Some Colleges Fully Integrate AI Into Coursework
Dismissing concerns that AI is an automated cheating tool, some colleges have decided to fully integrate the tech into their curriculums.
The rationale: AI skills have become so crucial to employment in many industries, it’s more important to skill-up students in the tech than to worry about AI’s other, nefarious uses.
Observes writer Milla Surjadi: “Schools are even going so far as to emphasize that all undergraduates get a taste of the tech, teaching them how to use AI in a given field — as well as its failings and unethical applications.”
Adds Emory University student Jake Golden: “If I don’t learn AI, it’s going to take over everything around me and I’m going to have no idea what’s happening.”
In-Depth Guide: SEO AI Writer Scalenut: Writer Anwesha Roy offers an incredibly detailed guide on Scalenut in this piece — which can also be used as a benchmark to evaluate similar AI SEO writing tools on the market.
The upshot: Facing incredibly fierce competition, Scalenut has grown increasingly sophisticated, including add-on services such as:
~keyword generation
~Web traffic analysis
~link building
~’writing humanization’ of content designed to avoid penalties from search engines for generic-sounding content
~one-click WordPress publishing
Roy’s verdict: “Despite being packed with features, Scalenut is surprisingly easy to use.
“While there’s a learning curve, tutorials on every page and an exhaustive support Web site will help you along.”
*Marketing Mojo: Blaze AI Drops New Playbook for Automating Content : Blaze AI — a kind of Swiss army knife for content creation and publishing — is out with a new guide.
Designed to help marketers get the most from Blaze AI, the new guide offers a collection of checklists, worksheets, cheat sheets, FAQs, swipe files, planners and other resources created to help lighten-the-load in content creation and publishing.
Blaze AI is one of a number of AI marketing platforms that go beyond auto-writing and auto-image creation to offer a suite of AI tools specifically designed for marketers.
*New AI Search for Content Clearinghouse: Now You Don’t Even Have to Skim: Scribd — an online depository of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, documents and the like — has added AI-powered search to its service.
Dubbed ‘AskAI,’ the new tool enables users to ask questions and get answers about specific documents in the clearinghouse.
AskAI can analyze documents of up to 1,000 pages and in just a few seconds return key takeaways, extract specific data from the text or expand on concepts found in the document.
*Bot Bargain: ChatGPT-Maker Cuts Prices for Developers, Consumers Win: Good news for AI users: OpenAI has reduced the price of developer services offered via its flagship AI engine GPT-4o.
Ideally, that translates into lower prices for AI-powered consumer apps that developers are building atop the tech.
Observes writer Pradeep Viswanathan: The ongoing price war between OpenAI and Google — marked by recent significant price reductions from both companies — is a promising development for developers.
“This increased competition is expected to drive innovation, leading to even more powerful and accessible large language models in the future.”
*Ten-Second Videos, Free-of-Charge: Writers working with text-to-video may want to give Kling AI a whirl, a new service currently offering free use credits.
KlingAI is designed to generate videos up to ten seconds long.
It also enables control of camera movements for the videos it renders, including panning, tilting and zooming.
Currently, users can create three, 10-second videos per day with Kling AI, free-of-charge.
*Shocker: Students Use AI to Cheat: A new study finds that the second most popular use for ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is for cheating by students.
Think homework and the prompt, ‘Explain the Monroe Doctrine in a sentence.’
Observes writer Katie Notopoulos: “If I were an 11th-grader right now, I suspect I’d probably be pretty enthused.”
*AI-Automated Report Writers: The Future of Last-Minute Deadlines?: Orbis Research has released an in-depth analysis on the current and future market in AI-powered report writing tools.
Besides listing widely popular, general use AI tools in its evaluation, Orbis also unearthed a few AI tools specifically designed to auto-write reports, including:
*Begging Made Easy: Five AI Grant Writing Tools to Try: AI content generators are proliferating so rapidly, there are already a number of tools specifically designed to auto-write grants.
ICT offers snapshot reviews of four of those:
Interestingly, ICT included ChatGPT in its grant-writing tools roundup, rating the blockbuster chatbot as ‘somewhat useful’ for the specific purpose of grant proposal writing.
*AI Big Picture: AI-Powered Productivity Gains: Much Ado About Nothing?: A new study finds that 77% of workers complain that AI is actually increasing their workload and decreasing productivity.
One potential explanation: Employers may not be doing enough to train employees in the new tech.
Observes writer Sergio De Simone: “Despite their expectations about the benefits of using AI tools, approximately three-quarters of surveyed executives admit they have no training plan in place for their workforce.
“And only 13% maintain they developed a well-implemented strategy.”
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.