Another AI experience

Open access to ChatGPT has generated a lot of attention focused on the capabilities of AI writing. Here is another interesting application.

I use Glasp to annotate online articles, to store the annotations I make to Kindle books, and to find others who have used Glasp to annotate the same sources. Glasp includes the AI capability to summarize the notes that were taken from a source. The situation in which I found this valuable or at least interesting is to summarize in situations where I have identified a lot of highlights or taken a lot of notes.

The following is the Glasp section that identifies the Kindle books I have linked to Glasp. In the right-hand column you will see a red box surrounding the link that asks the AI system to summarize your highlights and notes from a given book. The Summary appears in the window that appears below this link. The text in the background includes the original highlights and notes from the source.

The summary I generated is for my Kindle book – Designing Instruction Using Layering Services. I highlight and annotate all of the Kindle books I read including those I have written. The summary appears below so it is easier to read.

Layering services is a concept that involves adding content to raw information to guide learning. Educators and instructional designers can use layering services to influence the learning process by providing prompts, questions, and feedback. This can help students gain attention, inform them of objectives, recall prior learning, present content, provide guidance, practice, feedback, and assess performance. Layering services can also be used to enhance retention and transfer of knowledge.

Just to be clear, AI writing does not copy text it identifies as especially important, it summarizes what it processes. I did not write any of the sentences in the brief summary. The product that the AI process generated seems a reasonable description to me.