How to Use ThingLink’s New Artificial Intelligence Features

Louise Jones July 18, 2024

In 2023, we launched an exciting group of webinars, to engage with ThingLink creators and explore how AI could be integrated into their work. ThingLink Founder and CEO Ulla-Maaria Koivula emphasized three guiding principles: transparency, privacy, and control, ensuring responsible AI technology use.

Building upon these fruitful conversations and grounded in these fundamental principles, we are thrilled to introduce our series of AI features. These remarkable AI-powered features empower content creators to optimize their time. ThingLink’s AI capabilities can speed up your workflow, giving you more time to spend on creativity.

Whether you use the ThingLink Editor or you’ve started using Scenario Builder, you can use our AI features to bring your ThingLink projects to life:

In the ThingLink Editor

• AI Image Generation for 2D and 360 Images

• Tag Suggestions with or without additional context from a PDF

In the ThingLink Scenario Builder:

• Suggest Branches: Ask AI to suggest 4 branching paths based on the content of your scenario. 

• Generate Questions: Use AI to generate 5 multiple-choice questions based on the content of your scenario. 

• Write a Recap: Use AI to summarize the content of the scenario. 

Specifically in the Text boxes, you can also:

• Improve Writing 

• Suggest a matching image 

• Convert text to a ThingLink scene (using text to image AI)

Privacy, control, cybersecurity and access is paramount

Rest assured, your data is securely stored end-to-end within ThingLink’s own installation of OpenAI. Moreover, ThingLink School or Organization accounts allow admins to enable or disable AI functionality for your team, school, campus, or organization. Head over to your organization settings to configure the experience for your specific ecosystem. Please note: The ThingLink AI assisted creation experience is by default toggled off for students, this is a control in the ThingLink administration console.

What are the benefits of our AI Features?

We understand that starting the content creation process can be daunting, especially when you’re at the beginning of your ThingLink journey. That’s where our AI features come to the rescue. in the editor, Tag Suggestions suggests up to nine editable or deletable tags based on a brief description of your project or idea, expediting the writing process for your written content. To provide additional context and to ensure higher accuracy and detail, you also have the option of uploading your own PDF, currently up to 25MB. Feel free to modify the AI-generated content to align with your target audience or incorporate specific product descriptions.

Or perhaps you need some extra help getting started with ThingLink’s Scenario Builder? It’s become invaluable for educators who want their students to practice real-time decision-making and problem-solving before entering a real-world environment. It is an easily accessible way to create mixed-reality learning experiences, forecast to be one of the most important trends in education and training this decade. Utilize our AI features to help with questions, branching, text boxes and even get a recap of your whole scenario! Recreate any environment, simulate a customer experience, or put learners in the shoes of real characters from history.

Curious about how it works?

Similar to other renowned generative AI tools and apps like ChatGPT and Copy.AI, our ThingLink AI features utilize natural language processing (NLP) algorithms. Using machine learning models, they generate predictive copy and suggestions that align with the input content brief, simply giving you more time to unleash your creative potential.

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For more AI project ideas, use cases and inspiration on content creation, join our communities on social media for case studies, templates, chat and more! LinkedIn Community, Twitter Creative Learning Design Community and ThingLink Education Facebook Group.

We have ThingLink creators worldwide across a huge range of sectors including education, healthcare, financial services, transportation and publishing.

We look forward to welcoming you!