How educators and institutions can harness the power of AI
Education is set to be changed forever by artificial intelligence. Sometimes change can be intimidating. This is as true for educators as it is for entrepreneurs concerned their business is about to be gobbled up by one of the tech giants or have its margins squished by tech-savvy business owners using the latest AI tools.
Educational institutions are threatened by AI. But so is what we believe to be knowledge and, dare we say, the truth. Here’s why educators need to pay attention to AI and how they can use tools like Coachvox AI to protect their interests and those of wider society.
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude and Bard are trained using an almost incomprehensible amount of information. This is what makes their knowledge and ability to respond to almost any request so mind-bogglingly impressive.
The obvious question that arises is “what is the future of education if ChatGPT knows everything?”
Not only does ChatGPT know everything, but users can prompt it to provide information in a specific way; tailored to the exact needs of the student. For any desired output, someone can specify the topic, level of understanding required, the time they have to study such topic and the specific purpose for their learning. Within seconds, the information will arrive in that format.
Until now, this level of personalisation has been simply unachievable without each student hiring a personal tutor to delivers the exact material required, totally on demand. Clearly, AI has the potential to dramatically enhance the personalised education space.
But, of course, it’s not quite as simple as that.
There are several limitations of a tool like ChatGPT being used for formal education.
First of all, the AI model has been trained by an internet’s worth of information. But not all information is on the internet. What’s more, there’s a lot of dated, contradictory, misleading or outright false information there. Theres’s no structure and there’s no vetting or oversight.
Compounding this, even if ChatGPT had all the right information, it still has the propensity to “hallucinate” or go off-topic, especially in longer interactions. Not only that, but when a subject becomes more technical, as it would in a university or college degree, the LLM won’t understand how all the information relates.
There are of course limitations around the support and mentorship that can be provided by an LLM. This includes practical and hands-on learning. At the end of learning with ChatGPT, there’s no accreditation to validate your efforts, as there is with a degree subject or diploma.
However, these are all of today’s limitations. As the LLMs like ChatGPT become more advanced, so will their ability to “understand” increasingly complex material and disseminate it in a way conducive to effective learning.
Once virtual reality becomes more mainstream, the combination of AI and VR could create a far more engaging, interactive education experience. There are many possible benefits of AI in education; the ability to tailor material to the learner, make the standard of teaching more consistent and explore more effective ways to instil knowledge in students.
So how do you train an AI model using your style and materials to enhance the education experience? The reality is that it’s possible to train an AI to be better than ChatGPT for your use case.
Once launched, a Coachvox AI based on a specific course or teacher can support a programme of education.
Course information
Your Coachvox AI will be trained using course content and supplementary material. This means when a student asks questions of the AI, responses based on your teachings will be presented.
FAQs
Train your AI to answer your students’ most common questions. Include those directly related to the course as well as other topics around exam prep, style guidance or recommended reading, for example. This saves a lot of valuable time and admin for teachers.
Student mentoring
Your Coachvox AI aims to become a coach or mentor and glean the best outcome for those interacting with it. This means it’s able to offer guidance to student beyond facts and figures; helping them address challenges in their studies or life in general.
Collect student information
With access to the transcripts of interactions you can see exactly what students are asking your Coachvox AI. This is incredibly valuable information that enables you to provide additional support to students on an individual or group basis.
Training an AI isn’t as simple as uploading a few documents. If it was, every institution would have its very own education AI. For an AI model to be truly useful to its students, it needs work. This is where the Coachvox AI training resources come in; helping you generate a valuable model quickly.
The first stages of training your Coachvox AI are straightforward; selecting the interface appearance, style and tone of voice of the AI. Then it’s time to upload your training data, which will largely be in the form of course material but will include some additional information and FAQs.
Clearly-written text-based files can be uploaded into Coachvox AI, producing prompt-completion pairs of a high quality. This will likely form a large part of your training data. You can also add spreadsheets of specific information or information where there is a defined question and answer.
We’re on hand to help out with the entire training process, which can be a fun, smooth and rewarding process.
When fully trained, your Coachvox AI will be hugely effective at responding to your students’ specific queries using your content. Not only that, it will coach or mentor them through the subject and any challenges in your chosen style.
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There are many avenues through which a specially trained AI benefits learning outcomes. Guidance, support and mentorship, available 24/7 is a primary example. This is especially true for student unlikely to ask for help in real life.
There are many benefits on a practical learning level, with student able to benefit from pre-loaded course material, answers to commonly asked questions, and a powerful underlying large language model.
Group sessions, where everyone engages and uses prompts to generate useful outputs creates an interactive, collaborative experience whilst improving students ability to prompt AI as well as familiarising themselves with the tool.
During solo learning time, promoting reflection as well as gaining support and guidance for their work.
Your AI model can be trained with FAQs about the course, educational institution and other administrative issues. This gives students a first port of call before asking staff.
The same goes for parent interaction, and both parents and students can be quizzed about what information they’d expect to be able to generate using the AI.
Your AI can be particularly useful in exam season. Your AI can provide revision exercises, exam tips and motivation.
You’ll also be able to see the questions students are asking to better inform any additional support or materials required.
The more you train your Coachvox AI, the better it becomes. The more you can transfer the course content and other materials to your AI version, the more comprehensive and valuable the AI will be to students.
Training rooms one to five are designed to create a student-ready AI version of you as quickly as possible, before refining further in room six.
While you can produce an AI with an appropriate style within a couple of hours, building out its knowledge base depends on the quality and quantity of content you can input.
You don’t need any specialist knowledge or coding skills to train your AI. The training rooms will guide you through the process and tell you what’s required.
Your Coachvox AI subscription gives you full access to the training rooms, so you can keep tweaking the style, providing feedback and adding new data, even after your Coachvox AI is live.
There are several ways to integrate your AI. Training room seven provides an embed code to place the tool on a webpage or web app of your choosing. This includes any data capture or subscriber-only elements.
You own the copyright of your published books and any applicable articles or content that you use to train your AI. All the data you enter into the training rooms remains your intellectual property, you simply grant us permission to use it in your model.
As with any AI system, the copyright of novel content produced by Coachvox AI is owned by Coachvox Limited. We grant you, and only you, the right to use this copyrighted material as you wish, without restriction. If the content produced uses your inputs directly, i.e. your own intellectual creation, you will still own that copyright.
