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Tech Leaders Urge a Pause in the "Out-of-Control" AI Race
Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), April 2023 - (by Elliott Masie) My focus this year has been on the explosive growth and "hype" about Open AI's tools, including ChatGPT. Recently, a number of tech leaders, including Steve Wozniak, have advocated that there be a "pause" on the release of the next versions of ChatGPT in order to get a better sense of how the power of AI will impact our society, business, education, and more.
Increase in L&D Sentiment for AI
London (UK), February 2023 - The annual Global Sentiment Survey in L&D, run by Don Taylor, is out. For the last two years, reskilling and upskilling have been seen as the hottest topic. Is this still the case? What about AI? Surely, with all of the focus on ChatGPT, especially in our sector, this might now be number one.
New Learning Festival in New York City This July
New York, NY (USA), March 2023 - Elliott Masie, Chair of The Masie Learning Foundation, has announced a new and different event for learning and training professionals taking place in New York City this summer. The Learning Festival will be a profoundly unique event for the learning, HR, and business communities with no keynotes, no breakouts, and no exhibit booths.
Cogito Announces an AI-Informed Personalized Coaching Solution
Boston, MA (USA), November 2022 - Cogito, a leader in real-time coaching and guidance for the enterprise, has announced a new and enhanced solution targeted at improving the employee experience for frontline teams. The Personalized Coaching features are designed to better support employees in handling complex customer service inquiries and focus on professional development based on each agent's skills.
» MOREWhy Using Technology to Learn a Language Isn't Always Beneficial
Barcelona (E), November 2022 - Meta has announced that it has built a speech-to-speech translation system powered by AI that can automatically translate spoken words from one language to another, especially languages that don't have a written form. Currently only partly developed in Israel, the technology is translating languages starting with Hokkien, a Taiwanese language that lacks a standard written form.
» MORELearning Pool Introduces Global AI-Based Skills Solution
Derry (IRL), October 2022 - Learning Pool, an award-winning learning technologies company, has announced the launch of a major new product ahead of its fourteenth annual Learning Pool Live user conference. The release will leverage the know-how of People-Analytix, a Swiss-based pioneer in AI-powered skills technology that was recently acquired by Learning Pool. The shift to put skills at the centre of Learning Pool's technology offering is a wider reflection of the most profound change seen in learning technologies in recent times.
Millions in Funding for New AI Research Group
Bremen (GER), July 2022 - As part of a strategic funding initiative on artificial intelligence (AI), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Foundation - DFG] is establishing eight new research groups. One of them is coming to Bremen: the research group "Lifespan AI: From Longitudinal Data to Lifespan Inference in Health", headed by Professor Tanja Schultz from the University of Bremen and Professor Marvin N. Wright from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS.
» MOREGoodHabitz to Acquire Helpr AI powered Conversational Learning
London (UK), May 2022 -GoodHabitz has acquired Helpr, a software solution for conversational learning. The software of Helpr makes learning more interactive and adaptive through AI-powered educational chatbots. Wondering what this will bring to the online courses?
» MORE"The Nature of Learning Goals Is Dynamic Rather than Fixed"
Mannheim (GER), April 2022 - Prof. Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler is involved in the development and evaluation of AI-based personalization approaches for in-company continuing education in a University of Mannheim project funded by Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research. The effort is called KAMAELEON, the German acronym for "Contact-Based, Adaptive Measures for Effective Learning Support in Continuing Education", and it is also the title of his presentation at the LEARNTEC congress, 01 June at 16:15.
Feedback with AI and Trusted Learning Analytics at Universities
Frankfurt/Hagen (GER), April 2022 - In the joint project known as IMPACT, five universities are working together that have outstanding expertise in the area of ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI), as well as practical experience in the didactic use of learning analytics. The effort, whose full title is "Implementation of AI-Based Feedback and Assessment with Trusted Learning Analytics at Universities", is being undertaken by Frankfurt am Main’s Goethe Universität, Berlin’s Humboldt Universität, the FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany’s only state distance learning university), the Freie Universität of Berlin, and Universität Bremen.
