Astra & the increasing capability of AI models
It's been over a week since OpenAI released their Astra AI model (ChatGPT-6). It has been causing shockwaves around the work with its capabilities. Has anyone used it yet? What did you build or do with it? It would be great to share ideas on how this could help us as educators. Here's something I did with it: https://lnkd.in/p/e2xzciBs
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The biggest change for me isn’t simply that the model is “smarter”. It is the growing ability to move from answering questions to actually carrying out complex, multi-step work, be it researching, working across documents, coding, analysing information and producing finished outputs. That raises some fascinating questions for me as a teacher. If AI can increasingly do the task, what should we...
Yes, I was playing around with it yesterday and am MIND BLOWN! With very little prompting it could build entire software tools. I imagine a world where everyone will have there own, highly specific software to help with teaching, classroom management, parent communication and more. As an example, just last week I was working on a tool for educators and needed to upload assets (images, video,...
I actually find myself backing off the regular use of AI lately, and I was actually so removed that I didn't even know Chat had released a new model. I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I feel the push of public opinion and the shift around technology in schools creeping in in an unexpected way as a school leader who has been an early adopter all along. I'm finding it difficult to strike a...
My focus has shifted heavily to supporting teachers in understanding their responsibilities as building has become so much easier now. It is fascinating to watch the influx of ¨vendors¨ trying to make a quick buck. I am increasingly worried about teachers who may not have the knowledge regarding data privacy and location-specific regulations, possibly unknowingly getting themselves into a...
Thank you for sharing! This is helpful as I'm getting started exploring.
Michael, your point about task relevance is the one I would build on. When a model can carry out a multi-step piece of work alone, many of our tasks still produce a finished product and no longer require the thinking they were designed for.The check I run on my own tasks is simple. I take the task, remove the product, and ask what thinking is left. If the answer is very little, the task needs...
Dan,The nteractive school leader scenario-based game looks fantastic. I have not tried it yet, but I think I will in the next week or so.Thanks,
For me it is where is the sense making in the task.
I agree completely Laurietta! It is so important to balance innovation with safety. I have not worked with Astra yet and am intrigued to see its' capabililites.
Aloha- First post.I've been doing vibe coding and working with the latest for a while. Astra is definitely up a level and in particular, sending it off to do CAD (computer-aided design) whether through headless Blender (the opensource modeling done through commandline) or it just figures out how to model things. One of the unlocks for either OpenAI/Claude is that it spins up its own computing...