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Education AI News: Week Ending 01/19/2024

February 5, 2024

Education

AI beating humans improves human performance

Graph of decision quality among professional Go players. A sudden increase after AlphaGo. It is not only because they are learning from the AI. Players are suddenly inventing new moves at a faster rate too!

Graph of decision quality among professional Go players. A sudden increase after AlphaGo. It is not only because they are learning from the AI. Players are suddenly inventing new moves at a faster rate too! pic.twitter.com/sOyIcuvqDt
— Henrik Karlsson (@phokarlsson) January 22, 2024

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Excited to announce Archer's new AI math tutoring for the digital SAT! 🚀

Prep smarter for your dSAT with daily tailored practice on actual SAT questions.

Start now for FREE at https://t.co/yuQAry0eXB #DigitalSAT #SATprep #MathTutoring pic.twitter.com/ITbe0n4yVG
— Archer (@ArcherEdAi) January 23, 2024

Our new paper: we know that GPT-4 generates better ideas than most people, but the ideas are kind of similar & variance matters. But it turns out that better prompting can generate pools of good ideas that are almost as diverse as from a group of humans.

🚨 Our new paper: we know that GPT-4 generates better ideas than most people, but the ideas are kind of similar & variance matters

But it turns out that better prompting can generate pools of good ideas that are almost as diverse as from a group of humans https://t.co/LkGsU0VC7S pic.twitter.com/5BDx8A3E8Z
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 27, 2024

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4708466

Three findings from a trial use of a GPT-4 tutor for Harvard’s intro CS course:

1) Students found it useful (88% found it helpful) & used it a lot

2) The AI made mistakes, even with RAG (81% accurate)

3) It was pretty cheap

Three findings from a trial use of a GPT-4 tutor for Harvard's intro CS course:
1) Students found it useful (88% found it helpful) & used it a lot
2) The AI made mistakes, even with RAG (81% accurate)
3) It was pretty cheap
Lots of potential but R&D needed https://t.co/3Q13zvkhFf pic.twitter.com/5gJ0JkwP6t
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 22, 2024

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AI News #17: Week Ending 01/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 12 Stories

The post you just read 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.