Five Major Developments in AI this Week that Will Impact Education

I put together a list of a few developments this week that will have a big impact on education and society.

(a) AI agents. These are well explained in simple terms here by Andrew Ng. Basically, think of multiple people writing and re-writing a paper from a single prompt through planning, reflection, and iteration (multiple iterations) before submitting it to produce the best possible paper. They even debate to reach the best possible paper.

He says this is an important step towards AGI, as it enables models like GPT3.5 to GPT4.+ level performance.

(b) GenAI has largely broken assessment and we need instructional re-design.

(c) MIT article on GenAI and Education. This is a very comprehensive overview of challenges related to AI that education is facing.

I wrote an article on the equity emphasis of the article.

(d) Hume.ai was released. It allows AIs to not only mimic human emotions but to pick-up on human emotions and respond to those. The implications for persuasion and manipulation are mind-blowing. We can expect to see this in tutoring bots.

(e) OpenAI (ChatGPT) released voice replication and translation, similar to what HeyGen is offering. We can expect to see this in tutoring bots.

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