Projects

The following are some projects that the rectorate is currently conducting. If you are your department is interested in working with us, please contact us. Please also note that such projects can be supported through the Innovedum focal point theme AI in Teaching and Learning.

• Problem Solving: exploring the problem-solving capabilities of AI in STEM courses. For example, external pageGPT can pass introductory physics coursescall_made.
• Accessibility: using artificial intelligence be used to make lecture materials accessible for learners with disabilities. For example, external pageLaTeX documents and slidescall_made. Another topic is generating ALT-tags for images, and using AI to generate transcripts of blackboards.
• Grading: using artificial intelligence to assist in grading handwritten mathematical derivations and proofs. So far, external pagean agreement of R²>0.8 could be achieved between manual and AI gradingcall_made. Also, a pre-trained GPT-4 has been shown to perform as well as specificially trained hand-engineered system for external pageautomatically grading short answers to science questionscall_made.
• Course Evaluations:  artificial intelligence may help in more quickly gaining an overview of open-ended course evaluations.
• Usage by Learners: survey on awareness regarding opportunities and challenges of AI-tools, as well as usage patterns among learners at ETH Zurich.
• Retrieval Augmented Generation: increasing the accuracy of AI-generated chats by retrieving relevant sections of course materials and inserting them into the prompts.
• Spezialized Large Language Model: in collaboration with EPFL, we plan to tune an open-weight Large Language Model for our teaching mission. We appreciate contributions of teaching materials for tuning purposes.

Several of these projects are pre-studies for Project Ethel.