Can an AI teach science effectively to the YouTube generation?

NO! Even though my journey and the results were very encouraging for an AI-generated science teacher, the simple fact is that teachers do so much more than just teach the subject. They are also criminally undervalued and underpaid. So, I opine that this technology is not a replacement but a teaching tool for teachers and educators to produce content that is both engaging and reduces effort.

Why did I start this journey?

If, like me, you have any experience in entertaining kids, trying to find content for them to consume is a constantly challenging task. Here was my biggest beef with finding good YouTube content for the kids.

Don’t even get me started on finding content on TV. I love Sesame Street, but everything else was just too Disney-ed. (I don’t have anything against that, btw, big fans of the mouse).

I decided to take AI’s help.

Using AI to come up with the framework for the channel.

The first thing I wanted to do was to get a good understanding of how to do this. So, I went to ChatGPT and asked it to give me some basic principles in making a YouTube channel for this purpose. It was surprisingly very helpful.

I wanted to truly understand the academic principles behind these key points. So, I asked AI to elaborate on them.

To summarize the above, essentially, I needed to keep content in multiple steps: introduce a higher concept and build up to it, incorporate both visual and audio cues, and make it exciting.

As for the actual content, I did not have to look far. I am constantly bombarded with questions by my kids, so I decided to use that as the content for the series. Some of their questions were:

I took the above and designed a framework.

Using AI to come up with the framework for the videos.

I asked AI to help me framework a video structure based on these principles and keep it to 2 minutes in length and provide me an example.

I boiled this down to this infographic.

Using AI to come up with the script for the videos.

I then used AI to develop the script for the video with this framework in mind. The process was relatively simple, and I was able to get repeatable results in only a few tries.

Using AI to produce the videos.

This video does complete justice to this tech.

Lets dive into what this technology is and how it works.

The tech uses a series of deep neural networks that study the way people talk and can output a very realistic rendition of text-to-speech. To create new avatars or custom avatars (even your own), the below is the process (as stated by the company itself)

Now using the framework from above. I created a template to be used to create videos.

Synthesia allows you to input text and the rest of the work is done by the service. I did however create a lot of the animations and images that supplemented the videos.

Let's look at how the final product came out.

The kids loved the series, and they were able to recall the concepts introduced in them. The videos were short enough to keep their attention span. I would personally consider this experiment a win.

In conclusion, this tech is not designed to replace a teacher, since the feedback and interaction with the kids are absent. This technology is a great tool for teachers and educators to use to create quality custom content in an affordable, efficient, and easy way.

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