Tag: creativity
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AI for research – African Doctoral Academy
I gave this presentation on AI in research for participants at the African Doctoral Academy. I highlighted the fact that generative AI as a sophisticated tool that predicts text and generates coherent multimodal content. The presentation discussed AI’s potential in roles like idea generation and data analysis, its current limitations like bias, and emphasised the…
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Podcast: Using language models to support thinking
in AIhttps://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/using-chatgpt-as-a-copilot-for-your-mind/ “In this episode, Nathan chats to Dan Shipper, CEO and Co-founder of Every, for the series “How I Use Chat-GPT”. They discuss Nathan’s prompting techniques for creative and cognitive labour, and using GPT in copilot instead of delegation mode.” I got a lot of practical advice out of this episode. Strongly recommended if you’re…
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Hallucinations aren’t a problem to be fixed
A few months ago I wrote a post explaining that language models don’t sometimes hallucinate; they always hallucinate. “…every single response is a creative endeavour. It just happens to be the case that most of the responses we get map onto our expectations; we compare the response against our (human) models of reality.” So I…
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Bing allows you to modulate the amount of ‘hallucination’ in your response
Last week I wrote about LLM hallucinations, and how this isn’t the problem that everyone thinks it is. “I expect that soon we’ll see language models with features that allow us to modulate the output in some way. We may want to dial up creativity or serendipity, in which case we’ll see less overlap with…
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Language models don’t sometimes hallucinate. They always hallucinate.
By now, most people have come across the issue of language models like GPT hallucinating, where the model generates an output that’s unrelated to the prompt. Or, you may find that the generated responses increasingly diverge from the topic (as the error rate in the model accumulates over increasingly long sessions). When the response generated…
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Using Obsidian for academic writing and creativity
In this conversation with Dave Nicholls, I describe how I use Obsidian to support my academic writing and creative process, in response to Dave’s question: Is using Obsidian worth it? I explain how I’ve set up different vaults in Obsidian, depending on what it is that I’m trying to do, and use examples from my…
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I can’t help but feel like Lego has lost its way a little bit
in LearningWe’re trying to figure out what to get my daughter for Christmas and I’ve been a disappointed with the way that I see Lego marketing it’s products. There’s clearly an option that’s designed to appeal to boys and a different option for girls. In the past, you just had Lego, where anyone can build anything.…
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Why I think that AI-based grading in education is inevitable.
A few days ago I commented on an article that discusses the introduction of AI into education and why teachers shouldn’t worry about it. I also said that AI for grading was inevitable because it would be cheaper, and more reliable, fair and valid than human beings. I got some pushback from Ben on Twitter…
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Can Machines Be Creative? Meet 9 AI ‘Artists’
in AIHumans, however, make art for its own sake, as a form of personal expression. And as computer engineers attempt to imbue artificial intelligence (AI) with humanlike capabilities and behaviors, a question arises: Can AI create art? Source: Can Machines Be Creative? Meet 9 AI ‘Artists’ The traditional rhetoric around AI-based systems is that they’re getting…
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“I offer this to you”
Last week I shared a post that followed from a comment made by a colleague share some ideas on research. She began her presentation saying “I offer this to you…”, which I thought was a wonderful way of sharing her thoughts. Here are the notes I took during the session. Research is not linear, clean…
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The mind of the innocent – student poem
Sometimes a student submits something to me that is so different to what I usually get that I feel a need to share it. This is a contribution by one of our 4th year students, who has kindly agreed to have her work shared here. The morning after loss is more than obvious The sombre…
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Can curiosity survive formal education?
I came across this interview with Aaron Swartz on the Fast Company site, where the following question was presented to Aaron: “You did a lot of important things at a very young age, could you describe a few of them? And how do you see and would explain that? Talent, inspiration, curiosity, hard work? Is there something…
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Why should I blog?
I’ve made a few attempts in the past and have lost interest every time. I think it’s because I never really felt that I had much to say. I still don’t think I have a great deal to say, or at least, anything that’s of any real importance but I do think that I often…