Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index Report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment when AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced. This year, we have broadened our scope to more extensively cover essential trends such as technical advancements in AI, public perceptions of the technology, and the geopolitical dynamics surrounding its development. Featuring more original data than ever before, this edition introduces new estimates on AI training costs, detailed analyses of the responsible AI landscape, and an entirely new chapter dedicated to AI’s impact on science and medicine.

The AI Index Report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data related to AI. Our mission is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, broadly sourced data in order for policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists, and the general public to develop a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the complex field of AI.

Un estudio llevado a cabo por los creadores de la herramienta líder en detección de contenido no original, Turnitin, afirma que a lo largo del año pasado, los estudiantes entregaron como originales más de veintidós millones de ejercicios realizados con la ayuda de herramientas generativas como ChatGPT, Gemini y otras, algo que supone, según algunos, una amenaza y un terrible drama.

La inteligencia artificial ha dejado de ser una promesa, sino que es una realidad palpable que reformula sectores completos. Para la edudación, el desafío es monumental. Este cambio de paradigma exige una nueva generación de profesionales que no solo comprendan la IA sino que sean capaces de impulsar su desarrollo, innovando y contribuyendo al crecimiento empresarial y social.

We are currently assessing our students in ways that can be easily replicated by AI and on criteria that don’t demonstrate anything that is uniquely human. We are also testing in a way that excludes so many students with any form of neurodiversity – we aim for inclusive education, but not inclusive assessment. We do our best to support students with these assessments, but don’t change the assessment to support the students. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize education by offering personalized learning experiences tailored to the individual strengths, weaknesses, and needs of each student, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of educational outcomes. For teachers, it introduces efficiency and automation into various aspects of education, such as grading and administrative tasks, freeing educators to devote more time to teaching and engaging directly with students.

La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) quiere cambiarlo todo. Si se cumplen los vaticinios de empresas y expertos, en el medio plazo cambiará la forma en la que trabajamos. Algunos empleos se quedarán obsoletos y desaparecerán y surgirán otros nuevos. Y lo mismo puede ocurrir con los estudios universitarios.

The Higher Education Generative AI Readiness Assessment, done in partnership with Amazon Web Services, an EDUCAUSE Mission Partner, is designed to provide a sense of your institution’s preparedness for strategic AI initiatives. Use the assessment to develop an understanding of the current state and the potential of generative AI at your institution, and as an opportunity for discussion with others.

This assessment can be approached in multiple ways:

El concepto de Espirales del Aprendizaje (a veces referido como "aprendizaje espiral") se basa en la idea de que el aprendizaje ocurre de manera iterativa, permitiendo a los estudiantes construir nuevos conocimientos a partir de la base de lo que ya saben, mediante la revisión repetida de temas a niveles de complejidad cada vez mayores. Este enfoque pedagógico contrasta con modelos lineales de educación, en los cuales los temas se enseñan una sola vez y no se revisitan sistemáticamente.

The emergence of AI is reshaping Education, presenting real benefits, such as automating some tasks to free up time for more personalized instruction, but also some big hazards, from issues around accuracy and plagiarism to maintaining integrity.

Both teachers and students are using the new technology. A report by strategy consultant firm Tyton Partners, sponsored by plagiarism detection platform Turnitin, found half of college students used AI tools in Fall 2023. Meanwhile, while fewer faculty members used AI, the percentage grew to 22% of faculty members in the fall of 2023, up from 9% in spring 2023.

The report – informed by surveys of more than 3,000 part-time and full-time students, interviews with leaders at 28 universities, and online focus groups with more than 250 teaching and professional staff around the world – brings many issues into focus. Perhaps the most critical of these is the need for universities to place the people they serve at the heart of technological efforts. That is, to put humans at the centre.

It’s important to note that technology can be both the barrier and the solution, as we learned in our research. It hinges on what – or who – we design technology for and implementing it in a way that makes sense to them. Covid has brought much of this into focus, putting into clear view the shortfalls of the current system and highlighting the need for change.

