RT conferenceObject T1 “A piece of cake”: sustainable education practices with transformer models A1 de Arriba Perez, Francisco A1 García Méndez, Silvia A1 González Castaño, Francisco Javier A2 IADIS Press K1 5801 Teoría y Métodos Educativos K1 1203.04 Inteligencia Artificial K1 1203.10 Enseñanza Con Ayuda de Ordenador AB New advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly transformer language models, have disruptively changed the current education and training practices. The latter advancements have forced a shift towards a more practical and sustainable learning process with the ultimate objective of creating active, high-quality, and continuous educational services. However, human intervention is still essential to keep control over the outcomes of AI-based solutions. Thus, this work contributes with a fully functional and well-designed Conversational Assistant for Knowledge Enhancement (CAKE), which integrates a transformer model in a chatbot platform with empathetic capabilities. The proposed environment is fully immersive and incorporates gamification. Natural Language Processing techniques are exploited through prompts. The most relevant features of CAKE are its flexibility regarding language, areas and topics covered, and the education level of the end users. Results obtained in two evaluation scenarios endorse the performance of the proposed solution and motivate us to continue this research line toward real-time monitoring of smart learning. SN 9789898704511 YR 2023 FD 2023 LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/6704 UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/6704 LA eng NO En Proceedings of the International conferences E-learning and digital learning 2023 and Sustainability, technology and education 2023 July 15-17, 2023 (146-153) DS Investigo RD 21-abr-2025