🧙🏼 ChatGPT at university

Howdy, wizards.

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Dario’s Picks

The most important news stories in AI this week

1. How Arizona State University (ASU) is using ChatGPT. OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Edu back in May, an affordable option for universities to bring ChatGPT to their students, faculty, researchers and campus operations. They're now showcasing how ASU is using ChatGPT for personalised learning. They organized AI innovation challenges internally, with faculty members and student researchers submitting proposals on how to integrate ChatGPT into teaching, research and operations. Out of 400 proposals, more than half were turned into an internal ASU GPT library.

• Some highlighted examples include using AI as a writing companion, a GPT for patient-provider interactions, and one for adjusting reading levels for more ethical participant recruitment in research.

   

• ‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ I love seeing this – big organisations adopting AI and letting the people “on the ground” find the best use cases, then integrating the best ones. Custom GPTs may be the best platform to build small, internal tools rapidly, due to its simplicity of creating and sharing GPTs. Their usefulness lies in how hyper-specific you can make them, eg. a GPT that formats papers based on your University’s exact standards.

   

• (very biased suggestion) If your organisation wants to do something similar, a great starting point is filtering the top GPTs in whatplugin.ai to find GPTs that you could adapt to your business.

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2. ‎Grok-2 gets faster and more accurate. xAI just rewrote part of the system responsible for the AI's predictions, and as a result got twice the speed from it's Grok-2 mini model, as well as faster speed for it's big Grok-2 model as well. They also got slightly more accurate.

    

   ‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Grok is getting better by the day. xAI has just recently stepped up its game with the launch of Grok-2, which is ranking third among LLMs in the LMSYS chatbot arena, ranking over Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

3. Google Meet is getting AI meeting notes soon. Many are still taking meeting notes manually, and some early adopters are using AI tools for meeting note taking. This might change soon, as Google Meet is getting a native feature that automatically takes notes during your meetings. This setting has to be turned on by the Google workspace admin and will only be available to those with Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, or AI Meetings and Messaging add-on.

    

   ‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Meeting note taking is already among the most popular applications for AI at work. Our favourite tool for this is currently Fathom (easy to use and generous free plan). Depending on how good Google’s new feature is, it might make some of these existing tools redundant.

    

4. Airtable works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power of a database to organize anything. Some stuff it can do for you: automate manual tasks, organize and display any information, be a hub that can intake and output information from a variety of sources. Huge time saver.

    

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