…clearly AI is going to win against human intelligence. It’s not even close. – Daniel Kahneman (2021)
7 links for the week ahead
- Mark Carrigan (2024-06-06). How to Enjoy Writing #22: Confront the Creepiness of LLMs Head On.
- Donald Clark (2015-08-10). Why Salman Khan Is a More Important Educational Theorist & Practitioner Than Ken Robinson or Sugata Mitra.
- Anil Dash (2024-05-29). Systems: The Purpose of a System Is What It Does.
- Chris Dede (2024-10-26). The 60-Year Curriculum: A Strategic Response to a Crisis.
- Cody Fenwick (2024-09-11). Understanding the Moral Status of Digital Minds.
- Ethan Mollick (2024-09-12). Something New: On OpenAI’s “Strawberry” and Reasoning.
- Neal Stephenson (2002-11-13). In the Beginning was the Command Line.
LLMs and student feedback
Dai, W., Lin, J., Jin, H., Li, T., Tsai, Y.-S., Gašević, D., & Chen, G. (2023). Can Large Language Models Provide Feedback to Students? A Case Study on ChatGPT. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 323–325.
Expert feedback lays the foundation of rigorous research… Researchers who are more junior or from under-resourced settings have especially hard times getting timely feedback. With the breakthrough of large language models (LLM) such as GPT-4, there is growing interest in using LLMs to generate scientific feedback on research manuscripts… we created an automated pipeline using GPT-4 to provide comments on the full PDFs of scientific papers… more than half (57.4%) of the users found GPT-4 generated feedback helpful/very helpful and 82.4% found it more beneficial than feedback from at least some human reviewers… Together our results suggest that LLM and human feedback can complement each other.
Lego retro radio
https://mossandfog.com/legos-retro-radio-is-fully-operational-and-fits-your-phone/
…the set doubles as a smartphone stand, and your phone fits inside it nicely, letting you play any media out of the radio’s retro shell.
Personal update
- Launched the Head space Generative AI for Academics online short course (discounted by 25% until the end of Oct).
- Published an In Beta newsletter on AI and assessment.
- Started drafting an outline of a paper on the potential impact of AI on scientific publishing.
- Finalised travel arrangements for upcoming trip to Lugano (Switzerland), Goa (India), and Tartu (Estonia).
- Provided feedback on all the components of the Physiopedia MOOC on AI in Physiotherapy.
- Gave a tour of our VR facilities and capabilities to a group of clinicians from a local NHS Trust.
- Making slow progress on creating a framework to support the integration of Simulated Placements in some of our programmes.
- Gained some mental clarity on projects for the next 3 months, following a personal retreat. I’ll share more about this in the next Head space newsletter. See previous posts here and sign up here.