Dartmouth College and Nvidia Released a New Generative AI Teaching Kit | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Dartmouth College and Nvidia's Deep Learning Institute (DLI) launched a new Generative AI Teaching Kit to provide students access to tools, frameworks, and practical exercises. According to Joe Bungo, Deep Learning Institute (DLI) program manager at NVIDIA, "this teaching kit equips students with a deep understanding of generative AI techniques and enables educators to foster future innovation and creativity in the industry." As students transition into the workforce, they will be better prepared to tackle global challenges, from improving healthcare and science to advancing sustainable technologies. Sam Raymond, an adjunct assistant engineering professor at Dartmouth College, said that "empowering students with skills to understand and potentially develop their own GPU-accelerated Generative AI applications is the primary objective. "I believe students who take this course will be at a significant advantage in the job market and help bridge the knowledge gap in industries today." Teaching Kits include lecture slides, hands-on labs, Jupyter notebooks, knowledge checks, and free online self-paced courses that provide students with certificates of competency. They are all comprehensively packaged and ready for classroom and curriculum integration. The kit aims to introduce the foundational concepts of natural language processing (NLP) that are essential for understanding LLMs and generative AI more broadly. Key concepts of LLMs are then examined using NVIDIA GPUs, tools, services, and open-source libraries and frameworks. A simple pretraining exercise of a GPT model shows basic training processes in the cloud. This first release includes these modules: Introduction to Generative AI Diffusion Models in Generative AI LLM Orchestration Select professors — such as Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi, assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University, and Professor Payam Barnaghi from the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London — have already been given early access to first-release modules. [Disclosure: ibl.ai, the parent company of iblnews.org, has NVIDIA as a client]

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Google Rolls Out 'Gems', Which Allows to Create Custom Versions of Gemini

IBL News | New York After previewing them at the I/O 2024 conference in May, Google is rolling out Gems to Gemini Advanced, Business, and Enterprise subscribers. The user enters a paragraph of "Instructions" and has Gemini rewrite it into a more structured format that lays out Purpose, Goals, and Behavior Rules, along with tone, maximum sentence length for responses, or even request emojis throughout replies. Everything can be further edited. After naming and saving, they appear in the Gem manager. Gemini offers some premade Gems: Learning coach helps break down complex topics, making them easier to understand. Brainstormer provides easy inspiration, from fresh ideas for a themed party to the perfect gift for an upcoming birthday. Career guide unlocks your career potential with detailed plans to refine your skills and achieve goals. Writing editor can elevate your writing through clear, constructive feedback on everything from grammar to structure. A coding partner levels up your coding skills and can help you build projects and learn as you go. In addition, Google is rolling out Imagen 3, its latest image-generation model, with a photorealistic quality.  

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UPenn Shows that High Schoolers Who Use AI Incorrectly Underperform in Math

A study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School showed that High school students who use generative AI to prepare for math exams performed worse on the tests than those who didn't use the tools. UPenn's report, which involved nearly a thousand students, found that access to generative AI tutors can improve student performance in practicing math problems. However, copying and pasting answers leads students to engage less with the material. Experts say that an ideal scenario would involve a personal tutor for every student, but AI-driven learning still faces many hurdles. However, many educators have struggled to find the best ways to incorporate AI into the classroom. "A key remaining question is how generative AI affects learning, namely, how humans acquire new skills as they perform tasks." This is UPenn's explanation: "In a field experiment, we deployed and evaluated two GPT-based tutors, one that mimics a standard ChatGPT interface (called GPT Base) and one with prompts designed to safeguard learning (called GPT Tutor). These tutors comprise about 15% of the curriculum in each of the three grades. Consistent with prior work, our results show that access to GPT-4 significantly improves performance (48% improvement for GPT Base and 127% for GPT Tutor). However, we additionally find that when access is subsequently taken away, students actually perform worse than those who never had access (17% reduction for GPT Base). That is, access to GPT-4 can harm educational outcomes. These negative learning effects are largely mitigated by the safeguards included in GPT Tutor. Our results suggest that students attempt to use GPT-4 as a "crutch" during practice problem sessions, and when successful, perform worse on their own. Thus, to maintain long-term productivity, we must be cautious when deploying generative AI to ensure humans continue to learn critical skills."

Anthropic Announced the Launch of Its 'Artifacts'

Anthropic announced yesterday that it made Artifacts available for all Claude.ai users on Free, Pro, and Team plans. In addition, users can now create and view Artifacts on their iOS and Android apps. According to the company, since it launched in June as a feature preview, users have created tens of millions of Artifacts. Artifacts enable a dedicated window on the right side of the screen to instantly see, iterate, and build on the work created with Claude. Examples of Artifacts are: Developers can make architecture diagrams from codebases Product managers can create interactive prototypes for rapid feature testing Marketers can design campaign dashboards with performance metrics

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