Introducing NextGenAI: A consortium to advance research and education with AI

At any University there are major  inflection points the internet   was a was a major one I  think this one is going to be revolutionary OpenAI is investing $50 million to  give universities free access to cutting edge AI   we are providing free AI tools and funding for  research and compute across disciplines my name   is Richard Ovenden I'm Bodleian librarian  here at the University of Oxford so what   we're focusing on in our collaboration in  this pilot with OpenAI is collections in   the Bodleian that we've had for centuries that  not only are not available online but they've   never even been cataloged to all intents and  purposes they're invisible and we want to make   them visible again. I'm Katherine Brownstein  I am a geneticist here at Boston Children's   Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard  Medical School it takes on average 7 years to   get diagnosed for a patient with a rare and  orphan disease I want to democratize access   and streamline the diagnostic o dyssey my name  is Peter mohler I'm the Executive Vice President   for Research Innovation and Knowledge here at Ohio  State University what this partnership will allow   us to do is to bring AI to the masses to bring AI  to all of our researchers whether they're working   agriculture or engineering or the next generation  of space exploration I'm Dr Benjamin Talton I the   director of the Moorland-Spingarn Research  Center at Howard University and professor of   history the business of universities is planning  for the future you can't plan unless you know the   tools that you have at your disposal students  will have access to it faculty and staff will   so we'll see how will students  learn with it how will professors teach with it   and how will administrators streamline our our  services using OpenAI we're cutting down on the   diagnostic odyssey time for patients we're  cutting down on clinician frustration we're   cutting down on health care costs so when you  look at the big problems facing our society   today whether we think about energy constraints  health care whether we   think about agriculture our employers are looking  for students in a workforce that's incredibly well   trained in this space and so to be able to work  with OpenAI to create AI fluency for students   at scale is really profound these days and what  we need to do I think at this moment in human   history is to share that knowledge as broadly  as we can to encourage people to engage with   those problems and hopefully to find solutions  to those pressing problems that face humanity.