They’re two great tastes that taste great together. Or rather, they’re two technologies that, put together in collaborative ways, are becoming much more powerful!

Marvin Minsky famously said that the brain is not one computer, but several hundred computers working in tandem. If that’s true, ChatGPT’s cognitive power just got a boost with the creation of a Wolfram Alpha plug-in that allows for the two systems to send and receive natural language input, so that ChatGPT systems can utilize a different system of symbolic representation that had already been pioneered before the days when we could just ask a computer to write an essay.

We heard early this year that teams were working on this merge, and it’s been interesting to the AI community. Now it’s come to fruition.

Recent advances in generative AI help to explain how memories enable us to learn about the world, relive old experiences and construct totally new experiences for imagination and planning, according to a new study by UCL researchers.

The study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, uses an AI computational model —known as a generative neural network—to simulate how neural networks in the brain learn from and remember a series of events (each one represented by a simple scene).

The model featured networks representing the hippocampus and neocortex, to investigate how they interact. Both parts of the brain are known to work together during memory, imagination and planning.

On Thursday, OpenAI and ASU announced the first-of-its-kind partnership, which has reportedly been in the works for six months.

Students, professors, and researchers are set to get access to the tech in February. The university plans to build personalized AI tutors and avatars for students and expand its prompt engineering course.

In a press release, Arizona State University said the partnership would set a new precedent for how universities “enhance learning, creativity and student outcomes.”