OpenAI Announces First Partnership With a University

OpenAI on Thursday announced its first partnership with a higher education institution. Starting in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT Enterprise and plans to use it for coursework, tutoring, research and more. From a report: The partnership has been in the works for at least six months, when ASU chief information officer Lev Gonick first visited OpenAI's HQ, which was preceded by the university faculty and staff's earlier use of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools, Gonick told CNBC in an interview. ChatGPT Enterprise, which debuted in August, is ChatGPT's business tier and includes access to GPT-4 with no usage caps, performance that's up to two times faster than previous versions and API credits.

With the OpenAI partnership, ASU plans to build a personalized AI tutor for students, not only for certain courses but also for study topics. STEM subjects are a focus and are "the make-or-break subjects for a lot of higher education," Gonick said. The university will also use the tool in ASU's largest course, Freshman Composition, to offer students writing help. ASU also plans to use ChatGPT Enterprise to develop AI avatars as a "creative buddy" for studying certain subjects, like bots that can sing or write poetry about biology, for instance.

higher education institution?

[dfghjk]

Any university who thinks AI is suitable to provide instruction should not be considered a "higher education institution". If there's anything I'd hope STEM students would learn is how to judge the quality of AI-produced work, how will that happen when AI generates their education?

AI is a shameless cash grab.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I mean, it's Arizona State we're talking about. The #1 thing basically everybody knows about ASU is that it's a party school, so this is just enhancing and extending that mission. Let the bit that nobody cares about be handled by AI, leaving far more time for getting shit-hammered.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

Now, that's just not fair. ASU rigorously works on maintaining their ranking as a Top 20 school in the Party Sciences.

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[TheStatsMan]

At this point, it's simply naive to claim that LLMs are useless tools. If you still can't figure out how to use them effectively, that's on you.

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[TheStatsMan]

Those things aren't mutually exclusive. I can only presume you understand neither.

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[VeryFluffyBunny]

LLMs are good for training humans, by trial & error, how to write prompts to generate generic text responses. If you think that's even half-competent education, you really don't understand it.

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[TheStatsMan]

>generate generic text responses

Your understanding of the tools is clearly limited so I wouldn't be so pretentious.

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[VeryFluffyBunny]

My understanding of the tools is fine. Your understanding of generic, in linguistics terms, is what is lacking.

What could go wrong?

[jenningsthecat]

ASU also plans to use ChatGPT Enterprise to develop AI avatars as a "creative buddy" for studying certain subjects, like bots that can sing or write poetry about biology, for instance.

Will the use of a "creative buddy" be optional, or will it be compulsory?

I really want to say more about this, but it's hard to know where to begin. Do I laugh at the concept of "poetry about biology" as a seriously-considered educational aid? Or rather, do I cringe at the thought of a totally juvenile teddy-bear-like "creative buddy" for University-level students?

Moving beyond the 'avatar' concept: should I warn about the further encroachment of corporate interests in universities which first and foremost

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[ShanghaiBill]

Do I laugh at the concept of "poetry about biology" as a seriously-considered educational aid?

I had a friend who often composed poems, limericks, and haiku about things he had to learn.

It sounds silly, but it worked.

It worked even better when they were funny and/or risque. So, yes, you should laugh.

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[serviscope_minor]

It worked even better when they were funny and/or risque.

Well that ruins it then. The AI companies hate if their systems produce anything risque. Plus once you've been using them for a while, there's this certain kind of samey blandness to the output that fairly soon becomes apparent.

I assume your friend was a lot better than that.

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[VeryFluffyBunny]

It'll be optional as long as you can hang on long enough to the call centre to get your personal account "downgraded" while their pathologically cheerful AI speechbots hold you in an upselling loop. About 99% of attempts end with the student upgrading to the Creative Buddy(TM) Visionary Success(TM) model followed by a psychological breakdown.

So presumably

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

AZSU will be able to lay off teachers and tuitions will be cheaper as a result, yes?

OpenAI will bill your loan direct for your class w

[Joe_Dragon]

OpenAI will bill your loan direct for your class work!

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[ShanghaiBill]

AZSU will be able to lay off teachers and tuitions will be cheaper as a result, yes?

You should take some business classes at ASU, where you can learn that prices are determined by what the market will bear, not your costs.

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[zlives]

they weren't paying the TA's anyways so with licensing, costs will probably go up.

Pentagon partnership official announcement when?

[SneedFeedAndSeed]

Asking for a friend

This sounds like Theranos

[HBI]

Wonder if the outcome will be the same.

I for one welcome...

[TwistedGreen]

...our new overlords at the University of Human Eradication.

Study

[richardwhite333]

This was to be expected. Artificial intelligence is developing very quickly. But I don’t trust him yet, I still use writing guides, I found lots of great articles helping writing essays [papersowl.com] for myself. I think it's too early to create partnerships. For now it's just hype.