AI News (and no research!)

A heap of news stories this week means we didn't cover any research at all!
AI isn't a tool, it's an environment by Josh Thorpe wonkhe.com/blogs/ai-isnt-a-tool-its-an-environ…
Australian Senate report into Adoption of AI aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/S…
Ethan Mollick's course on Coursera: "AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching" coursera.org/learn/wharton-ai-in-education-lev… I'll also recommend his book - Co-Intelligence - as a great Christmas gift for yourself or a friend
Open AI announced Open AI Pro @ $200/m openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-pro We like Ethan Mollick's example that showed what it could do - solving this problem and creating a working app in 15 minutes - see here: bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3lc…
Microsoft Copilot with vision for consumers microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/blog/202… Demo example: youtu.be/H3-hHiITH_g
Sora released openai.com/index/sora-is-here
ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode finally gets visual context on the 6th day of OpenAI zdnet.com/article/chatgpts-advanced-voice-mode…
Apple released iOS 18.2 with integrated AI zdnet.com/article/ios-18-2-rolls-out-to-iphone…
Google Gemini 2.0 with real time speech and vision aistudio.google.com/live
We're on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/aiineducation.bsky.social
"The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans" arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2303/2303.06219.pdf
Microsoft's Zero-Water Solution for Data Centre Cooling sustainabilitymag.com/articles/microsoft-unvei…