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by rnosov 1200 days ago
I'm not entirely sure what sort of courses you are planning to offer, but what I can tell you is that course material quality at traditional higher education providers (bottom tier) is appalling (and they know it). If you can get it right, that would be worth a lot more than $1m/year. At the moment, the most obvious bottleneck would be the relatively small context window of GPT models (<3k words). It is speculated that OpenAI plans to increase it to 24k words, which would make it a lot more feasible though.
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Course Copilot will be course-agnostic at this point. It will serve any course creator to create any course they want.

And I 100% agree with you regarding quality and effectiveness of the online course material we're seeing in the market at the moment.

As for the context window side, you're right about current limitations. Though I'm developing a way for the user to grow with the bot. Essentially chunking down inputs, storing them in a way that can be referenced and recalled over time, and allowing us to pass those prompts to GPT within the token limit.