Two Quick Shares (and a bonus deal about to expire)
Quick update about Khanmigo, Sora, and Unschooler
Afternoon Pioneers!
Quick check-in on a couple of items that will be worth your attention. The last one is actually a deep discount on a product that expires tomorrow. We will discuss below whether it makes sense to “act fast, or let it pass.”
FIRST: Remember this weekend when I shared this video of a young man asking about cheating with ChatGPT?
That video was recorded at the Abundance 360 event this weekend, hosted by Peter Diamandis. If you don’t know about Peter, he is the guy behind all the “X” prizes. His work on “Massively Transformative Purposes.” He even has a really cool tool and training to explore your ideas. That training is actually what inspired me to go after the vision of vPALs.
Anyways - Abundance 360 - there was a big discussion about what AI in Education will look like in the near future (5 years?) and also some discussion about Khanmigo now. If you haven’t tested Khanmigo - at $4 (discounted) per learner, it might be one of the best entry points for learners to use AI for personalized learning.
NEXT: The second thing I want to share with you is the new SORA model from OpenAI. This model is really cool because it can make videos look much more realistic and almost like a CGI effect. It's different from previous text-to-video models that looked kind of trippy, strange, and dreamlike. Filmmakers are probably going bonkers about this new technology. I can't wait to share more details with you in an upcoming blog post!
But in a nutshell: the other text-to-video models that blew people away (Pika for example) are really cool, but they take the whole video frame, and try to guess what will happen next - the same way ChatGPT tries to guess what words you want or expect to see in response to your inputs.
What makes Sora mind-blowing (and trust me, the “experts” were buzzing this past week) is that Sora takes every little object in the frame (I learned cinematographers call this a “patch”) and predicts how that patch might move or change.
End result - text-to-video capability that looks like near CGI. 🤯
Btw - in December 2022 we ran our first Acton Film Festival at Savor Cinema, and we are planning a second “AI Film Festival” for December 2024. I cannot wait to see what 7-year-olds will create when they only need to describe what they want to see on the screen!
LASTLY: There’s a deal over at AppSumo for an AI tool for educators called Unschooler. For $69 you can buy what would normally cost you $240.
Unschooler is an AI-driven education platform that rapidly creates courses designed to interact with students and adapt to their feedback.
Should you buy?
Maybe. If you are creating tons of curriculum/learning design now, this looks like an interesting tool and while I haven’t tested this tool for you guys… I have bought deals from AppSumo before. You get a ton of value, and often a “lifetime deal” so you don’t have to pay monthly subscriptions. Test it hard if you plan to buy, but the deadline is LESS THAN 24 HOURS AWAY.
Reasons NOT to buy: There will always be a cost to AI products because it takes a lot of “compute” to make these LLM’s do the dirty work of creating amazing results. IF someone is offering an AI tool at a discounted and one-time price, it is possible they are plugging into the cheapest models (GPT3.5 or open-source models like Mixtral) to minimize their hard costs. This degradation might even happen over time after they attract their buyers. I am a hard NO on this one, but I do see why a dedicated education tool could be of interest to some.
See you in the comments!