Professors Create Digital Twins to Upload Course Materials

Another approach to dealing with course materials is to leverage GenAI to create a digital twin and get 24/7 answers to course-related questions. This AI-based knowledge base provides students access to the course repository and supplemental learning resources. The SecureTwin.AI platform is one of the competing companies. This digital twin responds to common queries (provided as prompts) and any other questions the student might have. The videos below demonstrate how a professor solved these challenges The instructor created a digital twin, populated it with course materials, and allowed students to ask questions via chat. This approach allowed him to gain the flexibility to juggle teaching and research.

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Google's NotebookLM Tool Allows Users to Create Shareable Notebooks and Audio Discussions

Google enhanced this month its AI-research assistant and note-taking tool NotebookLM, allowing users to create shareable notebooks and audio discussions, and extract summaries and key points from YouTube videos and audio files. NotebookLM also gets AI-based summarization in languages that are different from what they set on the tool. It’s powered by the multimodal LLM Gemini 1.5 Pro. The search giant company plans to broaden the use cases and reach of the tool, which was originally launched by Google Labs as a project for educators and learners at its I/O developer conference last year. NotebookLM Audio Overview was added recently. It allows users to turn their documents into engaging audio discussions and share them with a public URL. Google said that professionals are uploading web pages, resumes, and presentations on NotebookLM to generate Audio Overviews, then sharing those with their employers, colleagues, or clients. NotebookLM provides clickable citations from the content users upload, letting users go deeper into the summarized notes. How to do school with NotebookLM: 1. Record audio from class on your phone 2. Keep laptop closed. Just jot down short phrases to describe most important points 3. Upload audio and PDF scan of notes to NotebookLM 4. Ask Notebook to expand your notes with details from recording… pic.twitter.com/wfmCTJfRba introducing Open NotebookLM turn any PDF 📄 into a personalized podcast 🎧 in no time. the best part? it was all built in a single afternoon using open-source AI ✨. 🧵 (1/4) pic.twitter.com/PLrr1Ol99D — gabriel (@gabrielchua_) September 29, 2024 works well and easy to use https://t.co/csWU3V3KVt pic.twitter.com/GLcNQczm5Q — AK (@_akhaliq) September 29, 2024 works well and easy to use https://t.co/csWU3V3KVt pic.twitter.com/GLcNQczm5Q — AK (@_akhaliq) September 29, 2024 — Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) September 26, 2024 Google now lets you auto-generate a podcast You can drop in an academic paper and it will create an audio file of two voices discussing it and asking each other questions! pic.twitter.com/KdfvSUFcEX — Sar Haribhakti (@sarthakgh) September 18, 2024 NotebookLM is quite powerful and worth playing withhttps://t.co/wQc3HDvJFo It is a bit of a re-imagination of the UIUX of working with LLMs organized around a collection of sources you upload and then refer to with queries, seeing results alongside and with citations. But the… — Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) September 28, 2024 works well and easy to use https://t.co/csWU3V3KVt pic.twitter.com/GLcNQczm5Q — AK (@_akhaliq) September 29, 2024

Meta Released Llama’s Multimodal Version 3.2 11B and 90B

Meta released this Wednesday, during its Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park, Llama’s multimodal version, 3.2 11B and 90B, a larger model that can interpret charts and graphs, analyze and caption images, and pinpoint objects in pictures given a simple description. The multimodal Llama models can be downloaded from Hugging Face, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS. Meta is also hosting them on the official Llama site, Llama.com. The company uses them to power its AI assistant, Meta AI, across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said that Meta AI is one of the most used AI assistants worldwide, with almost 500 million monthly active users. Zuckerberg said that Meta AI is on track to become the most used assistant worldwide. Llama 3.2 1B and 3B are lightweight, text-only models that run on smartphones and other devices. They can be used for tasks such as summarizing and rewriting paragraphs (e.g., in an email). Optimized for Arm hardware from Qualcomm and MediaTek, 1B and 3B can tap tools such as calendar apps. Another Connect 2024 developer conference announcement was that Meta’s AI assistant is getting a new voice mode. Meta AI can now respond to questions out loud across platforms where it’s available: Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Meta also said it’s piloting an AI translation tool to translate voices in Instagram Reels automatically. The tool dubs a creator’s speech and auto-lip-syncs it, simulating the voice in another language. Users can choose from several voices, including the AI clones of celebrities that Meta hired: Awkwafina, Dame Judi Dench, John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, and Kristen Bell. Google released upgraded Gemini models earlier this week, and OpenAI unveiled its o1 model earlier in the month. • Meta's Connect 2024 Conference   Google now lets you auto-generate a podcast You can drop in an academic paper and it will create an audio file of two voices discussing it and asking each other questions! pic.twitter.com/KdfvSUFcEX — Sar Haribhakti (@sarthakgh) September 18, 2024

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OpenAI's CTO, Mira Murati, Will Leave the Company After Six and a Half Years

OpenAI continues to lose top talent. Its CTO, Mira Murati, said Wednesday that she is leaving the company after six and a half years. Research chief Bob McGrew and vice president Barret Zoph are also departing the company. Murati wrote in a memo to the company that she’s “stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.” She said her focus will be on ensuring a “smooth transition.” “After much reflection, I have made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI,” she wrote in a post published on social media site X. “There’s never an ideal time to step away from a place one cherishes, yet this moment feels right.” Meanwhile, OpenAI’s board is considering plans to restructure the firm into a for-profit business with a more straightforward structure for investors. Currently backed by Microsoft, OpenAI is pursuing a funding round that would value the company at more than $150 billion. Thrive Capital is leading the round and plans to invest $1 billion. Microsoft, Nvidia, and Apple are reportedly in talks about investing.

Coursera Expands Its AI tools for Learning, Instructor Assistance, and Career Guidance

Coursera announced this month, during its Connect annual conference, that it is adding new features to expand its one-year-old AI-powered Coach. Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda revealed that Coach had over 1 million users since its launch, with a 9.5% higher quiz pass rate on the first attempt and 11.6% more lessons completed per hour. He revealed that by the end of the year, its Coach for career guidance will help learners explore career paths and identify transferable skills, recommending tailored learning paths based on their experience and goals. "This is especially useful for those seeking a career change like a remote tech job but are unsure which role suits them, where to start, or how to acquire the required skills," he explained. Powered by Google Gemini, Coach for Interactive Instruction will allow instructors to incorporate pedagogical methods into their online courses, starting with Socratic dialogue. “Instructors can tailor their activities by specifying learning objectives, teaching style, assessment criteria, and additional files for enhanced context.” According to Coursera, the early adopters are Vic Strecher from the University of Michigan, Barbara Oakley from Oakland University, Jules White from Vanderbilt University, and Andrew Ng from DeepLearning.AI. Learners can experience a Coach-powered Socratic dialogue in the University of Michigan’s Finding Purpose and Meaning in Life and Grow with Google’s AI Essentials. Coursera’s AI authoring tool Course Builder, intended to help organizations create, update, and deploy custom training at scale, will also include Coach for instructional design support in the new year. The learning company said a pilot will be launched in the coming months to help authors refine course content, suggest course modifications, and uphold pedagogical best practices. • Video: Coursera's CEO Talk

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