Tag: context
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Context sovereignty – CSP conference
Earlier today I gave the Founder’s Lecture at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists conference in Newport. I’ve been working on the idea of ‘context sovereignty’ as a way to think differently about our relationship with AI, framing it in positive terms rather than viewing it as a threat to professional identity.
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Avoiding AI platform dependency by controlling your context
Google’s free Gemini Pro access seems valuable, but using these platforms extensively creates AI platform dependency through contextual capture. Your unique thinking patterns, intellectual connections, and research approaches become integrated into their ecosystem. After the 15-month trial period ends, you’re cognitively locked in, trading intellectual independence for convenience, all while the platforms reshape how you…
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Context matters: Misleading Headlines and Generative AI
Misleading headlines about generative AI can distort public perception. While you could reasonably claim that the capabilities of AI are overestimated in some areas, it’s actually underestimated in others (like education). This post critiques an article’s clickbait title, emphasising the importance of reading beyond headlines, especially if you’re going to share further. It argues for…
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Using AI is not cheating
It makes no sense to say that ‘using AI is cheating’, unless you know more about the context in which the AI was used. ‘Cheating’ implies that students contravened the rules. So just change the rules.
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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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Complexity theory: learning in unfamiliar contexts
The following are notes I took while reading Fraser, SW & Greenhalgh, T. (2001). Coping with complexity: educating for capability. During the past 6 months or so I’ve found myself thinking more and more that the way we teach health professionals (at least, in my experience) has had too much of a focus on technical…