Detecting fake answers, Zoom meeting magic, and Gemini is pretty awesome

Welcome to AI Goes to College! In this episode, your host, Dr. Craig Van Slyke, invites you to explore the latest developments in generative AI and uncover practical insights to navigate the changing landscape of higher education. Discover key takeaways from Dr. Van Slyke's firsthand experiences with Google's Gemini and Zoom's AI Companion, as he shares how these innovative tools have enhanced his productivity and efficiency. Gain valuable insights into Google's Gemini, a powerful AI extension with the potential to revolutionize administrative tasks in higher education. I'll delve into the finer aspects of Gemini's performance, extensions, and its implications for the academic community. But that's not all—explore the fascinating potential of ChatGPT's new memory management features and get a sneak peek into OpenAI's impressive video generator, SORA. Dr. Van Slyke provides a candid overview of these cutting-edge AI advancements and their implications for educational content creation and engagement. Additionally, you'll receive expert guidance on recognizing AI-generated text, equipping you with the tools to discern authentic student responses from those generated by AI. Uncover valuable tips and strategies to detect and address inappropriate AI use in academic assignments, a crucial aspect in today's educational landscape. Join Dr. Craig Van Slyke in this enlightening episode as he navigates the dynamic intersection of generative AI and higher education, providing invaluable insights and actionable strategies for educators and professionals. Tune in to gain a deeper understanding of the transformative role of generative AI in higher education, and learn how to effectively leverage these innovative tools in your academic pursuits. Embrace the future of AI in education and stay ahead of the curve with AI Goes to College! To subscribe to the AI Goes to College newsletter, go to AIGoesToCollege.com/newsletter.    --- Transcript --- Craig [00:00:14]: Welcome to AI Goes to College, the podcast that helps higher education professionals navigate the changes brought on by generative AI. I'm your host, doctor Craig Van Slyke. The podcast is a companion to the AI Goes to College newsletter. You can sign up for the newsletter at ai goes to college.com/ newsletter. This week's episode covers my impressions of Google's Gemini. Here's a spoiler. I really like it. An overview of an awesome zoom feature that a lot of people don't know about. Craig [00:00:47]: A new memory management feature that's coming to chat gpt soon, I hope. OpenAI's scary good video generator, and I'll close with insights on how to recognize AI generated text. Lately, I've found myself using Google's Gemini pretty frequently. I just gave a talk, actually, I'm about to give a talk. By the time you listen to this, I will have given a talk on the perils and promise of generative AI at the University of Louisiana Systems for our future conference. I wanted to include some specific uses of generative AI for the for administrative tasks. I have a lot of use cases for academic tasks, but I wanted something more for the staff side of the house. Gemini was a huge help. Craig [00:01:33]: It helped me brainstorm a lot of useful examples, and then I found one I wanted to dial in on, and it really helped quite a bit with that. I didn't do a side by side comparison, but Gemini's performance felt pretty similar to Chat GPT's. By the way, I use Gemini advanced, which is a subscription, service, and it's kind of Google's equivalent to chat GPT 4. One of the most promising aspects of Gemini is that it has some extensions that may prove really useful in the long run. The extensions will let you do a lot of things, for example, asking questions of Gmail messages and Google Drive documents. There's also a YouTube extension that looks interesting. My initial testing yielded kinda mixed results. It did well in one test, but not so well in another. Craig [00:02:22]: I'll try to do a longer little blurb on this later. The Gmail extension did a pretty good job of summarizing recent conversations. So I don't know. I I think it's something to keep an eye on. So currently, there are extensions for a lot of the Google Suite, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Flights, Google Hotels, Google Maps, and YouTube. So this is certainly worth keeping an eye on. And if you weren't aware, Gemini is Google's replacement for Bard. They rolled out some new underlying models and did a rebrand a few weeks ago. Craig [00:02:54]: So, anyway, if you haven't checked it out in a while, I think it's probably worth doing. One of my favorite new ish, AI tools is Zoom's meeting summary. This thing is really awesome. It actually came out as part of their AI companion, which they released last fall, but didn't really get a lot of press that I