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> If the user is typing in a form field while an update to the app state comes Could you give a practical example of what you mean here? I can't quite wrap my head around what kind of interaction you're describing. Do you mean
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>People don't memorize things any more .... and it made no difference.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess it's just not for you then :)
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>Are you suggesting a chatbot is a suitable replacement for a teacher? No I'm saying that a chatbot can be a superhuman teacher's assistant.
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>taking poorly organized existing information and making it organized and interactive. Which is extremely valuable! >Pretty cool but not much more than pushing existing data around. Don't underestimate how valuable it is for teac
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>As a teacher - I have no shortage of exercises, quizes etc. Internet is full of this kind of stuff and I have no trouble finding more than I ever need Which all takes valuable time us teachers are extremely short on. I've been a cl
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I'm creating tools on top of AI that can which is my point.
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>Also, each of your examples had at least one error, did you not see them? I didn't could you point them out? >There are countless existing, human-vetted, designed on special purpose, bodies of work full of material like the stuf
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I'm developing tools to help teachers generate learning material, exercises and quizes tailored to student needs. >Who said generating an essay is useful sorry ? What problem does that solve? Useful learning materials aligned with c
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>Whether or not it's useful has nothing to do with whether or not it's spam. I think it has a lot to do with it. I can't see how generating educational content for the purpose of enhancing student outcomes with content rev
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sure here's an example of a question and explanation which aligns to Australian Curriculum elaboration AC9M9A01_E4 explaining why frac{3^4}{3^4}=1, and 3^{4-4}=3^0 https://chatgpt.com/share/89c26d4f-2d8f-4043-acd7-
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>Exercises, quizes and explanations are routine enough that good teachers I know can generate them on the spot. Every year there are thousands of graduate teacher looking for tools to help them teach better. >good teachers I know can
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>their lives have been basically ruined a bit dramatic. there has to be an adjustment of teaching/assessing, but nothing that would "ruin" anyone's life. >So sorry, we're back to spam generator. Even if it
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>Sadly, I think your sales pitch will fall flat. College and University admin aren't technology experts I'm building tools for K-12 (I've been a teacher for 20+ years). There's solid uptake of GPT among teachers and i
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>We are basically out of new, non-synthetic text to train models this is not even remotely true. There is an astronomical amount of data siloed by publishers, professional journals etc. that is yet to be tapped. OpenAI is making inroads
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reducing the load on overworked teachers by using GPT to generate exercises, quizes and explanations for students is "endless worthless sludge"?
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This seems unecessarily negative to me. >Content Generation I'm working on AI tools for teachers and I can confidently say that GPT is just unbelievably good at generating explanations, exercises, quizes etc. The onus to review the
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>Most software vendors are selling their version of AI as hallucination free though. It definitely has that Tesla Autopolit feel to it, where the marketing is ... enthusiastic, while the onus to "use the tool responsibly" is le
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structured outputs help, paired with regular old systems design I think you can get pretty far. it really depends what you're building though. >If your AI travel agent books vacations to the correct destination only 90% of the time
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Fair point.
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My dad used AI to generate artwork with pictures hung up across the house. He's intersted in meditation and mindfulness. He's not a native English speaker, so he's using AI to help him write content. He's then using AI t
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>I've been bullish[1] on this as a major aspect of generative AI for a while now, so it's great to see this paper published. Me too. My first thought when seeing 2D AI generated images was that 3D would be a logical next step.
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>If you're hand massaging every poly you're rather defeating the purpose. That's a bit of an overstatement. Fixing normals is far less time consuming than creating a mesh from scratch. This is particularly a win for people