Graduating students across the US have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who promote AI, with clips going viral online. Microsoft Vice Chair Brad Smith responded with a lengthy blog post acknowledging students' concerns and calling for dialogue. The episode highlights a growing disconnect between tech industry optimism about AI and the anxieties of young people entering the workforce.
ElevenLabs announced two education-focused initiatives: Impact Program x Professors and an Einstein voice-based learning experience. The professor program offers free Pro-tier access and time-bound student access for courses and projects. The Einstein experience brings his recreated voice to ElevenReader and an AI Agent, letting users listen to or conversationally explore his writings and scientific ideas.
Open Culture presents an eight-minute animated map by Ollie Bye tracing Christianity’s expansion from the Middle East to a global presence. The article emphasizes that the religion changed as it spread, forming many variants and denominations across cultures. This is not AI-related news, but it may interest readers studying educational visualization, historical mapping, and knowledge-video storytelling.
Google DeepMind has announced the official launch of its "National Partnerships for AI" initiative in India, with the goal of accelerating local scientific…
According to the latest announcement on the Hugging Face official blog, Codex has officially announced the open-sourcing of its AI model. This move is deeply…
This official blog post from Google DeepMind details how AI is making a tangible impact in educational settings and helping to reduce the burden on teachers…
Hugging Face's "NLP Course" has long been a must-read classic for developers and researchers worldwide looking to enter the fields of Transformers and natural…
Hugging Face has announced the launch of its new "Fellowship Program," a major initiative aimed at democratizing artificial intelligence and strongly…
Hugging Face has officially launched its "Student Ambassador Program" and opened applications to students worldwide. The program's core goal is to empower…
Hugging Face has officially launched "Hugging Face for Education," an educational initiative designed to lower the barrier to learning machine learning (ML)…
This announcement comes from the official Hugging Face blog, published in October 2021, celebrating the launch of the Hugging Face Course along with an…