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How AI is Changing the Lives of High School Students
Google Gemini dethrones ChatGPT, EU AI Act goes live, OpenAI becomes Microsoft competitor, Meta's AI strategy, AI and the future generation and more!
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August 01, 2024
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: How are high school students and the future generation looking at AI? We decided to ask them ourselves. Give it a listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: Taco Bell to add AI drive-thrus, Musk denies xAI rumors and how AI is showing up at the Olympics. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Google Gemini’s new model dethrones GPT-4o, EU AI Act is now live, Microsoft lists OpenAI as a competitor and Meta makes big wins with its AI strategy. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.
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How AI is Changing the Lives of High School Students 🏫
What's currently going on with AI and high school students?
How is the future FUTURE generation looking at AI?
Are they using it, abusing it, or a little of both?
Armaan Priyadarshan and Vasu Lakshmanan, high school students of Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science at WPI, join us to discuss.
Join the conversation and ask Ask Jordan, Armaan and Vasu questions on AI and education here.
Also on the pod today:
• Integration of AI in Education 🧑🏫️
• Risks and Benefits of AI in Education 🤔
• Balance between AI and Human Creativity 🧠
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AI in Society – Argentina plans to use AI to predict future crimes.
AI in Sports – Here’s how AI has been showing up at this year’s Olympics.
Read This – This study found that using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intent.
1. EU AI Regulations Now In Force 🇪🇺
The European Union has officially implemented its risk-based regulations for artificial intelligence, effective today. This new framework introduces compliance deadlines and bans specific high-risk applications, such as facial recognition in public spaces, along with significant penalties reaching up to 7% of global annual turnover for violations.
Developers of general-purpose AI must navigate these requirements carefully, as the rules aim to ensure transparency and accountability in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
2. Microsoft Lists OpenAI as a Competitor 🤯
Microsoft has officially listed OpenAI as a competitor in its latest annual report, placing them alongside major players like Amazon and Google. Despite their long-term partnership and Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI, tensions are rising with OpenAI’s recent unveiling of its search engine, SearchGPT.
While CEO Satya Nadella maintains a strong relationship with Sam Altman, he has also introduced Mustafa Suleyman from DeepMind to lead a new AI division.
3. Meta's Strategic AI Investments Propel Stock Surge 📈
Meta Platforms Inc has reported impressive Q2 sales of $39.1 billion, exceeding analysts' expectations of $38.3 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrated a significant 10% increase in stock value on Thursday, driven by the company’s strategic focus on artificial intelligence and new generative AI features for marketers.
With 3.27 billion users across its platforms and substantial investments in AI research, Meta aims to enhance its advertising effectiveness while pursuing its Metaverse ambitions.
4. FTC Cracks Down on AI Misconduct 🚫
The FTC is stepping up its oversight of artificial intelligence, focusing on potential consumer risks and deceptive practices by major companies. Notably, they highlighted Amazon and Ring's misuse of private data, resulting in a $5.8 million settlement last year for privacy violations.
The FCC has previously taken action, banning the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls, which empowers state attorneys general to combat voice cloning scams effectively.
5. Amazon's Capital Spending Surge For AI 🤑
Amazon is set to report a staggering 43% increase in capital expenditures, reaching $16.41 billion, primarily to enhance its cloud-based AI infrastructure. However, this aggressive spending could pressure profit margins, with expectations for AWS growth potentially falling below the desired 18% threshold.
As competition heats up with Microsoft and Google ramping up their own AI investments, Amazon's stock has seen a 6% decline since early July.
6. Gemini 1.5 Pro Tops Chatbot Arena! 🥇
Google DeepMind's Gemini 1.5 Pro (Experimental 0801) has clinched the top spot in the Chatbot Arena, overtaking GPT-4o and Claude-3.5 with a score of 1300.
The model is turning heads with its strong performance in multilingual tasks and technical areas like Math, Coding, and Hard Prompts. You won’t find this new model on the front end of Google Gemini, though, as it’s only available for early testing on Google AI Studio and through the Gemini API for developers.
