Category: AI
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Guide on the side, or sidelined?
in AIWe talk about the need for teachers to move from being the ‘sage on the stage’ to the ‘guide on the side’, and how this is a positive approach that positions the student at the centre of their learning rather than the teacher. But another way of viewing this is that students’ use of AI…
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AI for research – African Doctoral Academy
I gave this presentation on AI in research for participants at the African Doctoral Academy. I highlighted the fact that generative AI as a sophisticated tool that predicts text and generates coherent multimodal content. The presentation discussed AI’s potential in roles like idea generation and data analysis, its current limitations like bias, and emphasised the…
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Custom Instructions for ChatGPT
ChatGPT’s custom instructions allow you to add preferences or requirements that you’d like ChatGPT to consider when generating its responses. It’s super useful to include this information in the context frame so that you don’t have to keep telling the model what that context is. “ChatGPT will consider your custom instructions for every conversation going…
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Podcast: Using language models to support thinking
in AIhttps://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/using-chatgpt-as-a-copilot-for-your-mind/ “In this episode, Nathan chats to Dan Shipper, CEO and Co-founder of Every, for the series “How I Use Chat-GPT”. They discuss Nathan’s prompting techniques for creative and cognitive labour, and using GPT in copilot instead of delegation mode.” I got a lot of practical advice out of this episode. Strongly recommended if you’re…
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Open-access textbook: AI for teachers
https://www.ai4t.eu/textbook The link takes you to a page to download the open-access textbook on AI for teachers. The book is available in a range of formats (PDF, epub, etc) and in multiple languages. An Erasmus+ K3 project designed by France, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and Luxembourg to contribute to training on AI in education for and…
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Podcast: Creating emotionally intelligent AI
https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/hume-ceo-alan-cowen-on-creating-emotionally-aware-ai-1/ “In this episode, Nathan sits down with Alan Cowen, CEO and Chief Scientist at Hume AI, an emotional intelligence startup working on creating emotionally aware AI.” This is a deep, insightful conversation about emotion, psychology, cognitive psychology, and generative AI. I was struck by how much our understanding of emotional context is, in some…
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An AI-first approach to higher education in the UK
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2024/01/ai-university.html Donald Clark proposes a vision for an AI-first university, tackling the pressing need for high-quality, low-cost online education in the UK. Here’s a distilled list of 25 transformative ideas, drawing inspiration from other successful educational models: I couldn’t agree more. For me, AI has the potential to massively scale personal learning, and for that…
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Open-source alternatives to ChatGPT
in AIA list of 13 open-source alternatives to ChatGPT: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-chatgpt-alternatives/ Reasons for open-source alternatives to ChatGPT Relying on any single service is bad for the consumers. The same goes for ChatGPT. In addition to that, here’s why we should look for open ChatGPT alternatives: I’ve written briefly about OpenChat as an open-source option (which is interestingly…
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AI assistants will be everywhere
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-ai-haunted-world “In the near future, AIs will work in their own hierarchies of intelligence, all communicating with each other, perhaps mostly autonomously. If you want to grab a bite to eat, it may be that your more “intelligent” premium AI assistant can guess what restaurant you might like based on reasoning about you and your…
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Better images of AI
in AIBetter Images of AI. (2024, January 12). Retrieved from https://betterimagesofai.org/about “Type “AI images” into your search engine and you will notice a pattern. Go on, give it a go!“ “The result is striking, and it’s the same on photo libraries and content platforms. In fact, the lack of variety, and the inaccuracy is almost inescapable.…
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Gemini gives feedback on student work
in AIComments by Michael Webb on Google’s 60-page technical report that accompanied the release of Gemini, referencing the models’ ability to give feedback on student work. Webb, M. (2023). Google Gemini – Initial Thoughts – National centre for AI. National centre for AI. Retrieved from https://nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2023/12/12/google-gemini-initial-thoughts “Note how well it reads the student’s handwriting, interprets the…
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Student-suggested prompt for a recommendation letter
in AIThis is a great example of a teacher using a student-suggested prompt for a recommendation letter, where everyone, including the AI, are working together to reduce the time it takes to complete an administrative task. Everyone wins.
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Access GPT-4 for free (with limitations) in Microsoft’s new Copilot mobile app
https://the-decoder.com/new-copilot-app-use-gpt-4-and-dall-e-3-on-your-smartphone-for-free/ “Microsoft releases its Copilot chatbot as a smartphone app. This gives users free access to GPT-4, the most capable language model from OpenAI, and DALL-E 3.” There are substantial limitations to this free version (see below) but what’s important here (IMO) is that a couple of months ago you couldn’t get access to this…
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Physio is a conversational AI agent to help with physical rehabilitation
Almeida, R., Sousa, H., Cunha, L. F., Guimarães, N., Campos, R., & Jorge, A. (2024). Physio: An LLM-Based Physiotherapy Advisor (arXiv:2401.01825). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01825 Abstract “The capabilities of the most recent language models have increased the interest in integrating them into real-world applications. However, the fact that these models generate plausible, yet incorrect text poses a…
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New project: Open access, open source resource on generative AI in health professions education
I’ve created a new project called Generative AI in Health Professions Education, which I think is notable for a few reasons: There are a few reasons for starting the project: A few final points:
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OpenChat is an open-source language model
in AIOpenChat is an open-source large language model being developed by a student team at Tsinghua University in China. In Dec 2023, OpenChat was GPT-3.5 equivalent, outperforming ChatGPT (Mar 2023) in some benchmarks i.e. the free version of ChatGPT, not ChatGPT Plus which is running GPT-4. Despite our simple approach, we are committed to developing a…
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Use generative AI to extract information from photos of slides
I’ve shared my thoughts about taking photos of slides at conferences, and while I generally think that this isn’t very useful, I admitted that it’s something I’ve sometimes felt compelled to do. But then I usually leave those photos in the ‘I’ll get around to it someday’ folder, which basically means I’ll never look at…