August 20, 2024. Today BRN announced the UCARAH project, a program created to license credible and authoritative data to train LLMs and Generative AI tools developed for the education community. The project provides access to 18 years of archived conversations among general education teachers, school administrators, education researchers, university professors, education technologists, school counselors, school psychologists, school nurses, reading specialists, special education teachers, curriculum specialists, and officials from state and federal education departments. The project provides generative AI toolmakers with credible and authoritative LLM training data to deepen their model’s understanding of the education community and increase output accuracy and relevance.
“The era of freely scraping data from the Internet to train the large language models that drive generative AI models is rapidly closing,” said Ismael Desjarlais, Chief Technology Officer at BRN. “BRN’s massive library of educator conversations offers developers of generative AI tools for educators an opportunity to heighten their model’s ability to communicate in an authentic, human-like tone that resonates with educators from school leaders to classroom teachers.”
BRN owns the largest single archive of high-quality, recorded education discussions available for training or fine-tuning Gen AI models to improve reliability, accuracy, relevancy, authenticity, and tone.
For nearly two decades, BRN has been the ears on the ground, tuning into the evolving rhythms of the education community. Today, BRN is an unparalleled reservoir of deeper, more nuanced insights about the global education community. From the perspectives of the US Secretary of Education to the voice of local school teachers, the reflections of UNICEF’s Global Director of Education to the musings of college professors, BRN is where the world’s educators voice their interests, pressing concerns, and top priorities.
“As generative AI tools move from text-based to more audio-based applications, the ability to communicate in a manner and tone that is authentic to educators can provide a powerful competitive edge,” said Errol St. Clair Smith. “More importantly, BRN’s dataset captures 18 years of nuanced insights as the community has evolved over the last two decades. The ability to create AI tools with deeper insight and context is invaluable.”
BRN has produced over 5,000 podcasts and panel discussions with over 15,000 educators. The typical conversations run 30 minutes to one hour and are edited down to between 10 and 15 minutes. Consequently, the publicly available audio represents less that 15 percent of BRN’s total archive available to LLM developers.
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Jeannette Smith
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