Indiana University is now offering its acclaimed essential skills course in generative artificial intelligence — GenAI 101 — to everyone worldwide, free of charge.

Faculty and staff at the IU Kelley School of Business developed one of the largest generative AI courses offered by a leading research university. Since it launched in August, more than 114,000 students, staff and faculty have enrolled in GenAI 101. In October, IU expanded access to its more than 805,000 alumni worldwide; thousands have enrolled since then.

New research outlines a multi-dimensional strategy for fungal conservation, prioritizing species recognition, evolutionary analysis and targeted habitat protection to safeguard this understudied keystone group of life.

How can AI systems better apply their learned behavior to new and previously unknown situations? This is a question to be addressed by Dr. André Biedenkapp in his future research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Biedenkapp has been awarded funding for an Emmy Noether Group from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for his research on improved generalizability in reinforcement learning methods and will receive EUR 1.2 million over the next three years. The DFG has committed to further funding of EUR 920,000 for three more years subject to a successful interim evaluation after the initial period.