe Stock Without a doubt, one of the standout use cases for generative AI in business is in customer service and support. As customers ourselves, most people reading this will probably have experienced the frustration of dealing with traditional automated customer service systems. But this is changing, thanks to today’s powerful large language models and natural language chatbots. And while reports suggest that we still prefer to talk to…
Cong Lu has long been fascinated by how to use technology to make his job as a research scientist more efficient. But his latest project takes the idea to an extreme.Lu, who is a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at the University of British Columbia, is part of a team building an “AI Scientist” with the ambitious goal of creating an AI-powered system that can autonomously do every step of the scientific method. “The AI Scientist automates the entire research lifecycle, from generating novel research ideas, writing any necessary code, and executing experiments, to summarizing experimental results, visualizing them, and…
Meta has been working to improve its AI capabilities day after day. In the latest update, the company is all set to reveal the list of actors that will voice its upcoming audio features. According to Reuters, Meta will release the names of five actors, including John Cena, Judy Dench and Kristen Bell, who are giving voice to the new Meta AI assistant. Meta’s audio features will allow users to choose a voice for their digital assistant. Sounds familiar? Yes, the feature is similar to the OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice mode, but with less controversy so far. As per the report,…
A pioneering data scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur who has significantly contributed to the democratisation of AI, Jeremy Howard founded fast.ai: a research institute dedicated to making deep learning more accessible. He teaches introductory courses and develops software, such as the fast.ai library, which has over 25,000 stars on GitHub He developed the ULMFiT algorithm, which pioneered transfer learning and fine-tuning techniques in natural language processing. This work contributed to the development of modern language models like GPT. Howard was the president and chief scientist of Kaggle, where he was the top-ranked participant in international machine learning competitions. He also founded…
For many years, educators have envisioned personalized learning as a way to tailor education to each student’s unique needs. With advances in artificial intelligence, this vision is becoming a reality. AI has the potential to transform classrooms by offering personalized learning experiences that align with individual strengths, interests and learning needs.At the same time, there is a growing emphasis on fostering creativity and authenticity in student work. AI can play a pivotal role in supporting the creative process, from generating ideas to refining projects. By making the creative process more explicit and accessible, AI empowers students to overcome obstacles and…
One of the country’s richest nonprofits focused on online education has been giving out grants for more than a year. But so far, the group, known as Axim Collaborative, has done so slowly — and pretty quietly.“There has been little buzz about them in digital learning circles,” says Russ Poulin, executive director of WCET, a nonprofit focused on digital learning in higher education. “They are not absent from the conversation, but their name is not raised very often.”Late last month, an article in the online course review site Class Central put it more starkly, calling the promise of the nonprofit…
In the past year, we’ve seen remarkable achievements across AI-assisted cancer diagnosis as more and more clinicians test, use and integrate AI companions into daily practice. Skin cancer is no exception, and we expect AI diagnostic tools to be widely implemented across this clinical arena in the future. What does AI assistance look like for skin cancer? A 2024 study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine compared the performance of clinicians diagnosing at least one skin cancer with and without deep learning-based AI assistance. In an experimental environment, clinicians without AI assistance achieved an average sensitivity of 74.8% while for…
AI can write emails. AI can write songs. AI can suggest writing improvements that go beyond spelling and grammar to word choice.As big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple roll out their latest AI features, one use case of AI keeps coming up: AI can write. It’s sometimes so good that job seekers have asked it to write their resumes and cover letters, and new technologies have rolled out to detect AI’s presence.Related: These 4 Words Make It Obvious You Used AI to Write a Paper, According to New Research Easier writing is a key selling point of Apple’s…