Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda said at the Davos conference yesterday that the company plans to integrate ChatGPT across its platform catalog this year. "ChatGPT can be trained on Coursera's data to talk like "the smartest professors in the world," he added. In addition, he predicted that "cheating in class will be rampant." "The first time I sat down in front of ChatGPT, I said, 'this is not possible,'" Maggioncalda explained. He called ChatGPT a "game changer" that is "blowing my mind" — so much so that he now talks to ChatGPT daily and uses it as a "writing assistant" and a "blog partner." Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda admitted that ChatGPT's power keeps him awake at night. "I've been awake for 45 days, it can create new things. It's extraordinary, but also it's dangerous and it can disrupt things."
Microsoft supported ChatGPT, which uses a neural network to generate responses from data sources from the Internet and the AI-generated art tool DALL-E had many educators wondering about the future of learning. The dominant conviction is that with AI for the masses, education is about to radically change, as an article in Getting Smart publication states. Essentially, this technology allows educators to design efficient and personalized learning systems while students learn with more tailored and effective instruction based on their individual needs. From existing underlying data, AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) machines take huge amounts of data and predict relevant responses and they can build on previous responses as they learn from their interactions with the user. The result is a more natural and helpful conversation, which is vastly different from the existing chatbots used currently online on many help desks. The potential of this technology will result in highly personalized, adaptive learning programs for the masses with 1:1 tutoring support provided by sophisticated AI tutors and coaches; improved assessment and rubrics with continued questions; social-emotional and mental health virtual counselors; better teaching and decision-making methods; lesson plans and learning modules automatically created with entering texts, videos, and media sources — as the new Nolej and Edthena platforms, built on ChatGPT, are showing. There are two types of teams in the world: teams that are incorporating ChatGPT/AI and teams that are not. Spoiler alert: team 1 will win. pic.twitter.com/jRNvcq7sen — Allie K. Miller (@alliekmiller) January 8, 2023
Microsoft Corp. is considering investing $10 billion in OpenAI, the creator of the viral AI tool ChatGPT, news site Semafor reported on Tuesday. This investment would be part of a funding round that would value the company at $29 billion. Other venture firms would participate in the venture. Microsoft would get a 75% share of OpenAI’s profits until it recoups its investment, after which the company would assume a 49% stake in OpenAI. Other investors would take another 49%, and OpenAI's nonprofit parent would keep 2%, The two companies have been discussing the deal for months. However, the terms could change and the deal could fall apart. A bet on ChatGPT could help Microsoft boost its efforts in web search, a market dominated by Google. Microsoft and OpenAI declined to comment. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that ChatGPT was allowing employees and early investors to sell their shares at a valuation of $29 billion. The Microsoft <> OpenAI news is much bigger than we first thought: – $10 billion investment in the works, with Microsoft getting 75% of revenue until it recoups all $10b– GPT in Office, not just Bing — Pete (@nonmayorpete) January 10, 2023 Microsoft unveils text-to-speech AI model VALL-E, which was trained on English speech data and can simulate a person's voice with three seconds of sample audio (@danyal95244926 / Metaverse Post)https://t.co/Uy35WEgyrGhttps://t.co/Vzm59l7w2B — Techmeme (@Techmeme) January 10, 2023
Question-and-answer website Quora launched this month its own AI chatbot called Poe ("Platform for Open Exploration"), following the explosion of text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT that are taking the Internet by storm at the end of this year. Poe is invite-only and currently only available on iOS. It lets people ask questions, get instant answers, and have a back-and-forth dialogue. The Poe chat can talk about anything from writing, cooking, or solving problems. Quora disclosed that Poe is "designed to interact with a number of different AI agents," according to TechCrunch. ChatGPT and Google's LaMDA can be two of them. "We have learned a lot about building consumer internet products over the last 12 years building and operating Quora, and we believe much of what we’ve learned can be applied to this new domain where people are interfacing with large language models," said a spokesman of Quora. Quora seems to be training now its chatbot on its platform’s vast collection of crowdsourced questions and answers while getting feedback from beta testers and working out scalability. .
Princeton student Edward Tian wrote an anti-plagiarism app called GPTZero that detects texts written with AI-based ChatGPT. Entrepreneur magazine surfaced the story. Tian posted a few proof-of-concept videos on January 2nd demonstrating GPTZero's capabilities. First, it determined that a human authored a New Yorker article; then, it correctly identified ChatGPT as the author of a Facebook post. Increased AI plagiarism after the viral popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT is deeply concerning educators around the country. Tian's motivation for creating GPTZero was academic in nature. He tweeted that he thought it was unlikely that "high school teachers would want students using ChatGPT to write their history essays." According to the Guardian, OpenAI is currently working on a feature for "statistically watermarking" ChatGPT outputs. I spent New Years building GPTZero — an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written — Edward Tian (@edward_the6) January 3, 2023 pic.twitter.com/psSIEvjYdq — ibleducation.com🗽 (@ibleducation) January 6, 2023
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