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Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Education:

By Sam Lobo and Mathilde Papillon

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2018-2020

2020-now

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AI assists my research:�specific & general tools

DeepMind’s AlphaFold2 - Translating the protein alphabet (20 amino acids) to a 3D protein structure for rigid proteins.

How does this protein interact with drugs or with tau?

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Difficult to investigate without the 3D structure.

healthy neuron

without 1 structural protein

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AI assists my research:�specific & general tools

  • I code up to 2X faster with Github Copilot (free for students)
  • ChatGPT (free) enables me to do some tasks ~5X faster
    • Queries in natural language, troubleshoots well, knows every coding language

Example:

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AI assists my learning + cooking + art

“a bag of frozen shrimp next to sauteed vegetables and a bowl of cooked pasta, photorealistic”

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Image generated by Bing Image Creator (free)

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AI assists my learning + cooking + art

generated with Stable Diffusion (free)

“inpainting” and “outpainting” with DALL·E 2:

~13 cents / token (4 images)

“a majestic whale tail peaking out of the water below a golden bridge at dusk, vivid painting”

I forgot the exact prompt… something like:

“vivid bright painting of a golden bridge at night overlooking a majestic whale”

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NYTimes: “35 Ways Real People are Using AI Right Now”

  1. Plan Gardens
  2. Plan Workouts
  3. Plan Meals
  4. Make a Gift
  5. Organize a messy computer desktop
  6. Write a wedding speech
  7. Write an email
  8. Play Devil’s Advocate

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  1. Build a clock that gives you a new poem every minute
  2. Skim dozens of Academic Articles
  3. Cope with ADHD
  4. Cope with dyslexia
  5. Sort through an archive of pictures
  6. Transcribe a doctor’s visit into clinical notes
  7. Appeal an insurance denial

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  1. Write Excel formulas
  2. Get homework help
  3. Design apps/games in minutes
  4. Create new proteins
  5. Identify diseases in banana plants
  6. Describe a world for D&D
  7. Make a spotify playlist

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Takeaways: AI tools make building things easier [and more fun]!

AI tools empower people with a range of experience and skill sets

to code & build complex projects.

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AIs are improving: AP Test Scores

It’s not surfing the internet to find answers. It understands new content.

Your students will use it for studying and homework help.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) and SEPS standards

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Best Practices for ChatGPT:

  • Tell it it’s an expert in the topic.
  • Push it beyond its first answer.
  • Recognize and correct its bad writing habits.
  • Tinker until you are satisfied.
  • Wipe its memory if it’s stuck in an incorrect path of reasoning (i.e. “+ New Chat”)

SEPS.2 requires students to understand the limitations of [AI] tools.

Question

“You are a linguistics expert.”

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Question

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AI-assisted Lesson Planning Demo:�Constructing Force Diagrams

  • GPT-4 (ChatGPT premium version, $20/month).
  • Bing Chat (free) for web surfing with natural language.

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  • Remember: You are the manager!

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Chat With Text demo

  • Using OpenAI’s “text embeddings” and a few Python tools to chat with a 5-page pdf
  • Potential to engage students more and encourage science literacy.
  • “Control+F” but searching for meaning instead of a word.
  • ~1-5 cents per query.

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PDF my “chat with text” app

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Surveying the Scientific Literature with Perplexity (free)

  • Demo: carbon capture techniques

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My question:

Answer:

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Links:

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Keep your eye out for AI teaching tools, especially as they get commercially fine-tuned for education:

  • Personalized tutoring for students
  • Subject-specific lesson / unit planning
  • Brainstorming/crafting/debate partners for students
  • etc.

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ChatGPT and SEPS standards

Think-Pair-Share:

Think of the unit plan[s] where you most directly teach SEPS.1 or SEPS.8.�How can ChatGPT be potentially incorporated into your instruction?

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AI Tools, links, and prices

  • ChatGPT: chat.openai.com (free)
  • Perplexity: perplexity.ai (free)
  • Bing Chat: bing.com -> Chat (free)

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  • Github Copilot (code autocomplete): github.com/features/copilot (free for students)
  • GPT-4 (Premium ChatGPT): ($20/month)
  • OpenAI’s Text Embeddings for “Chat with Text”: (1-5 cents per question typically)
  • Khanmigo: khanacademy.org/khan-labs (exclusive right now)
  • GPT-4 plugins: (exclusive right now… see Greg Brockman’s TED talk)

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