UCLA announced the forthcoming AI textbookin a blog post.
The company that generated the textbook iscalled Kudu.
College textbooks and the economy around them have long beena nightmare.
The AI-generated cover for the forthcoming “textbook.“© UCLA AI-generated image.
For decades, printing presses churned out massive textbooks that cost hundreds of dollars.
Worse was the proliferation of expensive access codes.
Kudu is charging students $25 per semester to use the textbook.
Its all accessed online so theres no weighty book to haul across campus.
According to Kudu and the ACLU, the coursework was created in collaboration with the professor.
The textbooks are custom-made for each class and take upwards of four months to produce.
What pops out on the other end is an interactive system.
Once something is generated, Kudu pays the professor to fact check and critique the work.
There are many written bits, as well as videos and course assignments.
The LLM is only trained on the material and has no access to anything outside of it.
It will only respond based on course content, Stahuljak told UCLA.
Kudu also claimed it has a system to detect when a student is generating answers using AI systems.
Normally, I would spend lectures contextualizing the material and using visuals to demonstrate the content.
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