Turn ChatGPT into your private tutor 🎓

Hi Non-Techies,

The best feedback I can get from my newsletters is when someone says, “y’know what? This is really going to improve my life.” (Or words to that effect. I’m not picky.)

I’m hoping the three things I’m sharing with you today will do exactly that.

Speaking of improving your life (check me out with the segue), a quick reminder that my 3-day ‘Become an AI Trainer’ bootcamp is open. Tickets are selling like hotcakes*.

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Create videos from your documents.

In last week’s newsletter, I name-dropped Google’s NotebookLM like it was a B-list celebrity I used to go to school with.

That was about its audio overview tool, which can turn documents into audio summaries.

Between then and now, they’ve released a video overview tool, which - as you’ve probably guessed by the name - is like the audio summary tool, but it’ll create a video instead.

This (incredibly concise) 37-second video from Google shows what it can do, and our Non-Techie team have tested it out too. The verdict? Whilst the video we created wasn’t totally perfect, it was still super impressive.

This tool is quickly becoming an essential for Non-Techies with a penchant for making life easier.

“Show me the next two scenes”.

Don’t worry, I’ve already Googled it: apparently Aleph is the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet and a mathematical term to represent the “cardinality of infinite sets”. Whatever that means.

It’s also the name of Runway’s new video tool, which they describe as “A new way to edit, transform and generate video.” Bla bla bla. We’ve all heard that before.

But then I watched this 66-second video, and my mind was blown (to be fair, my mind is regularly blown these days - blame AI).

It’s sort of like OpenAI’s Sora, but looks way more powerful and reliable. Like, imagine being able to upload a video and enter a prompt saying “show me this scene from a different angle”. That’s what we’re talking about here.

ChatGPT = your personal tutor.

Ever noticed how ChatGPT is a bit spoon-feedy?

It’s great when you need a clear answer to something, but if you’re trying to learn and retain something new, it doesn’t exactly help.

Well, OpenAI is trying to fix that with study mode, which turns ChatGPT into your own tutor.

I gave it a query using the small amount of maths knowledge I have left in the bank:

Okay, so it’s still pretty spoon-feedy, and this time, it’s literally trying to feed me pi (delicious).

Still, in this newsletter, I chatted about the UK Government’s report on using AI in schools. This feature - whilst probably in need of some refining - seems to be heading in the right direction.

I’m going to spend the rest of the day getting study mode to teach me how to nail a smooth sign-off from these newsletters.

See you next week,

Heather and the AIFNT team.