Category: AI
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This seems like an easy problem to solve
in AII wish that image-generating AI would do a quick check to make sure that what they’ve created is aligned with what was requested. It must be possible, given the capabilities of models to ‘see’ what’s in an image. I wonder if it’s just too expensive.
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IPPTA – AI and the Business of Practice
AI has the potential to change how physiotherapy practice owners approach business growth, especially for those with limited business experience. Acting as a virtual consultant, AI tools can help analyse market opportunities, develop client personas, and create strategic roadmaps—enabling more sophisticated business planning that was once limited to larger organisations.
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A process for getting good-enough outputs from OpenAI’s Deep Research
A practical guide to using OpenAI’s Deep Research feature effectively, detailing a four-step process that involves creating prompts with ChatGPT o1, answering clarifying questions, generating comprehensive reports in minutes instead of days, and achieving “good-enough” results that would typically require weeks of research.
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Thinking with AI: A framework for active engagement
Thinking with AI requires intentional engagement rather than passive consumption. This post presents a four-level framework—from using AI as a sounding board to developing systematic comparative analysis—to help health professions educators maintain active collaboration with AI tools while preserving human agency and critical thinking skills.
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Using AI as a thinking partner to support learning
Instead of outsourcing your thinking to AI, discover how it can create supportive learning environments for deeper work by generating scenarios, providing alternative perspectives, organising your insights, and offering feedback on your ideas.
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AI in health professions education: Moving beyond binary thinking
in AIThis post challenges the binary thinking around AI in health professions education, arguing that good pedagogy remains essential regardless of whether it’s delivered by humans or AI. It offers principles for effective AI integration while acknowledging the unique context and opportunities within healthcare education.
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Stress-testing assessments against AI
in AIUniversities are grappling with how to handle widespread AI use in student assessments. Stress-testing against AI models seems impractical, and so three main paths emerge: accepting grade inflation, implementing curve grading, or raising performance standards to match AI capabilities. Each approach presents its own challenges for educational institutions.
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You can’t stop people using AI
in AII’ve been involved in several conversations over the last week where it’s clear that people think using AI will be a deliberate choice, in the sense that you’ll open an AI app and ask it to do something for you. And this leads them to think we can just create enact rules that take the…
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BIP AI for Students – Introduction to AI for Learning
In this presentation for the 2025 Blended Intensive Programme on AI for Students, I explore how the integration of AI in health professions education transforms learning by serving as a coach, creative partner, research assistant, and clinical companion. This collaborative approach enhances students’ abilities to handle complex clinical scenarios while maintaining professional judgment as the…
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[Link] Claude with reasoning is coming
in AIhttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/anthropic-develops-hybrid-mode-mBWGhYyMQVCmBgkGE80r1g I already prefer Claude over Perplexity and ChatGPT with reasoning, so I can’t even imagine how much better Claude is going to be when this is released.
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[Paper] Economic tasks performed with Claude
in AIHanda, K., Tamkin, A., McCain, M., Huang, S., Durmus, E., Heck, S., Mueller, J., Hong, J., Ritchie, S., Belonax, T., Troy, K. K., Amodei, D., Kaplan, J., Clark, J., & Ganguli, D. (n.d.). Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations. High-level summary of the paper The study by Handa…
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OpenAI’s Operator agent completing an assignment via LMS
in AIBy now you should be, if not comfortable then at least aware, that anyone using any of the frontier models is able to complete any reasonable higher education assessment task without much effort. A few weeks ago OpenAI released Operator, which is currently a research preview of an agent that can use its own browser…
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[Link] ChatGPT available to 500 00 students at CSU
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-targets-higher-education-us-with-chatgpt-rollout-california-state-2025-02-04/ OpenAI said on Tuesday it will roll out an education-specific version of its chatbot to about 500,000 students and faculty at California State University as it looks to expand its user base in the academic sector and counter competition from rivals like Alphabet (Google). The rollout will cover 23 campuses of the largest public…
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Universities should run their own small reasoning models
in AIUniversities should use small reasoning models they can tailor to specific educational contexts and needs.
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[Note] Introducing deep research
“Deep research is OpenAI’s next agent that can do work for you independently—you give it a prompt, and ChatGPT will find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of online sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst.” – OpenAI
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[Note] Google DeepMind Unveils Weather Model
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/google-deepmind-unveils-weathe-3dzDrc.6QvWDmnMrDV_Ehg I like that Google Deepmind is integrating AI capabilities across a wide range of domains.
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[Link] OpenAI Claims DeepSeek Used Its Models
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-claims-deepseek-used-it-3WNYRWivRdm90JDznlWCPA OpenAI alleges that it has uncovered evidence suggesting DeepSeek utilized its proprietary models without authorization to train a competing open-source system. The controversy centers around a technique called “distillation,” where outputs from larger AI models are used to train smaller ones12. Security researchers identified individuals linked to DeepSeek extracting substantial data through OpenAI’s API in…
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[Link] New AI picks up 97% of lung diseases, and can tell pneumonia from COVID-19
https://newatlas.com/medical-ai/ai-lung-disease/ A new AI model developed by researchers in Australia can detect lung diseases from ultrasound videos with 96.57% accuracy. It can distinguish between pneumonia, COVID-19, and other lung conditions, outperforming previous tools. The model explains its decisions, helping doctors trust and understand its results. This hybrid AI combines two techniques to identify patterns and…
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Managing long AI conversations: A practical suggestion for knowledge transfer
A suggestion for effectively managing long conversations with generative AI models by creating categorised artifacts that capture key discussions and decisions. This practical approach allows you to transfer important context between chat sessions, ensuring the AI maintains awareness of previous insights while avoiding usage limit warnings.