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Academic productivity in the era of AI

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UMSN AI in Health Initiative Perspective (August 2025) The Academy at the Inflection Point: Higher Education's Transformation in the Era of Artificial General Intelligence The impending arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) represents not merely an incremental advancement but a fundamental discontinuity in the trajectory of higher education. If Silicon Valley's projections materialize, with AGI emerging by 2027-2030 and potentially driving 20-30% annual economic growth [1] , the academy faces its most profound transformation since the medieval university evolved into academic mission. Part I: Redefining the Academic Mission in the AGI Era The Traditional Trinity Under Pressure The conventional academic mission on teaching, research, and service organically emerged from an era of information scarcity and slow knowledge diffusion. AGI's arrival obliterates these constraints, demanding a re-conceptualization: Teaching transforms from information transfer ...

Generation-3 Augmented Intelligence Agent (AIA3)

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  On August 8, 2025, SOCR , UMSN AI in Health Initiative , and GrayRain released an improved, generation-3,  Augmented Intelligence Agent (AIA3) . The generalized  AIA3 platform  extends the earlier AIA Gen-2 App  to provide higher flexibility in using publicly accessible pretrained AI models (Hugging Face) supporting augmented intelligence configuration, training, and inference across multiple scientific domains. The two core AIA operations include training an AI model (using task-specific ontologies, human knowledge bases, and datsasets) and testing the generative AI model (GAIM) for inference, prediction, agentic AI responses, and forecasting tasks.