AI tools and apps are being rapidly developed. The Articulate suite of tools could integrate capabilities such as: A virtual instructional designer workflow that can either output storyboards or create complete courses and enable an iterative improvement with repeated prompting. A chatbox that can be restricted to replying only to questions that are relevant to the course topics. An AI-based photography applet that enables a photo-realistic creation of avatars with myriad poses and emotions beyond the current set of cut-out people. What do you think?

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.

"A chatbox that can be restricted to replying only to questions that are relevant to the course topics." 10000x this please!

I'd be keen to hear the outcome of this.

I'm also keen to hear what Articulate's plans are for incorporating AI into the course development tools. Just this week I've been looking at Pictory for automatically creating videos with voice-over; and today a webinar by EdApp showing AI Create, which creates a course from a simple prompt.

For Articulate to remain a competitive and leading player in the industry, it must provide an API for Chat-GPT to access and allow for the construction of more sophisticated and adaptive courses. This API would enable developers to build courses with dynamic structure, content, and questions. Developers would be able to use the API to create scenes, slides, layers, buttons, and to import Word documents to convert them into Storyline projects. Having an API for Chat-GPT would allow Articulate to remain competitive and ensure that it remains a leading player in the industry. It would also allow developers to create more interactive and adaptive courses that are tailored to each user's needs. This could be a major advantage for Articulate, as it would help to differentiate them from other providers in the industry and provide a greater range of services to their customers.

What Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities is Articulate looking to integrate with its authoring tools? Can Chat GPT be leveraged into creating eLearning tools?

KarlMuller
Community Member
9 months ago
Here is some interesting AI news from Articulate https://community.articulate.com/articles/coming-soon-articulate-ai-with-video
- BWoods
  Former Staff
  9 months ago
  Good catch! And if you're curious for even more details, we just added these upcoming AI features to the Articulate Feature Roadmap here: https://access.articulate.com/support/article/Articulate-360-Feature-Roadmap#enable
- ChristineBey911
  Community Member
  9 months ago
  Hi Karl, I was reading a previous post of yours that indicates you use Top Class LMS. We also use Top Class. Curious as to how you like your LMS? Feel free to email me at my work email: cjones@iianc.com
RogerBeckett-f2
Community Member
9 months ago
Is it correct to assume that Articulate's AI features will be running in the cloud?
If so, how are organizations dealing with company data likely being processed outside the organization in terms of privacy and cyber security?
Are there any data flow diagrams available for how these Articulate AI features will be implemented?
- SarahHodge
  Former Staff
  9 months ago
  Hi Roger! We will not be using your data to train any AI models, nor will your data be stored long-term with any subprocessors. We will be able to provide more information when the feature is released.
  - RogerBeckett-f2
    Community Member
    8 months ago
    
    Sarah Hodge
    
    Hi Roger! We will not be using your data to train any AI models, nor will your data be stored long-term with any subprocessors. We will be able to provide more information when the feature is released.
    
    Thank you, Sarah.
    Much appreciated.
    
    Thanks,
    Roger
PaulArrighi-f37
Community Member
8 months ago
Hi Sarah

As an alternative, will there be a way to upload private data/information and have AI learn from it to populate a chat box embedded in a 360 course while maintaining private data privacy?

Think of it this way:

Create a course

Embed a chatbot that has access to supplied data/ FAQs/spreadsheets

As the user completes the course, they can interact with the chatbot. Bonus if the chatbot instance can read across all courses via CMI or xAPI...
DustinParker-ae
Staff
8 months ago
Hi Paul, this will not be part of our first release of AI tools but is something we're looking into supporting in the future.
SumitKakkar-be5
Community Member
7 months ago
Seems like amazing features are on the way to explore more about eLearning, Can anyone help me finding present complex features of Articulate Storyline VS how we will be saving time and effort once AI will be launched?
RobWard-b747080
Community Member
7 months ago
Good Morning. I saw a demo of some of the new Rise AI functionality in your webinar several weeks back...very exciting!!!

Can you share a timeline when this will be released? We have several projects that would greatly benefit from this new AI functionality.

Thx
BWoods
Former Staff
7 months ago
Hi Rob. We're currently targeting Spring 2024 for launching a beta of the first Articulate AI features. And this is just the start—you can expect additional AI features to be added over time.

We'll be posting more details here on E-Learning Heroes soon, so be sure to keep an eye on our homepage for news.
SinchuRaj-
Community Member
7 months ago
I've integrated OpenAI into Storyline, allowing you to input any tool you want to learn, and the course will be generated accordingly. While it's currently focused on tools, this capability is scalable to any content users want to learn.

Additionally, there's a question validation page where you can input your own questions, expected answers, and user responses, and then use AI to validate them. You can also edit tags by entering "Ctrl+ Q" on the last question page.

Please review and share your feedback.

ChatGPT | Review 360 (articulate.com)
- RayCole-2d64185
  Community Member
  7 months ago
  That is an impressive integration! Nice work.
  
  It does show the limitations of text-based chat, though. The prototype you shared teaches us about a tool, but not how to use it. It doesn't drive learner practice with the tool.
  
  What I would like to see is if Chat-GPT can generate problem-based learning scenarios for the selected tool. Actually, tools are probably not the best fit because to learn any software tool it's almost a necessity to be able to see and interact with the software's various screens, and Chat-GPT isn't able to generate accurate images of software screens.
  
  But could your interface be useful for teaching things more compatible with a text-centric interface with images that don't have to exactly match anything specific in the real world? For example, could it teach Hazard Analysis by generating an image of a work site with some hazards and asking learners to identify the hazards they see? Then it could ask what measures the learner would take to protect against those hazards while working in the space shown.
  
  If it did this for a variety of spaces, it would drive learner practice in simple hazard recognition, at least, and get you more into the realm of "learning how" rather than just "learning about."
  
  None of which should take away from your very interesting integration of Chat-GPT with Storyline. It is a really cool technology demonstration.
MathNotermans-9
Community Member
6 months ago
For those interested about AI in Storyline. Last week we finished a first prototype of AI-based chat tool directly in Storyline. Builtin is the option to upload a document and instructions to ensure openAI doesnot make up non-existing content and all answers will come from the uploaded doc(s). As all is handled by NodeJS on the server, it ofcourse is safe.
PaulArrighi-f37
Community Member
6 months ago
Are you suggesting that, say, a manual on aircraft maintenance or statute books (documents) can be loaded, and then a learner can interrogate a chatbot, with the chatbot only replying to the user based on content within the uploaded docs?

Can you demo this?

Can the chatbot be personalised?

If so, can you share this?
- MathNotermans-9
  Community Member
  6 months ago
  Yes, not suggesting. Have that working ! . As it is a prototype i am working on for Tilburg University, no i cannot share. I can demo this however, and yes...it can be personalised exactly as you need/want it. Contact me at m.notermans@tilburguniversity.edu for more info and a demo.