The Autonomous Instructional Designer Has Arrived: Arist Creator
As I discussed a few months ago, autonomous corporate learning is here. And unlike autonomous driving, which can cause an accident, these new tools are astoundingly accurate and can do things human designers find quite difficult.
Today Arist, a pioneer in mobile adaptive learning, introduced their new product Arist Creator, a major upgrade from the company’s prior product Sidekick. AI Creator can ingest more than 5,000 pages of documentation, translate content into 50+ languages, and generate comprehensive instructional courses (in the Arist format and in PowerPoint) with the rigor needed for even a pharmaceutical company.
As with Galileo, our expert AI assistant for HR, Arist Creator is built on modern LLM technology and uses a sophisticated prompting system to let you, as a training professional, generate courses that are specifically tailored to your needs. And as you’ll see from the demo, you can regenerate courses for different audiences, languages, and levels of instructional rigor.
The video below, which shows the real system, demonstrates how a large pharma company takes highly technical drug documentation and quickly creates a course for pharma sales teams, pharmacists, and clinicians. The demo shows how a non-technical user (ie. an instructional designer or training manager) can easily prompt the system to create precisely the course, assessments, and interactivities they need.
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(As you’ll see, the designer is targeting the course to “Interventional Cardiologists” who are “experts” in the subject. You will see how a designer “automatically” creates the course, translates it into different languages, and how the course can be retargeted for sales representatives who teach cardiologists about this topic.)
What This Means For Businesses: Democratizing Training and Enablement
Arist Creator, which is a groundbreaking tool, is one of many new autonomous learning solutions coming. Vendors like Docebo, Sana, Uplimit and others are using generative AI to make content easier and easier to create. What are the implications of this massive shift?
Well, as I’ve witnessed over many years, when a tool like this becomes available, the market gets orders of magnitude bigger. People who would never have considered themselves instructional designers can suddenly build courses and enablement tools.
Think about what PowerPoint and MS Word did for writing and presentations – everyone became a designer, editor, and writer. In this case companies may no longer need to use tools like Articulate or other complex products for content generation – great instructional content will be created in near real-time.
This is not to say that instructional experts will go away. When like Wix and WordPress democratized web development, we then needed more sophisticated experts to add e-commerce, social systems, and other features to our websites. So designers will start with Arist Creator and then use the content created to build new and better versions for different audiences, and focus on “how people learn” and not “how to build a video.”
I’ve been in corporate L&D since the early 2000s and I distinctly remember when the first “PowerPoint to Flash” products hit the market. Instructional designers were flaming the idea of “throwing video at learners,” only later to learn that YouTube and TikTok would take over. This is what’s happening in training today. These types of tools will help us build content faster, keep it up to date, and save our valuable time to make sure the content is relevant.
My hat’s off to Arist for building such an elegant system in this early stage of the market. This product appears to be ready to use now and I expect many more to come soon.
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