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Anthropic is Bringing Responsible AI to Higher Education 🎓
Use NotebookLM to 'discover sources' on the web
Gina Acosta
April 03, 2025
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Anthropic is introducing a new version of its AI assistant designed to make students do the thinking instead of simply copying answers.
Let’s jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Anthropic Debuts Version of Claude AI Model for Higher Education 🎓
An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test
AI Tutorial: Use NotebookLM to 'discover sources' on the web
AI Tools to check out
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI Findings/Resources
AI News
ANTHROPIC
Anthropic Debuts Version of Claude AI Model for Higher Education 🎓
Anthropic introduced Claude for Education today, a specialized version of its Claude designed to develop students’ critical thinking skills rather than simply provide answers to their questions.
Details:
The company is presenting a new feature called "Learning Mode," which works within Projects and uses Socratic questioning to guide students through problems, helping them develop independent thinking by deepening their understanding instead of just feeding them answers.
The new mode will also provide potentially useful templates for research papers, outlines, and study guides.
Anthropic has already struck "full campus agreements" with Northeastern University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Champlain College to make Claude for Education available to all students.
Finally, the startup is introducing two new student programs: Claude Campus Ambassadors, where students work directly with the Anthropic team to launch campus initiatives, and For Student Builders, offering funding through API credits for students building projects with Claude.
This approach tackles one of the central risks of AI in education: the fear that it might encourage shortcut thinking, offering a model that enhances learning and acts more as a digital tutor rather than an answer engine.
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AI RESEARCH
An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test
Researchers at UC San Diego found that AI systems can consistently pass the famous Turing Test, a method used to evaluate whether a machine can exhibit human-like responses and intelligence to the point where it becomes difficult to distinguish between humans and machines.
Details:
The team evaluated 4 systems (ELIZA, GPT-4o, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations
Participants engaged in 5-minute conversations simultaneously with another human and one of these systems, then judged which conversational partner they believed was human.
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model was deemed human 73 percent of the time when instructed to adopt a persona, significantly more often than the real human participant was selected by interrogators.
LLaMa-3.1, with the same prompt, didn't fall far behind, being judged as human 56% of the time—neither significantly more nor less often than the humans it was compared to. In contrast, ELIZA and GPT-4o achieved win rates significantly below chance, at 23% and 21%, respectively.
The researchers state that these results provide further evidence that LLMs could replace humans in short interactions without anyone being able to tell. However, they also note that the results are not static: as the public becomes more familiar with interacting with AIs, they may become better at identifying them.
AI Tutorial
Use NotebookLM to 'discover sources' on the web
Until recently, NotebookLM worked by requiring users to manually add files and links. Now, Google is introducing a "Discover sources" button that automatically scours the web for relevant source links.
Go to notebooklm.google.com.
Open up a notebook.
In the Sources panel, tap the Discover button.
Describe what you’re interested in.
NotebookLM will hunt through hundreds of potential web sources in seconds, analyzing the most relevant options and then presenting a list of up to ten recommendations, each with a summary explaining its relevance.
Select the sources you want NotebookLM to reference.
Click "Import."
The sources will be saved within NotebookLM, allowing you to read them directly and use them with features like Briefing Docs, FAQs, and Audio Overviews.
👉 For those new to NotebookLM, Google is adding an "I'm feeling curious" button beneath the text field. This generates sources on a completely random topic, offering a quick way to see what the feature can do and a fun way to learn about new subjects.
*Note: Google says the Discover feature started rolling out today for all users and will take “about a week or so” to be available to everyone.
AI Tools to check out
⭐ Replit: Turn your ideas into apps in minutes with AI.
📹 Focal: Online video creation software that helps you tell stories using AI.
🔍 ZeroPath: AI-powered code vulnerability scanning to find and fix broken authentication, logic bugs, outdated dependencies, and more.
🍓 Jam AI: AI that writes bug reports + repro steps for you.
📽 Reap: Transform long videos into viral social shorts with AI.
AI Findings/Resources
😱 Tech industry experts warn AI will make us worse humans
💼 5 things you should never outsource to AI
👗 Calling all fashion models … now AI is coming for you
👀 Google's 9-hour AI prompt engineering course in 8 minutes
The latest in AI and Tech
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OpenAI is forming a group of experts to guide its nonprofit goals as it plans to transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit organization. The group will be announced in April and will submit insights to OpenAI’s board of directors within the next 90 days.
Adobe is upgrading Premiere Pro by introducing highly requested features that were in beta testing, including Generative Extend, which uses AI to lengthen audio and video clips, and a new AI-powered Search panel that automatically recognizes the content of clips in your video library.
Sissie Hsaio, the Google executive who oversaw the launch of the company’s AI chatbot, is stepping down as head of the Gemini app. Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs, will take her place while keeping his current role.
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