More Comp Sci research! News and Research - Episode 10 of Series 9

News
This week's news we rushed through includes "Study Buddy or Influencer?", the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into the use of Gen AI in the Australia Education System aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/H…
NSW EduChat has been extended for all teachers in all New South Wales Schools - innovationaus.com/nsw-teachers-to-get-time-sav… Learn more about the NSW EduChat chatbot in the first episode of Series 9
Microsoft announced Copilot Wave 2 microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/09…
OpenAI's new model o1-preview came out - and it's much, much better and logical reasoning and maths Find out what people think by looking at what Ethan Mollick is saying about it (and, as I suggest on the podcast, keenly watch Dan Hart's posts as he's benchmarking it now in the context of EduChat)
Google released a podcast-generator as part of NotebookLM, which turns any kind of paper/book etc into a short podcast. To find out what it's like I gave it the top research paper from the podcast last time and you can compare it versus me! There's a quick demo review by Ethan here and you can login and have a play directly here: notebooklm.google.com (it has two main uses, because on top of this autopodcast, it's original purpose was to allow you give it a pile of documents and it can work with all of them at the same time for q&a, summaries etc)

Research
Here's the links to all nine papers we discussed in this week's episode:
Generative AI in Real-World Workplaces microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prodnew/2…
Can Large Language Models Make the Grade? dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3657604.3664693
PlagBench: Exploring the Duality of Large Language Models in Plagiarism Generation and Detection arxiv.org/abs/2406.16288
The global landscape of academic guidelines for generative AI and Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2406.18842
"Is ChatGPT a Better Explainer than My Professor?": Evaluating the Explanation Capabilities of LLMs in Conversation Compared to a Human Baseline arxiv.org/abs/2406.18512
Perceived Impact of Generative AI on Assessments: Comparing Educator and Student Perspectives in Australia, Cyprus, and the United States sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920…
Jill Watson: Scaling and Deploying an AI Conversational Agent in Online Classrooms dilab.gatech.edu/publications/jill-watson-scal… dilab.gatech.edu/test/wp-content/uploads/2024/…
Integrating AI in College Education: Positive yet Mixed Experiences with ChatGPT arxiv.org/abs/2407.05810
The AI Companion in Education: Analyzing the Pedagogical Potential of ChatGPT in Computer Science and Engineering arxiv.org/abs/2407.05205