saw. And the AI companion does a number of things. I may do a longer, deeper dive on that later. But the killer use for it right now for me is to summarize meetings. It is just awesome. Craig [00:03:25]: If you're like me, you might get caught up in the discussions that go on during a meeting, and you forget to take some notes. And you go back a few days later to start working on whatever project you were involved with in that meeting, and you've forgotten some of the details. So this happens to me a lot. I'm kind of sad to admit, but Zoom's AI companion can help with this tremendously. Just click on start summary, and AI companion will do the rest. A little while after the meeting, if you're the host, you'll receive an email with the summary, and you can just send that to the other attendees. The summaries are also available in your Zoom dashboard, and they're easy to edit or share from there. I find the summaries to be surprisingly good. Craig [00:04:11]: In the newsletter, AI Goes to College, I give an example, kind of a redacted example, of a summary of a recent meeting, and it's pretty comprehensive. And I I looked over the summary right after the meeting, not long after the meeting, and it really captured the essence of the meeting. It gives a quick recap, and then it summarizes, kind of broken down by topics, the entire meeting, and it also lays out next steps. Couple of things to keep in mind, though. 1st, only the meeting host can start the summary. So if you're just an attendee, you're not the host, you can't start the summary. You can ask the host to do it, but you can't do it. AI companion is only available to paid users. Craig [00:04:50]: And because AI companion is only available to paid users, the same can be said about the meeting summaries. If you're using Zoom through your school and you're hosting a session and you don't see the summary button, if I were you, I'd contact your IT folks and see if AI companion needs to be enabled. There are a number of other features of AI companion, but I haven't tried them yet. One particularly interesting capability is the ability to ask questions during the meeting. So you go over to the AI companion, ask questions, and the AI companion will answer based on the transcript of what it's done so far or what it's kinda transcribed so far in the meeting. So if you come in late and you wanna catch up, you don't have to say, hey. Can somebody catch me up with what we've done so far? You can just go over to AI Companion, ask the same thing. Now I haven't tried this yet, but I'm going to. Craig [00:05:40]: In the meantime, you can check out the features. There's a link in the show notes and in the newsletter. By the way, you can subscribe to the newsletter by going to aigosetocollege.com/newsletter. There were a couple of interesting news items, kind of developments over the last week or so that I wanted to bring to your attention. One that has a lot of potential is ChatGPT's new memory management features. So soon, at least I hope it's soon, ChatGPT will be able to remember things across conversations. You'll be able to ask chat gpt to remember specific things, or it'll learn over time kind of on its own, and its memory will get better over time. Unfortunately, very few users have access to this new feature right now. Craig [00:06:30]: I don't. I'm refreshing my browser frequently, hoping I get it soon. But OpenAI promised to share plans for a full rollout soon. I don't know when that is, but soon. So I'm basing a lot of what I'm gonna say right now on OpenAI's blog post that announced the feature, and I'll link to that in the show notes, or you can check out the newsletter. So, for example, in your conversations, you might have told chat gpt that you like a certain tone, maybe a conversational casual tone, maybe a more formal or academic tone in your emails. In the future, Chat GPT will craft messages based on that tone. Let's say you teach management. Craig [00:07:09]: Once ChatGPT knows that and remembers it, when you brainstorm assignment ideas, it'll give you recommendations for management topics, not, you know, English topics or philosophy topics. If you've explained to chat gpt that you'd like to include something like reflection questions in your assignments, it'll do so automatically in the future. And I'm sure there are gonna be a lot of other really good use cases for this somewhere down the road. There's gonna be a personalization setting that allows you to turn memory on and off. That'll be useful when you're trying to do some task where it's beyond what you normally do, and you don't wanna mess up ChatGPT's memory. Another cool feature is temporary chat. The temporary chat doesn't use memory, and it unfortunately also won't appear in your chat history. I think that might be a little bit of a problem. Craig [00:07:57]: Seems to me that memory is the next logical step from...