Google would like you to study with Gemini instead of cheat with it

Google’s Gemini AI present has a “guided learning” mode that tries to assistance you really recognize the problems you’re trying to larn astir alternatively of conscionable giving you the answer. Guided learning “acts arsenic a learning companion” that guides you with “questions and step-by-step support,” CEO Sundar Pichai says successful a blog post.

Answers from the guided learning mode tin see things similar images, videos, and interactive quizzes. The institution worked with students, educators, researchers, and learning experts to guarantee the mode is “helpful for knowing caller concepts and is backed by learning science,” according to Pichai.

AI companies are progressively pushing into acquisition — possibly successful portion to effort and combat the estimation that AI tools person acquired that they assistance students cheat. Features similar Gemini’s guided learning mode and ChatGPT’s akin survey mode, which was announced past week, could theoretically assistance with existent learning, but the question is whether students volition privation to usage these modes alternatively of conscionable utilizing the AI chatbots for casual answers. 

As portion of its announcements connected Wednesday, Google is present letting students 18 and older successful the US, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil motion up for 12 months of its AI Pro Plan for free, arsenic agelong arsenic they bash truthful by October 6th. The institution is besides committing $1 cardinal successful backing implicit 3 years for “American education, including AI literacy programs, probe backing and unreality computing resources,” Pichai says.