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AI attempts to scale education fly in the face of all we know about learning—that learning is social, and that the more human attention, the better the outcomes.

Indeed, the more advanced the technology, the more seductive the idea that it can educate us. But history has shown the opposite: the more advanced the technology, the further it substitutes genuine intellectual labor, the less we learn.

AI is a much bigger threat to education than prior technologies. By pushing new frontiers in automation, seeding the notion that we might take humans out of the learning loop entirely, and suggesting that education could be cheap when it should be our most significant investment, AI may not just perpetuate but accelerate the ongoing challenges in our children’s educations.

In a fireside chat at SIGGRAPH 2024, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared their insights on the potential of open source AI and virtual assistants.

Huang emphasised the ubiquity of AI in the future, stating, “Every single restaurant, every single website will probably, in the future, have these AIs …”

Zuckerberg concurred, adding, “…just like every business has an email address and a website and a social media account, I think, in the future, every business is going to have an AI.”

This vision aligns with NVIDIA’s recent developments showcased at SIGGRAPH. The company previewed “James,” an interactive digital human based on the NVIDIA ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) reference design. James – a virtual assistant capable of providing contextually accurate responses – demonstrates the potential for businesses to create custom, hyperrealistic avatars for customer interactions.

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AI News

• 🤖 Google makes its Gemini chatbot faster and more widely available (link)

• 👩‍🦰 Meta’s new ‘Imagine me’ feature lets you generate AI selfies (link)

• 🖥️ MIT News: LLMs don’t behave like people, even though we may expect them to (link)

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• 🍎 Apple signs the White House’s commitment to AI safety (link)

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