Future Focus: What's New in AI?

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Keeping up with all the developments in AI can be difficult, but it’s much easier if you follow the trends.

Yesterday, Dr. Sabba Quidwai and I launched the first edition of our weekly podcast — What’s Now & What’s Next —on AI developments.

This week we cover —

*Shake Shack AI robot delivery, which is an in outgrowth of driverless car technology. Shortly after we recorded the podcast, Waymo announced they are now providing 100,000 paid rides per week in driverless vehicles.

*AIScientist, which “automates the entire research lifecycle, from generating novel research ideas, writing any necessary code, and executing experiments, to summarizing experimental results, visualizing them, and presenting its findings in a full scientific manuscript.” This is basically an outgrowth of AI systems that allow multiple language models to work together in an agentic manner and use tools. Andrew Ng talked about how teams of AIs would be able to work together to conduct experiments and produce research papers back in March.

The future of (AI) writing and Grammarly’s new Authorship tool that “will try to identify the origin of each part of the document, uncovering which sections were created by a person, which ones were pasted from another source, and which ones were cooked up by AI…Authorship tracks everything written in a document. Because the tool is active during the writing process, it's able to tell if a human is typing text or copying and pasting it from an outside source.”

Problems with AI writing detection, why “delve” is starting to disappear, kangaroo courts convicting students of AI writing.

Changing job responsibilities, side gigs, future roles of teachers, the potential end of 9-5 by 2034, portfolios, and the importance of writing and expression in portfolio development.

Student use patterns in AI writing.

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