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Education AI News: Week Ending 01/19/2024

January 20, 2024

Education

Super thrilled to share our latest work, AlphaGeometry from Google Deep Mind, the first AI system ever approaching the IMO gold medalists in solving Olympiad geometry math problems. Published today at Nature, titled “Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations”, our work marks an important milestone towards advanced reasoning, which, I believe, is the key prerequisite for AGI.

Super thrilled to share our latest work, AlphaGeometry from @GoogleDeepMind , the first AI system ever approaching the IMO gold medalists in solving Olympiad geometry math problems. Published today at Nature, titled “Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations”, our… pic.twitter.com/jWghK2M2OD
— Thang Luong (@lmthang) January 17, 2024

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphageometry-an-olympiad-level-ai-system-for-geometry

LLMs trained on easy problems (like 3rd grade STEM) can solve hard problems (like college STEM)

There is debate over how and when LLMs can help solve hard problems, especially because training data on hard problems is rare.

So an interesting finding: LLMs trained on easy problems (like 3rd grade STEM) can solve hard problems (like college STEM) https://t.co/OpkjPNWTvh pic.twitter.com/fEcM7oFdkn
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 18, 2024

OpenAI announces first partnership with a university

Starting in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT Enterprise and plans to use it for coursework, tutoring, research and more.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/18/openai-announces-first-partnership-with-a-university.html

Major new set of features now live at NotebookLM designed to help you learn, brainstorm, and refine your ideas. All using Google’s Gemini Pro model. Try them at http://notebooklm.google.com

Generate study guides, thematic outlines, explainers, and more, based on the notes you’ve curated. Full list below…

Major new set of features now live at NotebookLM designed to help you learn, brainstorm, and refine your ideas. All using Google's Gemini Pro model. Try them at https://t.co/d3fk0gfZrZ
Generate study guides, thematic outlines, explainers, and more, based on the notes you've… pic.twitter.com/uBZly1wZA4
— Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) January 17, 2024

https://notebooklm.google.com/?pli=1

Microsoft makes its AI-powered reading tutor free

Microsoft makes its AI-powered reading tutor free

AI is Not the Solution to All Our Educational Challenges

Empowering Students with an Immersive Mindset for Navigating an Unpredictable Worldhttps://nickpotkalitsky.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-the-solution-to-all-our

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AI News #16: Week Ending 01/19/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 16 Stories

This is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.