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Synthesis Tutor is an innovative AI-powered learning assistant designed to help students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity through personalized, interactive conversations. Unlike traditional tutoring tools that focus on rote memorization, Synthesis Tutor engages students in dynamic discussions, encouraging them to ask questions, explore concepts deeply, and think independently. Built on advanced AI models, the tutor adapts to each student's learning style and pace, offering customized explanations, real-time feedback, and guided problem-solving. Synthesis Tutor is designed to stimulate curiosity and intellectual growth, making it ideal for students who want to go beyond standard classroom learning. It is available on-demand, giving students instant access to help whenever they need it, whether for challenging math problems, complex science topics, or brainstorming creative ideas.

Creating solutions to unforeseen problems is second nature in human intelligence, a result of critical thinking informed by experience. The machine learning community has made tremendous progress in generating and understanding textual data, but advances in problem-solving remain limited to relatively simple maths and programming problems, or else retrieving and copying existing solutions. As part of DeepMind’s mission to solve intelligence, we created a system called AlphaCode that writes computer programs at a competitive level. AlphaCode achieved an estimated rank within the top 54% of participants in programming competitions by solving new problems that require a combination of critical thinking, logic, algorithms, coding, and natural language understanding. AlphaCode uses transformer-based language models to generate code at an unprecedented scale, and then smartly filters to a small set of promising programs.