AI will help teach a Harvard coding class

Welcome back to another Daily Update — here’s today’s menu:

🗞️ The Latest in AI: OpenAI creates new team to take on “superintelligent” AI systems

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📸 Industry Spotlight: AI will help teach a Harvard coding class

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: OpenAI creates new team to take on “superintelligent” AI systems

OpenAI plans to form a new team to control and manage the risks of superintelligent AI systems. Artificial superintelligence is a hypothetical AI system that could surpass human cognitive abilities.

The company behind ChatGPT believes superintelligence could arrive this decade. OpenAI said the new team will “steer and control AI systems much smarter than us.”

Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever and the research lab’s Head of Alignment Jan Leike are co-leaders of the effort. OpenAI made a call to machine learning researchers and engineers to join the team.

The announcement comes as governments around the world draft legislation to regulate the use of AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been extensively involved in the process.

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📸 Business Spotlight: AI will help teach a Harvard coding class

Harvard University plans to use a GPT model to help teach CS50, a popular intro-level coding course, starting this fall. The AI will grade assignments, teach coding and personalize learning tips according to Professor David J. Malan.

“Our own hope is that, through AI, we can eventually approximate a 1:1 teacher:student ratio for every student in CS50, as by providing them with software-based tools that, 24/7, can support their learning at a pace and in a style that works best for them individually,” Malan said.

The course staff is currently experimenting with both GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 models. The team is fine-tuning an AI system to grade students’ work and testing a virtual TA to evaluate and provide feedback on students’ programming.

CS50 will be taken by hundreds of students on-campus and over 40,000 online. The course is one of the most popular classes featured on edX, an online learning platform built by MIT and Harvard.

Although this move is experimental, it could have major implications down the road for AI-driven education.

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