The following newsletter was emailed to “AI Insights” subscribers on Jan. 10, 2025.
Happy 2025 from ITS! As the new year promises to bring continued change and innovation in artificial intelligence, the “AI Insights” newsletter will keep you up-to-date on emerging trends and new applications in the workplace and in the classroom.
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News and Views
Government
- Federal government discloses more than 1,700 AI use cases (FedScoop)
Health
- Nationwide real-world implementation of AI for cancer detection in population-based mammography screening (Nature)
Higher Education
- Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- How Will AI Change The Teaching Model In Business Schools? (Forbes)
Industry News
- Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now. (New York Times)
- Growing Up: Navigating Generative AI’s Early Years – AI Adoption Report (Wharton School)
- How A.I. Could Reshape the Economic Geography of America (New York Times)
- Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves (404 Media)
- AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funds Valuing It at $60 Billion (Wall Street Journal)
- AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it (Technology Review)
- The promise and perils of synthetic data (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in fiscal 2025 (CNBC)
- Reflections (Sam Altman)
Reader Recommendations
- Artificial Intelligence Research Guide (Syracuse University Libraries via Cristina Hatem)
- Fable, a Book App, Makes Changes After Offensive A.I. Messages (New York Times via Lindy Smith)
This Issue’s Tip: Using ChatGPT at Work
The latest video in our Tech Tips Video Series provides an overview of how ChatGPT can be utilized in professional settings to enhance productivity, streamline tasks and support decision-making processes. The video emphasizes practical applications and the benefits of integrating AI tools in the workplace. You can sign up for notifications when new videos are released.
This Issue’s Prompt: Writing a Speech
Prompts are how you ask generative AI tools to do something for you (e.g., creating, summarizing, editing or transforming). Treat it like a conversation, using clear language and enough context to get the result you have in mind.
To get more practice, use the generative AI tool of your choice (for example, Microsoft Copilot, Open AI ChatGPT or Anthropic Claude) to write a speech for an upcoming event using the following prompt:
“You are giving a speech about the importance of higher education to an audience of high school students and their families. Please keep the speech to 300 words or less with an entertaining yet informative tone. Include three statistics that reflect the importance of education with citations.”
You can then revise the result to add an important detail, reduce or increase the word count, change the tone or make any other modification. The more context and guidance you provide, the better the result will be.
Helpful Resources
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