Tag: Google
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The buttonification of writing
When you introduce a feature that makes it simple to use AI to generate writing, everyone is going to use the feature.
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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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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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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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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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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…
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In Beta and sunsetting consumer Google+
Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers. This review crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps. The…
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AI at Google: Our principles
Be socially beneficial Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias Be built and tested for safety Be accountable to people Incorporate privacy design principles Uphold high standards of scientific excellence Be made available for uses that accord with these principles Source: AI at Google: Our principles This list isn’t a bad start if you’re looking for…
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We’re all in beta
I was talking to Ben Ellis (@bendotellis) from Oxford Brookes University at the ER-WCPT conference in Liverpool last year and bemoaning the fact that the most interesting conversations – for me anyway – were happening outside of the sessions. This is probably not news for anyone who’s gone to more than a few conferences. We…
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Using Google Translate for international projects
In preparation for the FAIMER residential session in Brazil, the coordinators spent months sharing documentation and ideas, and discussing every detail that goes into planning something like this…and they’ve been doing it in Portuguese. Initially I thought that this would mean I’d have no idea what was going on until I got there, but then…
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Developing clinical reasoning and critical thinking
“Clinical reasoning is a process in which the therapist, interacting with the patient and significant others (e.g. family and other health-care team members), structures meaning, goals and health management strategies based on clinical data, client choices and professional judgment and knowledge (Higgs & Jones, 2000). Clinical reasoning is difficult, if not impossible to “teach” (if…
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UWC writing for publication retreat – day 3
Today is the last day of our writing retreat. We had a short session this morning briefly going over the Method, Results, Discussion and Conclusion, before going back to our rooms to spend the last few hours writing. Coming from a more quantitative background, I’m having some difficulty writing up my qualitative responses, so looking…
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Assignments
assignment, community-based healthcare settings, education, ethics, Google, google sites, healthcare system, human rights, Ireland, learning outcomes, management, module, online presence, physiopedia, physiotherapist, physiotherapy, Royal College of Surgeons, south africa, university of the western cape, Western Cape, wikiOver the last week I’ve given my fourth year physiotherapy students 2 assignments to be completed over the next few months. Here is a basic rundown of each. The first assignment is part of the continuous evaluation for the Management module I teach. The students must create a website for a (fictional) private physiotherapy practice.…