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This Week in AI: OpenAI finds a partner in higher ed

In this edition of This Week in AI, TechCrunch's semiregular AI column, we cover OpenAI partnering with Arizona State to pilot GenAI tech in education.

“The problem in environmental science is that it’s often impossible to obtain a big enough dataset to train AI programs for our research needs,” said Marc Rußwurm, one of the project’s leaders. AI models are sprouting up all over the natural sciences, where their ability to sift signal out of noise both produces new insights and saves money on grad student data entry hours. To end on a word of caution, though: a study in Science found that machine learning models used to predict how patients would respond to certain treatments was highly accurate… within the sample group they were trained on.

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