AI

Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), April 2023 - (by Elliott Masie) My focus this year has been on the explosive growth and "hype" about Open AI's tools, including ChatGPT. Recently, a number of tech leaders, including Steve Wozniak, have advocated that there be a "pause" on the release of the next versions of ChatGPT in order to get a better sense of how the power of AI will impact our society, business, education, and more.

New York, NY (USA), March 2023 - Elliott Masie, Chair of The Masie Learning Foundation, has announced a new and different event for learning and training professionals taking place in New York City this summer. The Learning Festival will be a profoundly unique event for the learning, HR, and business communities with no keynotes, no breakouts, and no exhibit booths.

Barcelona (E), November 2022 - Meta has announced that it has built a speech-to-speech translation system powered by AI that can automatically translate spoken words from one language to another, especially languages that don't have a written form. Currently only partly developed in Israel, the technology is translating languages starting with Hokkien, a Taiwanese language that lacks a standard written form.

Bremen (GER), July 2022 - As part of a strategic funding initiative on artificial intelligence (AI), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Foundation - DFG] is establishing eight new research groups. One of them is coming to Bremen: the research group "Lifespan AI: From Longitudinal Data to Lifespan Inference in Health", headed by Professor Tanja Schultz from the University of Bremen and Professor Marvin N. Wright from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS.