Penn Engineering announces first Ivy League Undergraduate Degree in AI

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1. Penn Engineering announces first Ivy League Undergraduate Degree in AI

Penn Engineering has announced its first undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence, the first of its kind among Ivy League universities. The program, led by George J. Pappas, aims to equip students with the skills to develop responsible AI tools that can harness the full knowledge available on the Internet, provide superhuman attention to detail, and augment humans in making transformative scientific discoveries.

The program is part of Penn Engineering's strategic framework, In Principle and Practice, and is supported by the generosity of Raj and Neera Singh, visionaries in technology and philanthropy.

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2. Founding OpenAI member Andrej Karpathy leaves company

OpenAI's founding member, Andrej Karpathy, has left the company, marking the second prominent researcher to leave in recent months. Karpathy, who previously served as Tesla's Director of AI, left the company in February 2023.

He is the second prominent researcher to leave OpenAI's leadership in recent months, following Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever's unexplained demotion. OpenAI is losing one of the most respected and influential minds in artificial intelligence.

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3. Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC

Nvidia has released an early version of Chat with RTX, an AI chatbot that runs locally on a PC. The app allows users to feed YouTube videos and documents to the chatbot, creating summaries and getting relevant answers based on their data.

The app is ideal for data research for journalists or those analyzing documents. It can handle YouTube videos, search transcripts, and summarize entire videos. The chatbot can also scan through PDFs and fact-check data, with responses being near instant.

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4. How companies are using AI to spy on Slack

Companies are using AI-powered apps like Aware to analyze and monitor messages across platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. Aware analyzes messages to determine employee sentiment, potential risks, and communication frequency. 

However, privacy experts worry that anonymized data could be used to track thought crimes and employees' ability to defend themselves. Companies with 10,000 employees may send 180m messages per year.

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5. Surprise! Mark Zuckerberg thinks Quest 3 is better than Vision Pro

Mark Zuckerberg has compared the Meta Quest 3 to Apple's Vision Pro headset, stating that the latter is better value for money and more comfortable for mixed reality activities. The Meta CEO criticized Apple's headset for sacrificing quality, comfort, and ergonomics for higher resolution screens. Quest 3 has a wider field of view and brighter screens, and is considering bringing back eye tracking. 

Zuckerberg claimed that Quest can only play Xbox and watch YouTube on a big screen, while Apple's Vision Pro has an official YouTube app. Meta has already produced multiple headsets and reduced prices, making it a strong competitor in the mixed reality/virtual reality market.

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