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Podcast – Students ‘cheating’ with Generative AI
Read more: Podcast – Students ‘cheating’ with Generative AINotes Two years on from the initial panic around Chat GPT and student cheating we catch with Phill Dawson from Deakin’s ‘Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning’. Phill reflects on what universities have got wrong in their responses to GenAI, and why this might be a good time to entirely rethink the notion…
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Physiopedia AI course for healthcare professionals is now live
Read more: Physiopedia AI course for healthcare professionals is now liveThe Physiopedia AI Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals Programme is a comprehensive course exploring AI’s impact on healthcare education, research, and clinical practice. This free online programme introduces frontier AI models, discusses AI’s potential in enhancing learning and research, and examines its role in diagnosis and clinical performance. Learn to integrate AI into your professional life…
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Molmo is an open source multimodal AI model
Read more: Molmo is an open source multimodal AI modelMolmo is a family of open source, multimodal AI models built by the Allen Institute for AI.
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Weekly digest 41
Read more: Weekly digest 41A 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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Lands of Fire and Ice by Jan Erik Waider
Read more: Lands of Fire and Ice by Jan Erik Waiderhttps://mossandfog.com/lands-of-fire-and-ice-by-jan-erik-waider/
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Soul Machines for custom AI assistants
Read more: Soul Machines for custom AI assistantsSoul 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
Read more: Solo is a free, AI-supported website builder from MozillaSolo 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
Read more: Head space course on Generative AI for Academics is availableThe 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
Read more: One week until the Physiopedia MOOC on AI in PhysiotherapyThere’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
Read more: Embrace the weirdness of LLMsThe 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
Read more: ChatGPT won’t be your doctorCommercial 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
Read more: Weekly digest 40A 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)
Read more: 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
Read more: New Head space course: AI for academicsAnnouncing an upcoming Head space introductory course on generative AI for academics.
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Obstacles to developing academic expertise
Read more: Obstacles to developing academic expertiseDeveloping 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
Read more: OpenAI is not building chatbotsOpenAI 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
Read more: Red-teaming university policyUse 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?
Read more: 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
Read more: Weekly digest 39A 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
Read more: The Declaration on AI Consciousness & the Bill of Rights for AIhttps://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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