Tag: context
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[Note] Video scraping using Google Gemini
https://open.substack.com/pub/simonw/p/video-scraping-using-google-gemini The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails. I didn’t particularly feel like copying and pasting all of the numbers out one at a time, so I decided to try something different: could I record a screen capture while browsing around my…
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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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Weekly digest (08-14 May 2023)
Using language models to write single-use apps George Veletsianos describes how he used ChatGPT to create a piece of software to solve a problem he faced during a research project. What are some of the implications? Teaching people pseudo code is much easier than teaching people the ins and outs of different programming languages. Could…
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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…