#231 – Claude 2, a New Generative AI Option

Tech Talk For Teachers October 31, 2023 10 min

Claude 2, a New Generative AI Option

In today’s episode, we’ll explore the unique capabilities of Claude 2—a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by Anthropic—and consider several practical uses for educators.

Read a transcript of this episode.

Paul Beckermann
PreK–12 Digital Learning Specialist
Podcast Host

Unique Features

  1. Claude 2 is trained on data through December 2022.
  2. It allows for up to 75,000 words of input.
  3. It also allows for the upload of five documents of 10 MB each.
  4. Claude 2 attempts to be safer and less biased through Constitutional AI.

Potential Uses in Education

  1. Summarize long documents.
  2. Recap meeting notes.
  3. Summarize YouTube transcripts.
  4. Analyze data and make connections across multiple documents.
  5. Simplify longer text to produce differentiated learning materials.

For more information about AI, explore the following AVID Open Access article collection: AI in the K–12 Classroom.