Too lazy to write your own emails? Struggling to find the right words? Swamped by the inbox influx, the drafting deluge? Corporate subscribers to Microsoft software will soon have access to Copilot, an AI bot that can do your emailing for you. "Microsoft 365 Copilot will be generally available for enterprise customers on November 1, 2023, along with Microsoft 365 Chat, a new AI assistant that will completely transform the way you work," the company announced in a recent statement. The Copilot bot works by trying to mimic a user’s writing style, reading messages and knocking out replies designed to look like the real thing - a development that could further fuel concerns about AI getting out of its lane and taking over jobs and aspects of human interaction.
The expanding use of AI has been viewed warily in some quarters of academia, with warnings about the potential to allow students and academics to cheat. But the University of Pennsylvania’s Benjamin Lira said AI could make the college application system "more systematic and transparent," in part by lightening the workload for "limited admissions staff." While the process might strike some as work-shy boffins and administrators cutting corners, having AI assess the students’ entrance essays could lead to a "wider approach" for the bots for "measuring personal qualities" in humans, the team suggested. US universities have in recent years been accused of going out of their way to admit students based on "affirmative action" criteria. However in 2021 Science Advances published research showing the perceived quality of admissions essays to be linked to family incomes, as well as to exam results.
An AI "sleuth" called Imagetwin can scan a paper in "just seconds" and appears able to pick up "problematic" images that the human eye skips over, according to research featured in the journal Nature. But while AI helps uncover IP theft, the likelihood is that people's own IP is helping AI companies - for free. A bot can help with plodding through a pile of academic papers, but is only able to do so because such platforms are "trained" by being fed "massive amount of contents covering a wide array of domains from journalistic texts to niche blogs," according to Nick Vincent, assistant professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University.
One of the primary objectives of 'Device Engineering Lab' is to create a 'Culture of Making' at the school level by enhancing design and fabrication skills among students.
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