Category: AI
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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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Introduction to AI for Learning – BIP AI for Students
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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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.
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Paper – Superhuman performance of OpenAI-o1 on clinical reasoning tasks
New study shows that OpenAI’s o1-preview model achieves superhuman performance in medical diagnosis and reasoning tasks, surpassing both previous AI models and human physicians. The model excels in differential diagnosis and clinical management decisions, though showing similar performance to existing models in probabilistic reasoning tasks.
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Podcast – Gwern Branwen – How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI’s Trajectory
in AIGwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you’ve read his blog, you know he’s one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive.
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Revising AI-generated text leads to better outputs
The real advantage for knowledge workers using AI comes from using it as a writing partner – or more accurately – a thinking partner. And this is the value of working with AI; it can help get us out of our own heads.
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Writing with AI isn’t a binary proposition
We need to start developing a sense of taste for when to lean heavily on AI for content generation, and when we want to engage with it on a spectrum with either more, or less, AI-generated input.
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Update to Copilot and data access
in AIMicrosoft is updating Copilot to provide the same enterprise-level data protection for both the standard and 365 versions. This change makes Copilot more appealing for universities and colleges, ensuring that user data is securely handled and logged like other Office 365 data.