Hello AI Enthusiasts 👋

It's been another massive couple of weeks in the world of AI. But let's be honest... when has it not been a big week in AI since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November 2022?

While I'd love a bit of a breather to digest all that's happened, the brilliant minds behind AI seem to have other plans. So, here I am, still holding onto this wild rocket ship ride and sharing what I’ve discovered.

In other exciting news... 🤫 I (fingers crossed!!!) have an exciting announcement coming in the next newsletter 🤞

Until then... dive into the latest from my blog and check out some AI Gems I've handpicked for you. Trust me, you won't want to miss these!

Latest Blog Post

• Using AI-Generated Synthetic Data in Academic Research
  Discover the emerging role of synthetic data in academic research. This latest blog post focuses on a new method called 'persona-driven data synthesis', inspired from the recent paper: “Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas”. Is this the future of data collection?
  👉 🔗 Read the blog post

💎 💎 💎 Sharing AI Gems 💎 💎 💎

🤖 STORM: A Research Prototype for Automating the Knowledge Curation Process

• Stanford’s new AI tool ‘STORM’ uses AI to write Wikipedia-style articles based on a provided topic. It’s currently free to use - just provide it with the topic you’re wanting to explore and within a minute or two it will return an article for you, including references!
  👉 🔗 Test it out for yourself
  
  Plus, watch an overview of STORM in the video below “Storm (Stanford) full-length AI report generator. ChatGPT / Perplexity Competitor?”

🤖 ✍️ This AI Tool Does Literature Reviews in SECONDS (100x faster than you)

• I recently had the absolute pleasure (aka…a total #FanGirl moment!) catching up in person with Dr Andy Stapleton. After nearly two years of recommending his YouTube channel to aspiring AI-powered researchers, he continues to deliver with this latest video showcasing the AI tool ‘AnswerThis.io’. Check out his video below.

🤖 📄 Introducing Perplexity Pages

• Want a new way to achieve research impact? Perplexity - a free tool that I’m a big fan of and regularly plug in my AI training workshops – recently released ‘Perplexity Pages’, which gives us the ability to “easily transforming research into visually stunning, comprehensive content. Whether you're crafting in-depth articles, detailed reports, or informative guides, Pages streamlines the process so you can focus on what matters most: sharing your knowledge with the world”.
  👉 🔗 Learn more about Perplexity Pages

🤖 👩‍🔬 AI Surpass PhD Scholars on Science Tests!

• OpenAI's new large language model, o1, marks an advancement in the capabilities of chatbots, particularly in scientific tasks. o1 has been found to outperformed PhD-level scholars in some tasks 😱.

  👉 🔗 Read the article on Nature.com

🤖 🔮 Can AI Predict Your Future?

• MIT researchers have developed "Future You," an AI tool that allows users to interact with an AI-generated simulation of their potential future selves. By engaging in a text-based conversation, users can gain insights on personal goals, career paths, and overall well-being. While I can't help think it's a little problematic to outsource life planning to a bot, it does open up possibilities as a tool to complement more traditional forms of career and life planning.

  👉 🔗 Test it out for yourself

🤖 🛤️ AI Guardrails – Australian Context

• A proposal paper outlining the consultation on the “mandatory guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI) in Australia” aims to establish a framework that ensures the safe and responsible use of AI technologies. Key areas of focus include risk management, ethical considerations, and compliance requirements for AI developers and users.

  👉 🔗 Check out the report

Have You Signed Up For The FREE “Academic Side Hustle Program” E-mail Course Yet?

As an entrepreneurship educator and long-term side hustle enthusiast, I’m often asked how I built a business alongside my academic career. The frequency of these queries sparked me to create a FREE COURSE to help other academics start their own business.

The Academic Side Hustle Program is a 9-week email course, designed to guide you, step by step, through building a business that leverages your academic skills and expertise.

Note. It’s currently in ‘beta mode’, which means I’m testing it out and making improvements and your feedback is much welcomed so it can continue to grow and improve.

And… That’s a Wrap!

Thanks for your support and for coming along on my AI journey. Being able to share what I’m learning brings me a lot of joy, and is hopefully useful to you!

Take care and chat soon,

Bron