Quizlet, a tool that helps to personalize studies for students, recently published a set of new features fueled by AI.
Quizlet is one of the many educational platforms embracing a generative AI to facilitate learning, despite the consternation of teachers when Chatgpt burst into the scene. I have no more missions to read, but to do my job, I must read tons of press articles, reports and research fairly quickly. I wondered: can I use quizlet to facilitate my work and test the share of my rhythm that I really understand?
Oh guy, it didn’t go well for me.
Quizlet published several tools fed by AI on August 8. Memory scores planned opinions and follow the scores to help users remember the equipment. The quick summary takes the key concepts of readings. Brain beats transform the flashcards into songs – far from the mnemonics that I used as a child to remember the order of operations. And q chat allows students to talk to a tutor fed by the Chatppt. Before adding a generative AI, users had to manually add questions to personalized flashcards and fast quizs.
Quizlet Plus users, who pay $ 7.99 per month or $ 35.99 per year, have unlimited access to new features.
Quizlet gave me early access to one of the features called Magic Notes. (Unfortunately, I could not try the song generator.) Magic Notes allows users to download or copy and paste the text, and Quizlet sums it up, then offers a plan, examples of trial questions, creates flash cards and even puts a practice test.
I decided to plug A story by The penis‘S Makena Kelly in magic notes. This story is frequently open in my browser because I tend to make it often, which means that I have read it more than I can count it.
After having glued the story, Magic Notes generated a summary of the ball of the main ideas of the article. He offered me an example of a test to discuss the importance of AI IA companies in AI security, then there was the practice test.
I obtained a solid D on the practice test, correctly answering nine of the 15 questions.
For my defense, some of these questions were absurd. Quizlet gave me a list of terms with options for “definitions” and asked me to say if they corresponded. (The terms and definitions were sometimes but not always formulated in the form of a question, as on Danger.) For the latter, he asked whether the definition of “opening the opening for researchers and most commercial uses” corresponded to the term “which is a watermark in the context of the content generated by AI”. Okay, a strange phrasing because it is not how I would define the filigree. The right answer was: “What did Meta announced on their Llama 2 language model?” I’m sorry, but what?!
Most of the most sense he had questions. Quizlet encouraged me to define the vocal assistants of the AI. The choice of response were “what is the importance of responsibility in AI”, “what are the measures related to cybersecurity”, “what is the concern concerning the application of AI” commitments “and” what type of content generated by AI would not be covered by the tedious “. The right answer is the last. He was a gimme.
Then I put One of my storiesThinking that I should do better because I wrote the thing, and I feel like I understand what I wrote. In one way or another, Quizlet believed that the expression “promoting confidence” was a real term that I sought to define in history. It’s not. I just needed a synonym of “strengthening confidence”.
Quizlet says that technology is not infallible and will sometimes return from incorrect or problematic answers, so be sure to continue to guide your child when using features. Quizlet has built its new AI features with various generative models, including GPT-3.5.
The students were among the first to adopt an AI and a generative cat. This caused the educators who worried children who used the tools to cheat. School districts have prohibited access to chatgpt. In May, New York canceled its ban.
Since then, the generator has become more omnipresent. Like all other sector, education -oriented platforms want to take advantage of it. Quizlet is not the only startup focused on children exploring a generative AI for students. Children’s smartphone Pinwheel announced Pinwheelgpt, mainly for children with a less complex vocabulary. In higher education in the interior said The AI in education will increase to an industry of $ 25 billion by 2030, compared to $ 2 billion in 2022.
Magic notes did Do a very good job by summarizing the article, and perhaps a new one is not the best way to test a study guide. Some press articles summarize an event or speak of business plans; Everything is not defined. The news supposes that a reader already knows that context stories speak.
So I put Shakespeare Sonnet 116, mainly because I studied it at university a decade ago. Magic Notes did better, and more importantly, I did better in the practice quiz. The questions made sense. For example, who is the author of the sonnet? William Shakespeare, of course. What are the sonnet storms? Bums or turbulent moments.
But the quiz has still not succeeded with ambiguity. He asked me to choose the best definition to correspond to the expression “love as an immutable and unwavering force”. The two choices were “What is the meaning of the” marriage of real minds “?” And “What is the central theme of Sonnet 116?” I said it was the marriage of two spirits; The right answer is the latter. This is a valid answer, even if I can say why my choice was right. But I am a major in literature and I believe that literature should be open to interpretation.
Quizlet is a tool for students to get an overview of the subjects they discuss in class so that they have a faster understanding of the equipment before a conference. It is not a place to discuss the choice of nature and time as an imagery and connect it to the life of Shakespeare. These questions were good for that – but, in general, quite basic.
I played with the magic notes of quizlet for a few days and I continued to stick in different texts, from summaries of research documents to opinion documents, to degrees of various success. It is not perfect, although I can see how students can find these study tools powered by AI. He breaks down concepts and saves time when reading dense material.
Again, nobody anymore uses cliffsnotes?