Category: AI
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Generative AI in Clinical Practice – Canadian Physiotherapy Association
This presentation for the Orthopaedic Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association explored the implications of Generative AI (GenAI) in clinical physiotherapy practice, with a focus on its potential impact on patient care, clinical decision-making, and professional development.
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AI can still be very frustrating
in AIFor all it’s powerful mundane utility, AI can still sometimes be very frustrating.
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Generative AI in Health Professions Education – FAIMER Connect Continued Learning
The second session of the FAIMER Connect Continued Learning series explored the impact and potential of generative AI in the fields of health professions practice, education, and research.
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Translation with HeyGen
HeyGen AI avatars and translation features.
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Generative AI for personal productivity – Physiopedia AI webinar
This webinar aimed to demonstrate how physiotherapists can effectively integrate AI into physiotherapy practice, with a focus on enhancing productivity and clinical workflows. I discussed practical strategies for using generative AI tools in rehabilitation, from patient management to treatment planning, while maintaining ethical considerations and human oversight.
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ChatGPT shows hiring bias against people with disabilities
Language models exhibit hiring bias against people with disabilities, ranking resumes with disability-related achievements lower than those without. However, this bias mirrors existing societal prejudices in human hiring practices. While AI bias can be reduced through simple prompts, addressing human bias is a lot more challenging.
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Frameworks GPT helps you think through problems
Ethan Mollick’s Frameworks GPT helps you work through difficult problems by suggesting suitable frameworks to help structure your thinking.
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Last day for discounted access to Head space course
This 3-hour course focuses on practical ways to incorporate generative AI into your daily academic routines, from reading and writing to creating and learning. You’ll explore how to use AI as a coach, a brainstorming partner, and a project assistant. The goal here is not only to teach you how to use AI, but to…
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Academics ‘shocked’ that publishers are morally bankrupt
Apparently, some academics are shocked that publishers are making even more money from work that they’ve done for free. And, they’re also under the impression that they own the copyright of the articles they’ve had published. Weird.
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The hard work of establishing value
Is anyone really considering the real change necessary to respond to AI in higher education?
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An optimistic vision of a future through powerful AI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s vision for beneficial AI development outlines five transformative areas where AI could revolutionise society within the next decade. Beyond typical tech industry hype, his essay presents a thoughtful exploration of both AI’s potential benefits and the intentional work needed to ensure these advances benefit everyone.
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Physiopedia AI Masterclass courses are trending
All 4 AI courses on Physiopedia are currently trending. You can still sign up for free until 15 Nov 2024.
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Automatic generation of Wikipedia-like articles with Perplexity Pages
Perplexity Pages seems to work best with predetermined structures rather than single prompts. Unlike traditional AI tools, Pages allows you to customise sections, add media, and expand outlines intentionally. This hands-on experiment demonstrates how the platform differs from standard question-answer AI interactions.
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Reimagining higher education in the face of advanced genAI: An opinionated vision
This post explores the potential impacts of advanced generative AI on higher education. It presents a radical vision where AI transforms learning processes, redefines institutions, and reshapes the nature of knowledge itself. The analysis considers how universities might evolve to remain relevant in a world where AI becomes the primary source of information and education.
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STORM writes Wikipedia-like articles from scratch
STORM is an AI system that generates Wikipedia-like articles from internet searches. It uses multiple AI personas to create diverse perspectives on topics. While the generated content is comprehensive and well-structured, it tends to provide balanced, mainstream views. STORM offers potential for collaborative writing and knowledge curation in education and research.
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Writing with AI isn’t about eliminating the tedious and mundane
Engaging in the cognitively difficult, time-consuming, critical thinking parts of writing, supported by genAI as a thinking partner, may help to produce higher quality pieces, as opposed to seeing it simply as a way to produce more content.
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Generative AI in health professions education – SUPSI
An overview of the presentation I gave during a workshop on Generative AI in HPE, at SUPSI in Switzerland.
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Comparing NotebookLM with Open NotebookLM
This post compares Google’s NotebookLM with the open-source Open NotebookLM. While NotebookLM impresses with its detailed output, Open NotebookLM lags behind in performance. However, I think I probably still prefer Open NotebookLM due to its potential for local use, addressing concerns about Google’s product longevity and data privacy.
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Open NotebookLM is the open-source version of Google’s NotebookLM
Open NotebookLM is an open-source version of Google’s NotebookLM, which converts PDFs into podcast conversations.
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More details on HPE-Bot
HPE-Bot is a fantastic project being driven by someone deeply committed to health professions and medical education. If you think that generative AI is over-hyped, or that it doesn’t really have a place in HPE, consider playing around with this tool. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.