- The world's most popular online learning course, Harvard's CS50, plans to use artificial intelligence to grade assignments, teach coding, and personalize learning tips, says Professor David J. Malan.
- Generative AI means faster coding, but also more code to manage, security vulnerabilities, and higher business expectations.
- With students submitting papers genderted almost entirely by artificial intelligence, a wave of professors around the world are experimenting with oral exams to improve learning and discourage cheating.
- Only 7% of direct admission students were offered a spot in the Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington for the fall. That "is not acceptable," says state Rep. Drew Hansen.
- AI researcher Linxi "Jim" Fan and colleagues at chipmaker Nvidia devised a way to set the powerful language model GPT-4 loose inside Minecraft, turning the video game into a playground for AI technology.
- Scientists from McMaster University and MIT used machine learning to find a new antibiotic to kill Acinetobacter baumannii, a drug-resistant superbug deemed a "critical" threat by the World Health Organization.
- Artificial intelligence means everyone can now be a computer programmer as all they need to do is speak to the computer, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday (May 29) at the Computex forum in Taipei.
- Even scientists who have made quantum computers their life's work say they can't do anything useful — yet. "They're all terrible," says University of Sussex physicist Winfried Hensinger, who has five.
- New York City will become an early front in artificial intelligence regulation in July when it begins enforcing a law related to the application of AI technology in hiring and promotion decisions.
- Researchers at Hokkaido University have created an AI that can compose haiku verses.