AI

London (UK), May 2022 -GoodHabitz has acquired Helpr, a software solution for conversational learning. The software of Helpr makes learning more interactive and adaptive through AI-powered educational chatbots. Wondering what this will bring to the online courses?

Frankfurt/Hagen (GER), April 2022 - In the joint project known as IMPACT, five universities are working together that have outstanding expertise in the area of ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI), as well as practical experience in the didactic use of learning analytics. The effort, whose full title is "Implementation of AI-Based Feedback and Assessment with Trusted Learning Analytics at Universities", is being undertaken by Frankfurt am Main’s Goethe Universität, Berlin’s Humboldt Universität, the FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany’s only state distance learning university), the Freie Universität of Berlin, and Universität Bremen.

Mountain View, CA (USA), May 2022 - Inworld AI has released the beta version of Inworld Studio, a platform that empowers developers and creators to build AI-powered virtual characters that demonstrate human-like perception, cognitive abilities, and behaviors. Immersive realities continue to accelerate with an increasingly diverse ecosystem of worlds and use cases: gaming, virtual worlds, metaverse platforms, and enterprise applications. With Inworld, developers can build any variety of characters, such as onboarding guides, brand representatives, intelligent game NPCs, native metaverse inhabitants, or corporate training agents.

Wadern (GER), March 2022 - Experts on artificial intelligence (AI) from Google and academia met with international not-for-profit organizations (NGOs) at Schloss Dagstuhl in northern Saarland in Germany. Together, they tried to find ways to employ the power of AI for humanitarian and development work.