La IA cambia el manual de la formación, y se convierte en la asignatura troncal del crecimiento de las startups del sector educativo, las pujantes 'edtech'. «Ya nada es igual, todo será diferente por las crecientes aplicaciones de la IA Generativa en contenidos, plataformas y servicios en la formación online». Como apunta José Lozano, presidente de Aefol (que cuenta con cursos como el online de Herramientas de IA Generativa), la singladura de las 'edtech' progresa en todo tipo de ámbitos (desde los colegios a universidades, escuelas de negocios y la formación 'in company' de las empresas).

Students in Texas taking their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for a new artificial intelligence-powered scoring system set to replace a majority of human graders in the region.

The Texas Tribune reports an “automated scoring engine” that utilizes natural language processing — the technology that enables chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to understand and communicate with users — is being rolled out by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to grade open-ended questions on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exams. The agency is expecting the system to save $15–20 million per year by reducing the need for temporary human scorers, with plans to hire under 2,000 graders this year compared to the 6,000 required in 2023.

Public K-12 schools in the United States face a host of challenges these days – from teacher shortages to the lingering effects of COVID-19 learning loss to political battles over curriculum.

In the midst of all this, teachers express low levels of satisfaction with their jobs. In fact, they’re much less satisfied than U.S. workers overall.

Here’s how public K-12 teachers are feeling about their jobs:

• 77% say their job is frequently stressful.
• 68% say it’s overwhelming.
• 70% say their school is understaffed.
• 52% say they would not advise a young person starting out today to become a teacher.

Few things are more important than education. Unfortunately, the U.S. Education System has been under siege for years, with understaffed schools, overcrowded classrooms and overworked, underpaid teachers. The government’s own NAEP issued a Nation’s Report Card revealing less than a third of U.S. eighth graders can do grade-level math. I believe we can no longer accept a system that’s failing so many of our students.

The greatest problem stems from the fact we’re still applying a rigid, century-old education model to the challenges of our modern world. Today’s teachers hold the impossible job of educating 20, 30 or even 40 students in a classroom, kids from vastly different backgrounds and aptitudes—with no time to focus on personalized learning.

Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. The idea that “college is a scam” has become something of a meme on social media platforms like YouTube.

Instructional and Learning Designers continue to enjoy an array of employment and career advancement opportunities. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced academic institutions and private corporations to prioritize online learning, these organizations sought practical ways to take their training and education online. Simultaneously, they found a great need for professionals who could design content as engaging as it was effective. Given the trajectory the field has taken, it’s no wonder the Chronicle of Higher Ed recognized Instructional Design as the "hottest job in Higher Education."

Con el modelo de IA, I-JEPA, en la Educación Disruptiva & IA predecimos las posibles transformaciones de aprendizaje (educación) en diferentes escenarios que no teníamos previstos y que con su potencial predictivo conseguiremos un escenario completamente abierto y ubicuo.

La intersección entre la educación disruptiva y la inteligencia artificial (IA) ha desencadenado un paradigma educativo radicalmente nuevo, un escenario transformador que desafía las convenciones establecidas. Como afirma Cathy N. Davidson, profesora de la Universidad de Duke, en su obra Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century, estamos frente a una revolución que trasciende los límites tradicionales de la enseñanza. En este nuevo panorama, la IA, personificada en modelos como JEPA, se alza como una herramienta poderosa capaz de prever y moldear escenarios que anteriormente estaban más allá de nuestra visión.

El libro comienza con una reflexión personal del autor sobre sus "tres noches de insomnio" tras experimentar de primera mano el potencial de ChatGPT. E. Mollick argumenta que la IA generativa es una Tecnología de Propósito General (General Purpose Technologies, irónicamente las siglas de GPT) que, al igual que la máquina de vapor o internet, tendrá un impacto profundo en todos los aspectos de la vida. Sin embargo, a diferencia de las GPT anteriores, la IA está evolucionando a un ritmo vertiginoso y se está expandiendo más allá de las tareas mecánicas y repetitivas para abordar el trabajo creativo y analítico.

A digital revolution centred on human experiences could provide teaching and administrative staff working in higher education with more of a valuable resource: time.

This is one of the key findings from recent research by the professional services firm EY, based on focus group discussions among 116 teaching faculty and 147 professional staff, as well as interviews with 28 leaders from universities across the world to discover what they want from digital transformation.

Innovación y emprendimiento para docentes, Dr. Marcos Vélez Rivera.