February 25, 2025

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AI Adoption in Various Industries: Challenges and Opportunities

The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and various industries continues to evolve, with both positive and negative implications. In the realm of healthcare, primary care providers (PCPs) are seeking additional training to fully trust AI tools, with 81% of respondents desiring more education to trust AI solutions. This desire for training is crucial, as AI's long-term success in primary care will depend on physician buy-in. However, the current lack of involvement in AI purchasing decisions underscores the need for organizations to foster clinician trust in AI tools.

In the tech world, Google has made its Gemini Code Assistant available for everyone, offering a "practically unlimited" AI coding assistant. This move is seen as a major lifeline to students and hobbyist coders, with the assistant supporting all publicly available coding languages. The free version of Code Assistant allows 180,000 completions per month, which Google claims is 90 times more code completions than other free coding assistants on the market.

Meanwhile, a Pew Research Center survey has found that American workers are skeptical about AI's benefits in the workplace. Only 12% of respondents reported using AI at work, and fewer than one-third said they're "excited" about the use of AI in future workplaces. The survey also found demographic differences in AI use and attitudes, with workers under 50 years old more likely to say they use chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The gaming industry is also incorporating AI, with the popular 'Call of Duty' franchise confirming the use of AI-generated content in some of its games. The disclosures were made in compliance with Steam's policy requiring developers to disclose the use of AI.

In other news, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) used AI cameras, an aircraft, and a Bay Area bus to make an arrest, highlighting the potential of AI in law enforcement. The CHP's system uses artificial intelligence-powered cameras to read license plates, and the agency has installed these cameras in Oakland with more on the way.

Anthropic's latest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost "a few tens of millions of dollars" to train, which is relatively cheap compared to previous models. However, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expects future AI models to be more expensive to train.

The use of AI is also being explored in education, with the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire set to roll out new artificial intelligence majors. The program will offer both an AI bachelor of science and bachelor of arts, including a certificate, minor, non-comprehensive major, and comprehensive major.

Finally, a report warns that sales teams must embrace AI or fall behind, with 70% of organizations saying AI sales literacy will be key for every sales professional to remain relevant. The 2025 State of Sales Enablement Report highlights the dramatic shift in buyer behavior, the increasing integration of AI-driven sales enablement, and the challenges organizations face in advancing their sales strategies.

PCPs Seek Additional Training to Trust Healthcare AI

While half of primary care providers (PCPs) use AI tools in their workflows, many feel excluded from AI purchasing decisions and desire additional training, according to a new survey from The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and Rock Health Advisory. Researchers collected survey responses from over 1,200 family physicians and other PCPs between September and November 2024. Half of PCPs reported having used AI tools in their workflows for at least one use case. Clerical support was the most popular application, with 32% of physicians using AI for tasks like message drafting and data entry. About one in four respondents reported the use of AI-powered information management (24%) and AI-enabled clinical decision support (23%) tools. Notably, over 90% of respondents have tried or are open to trying each one of the AI tool categories referenced in the survey: Clinician clerical support, Information management, Patient support solutions, Administrative functions, and Behavioral health support for patients.

Google's Free Gemini Code Assist Arrives with Sky-High Usage Limits

Google's free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits. Generative AI has wormed its way into myriad products and services, some of which benefit more from these tools than others. Coding with AI has proven to be a better application than most, with and leaning heavily on generative tools to create and debug programs. Now, indie developers have access to a new AI coding tool free of charge—Google has announced that is available to everyone. Gemini Code Assist was first released late last year as an enterprise tool, and the new version has almost all the same features. While you can use the standard Gemini or another AI model like ChatGPT to work on coding questions, Gemini Code Assist was designed to fully integrate with the tools developers are already using. Thus, you can tap the power of a large language model (LLM) without jumping between windows.

American Workers Are Skeptical About AI's Benefits in the Workplace

More than two years after ChatGPT’s public debut kicked off an artificial intelligence mania, the American workforce is largely unenthusiastic about AI on the job and not finding much use for the technology. About 80 percent of Americans generally don’t use AI at work, and the ones who do aren’t bowled over by its benefits, according to the Pew Research Center’s first in-depth survey of AI in the workplace released on Tuesday. Workers also aren’t optimistic about AI at work. Fewer than one-third of the Pew survey participants said they’re “excited” about the use of AI in future workplaces, and just 6 percent believe AI will lead to more job opportunities for them in the long term.

Call of Duty Franchise Confirms Use of AI-Generated Content

A new statement disclosing AI content has been added to the Steam pages for certain Call of Duty titles. The disclosures confirm what some players have long suspected — the developers are dabbling in AI. Activision, the publisher of the popular "Call of Duty" games, issued the disclosures in compliance with Steam's policy requiring developers to disclose the use of AI. The statement reads: "Our team uses generative AI tools to help develop some in-game assets." Player reactions were mixed, with some reflecting prior suspicions that "CoD" was making use of AI-generated content.

AI Cameras, Aircraft, and Bay Area Bus Help CHP Make an Arrest

California Highway Patrol arrested a man in Oakland on Feb. 19 after he attempted to evade officers by boarding an AC Transit bus, the agency said. CHP said it learned that a stolen Jeep Wagoneer was in Oakland on Feb. 19 around 6 p.m. after receiving an alert from the agency’s system. The network uses artificial intelligence-powered cameras to read license plates. Oakland has installed these cameras with more on the way, while San Francisco expects to have about .

Anthropic's Latest Flagship AI Might Not Have Been Incredibly Costly to Train

Anthropic's newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost "a few tens of millions of dollars" to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of computing power. This is according to Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who received a clarification from Anthropic's PR that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered a 10^26 FLOP model and cost a few tens of millions of dollars.

UW-Eau Claire Set to Roll Out New Artificial Intelligence Majors

UW-Eau Claire is the first university in the UW System to receive Board of Regents approval for a curriculum in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The university will offer both an AI bachelor of science and bachelor of arts, including a certificate, minor, non-comprehensive major, and comprehensive major. The AI program will allow students to take a deeper dive into AI, with a focus on making AI algorithms more transparent and understandable.

Sales Teams Must Embrace AI or Fall Behind, Warns New Allego & LXA Report

New research reveals 70% of organizations say AI sales literacy will be key for every sales professional to remain relevant. The 2025 State of Sales Enablement Report highlights the dramatic shift in buyer behavior, the increasing integration of AI-driven sales enablement, and the challenges organizations face in advancing their sales strategies.

Key Takeaways

  • PCPs seek additional training to fully trust healthcare AI, with 81% of respondents desiring more education to trust AI solutions.
  • Google's free Gemini Code Assist arrives with sky-high usage limits, offering a "practically unlimited" AI coding assistant.
  • American workers are skeptical about AI's benefits in the workplace, with only 12% of respondents reporting using AI at work.
  • The Call of Duty franchise confirms the use of AI-generated content in some of its games.
  • AI cameras, an aircraft, and a Bay Area bus helped CHP make an arrest, highlighting the potential of AI in law enforcement.
  • Anthropic's latest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost "a few tens of millions of dollars" to train.
  • UW-Eau Claire is set to roll out new artificial intelligence majors, offering both an AI bachelor of science and bachelor of arts.
  • Sales teams must embrace AI or fall behind, with 70% of organizations saying AI sales literacy will be key for every sales professional to remain relevant.

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