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What Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities is Articulate looking to integrate with its authoring tools? Can Chat GPT be leveraged into creating eLearning tools?
Has everyone forgotten that Chat-GPT will just make stuff up and confidently present its made-up statements as facts? I would need a much higher confidence level in Chat-GPT's correctness before I would think of giving it autonomous control over teaching my learners.
From my perspective, a far more useful set of AI enhancements for Storyline would be things like:
- Every time I embed a video on a Storyline page, I want an AI to automatically generate audio descriptions of its visual content and closed captions of its audio content. Allow me to edit/correct the AI's output, but I don't want to have to create these things from scratch for every video. Storyline's AI tools should do most of that work for me.
- I want every audio file to be automatically closed-captioned.
- I want Storyline to discern which graphics on my slides are purely decorative and to automatically hide them from accessibility tools.
- I want Storyline to figure out the most likely intended focus order for the objects on my slides and automatically put them in that order for me.
- I want Storyline's AI to automatically create ALT text for every non-decorative image.
- I want Storyline to detect whether the course is WCAG-compliant and if not, to automatically fix whatever issues it finds, asking me for help only when it needs more information to complete the fix.
- AI translation into other languages
These features, while not as sexy as one-button course-writing, would be more useful for producing high quality accessible courses. The technology for most of the things on this list already exists, so Articulate would just need to license the tech and integrate it into Storyline.
For example, OpenAI's whisper library can already "listen" to recorded audio (or the audio track in common video formats such as mp4) and "understand" what the person is saying so that it can automatically generate timed closed-caption files in the SRT format which Storyline accepts.
Another example is that the AI image generating tool Midjourney already has a "/describe" command in which an AI "looks" at an image and outputs text describing what it "sees" there. A tuned version of this would presumably be able to "look" at any image you put on a Storyline slide and automatically describe it in a few words in a ALT tag.
Hi Ray
I like your suggestions. They are practical.
However, I think Articualte should 'go big' on AI - what can be achieved that is revolutionary and stretches the interactive paradigm. This is what Americans are particularly good and brave in pursuing.
As for AI 'Hallucinating' yes that's a problem, however not a problem for all course content. For example, a course on cancer therapy - well no not a good idea to create such a chat box integration. For a course on creating advanced spreadsheets and formulas well that's far safer.
I hope we see AI integration as an extension to how a learner can interact and push their learning along and not have a Kodak moment, where Articulate is left wondering what happened...