Adobe Inc.

09/16/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 09/16/2024 09:31

Adobe supercharges studying with Acrobat AI Assistant for college students

Adobe supercharges studying with Acrobat AI Assistant for college students

Today's students face more information than ever from course readings, articles, lecture notes, research papers and other supplementary materials. To help manage the crush of information and transform thousands of pages into insights they can use, Adobe is offering a deeply discounted, yet fully featured Acrobat AI Assistant subscription for students at just $1.99/month.

Helping students spend less time searching and more time learning

Acrobat AI Assistant can help students focus their study time and effort - prioritizing the most important information at the right time:

  • Summaries and Outlines for More Focus: Academic articles and readings often have long blocks of dense text, tables and charts that can be hard to navigate and understand. Acrobat AI Assistant helps by summarizing documents into concise outlines, making it easier for students to find what they need so they can spend more time close reading, analyzing and understanding. They can also Ask Acrobat AI Assistant to synthesize information, present it in easier to understand language or summarize key themes to improve comprehension.
  • Intelligent Citations: Attribution and citation are essential for schoolwork. Acrobat AI Assistant provides clickable attributions so students can easily verify where the information came from in the document and include that information in reports, essays or projects.
  • Insights Across Documents and File Types: Students often need to compare, contrast, and draw connections across multiple readings and articles. Acrobat AI Assistant makes it simple to gather insights across multiple readings and documents - including PDFs, Word docs and PowerPoint decks - all at once. Seamless file conversion means students simply upload the docs they want to study together instead of having to manually upload and convert them one at a time.
  • Study Support on the Go: AI Assistant supports all surfaces - desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, ensuring that students can always access AI Assistant whether they are in their dorm rooms, the classroom the library or on the go. Additionally, a new two-way voice interaction feature that allows students to have a verbal conversation with AI Assistant is set to launch soon.

AI Assistant in action on campus

Creating a study guide requires students to pull information from different presentations, papers, and lecture notes before the even get to studying .With Acrobat AI Assistant, students can bring all of the relevant documents together instantly and then organize the information by key themes, definitions, dates or other thematic elements so students can review and learn the material in ways that are most effective for them.

When preparing for an exam or presentation, students can use Acrobat AI Assistant to test their understanding of specific topics. For example, if a student is preparing for an upcoming midterm, they can input their class documents into Acrobat AI Assistant and ask it to generate quiz questions or flashcards with answers. When preparing a presentation, students can upload their presentation and accompanying course materials and ask Acrobat AI Assistant what questions their professor or peers may have so they can practice thoughtful responses.

Acrobat AI Assistant can also be a valuable tool for brainstorming ideas. For example, after reading a research report about the Fall of the Roman Empire, a group of students are assigned to present one of the major themes. Acrobat AI Assistant can provide a list of themes like instability, economic decline and overexpansion, offering thought starters to review, analyze, compare and eventually pull together into a presentation.

Our ongoing commitment to responsible AI

Adobe is committed to developing and deploying AI responsibly for all of our customers - including students. Acrobat AI Assistant includes key features and practices to help keep student data safe while providing transparency:

  • AI Ethics Testing and Reviews: All features of Acrobat AI Assistant undergo Adobe's responsible AI Ethics governance process, ensuring they align with our principles of accountability, responsibility, and transparency.
  • Data Privacy: Adobe adheres to a "your data is your data" privacy approach, which means that customer data, including student documents, are not used to train our models.
  • Guardrails for LLMs: When using third-party LLM technologies, Adobe requires providers to adhere to strict confidentiality and security protocols and prohibits them from manually reviewing or training their models on Adobe customer data.
  • Responsible AI and Media Literacy Curriculum: Developed as part of the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative and in collaboration with education experts, the curriculum introduces middle, high school and university students to AI and engages them in critical conversations surrounding the technology.
  • A shared responsibility: Adobe takes many steps to develop and deploy AI features responsibly and we ask our customers to do their part by using the features responsibly as well.

Whether students are doing extensive research for a term paper or quizzing themselves ahead of the big final, Acrobat AI Assistant can help them spend less time searching and more time analyzing, reviewing and learning about the information that matters. We look forward to hearing new and creative ways students are using Acrobat AI Assistant to explore exciting topics, master new subjects and prepare for what's next with Acrobat AI Assistant. Try Acrobat AI Assistant today!