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🦾How You Can Leverage:
Artificial Intelligence just wrote your kid's English essay. And aced it.
BAM!
But wait, that’s a bad thing, right? Like, there’s gotta be a better way for the leaders of tomorrow to learn AI.
But how can they, when so many schools are either banning AI or have inconsistent usage policies across the board.
We didn’t ace that assignment today, but we got off to a good start.
A duo of promising, AI-savvy high school students joined the show today to talk about the pros and cons of growing up with AI.
(And we thought growing up with Tamagotchis was hard! Lolz)
Arman Priyadarshan and Vasu Lakshmanan are two tech-savvy seniors at the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science trying to traverse their way through an unregulated world of education, filled with AI promise and AI pitfalls.
So, is there a right way forward?
How should students be learning AI in the classroom, but still using their brains?
They gave us their straight takes.
Let’s get it!
1 – E️ducators: Get your act together 🤦♂️
Arman and Vasu didn’t say this, but we will.
Educational systems at all levels in the U.S. are largely failing the next generation of kids.
Point blank.
No cap.
(Rant incoming!)
The fact that we’re heading into our third full school year in the U.S. in a “post ChatGPT world” and there’s no overarching guidance in the U.S. education system on AI is a gersh dern shame.
Armaan and Vasu are living in an AI educational twilight zone. One minute, they're encouraged to use AI for brainstorming in one class. The next? Unwritten rules of not using LLMs.
Try this:
If you’re a parent — demand that your child’s school incorporates GenAI education ASAP.
If you’re an educator — please stop pushing off the inevitable. AI aint going anywhere. AI content detection isn’t a thing. And like 99.5% of your students are using ChatGPT at home to do all their work anywhere. Like, aren’t you tired of reading “In the ever-changing world of bla bla bla, we’re gonna delve into yada yada yada?”
If you’re a student — Try and take some inspiration from Armaan and Vasu and push yourself to use AI to make yourself smarter. (Keep reading for that.)
2 – Make AI your personal tutor 👨🎓
Remember begging your parents for a tutor when that Calculus class was kicking your butt?
Arman and Vasu have figured out how to get 24/7 tutoring without breaking the bank. They're using LLMs to break down complex concepts in subjects like chemistry and competitive math, getting explanations tailored to their learning style.
Even if you’re not a student, THIS! is how you should be learning every day y’all.
Try This:
Next time you're stuck on a tough concept, don't just ask AI for the answer. Instead, tell it you're struggling and ask it to explain the topic three different ways: using a real-world analogy, breaking it down step-by-step, and connecting it to something you already know.
Oh, and you can give this GPT a try as well.
3 – Re-learn how to learn with AI
Here's the tea: Arman admits that AI has made him a bit lazy sometimes.
Samesies.
It's tempting to let ChatGPT or Claude do all the heavy lifting.
Cuz lezbe honest — there’s something pretty cool about having an AI do your work for you while you just slow clap for it.
But our dynamic duo knows that's a one-way ticket to Skill-Atrophy Town.
The key? Use AI to help you re-learn how to learn. Yeah, we know that’s meta. But, it’s important concept to grasp.
AI is changing how we learn. So, we’ve gotta unlearn old ways of learning and use AI to help us learn new ways of learning. (Which is augmented learning with AI.)
Try This:
For your next big project, challenge yourself to an AI-Human Collab extravaganza.
Start by brainstorming ideas the old-school way - just you and your brain.
Then, ask AI for its top 5 ideas on the topic.
Compare the lists.
Then, Combine the best elements of both to create a super-charged project plan.
As you work, use AI for research and to overcome roadblocks, but always filter its suggestions through your own critical thinking.
The goal? A final product that showcases the best of human creativity and AI assistance.
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Numbers to watch
1,300
The ELO score that Google’s new model, Gemini 1.5 Pro (Experimental 0801), achieved in the chatbot arena to overtake OpenAI’s GPT-4o (1286 score) as the top model.
(Or your fave LLM like Claude, Gemini, Copilot, etc)
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