A new AI tutor is going to be teaching coding at Harvard this semester
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Could AI replace human teachers? Probably. Is it going to be soon? It could be … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Starting this fall,...
Researchers find higher CO2 levels impair human cognition and intelligence
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF On the one hand we’re worried what happens to society when AI gets smarter than humans, but what happens if at the same time greenhouse gasses are making humans stupider? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Despite its guardrails experts still made ChatGPT create Ransomware
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Guardrails on AI work, kind of, but the SANS Institute were still able to get ChatGPT to create Ransomware for them and it shows how easily the tech can be tricked still. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
NASA explores brain training to help astronauts live on the Moon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In education circles we increasingly talk about neuro diversity and neuro training, and now NASA is tapping into the potential of these to help prepare astronauts for the unknown. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Andrew Ng launches LandingLens to democratise AI development for everyone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today AI models are hard to create, but what if there was a tool that could let anyone create one? That’s the purpose of Andrew Ng’s latest venture. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
MIT and Stanford ChatGPT study shows low skilled workers benefit the most
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to new technologies and work it’s often the lowest skilled workers that suffer first and are automated, but this time they could be the biggest beneficiaries. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
ChatGPT’s maker launches a laughably poor tool to detect AI written text
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many companies claim they can detect AI written text, but even the world’s most famous generative AI company is bad at it … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
ChatGPT just passed a Wharton business school exam
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While it’s feared that ChatGPT could make a great cheating tool most exams are taken in controlled environments, so this test shows its grasp of the subject matter. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
ChatGPT is almost acing the hardest USMLE medical exams in the USA
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As teachers increasingly worry about how students will use new powerful AI’s to cheat they’re finding out their concerns are justified, and worse. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
ChatGPT aces UK GCSE History exams to astound teachers and create dilemmas
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting to the point where it’s becoming the perfect educational aid… or cheating tool, and teachers aren’t prepared at all for what’s coming (today). Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
An AI just aced a university maths course for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s often said that “maths” underpins everything in the known universe and AI is getting better and better at mastering it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Fighter pilots take the simulators into battle to fight augmented reality foes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Simulators for training are OK and real world battle training is expensive and complex, now using Augmented Reality fighter pilots have the best of both in the real world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself...
Queen Mary university students become the first to have lectures in the Metaverse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most education systems are stuck in the industrial age teaching students traditional skills in traditional ways that haven’t evolved much for a century. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
First came digital virtual teachers now here’s a virtual university president
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Digital humans and avatars are becoming more realistic and life-like in the way they behave, move, and talk, and now they’re helping students in all kinds of new ways. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
AI tutor trounces human experts at teaching students neurosurgery
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI will take jobs, but it’s also going to improve employee training dramatically to improve employees skills. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When we...
IQ tests can’t measure it but Cognitive Flexibility is key to learning and creativity
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our future will be vastly different from today’s reality so students will need all the help they can get to make the most of it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The...
Educations tie to income inequality spans more than 100 years
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A quality education not only benefits subsequent family generations but it also boosts earnings potential and helps reduce inequality. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. I’ve been discussing the impact that education...
AI can sense students levels of stress from phone data and forms
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Stress is a killer and impacts health and performance, and now AI is being used to help identify it in new ways … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently scientists developed...
This AI created its own lesson plans to learn faster then smashed other AI’s out the park
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Noone learns in the same way, but optimising lesson plans for students as well as AI’s, would help all of us learn new skills faster. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The...
In bizarre twist AI gets a job coaching call center staff compassion and empathy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI might not have compassion or empathy, but it can still coach people to improve theirs. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Most computers and Artificial Intelligence (AI) lack compassion and empathy,...
