LearnLM: Google’s Education-Specific Model, With Prompts
“LearnLM is an experimental task-specific model that has been trained to align with learning science principles when following system instructions for teaching and learning use cases… When given learning specific system instructions, LearnLM is capable of: Inspiring active learning: Allow for practice and healthy struggle with timely feedback, Managing cognitive load: Present relevant, well-structured information […]
“20 Things You Didn’t Know About Google Scholar”
“We physically delivered files at first. In the early days of Google Scholar, slow, flaky internet speeds made it hard to gather research to build this online research library. As a workaround, the team embraced a low-tech solution dubbed the “Sneakernet.” Instead of relying solely on slow downloads, publishers would load articles on physical hard […]
“9 Ways AI Is Advancing Science”
“We’re sharing a recap of some of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in recent years brought about by AI.”
Google Achieves Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
“Achieving human-level speed and performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics research community. This work takes a step towards that goal and presents the first learned robot agent that reaches amateur human-level performance in competitive table tennis. Table tennis is a physically demanding sport which requires human players to undergo […]
“AI Achieves Silver Medal Standard Solving International Math Olympiad”
What’s New in Google for Education?
Google’s Full Paper On Designing LearnLM, For AI Tutoring
“Recent advances in generative AI (gen AI) have created excitement about the potential of new technologies to offer a personal tutor for every learner and a teaching assistant for every teacher. The full extent of this dream, however, has not yet materialised. We argue that this is primarily due to the difficulties with verbalising pedagogical […]
Google Creates “Generative AI For Educators” Course
Google Bard Is Now Gemini, Comparable To GPT-4
Google Makes Bard Appropriate For Teens
“Before launching to teens, we consulted with child safety and development experts to help shape our content policies and an experience that prioritizes safety. And organizations like the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) advised us on how to keep the needs of teens and families in mind.”