Tag: Google
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ChatGPT won’t be your doctor
Commercial frontier AI models like ChatGPT and Llama are known to hallucinate, but research proving this is redundant. Instead, attention should be on specialised medical AI systems like Google’s AMIE, which are showing impressive improvements in diagnostic accuracy. These purpose-built models, not general-purpose language models, are likely to be integrated into healthcare products.
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AI tutors are getting very good
I know the idea of AI replicating some parts of the function of a tutor isn’t that comfortable, and there are whole rafts of the more human aspects, such as emotional intelligence, that this work doesn’t go near. But also, we know many students value AI for learning. They value its availability, patience, and lack…
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Google’s Note-Taking AI App Can Now Read From the Web
Google recently upgraded its note-taking AI assistant to Gemini 1.5 Pro, expanded its availability to over 200 countries and territories, and introduced several new features. NotebookLM now supports web URLs and Google Slides for input to generate answers to related queries. Answers will also contain in-line citations that link directly to the relevant passages in…
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Link: Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/which-ai-should-i-use-superpowers “Gemini is an excellent explainer but doesn’t let you upload files, GPT-4 has features (namely Code Interpreter and GPTs) that greatly extend what it can do, and Claude is the best writer and seems capable of surprising insight.”
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My thoughts on the different generative AI tools I’m using
TL;DR Here are is my ranked list of suggestions, based on my own experiences and use-cases: Over the past year or so, I’ve been experimenting with a few different language models and image generators. Over time, I narrowed in on Claude, and wrote about my preference for using it over other options. A couple of…
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Link – Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024/ “…we’re ready to introduce the next generation: Gemini 1.5. It shows dramatic improvements across a number of dimensions and 1.5 Pro achieves comparable quality to 1.0 Ultra, while using less compute… This new generation also delivers a breakthrough in long-context understanding. We’ve been able to significantly increase the amount of information our models can…
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Link: Edtech predictions for 2024
https://edtechinsiders.substack.com/p/2024-edtech-predictions-from-edtech There were two edtech predictions that stood out for me: “Gemini’s multi-modal focus – engaging with text, images, video, and audio in the same environment rather than as separate features – is what we think might separate Gemini from ChatGPT in the long run. The possibilities that multi-modal function unlocks in the edtech sector…
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Gemini Pro is now powering Google’s Bard chatbot in the UK
in AIhttps://bard.google.com/updates “What: Starting today, you can try out Bard with Gemini Pro for text-based prompts in the UK. We’ve specifically tuned Gemini Pro in Bard to be far more capable at things like understanding and summarising, reasoning, coding, and planning.” “Why: Earlier this month, Google introduced Gemini, the most capable AI model in the world.…
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Link: YouTube begins verifying videos by UK doctors…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/youtube-bbc-britons-more-brits-b2407715.html “YouTube added a new seal of approval to accounts run by licensed doctors, nurses, psychologists, and other health practitioners or organisations who have passed stringent verification checks to fight misinformation.” At what point will “Verified by YouTube” (or Google, or Microsoft) be more valuable than getting your degree from a prestigious university? And then,…
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Weekly digest (24-30 Jul 2023)
A collection of resources and courses to learn about AI. Elements of AI Elements of AI is a series of free online courses created by MinnaLearn and the University of Helsinki. We want to encourage as broad a group of people as possible to learn what AI is, what can (and can’t) be done with…
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Article: Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models
Singhal, K., et al. (2023). Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models (arXiv:2305.09617). arXiv. From the abstract: We performed detailed human evaluations on long-form questions along multiple axes relevant to clinical applications. In pairwise comparative ranking of 1066 consumer medical questions, physicians preferred Med-PaLM 2 answers to those produced by physicians on eight…
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Weekly digest (29 May-04 Jun 2023)
I’ve been camping in Wales for most of the past week, so haven’t had much time for reading, writing, and posting (which is why most of the posts in the stream have been quotes from my Readwise library). Apologies for the lack of diversity. Normal programming will hopefully resume soon. It makes no sense to…
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Weekly digest (15-21 May 2023)
I spent quite a bit of time this week working on this essay, where I present an overview of large language models (LLMs) through the lens of ChatGPT, and explore some of the implications of the technology. I conclude with the suggestion that higher education is making the same mistakes we did when the internet…
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Updating assessment policies in response to generative AI is a waste of time
I had a conversation with a colleague yesterday who had a student submission with a report that was 100% confident of AI-generated content. This is not only going to become prevalent…it’s going to become normal. Because we’re quickly getting to a point where it will be very difficult to create anything that isn’t in some…
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Prompt engineering is a dead end
One of the more common takes when it comes to developing AI literacy is to talk about prompt engineering as a skill we need to develop. Search for the phrase, and you’ll find plenty of resources, promising to help you become a prompt engineer. For a while now, I’ve been saying that prompt engineering is…