This week, we focus on Google's new language model, and OpenAI has created a website directly aimed at teachers and students.

Google is on its way with its new language model Gemini

Google's new language model is called Gemini, and we have chosen to include it here because we are once again looking into December, when AI will affect the education sector. Unlike ChatGPT, Gemini can retrieve and use data from Google's search engine, YouTube, Google Books, and Google Scholar. Thus, it must be assumed that the language model will be much more up-to-date than is the case with ChatGPT, where, as you know, data collection ended in 2021.

It is further claimed that Gemini is five times larger than OpenAI's GPT-4, and at the same time, Google is using their latest TPUv5e AI chip, which lowers the price of powering the language model. Gemini was also supposed to be the first multimodal language model, and thus, it could generate texts, images, and video.

In December 2023, Google will launch the language model.

OpenAI has created a guide for educators

There's quite a lot written about ChatGPT around the web, and it can be difficult to navigate all that information. Therefore, OpenAI has created a help site for teachers and students where you can get answers to questions.

On the site, OpenAI discourages using AI detectors to find content generated by artificial intelligence. Instead, they recommend human supervision when students are evaluated.

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Recommendation of the week:

A good colleague recommended the article "I Secretly Let ChatGPT Take My Final Exam". The article frames what teachers have challenges with and the dilemmas everyone faces. In the quote below, Dan Arena has taken a stand on ChatGPT and has chosen to investigate it to become a better teacher.

ChatGPT is the oversized A.I. elephant sitting front and center in every classroom. Instructors can try to ignore or prohibit it, but doing so doesn’t change the reality of the situation: Students are curious about it, talking about it, worried about it, and using it. Now I need to follow the same advice I gave my student. Like this emerging technology, I’ll continue to learn, evolve, and adapt. And if there’s a way for me to use new technology and become a more effective educator, I’m all in.