Advanced Voice Mode gets video
This Week in EDU: December 9-13, 2024
What’s new from OpenAI
This week, we reached day 7 of our “12 Days of Shipmas,” a festive campaign featuring consecutive days of product releases, demos, and new features.
So far, highlights have included:
o1 and ChatGPT Pro — Our smartest model, OpenAI o1, graduated out of preview, and we also launched o1 pro mode, a version of o1 that uses more compute to think harder and provide even better answers to the hardest problems.
Reinforcement Fine-Tuning — For the first time, developers and machine learning engineers will be able to use reinforcement learning to create expert models fine-tuned to excel at specific tasks in their domain.
Sora — OpenAI’s text-to-video model was first previewed earlier this year and is now out of research preview, making this advanced storytelling tool available to a wider creative community.
Canvas — This new way to work with ChatGPT to draft, edit, and get feedback on writing and code is now available to all users of our 4o model on the web and the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows.
ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence — ChatGPT is now integrated into Apple experiences within iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, allowing users to access it directly from their iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Advanced Voice Mode with Video — Say ho ho ho to Santa in Voice Mode across all ChatGPT platforms until the end of the month.
Projects — Projects offers an easy way to organize chats that share topics or context in 4o.
Read more about each of these launches below.
One new feature, Advanced Voice Mode with Video, is sparking discussion among educators. Educators like
and were already exploring the classroom applications of Advanced Voice Mode, and the addition of video expands its potential even further.This week, 60 Minutes featured OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman alongside CBS’s Anderson Cooper and Khan Academy’s Sal Khan, demonstrating ChatGPT’s new vision capabilities. They showed how video can be used to quiz a student in an anatomy lesson with real-time feedback, and guide students through solving mathematical equations on a chalkboard live.
These are just two examples of how the addition of video can enrich learning experiences, making lessons more interactive and meeting students where they are by providing guidance in real time.
Are you using Advanced Voice Mode in your classrooms?
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What we’re reading on Substack this week
Peter Greene of
asks the question “What problem does [AI] solve?” summarizes five interesting moments from the segment on 60 Minutes:
AI and EDU features from the week
In the longer term, it’s possible to imagine a world where A.I. can ingest rich learner data and create personalized learning paths for students, all within a curriculum established by the teacher.
—Anant Agarwal, Chief Open Education Officer of 2U, in the New York Times
A.I. Can Transform Teaching and Learning
Finding practical ways in which AI applies to different subjects and infusing that into professional development already on the schedule can help avoid resistance. Teachers don’t want another thing on their plates. If you can avoid stand-alone training and instead say, ‘This is how AI can support you and the work you’re already doing,’ it’s going to draw people in.
—Virginia Reischl, Literacy Coordinator at the Orange County Department of Education, in Education Week
What Teacher PD on AI Should Look Like
I’m pretty confident that teaching [...], as long as it adapts reasonably well in this AI world, they’re going to be some of the safest jobs out there.
—Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy, on 60 Minutes
AI-powered tutor, teaching assistant tested as a way to help educators and students
More about “12 Days of Shipmas”
OpenAI confirms new ChatGPT Pro subscription, which includes its o1 reasoning model — TechCrunch
How Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Makes Quick Work of Turning Generative AI into Domain-Specific Wizards — Forbes
OpenAI launches Sora, hyperrealistic AI video generator — VentureBeat
OpenAI makes canvas, its editing tool, available to everyone — Mashable
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Projects, letting you organize files, chats in groups — VentureBeat