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!

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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 l...