Author: paulsmoneymakers

When I arrived at Boston College in the fall of 2023, I had all the typical first-year concerns swirling in my head: Would I find my classrooms without getting lost? How could I juggle a new social life alongside difficult coursework? What I did not expect was the collective anxiety around artificial intelligence. Just a few months before, OpenAI released ChatGPT 4.0, and suddenly a technology that once felt theoretical was right there in our hands. On my first day, nearly every syllabus included a new policy about “Gen AI.” Many of these policies were vague or overly prohibitive, labeling AI…

On Jan. 20, Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek released its first-generation reasoning models. In the release, the company made some astonishing claims. First, DeepSeek said its DeepSeek-R1 model achieves performance comparable with OpenAI-o1, widely considered the best-performing model available across most domains. Considering the Chinese company is working with significantly worse hardware than OpenAI and other American companies, that’s certainly remarkable. Even more impressive is that the company claims to have achieved these results at an incredibly low cost. R1 was built on DeepSeek’s V3 large language model, released in December. The company estimates the compute cost for training V3…

In commemoration of the International Day of Education, the Hanan Youssef Salon has brought together a host of academics, specialists, and thought leaders from across the Arab world to explore the critical issue of quality education in the context of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence.This was the 62nd session of the salon which is sponsored by the Arab Organisation for Dialogue and International Co-operation (AODIC).The session was held virtually under the theme: “In Celebration of the International Day of Education: Quality of Education…for Quality of Life.”Youssef, a professor of international media and president the AODIC, underscored the significance of the salon’s…

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Meta (NASDAQ:META) are sticking to their big AI spending plans, even with DeepSeek’s new affordable AI model making waves. During their recent earnings calls, both tech giants highlighted their commitment to AI. Microsoft reported $15.80 billion in capital expenditures last quarter, a touch above the $15.70 billion analysts expected. CEO Satya Nadella explained that more spending is needed to fix capacity issues and fully tap into AI’s potential. Looking ahead, Microsoft aims to invest $80 billion by 2025 in AI infrastructure and data centers. Over at Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg called 2025 a really big year for…

When China’s first foray into artificial intelligence roared into the public domain, it dealt a blow straight to the financial heartland of the United States.Billions of dollars were wiped off Wall Street in less than 24 hours after Chinese startup DeepSeek cast clouds of uncertainty over investors.At the eye of the share market storm was Nvidia, a darling of the New York Stock Exchange whose cutting-edge chips have powered the AI revolution.The storm eased just as quickly as it hit, and the days that followed proved the market ructions were short-lived.What it left behind would form the basis of a…

Coeur d’Alene is the latest in a handful of Idaho districts to roll out artificial intelligence tools for teachers and consider guiding students to use the technology responsibly.  At a school board workshop last week, Seth Deniston, deputy superintendent of operations, said he understood the initial instinct to block AI tools from school computers and discourage student use. Many in education said “Let’s block it right now” when ChatGBT released its’ public generative AI beta in 2022, Deniston noted.  “I think that’s kind of a mistake,” Deniston said. “The ethics of AI is one of the things I want to most…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming education, making learning more accessible, yet it has also sparked growing concerns among Nigerian academics. While students praise AI tools like ChatGPT for enhancing their studies, lecturers warn that over-reliance on AI is fostering laziness, eroding academic integrity, and diminishing critical thinking skills. Prof. Isaac Nwaogwugwu, a lecturer at the University of Lagos, shared his frustration in an interview with Nairametrics, citing a recent case of mass AI-generated submissions. He noted that this trend is widespread among both undergraduate and postgraduate students, particularly in part-time and distance learning programmes. Surprisingly, lecturers themselves have also been…

Lower-cost AI tools could reshape jobs by giving more workers access to the technology.Companies like DeepSeek are developing low-cost AI that could help some workers get more done.There could still be risks to workers if employers turn to bots for easy-to-automate tasks.Cut-rate AI might be shaking up industry giants, but it’s not likely to take your job — at least not yet.Lower-cost approaches to developing and training artificial intelligence tools, from upstarts like China’s DeepSeek to heavyweights like OpenAI, will likely allow more people to latch onto AI’s productivity superpowers, industry observers told Business Insider.For many workers worried that robots…

How can technology and education coexist in harmony during the learning process? On average, children and young people spend about 200 hours a year using computers for educational purposes. However, in that same period, they use the same devices for passive media consumption—often with rapidly changing content—for nearly 2,000 hours, neuroscientist Jared Cooney pointed out during his talk at the IFE Conference 2025. “OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) couple of years ago flat out stated people who use computers very frequently to learn to do a lot worse than most learning outcomes,” said Cooney, who is also an…

Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), the world’s most trusted intelligent video engagement platform company, announces the launch of its AI Content Suite, the company’s first official general availability release following a successful customer pilot program in 2024. This innovative suite introduces a range of AI-powered tools to increase the impact of video content while also improving business productivity, making it a seamless and easy experience for content creators to get more from their content and drive greater engagement across their audiences. The Brightcove AI Content Suite includes three AI-powered capabilities – content creation, metadata optimization, and translation – which simplify video content production by automating the…