This message was originally shared to subscribers December 20, 2024.
Happy Orange Appreciation Days from ITS!
Before you enjoy some well-earned rest and reflection during Orange Appreciation Days, we wanted to send an all-links edition of “AI Insights” and wish you a happy 2025! Our New Year’s Resolution is to keep you up-to-date on the latest developments in AI while helping you incorporate it into your work.
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News and Views
Government
- ChatGPT, meet DHSChat: Homeland Security has a new AI bot (FedScoop)
Higher Education
- Interview With an AI Higher Ed Fundraiser (Inside Higher Ed)
- Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset (TechCrunch)
- Google built an AI tool that can do research for you (Google)
- Rutgers Business School partners with Google to enhance teaching and classroom learning with Generative AI (Rutgers University)
Industry
- 12 Days of OpenAI (OpenAI)
- Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says conversational AI is the next web browser (The Verge)
- Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era (Google)
- ChatGPT adds live video access to “see” what your phone sees (Axios)
- Meta debuts a tool for watermarking AI-generated videos (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI makes AI video generator Sora publicly available in US (Guardian)
- Introducing ChatGPT search (OpenAI)
- AI Agents: What You Need to Know Now (LinkedIn)
- AI’s Greatest Hits: Seeing the Path to AGI (Special Competitive Studies Project)
Reader Recommendation
- 15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to (One Useful Thingvia Moira McDermott)
Helpful Resources
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