If OpenAI works well, the next online course you take could include a chatbot component.
Siya Raj Purohit, a member of OpenAI's education market development team, spoke at a fireside event hosted by Coeus Collective on Monday, discussing how OpenAI can help e-learning instructors create custom “GPTs” that tie into online curriculum. He said there is a possibility of exploring. .
“What I hope will happen is that professors will be able to create custom GPTs for the public, and people will be able to engage with the content for a lifetime,” Purohit said. . “It’s not part of the work we’re doing right now, but it’s definitely on our roadmap.”
Purohit said he has already observed professors uploading “a semester’s worth” of content, creating custom GPTs with OpenAI’s existing tools, and making those GPTs available to students. I am. “Students grapple with finite knowledge… [which] “I think this is a very powerful and good way to engage them in research,” she added.
OpenAI's Siya Raj Purohit (right) is interviewed by Coeus Collective CEO Antonio DiMeglio (left) at Pace University in New York. Image credit:Coeus Collective
OpenAI is active in the education market, which we see as an important growth area.
In September, the company hired former Coursera chief revenue officer Leah Belsky as its first GM of education, tasking her with bringing OpenAI's products to more schools. And this spring, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities.
According to Allied Market Research, the value of the AI market in education could reach $88.2 billion within the next 10 years. But growth is off to a slow start, largely due to skeptical educators.
The GPT described by Purohit may be similar to Khanmigo, the chatbot Khan Academy, an e-learning platform launched in collaboration with OpenAI last year. Khanmigo is tightly integrated with Khan Academy's educational content library, allowing you to instruct students on homework, test preparation, and more.
To illustrate the pitfalls of AI today, Kammingo makes a mistake. When The Wall Street Journal tested the chatbot in February, it struggled with basic calculations and was often unable to correct errors even when asked to double-check a solution.
But Purohit maintained that technology is improving.
“All of our models continue to improve, and our goal is to make them useful for learning and teaching,” she said.
Educators remain skeptical. In a Pew Research Center survey this year, a quarter of public K-12 teachers said the use of AI tools in education does more harm than good. Another poll by the Rand Corporation and the Center for Reinventing Public Education found that only 18% of K-12 educators are applying AI in the classroom.