After wading into ChatGPT o3’s explanations for Information Theory, the idea presented itself of trying to create an explanatory lesson to help with understanding the concepts.
After many many iterations (days) of working with ChatGPT 03, and Powerpoint, here’s a “Lesson One” version of learning Information Theory.
- first slide takes a while to get to second slide.
- some slides go by way too fast..
- the QR code doesn’t currently “work”
- lessons 2 through 8 are pending according to ChatGPT o3
- but not happening under this amount of difficulty of current process.
Powerpoint can be a very finicky/ fussy/ hair-pulling-out type of app to work with, and when it’s being “used” by ChatGPT o3, all sorts of “things” can and do go wrong, or be a difficult process. ChatGPT o3, to its credit, keeps offering code and scripts to automate the process, which would be useful, one presumes, if one knows how to use and control and fine tune Python code.
Not having that capability…one awaits the day when this process might be able to create actual MP4 files that “do instruction” quite adequately. The “Lesson One” MP4 included above could have had a video insert speaking further explanations for each slide, and the possibilities of interactive quizzes are also present, if not always smoothly accessible.
Also, while ChatGPT o3 knows something about learning and teaching, it has some ways to go to be a fully functioning partner to teachers and other course creators. What it can do is amazing; what it needs to do is harder.
Bottom line: Â potentials for making this a layman’s activity seem not TOO far off…although OpenAI and Microsoft don’t seem to be working together as closely as they were a few months ago.
Open AI talks a lot about agentic AI, and demos some versions of that. ChatGPT 03 does seem to be able to use some “tools”, and as noted, if one is comfortable using and modifying Python, then a lot more functionality is already available.