Tag: ai
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Blended Intensive Programmes on Digital Health and AI
ai, artificial intelligence, assignment, BIP, Blended Intensive Programme, digital health, digital health technology, European Commission, genAI, health intervention, healthcare technology, online learning, personal organisation, personal productivity, professional education, prompting, student modility, workshopDuring April-May, I participated in two Blended Intensive Programmes at Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão, coordinated by Antonio Lopes, in collaboration with European physiotherapy schools. These programmes combined short-term physical mobility abroad and online components, featuring topics like digital health technologies, responsible AI use in education and research, and generative AI workshops.
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When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object
TL;DR (generated by Claude, lightly edited by me). The rise of abundant expertise in the form of generative AI questions the university monopoly on expertise provision and validation. Leadership in the creative deployment of AI for learning, teaching, and assessment will require a change in mindset and a shift towards a new paradigm, which universities…
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Symposium – Beyond thinking fast and slow: Theories informing teaching and assessment of clinical decision-making and error
in Conferenceaffordance, ai, AMEE, AMEE23, artificial intelligence, bais, chunk, clinical reasoning, cognitive debiasing, collective intelligence, diagnosis, diagnostic error, distributed cognition, dual-process theory, ecological psychology, embodied cognition, error, extended mind, illness schema, illness script, information, philosophy of mind, reasoning, situated cognition, system 1, system 2, technology affordance, transtheoretical modelThis is going to be a long post, as it includes an expansion of the notes I took during this symposium. It’s hard to draw a bright line between the presentation content and my extended notes, so I think it’s fair to say that what’s presented below isn’t an accurate description of what was presented.…
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Surprised at how little we’re talking about AI in #meded
I’ve been surprised at how little we’re talking about AI at the conference. I know that I can get sucked into a bubble, where all of my attention is taken up by what’s coming through my feed. But, even taking this into consideration, I’d expected a lot more conversation around AI at AMEE. When it…
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Generative AI in higher education: Paradigm shifts in assessment – Cape Peninsula University of Technology symposium
accountability, ai, artificial intelligence, assessment, assessment concerns, assessment design, assessment paradigm, assessment task, assessment validity, faculty development, higher education, large language model, learning inference, LLM, paradigm shift, pedagogy, standard assessment paradigm, universal anything machineIn this presentation at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, I examines the impact of large language models (LLMs) on assessment practices in professional education. I critique the standard assessment paradigm and suggest that AI could reshape assessment methods. The presentation also briefly covers a faculty development framework and broader implications of AI in learning.
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Policy recommendations for getting the best out of automation and AI in health care
Hardie T, Horton T, Willis M, Warburton W. (202). Switched on: How do we get the best out of automation and AI in health care? The Health Foundation. Initially I thought the recommendations in this report seemed self-evident. For example: However, policy recommendations that aim to guide decision-making in health care should be sensible, and…
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Conversation with Dave Nicholls on generative AI
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with Dave Nicholls for his Paradoxa substack, on the topic of large language models and other forms of generative AI. Dave and I wanted to talk about the implications of generative AI, and of ChatGPT in particular, on higher education and professional practice. In addition to our…
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People-centred AI – Application
Sometime in 2021 I put together a short video describing my thinking around the relationship between human beings and the development of artificial intelligence. The video was part of an unsuccessful application but I thought it might still be interesting enough to share here. The video describes some of the ways in which I see…
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UCT seminar: Shaping our algorithms
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a short seminar at the University of Cape Town on a book chapter that was published earlier this year, called Shaping our algorithms before they shape us. Here are the slides I’ll be using, which I think are a useful summary of the chapter itself.
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The evolution of Atlas from Boston Dynamics
This overview of the changes in capabilities of the Atlas humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics is both fascinating and bit unsettling. In 5 years Atlas has gone from struggling to stand on one leg, to walking on uneven surfaces, to running on uneven surfaces, to doing backflips and now, in October 2018, to bounding up…
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‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
Zachary Lipton, an assistant professor at the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, watched with frustration as this story transformed from “interesting-ish research” to “sensationalized crap”. According to Lipton, in recent years broader interest in topics like “machine learning” and “deep learning” has led to a deluge of this type of opportunistic journalism, which…
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Robots in the classroom? Preparing for the automation of teaching | BERA
Agendas around AI and education have been dominated by technology designers and vendors, business interests and corporate reformers. There is a clear need for vigorous responses from educators, students, parents and other groups with a stake in public education. What do we all want from our education systems as AI-driven automation becomes more prominent across…
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An introduction to artificial intelligence in clinical practice and education
Two weeks ago I presented some of my thoughts on the implications of AI and machine learning in clinical practice and health professions education at the 2018 SAAHE conference. Here are the slides I used (20 slides for 20 seconds each) with a very brief description of each slide. This presentation is based on a…
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OpenPhysio abstract: Artificial intelligence in clinical practice – Implications for physiotherapy education
Here is the abstract of a paper I recently submitted to OpenPhysio, a new open-access journal with an emphasis on physiotherapy education. About 200 years ago the invention of the steam engine ushered in an era of unprecedented development and growth in human social and economic systems, whereby human labour was supplanted by machines. The…
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altPhysio | Technology as infrastructure
This is the fourth post in my altPhysio series, where I’m exploring alternative ways of thinking about a physiotherapy curriculum by imagining what a future school might look like. This post is a bit longer than other because this is an area I’m really interested in and spend a lot of time thinking about. I’ve also added more links…