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The U.S. Department of Education has a policy explaining how grant applicants can use artificial intelligence to create proposals. Some universities are issuing new grant-specific AI tools, along with courses and workshops on how to best use AI in grant writing. Suffice to say education professionals have already started incorporating AI into the grant application process, but some experts caution against trusting those tools to do too much.Jeanne Law, an English professor at Kennesaw State University in Georgia who teaches an online course about AI for grant writing, said the way applicants use AI makes a big difference. She said…

Stanford University is conducting, collecting and presenting research on the use of generative artificial intelligence for K-12 schools in a new Generative AI for Education Hub online.As part of a broader university initiative called SCALE — Systems Change Advancing Learning and Equity — the hub includes a research repository for studies on AI for education, where district leaders can search for evidence to inform school investment decisions, with filters such as study design, intended users and AI tool purpose, according to a recent news release. Bite-sized “takeaways” sum up the results, followed by links to each study.In a field that…

To provide instant academic support and benefit those who may hesitate to seek help in traditional classrooms, IIT Delhi alumni have created PiFy, India’s first WhatsApp-based AI software for students, offering innovative and affordable educational support.   PiFy enables instant doubt resolution for both students and teachers, allowing users to easily scan a QR code to access PiFy on WhatsApp, receiving immediate, step-by-step solutions, generating mock test papers, and creating revision notes, all on an accessible platform. PiFy seeks to address the challenges students face in accessing quality academic support. Many existing AI-based education tools are either expensive or difficult…

DENVER — Dr. Daniel Kortsch is a pretty popular guy these days in the hallways of Denver Health, the hospital where he works in primary care.Colleagues come up to him for spontaneous hugs. He’s received at least one box of chocolates.The reason for this affection has to do with Kortsch’s other job at the hospital — as chief medical information officer, sort of a guru at the intersection of technology and patient care. After months of testing, Denver Health is now widely rolling out an artificial intelligence program that helps doctors transcribe conversations with patients and then convert them into…

SPANISH FORK, Utah — As artificial intelligence plays a larger role in everyday life, small businesses are navigating new opportunities.One industry embracing A.I. is the publishing field. “Our goal is to help ordinary writers become extraordinary authors,” said Tim McConnehey, the founder of Salt Lake-based Izzard Ink Publishing. “It’s [publishing] an industry that’s ripe for digitization.”Izzard Ink publishes about 12 titles each year. McConnehey is using A.I. to help streamline the publishing process. “A.I. has hit every aspect of our business,” he said. “From the minute a manuscript comes in we sit down and we assess it. We assess it…

When it comes to AI in education, we usually only hear about AI’s potential impact on the classroom: whether it can actually help students learn, or will encourage cheating. And while those are legitimate challenges, AI’s true potential is within saving higher education from its most existential challenges: dwindling enrollment driven by skyrocketing costs, falling retention from dissatisfied students, and decreased engagement from alumni. Troubling downward trends have caused nearly 100 higher education institutions (i.e. private universities, community colleges, technical schools, etc.) to close between the 2022-23 and 2023-24 academic years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This…

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The local school board is debating whether to prohibit students’ use of artificial intelligence in the classroom or incorporate it into the curriculum.Proponents say AI is becoming ubiquitous and that tomorrow’s workforce must be proficient in its use. Others worry about AI’s tendency to provide false or misleading information, along with its potential impact on student learning and critical thinking.At its meeting on Jan. 23, the Maine School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors voted to accept the first reading of a draft policy on AI usage in the classroom. The district includes Harpswell, Topsham, Bowdoin and Bowdoinham.The proposed policy,…

Tara Chklovski has spent much of her career inspiring young women to take on some of the world’s biggest challenges using technology. The founder and CEO of education nonprofit Technovation joined the AI Podcast in 2019 to discuss the AI Family Challenge. Now, she returns to explain how inclusive AI makes the world a better and, crucially, less boring place. In this episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast, Chklovski and Anshita Saini, a Technovation alumna and member of the technical staff at OpenAI, explore how the nonprofit empowers girls worldwide through technology education. They discuss the organization’s growth from its early…

Just 4% of workers are using AI tools in the majority of their daily tasks – but some key professions are flocking to the technology, according to new research from Anthropic.Researchers at the AI company examined how its Claude model is being used, leveraging the data to help launch its own Economic Index that tracks the impact of AI on the economy over time.AI is predicted to have major implications for the workforce, but there remains a lack of research into the subject. Because of that, Anthropic examined four million Claude.ai conversations, filtering them through tasks and occupations.That enabled them…