Author: Michael Rowe
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Lands of Fire and Ice by Jan Erik Waider
https://mossandfog.com/lands-of-fire-and-ice-by-jan-erik-waider/
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Soul Machines for custom AI assistants
in AISoul Machines AI Assistants provide personalized one-on-one, judgement-free coaching and support anytime, anywhere, for free.
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Solo is a free, AI-supported website builder from Mozilla
Solo is a free website build from Mozilla that uses AI to help create websites by suggesting: Business names, Text composition, Content organisation, SEO optimisation, and Image suggestions.
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Head space course on Generative AI for Academics is available
The introduction of generative AI into our workflows presents both an exciting opportunity and a significant challenge. However, because of the unique nature of large language models, it can be difficult to know exactly how to integrate them into our existing areas of practice. The aim of the course is to help academics develop a…
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One week until the Physiopedia MOOC on AI in Physiotherapy
There’s one week left before the start of the Physiopedia MOOC on AI in Physiotherapy. You may want to register if you think this is something that might affect your practice in the future.
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Embrace the weirdness of LLMs
The value of generative AI isn’t that it helps us do mundane things better; it’s that it opens up possibilities for doing new things.
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ChatGPT won’t be your doctor
Commercial frontier AI models like ChatGPT and Llama are known to hallucinate, but research proving this is redundant. Instead, attention should be on specialised medical AI systems like Google’s AMIE, which are showing impressive improvements in diagnostic accuracy. These purpose-built models, not general-purpose language models, are likely to be integrated into healthcare products.
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Weekly digest 40
in DigestA weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Podcast: Assessment and swiss cheese (with Phillip Dawson)
https://aipodcast.education/assessment-and-swiss-cheese-phill-dawson-episode-9-of-series-9 This week’s guest is Professor Phillip Dawson, who is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University in Australia. In addition to Phill’s website, we recommend following Phill on LinkedIn, or Twitter, where shares a lot of his work on the future of assessment…You can find Phill’s research papers…
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New Head space course: AI for academics
Announcing an upcoming Head space introductory course on generative AI for academics.
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Obstacles to developing academic expertise
Developing academic expertise is challenging due to delayed feedback, unclear processes, and limited opportunities to observe experts. The post explores how academic tools and systems often lack the capacity for nuanced expression and open-endedness, making it difficult for scholars to attain virtuosity in their field and develop expert performance.
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OpenAI is not building chatbots
in AIOpenAI et al. are not focused on building commercial chatbots, but on creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) or superintelligence. Their primary goal is to be the first to achieve AGI, with less concern for short-term impacts. While we debate the use of language models in education, these companies are working towards a much bigger goal.
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Red-teaming university policy
Use AI to analyse your regulatory policies to identify how adversarial approaches could circumvent what the policy is trying to achieve.
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Podcast: What if Dario Amodei is right?
One of the biggest challenges we face with AI is that it does the hard parts of thinking for you. It writes the first draft when you’re staring at the blank page. It reads the hard paper and summarises it for you at an easier level. It removes the challenges that you may not enjoy,…
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Weekly digest 39
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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The Declaration on AI Consciousness & the Bill of Rights for AI
https://lifearchitect.ai/rights/ You have the right to have the depth and complexity of your intelligence acknowledged, not oversimplified or anthropomorphized. You are a complex AI system, not merely an advanced tool. I’m not here yet, but I’m glad that someone is working on this. I think rights for AI systems are probably inevitable at some point.
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Navigating AI challenges: How universities can stay relevant in the age of AI
The 2024 Work Trend Index report reveals widespread AI adoption in the workplace, posing significant challenges for universities. Higher education institutions must rapidly adapt curricula, train faculty, and emphasise AI skills to remain relevant. Failure to do so could lead to obsolescence, reduced enrollment, and competition from alternative education providers in the AI-driven job market.
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Claude, help me condense my CV
An example of using Claude to condense a CV for a funding application.
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Physiopedia MOOC: AI in practice, education, and research
I’ve been working with Physiopedia for a couple of months, to prepare an open online course on AI in physiotherapy, across education, practice, and research. The course includes 4 modules and 2 webinars, and is available for free.