Welcome to the AI in Education podcast
With Dan Bowen from Microsoft Australia and Ray Fleming from InnovateGPT
It's a fortnightly chat about Artificial Intelligence in Education - what it is, how it works, and the different ways it is being used. It's not too serious, or too technical, and is intended to be a good conversation of background information.
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“This podcast is produced by a Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employee, alongside an employee from InnovateGPT. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.”
Sep 20, 2024
News
This week's news we rushed through includes "Study Buddy
or Influencer?", the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into
the use of Gen AI in the Australia Education System
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Employment_Education_and_Training/AIineducation/Report
NSW EduChat has been extended for all teachers
in all New South Wales Schools -
https://www.innovationaus.com/nsw-teachers-to-get-time-saving-genai-tool/
Learn more about the NSW
EduChat chatbot in the first episode of Series 9
Microsoft announced Copilot Wave 2
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/09/16/microsoft-365-copilot-wave-2-pages-python-in-excel-and-agents/
OpenAI's new model o1-preview came out -
and it's much, much better and logical reasoning and maths
Find out what people think by looking at what
Ethan Mollick is saying about it (and, as I suggest on the
podcast, keenly watch Dan
Hart's posts as he's benchmarking it now in the context of
EduChat)
Google released a podcast-generator as part of NotebookLM, which turns any kind of paper/book etc into a short podcast. To find out what it's like I gave it the top research paper from the podcast last time and you can compare it versus me! There's a quick demo review by Ethan here and you can login and have a play directly here: https://notebooklm.google.com/ (it has two main uses, because on top of this autopodcast, it's original purpose was to allow you give it a pile of documents and it can work with all of them at the same time for q&a, summaries etc)
Research
Here's the links to all nine papers we discussed in this week's episode:
Generative AI in Real-World Workplaces
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prodnew/2024/07/Generative-AI-in-Real-World-Workplaces.pdf
Can Large Language Models Make the Grade?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3657604.3664693
PlagBench: Exploring the Duality of Large Language Models in
Plagiarism Generation and Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16288
The global landscape of academic guidelines for generative AI
and Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18842
"Is ChatGPT a Better Explainer than My Professor?": Evaluating
the Explanation Capabilities of LLMs in Conversation Compared to a
Human Baseline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18512
Perceived Impact of Generative AI on Assessments: Comparing
Educator and Student Perspectives in Australia, Cyprus, and the
United States
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X24000729
Jill Watson: Scaling and Deploying an AI Conversational Agent in
Online Classrooms
https://dilab.gatech.edu/publications/jill-watson-scaling-and-deploying-an-ai-conversational-agent-in-online-classrooms/
https://dilab.gatech.edu/test/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ITS2024_JillWatson_paper.pdf
Integrating AI in College Education: Positive yet Mixed
Experiences with ChatGPT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05810
The AI Companion in Education: Analyzing the Pedagogical
Potential of ChatGPT in Computer Science and Engineering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05205