Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you – Steve Jobs
7 links for the week ahead
- Ethan Mollick (2023-10-22). The Best Available Human Standard.
- Zvi Mowshowitz (2024-10-24). Claude Sonnet 3.5.1 and Haiku 3.5.
- Maximilian Schreiner (2024-07-04). Whiteboard of Thought: New method allows GPT-4o to reason with images.
- Neil Selwyn (2024-06-18). A School Principal Using AI to Produce ‘Personalised’ Video Greetings for Each of His School’s New Students.
- Stanford Graduate School of Education (2023-10-27). What Do AI Chatbots Really Mean for Students and Cheating?.
- Michael Webb (2024-05-21). Some Thoughts on Google’s Recent AI for Education Work.
- Scott Young (2024-07-24). No, AI Doesn’t Mean You Won’t Need to Learn.
Evaluative judgement and generative AI
Bearman, M., Tai, J., Dawson, P., Boud, D., & Ajjawi, R. (2024). Developing evaluative judgement for a time of generative artificial intelligence. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1–13.
… There is an urgent need to develop students’ evaluative judgement – the capability to judge the quality of work of self and others – in recognition of this new reality. In this conceptual paper, we describe the intersection between evaluative judgement and generative AI with a view to articulating how assessment practices can help students learn to work productively with generative AI. We propose three foci: (1) developing evaluative judgement of generative AI outputs; (2) developing evaluative judgement of generative AI processes; and (3) generative AI assessment of student evaluative judgements. We argue for developing students’ capabilities to identify and calibrate quality of work – uniquely human capabilities at a time of technological acceleration – through existing formative assessment strategies. These approaches circumvent and interrupt students’ uncritical usage of generative AI…
Computer use by Claude
This demo of computer use by Claude offers a glimpse of agentic AI. This is an early preview of a capability that should make everyone pause. It’s not perfect. It’s maybe not even good. But it’s an audacious move that’s going to push the boundaries of what is possible with AI.
Personal update
- We were lucky enough to have great weather for the 3 days we were camping in the Lake District.
- Spent most of the last two days of this week grinding through the admin that’s been piling up while I was in Switzerland for the AI workshops last week, and while I was away camping this week.
- Met with a colleague to plan an editorial on AI in OT, for the BJOT.
- Did some preliminary work around preparing a submission for this UKRI call for Expressions of Interest in an AI decision-support project.
- Completing the last minute preparations for my Life in the UK test that I’m taking later today.