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AI Innovations for Learners: How generative AI is changing education
Last week I spoke at Coursera Connect, the company’s annual conference in Las Vegas, where a major topic was AI and education.
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Our New Specialization, the Data Engineering Professional Certificate!: Engineers who can build systems to manage data are in high demand. The Data Engineering Professional Certificate will make you job-ready.
Years ago, when I was working at a large tech company, I was responsible for the data warehouse...
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Why Science-Fiction Scenarios of AI’s Emergent Behavior Are Likely to Remain Fictional: The sudden apparance of “emergent” AI capabilities may be an artifact of the metrics you study
Over the weekend, my two kids colluded in a hilariously bad attempt to mislead me to look in the wrong place during a game of hide-and-seek.
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An Asian AI Hub-in-the-Making: South Korea is well positioned to become a strong AI hub
Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub.
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Falling LLM Token Prices and What They Mean for AI Companies: The price of using large language models like GPT-4 is falling dramatically. Here’s how AI companies can capitalize on the trend.
After a recent price reduction by OpenAI, GPT-4o tokens now cost $4 per million tokens (using a blended rate that assumes 80% input and 20% output tokens).
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Regulate AI Applications, Not Technology: Why the DEFIANCE Act and FTC ban on fake product reviews take the right approach to regulating AI.
I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications.
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Thailand’s AI Push: How countries that aren’t AI hotspots will benefit from AI advances
When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. This is true of countries as well.
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Learning to Code is Easier Than Ever!: Our “AI Python for Beginners” courses use an AI coding assistant to teach programming in a way that’s aligned with where the field is going rather than where it has been.
I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
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How to Brainstorm AI Startup Ideas: Best practices for brainstorming, evaluating, and prioritizing great ideas for AI startups and products
Last week, I wrote about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user
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Concrete Ideas Make Strong AI Startups: AI startups can move more efficiently and effectively with a concrete product idea than a vague market concept.
AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.
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Threats to Democracy and How AI Can Help: Democracy empowers each citizen to help decide who governs.
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.
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California’s Proposed AI Safety Law Puts Developers at Risk: California SB 1047 is intended to make AI safer, but its unclear requirements put developers, innovation, and open source in jeopardy.
I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation.