Tag: language models

ChatGPT shows hiring bias against people with disabilities

Nov 5, 2024

in AI

bias, ChatGPT, disability, language models, recruitment, societal bias, society

Language models exhibit hiring bias against people with disabilities, ranking resumes with disability-related achievements lower than those without. However, this bias mirrors existing societal prejudices in human hiring practices. While AI bias can be reduced through simple prompts, addressing human bias is a lot more challenging.
Podcast – AI and the Evolution of Medical Thought

Aug 12, 2024

in AI, Clinical

Adam Rodman, AI Grand Rounds, clinical reasoning, diagnosis, historian, language models, NEJM AI

In this episode of the AI Grand Rounds podcast, Dr. Adam Rodman shares his unique journey from a historian to a physician deeply interested in the intersection of medicine and artificial intelligence.
Building custom GPTs to provide feedback on samples of writing

Feb 26, 2024

in AI, Learning, Writing

custom GPT, feedback, feedback literacy, GPT, language models, large language models, student feedback, student writing, writing

Introduction “Our results show that i) ChatGPT is capable of generating more detailed feedback that fluently and coherently summarizes students’ performance than human instructors; ii) ChatGPT achieved high agreement with the instructor when assessing the topic of students’ assignments; and iii) ChatGPT could provide feedback on the process of students completing the task, which benefits…
AI assistants will be everywhere

Jan 15, 2024

in AI

AI assistant, assistant, ethics, language models, open source, value-alignment, values

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-ai-haunted-world “In the near future, AIs will work in their own hierarchies of intelligence, all communicating with each other, perhaps mostly autonomously. If you want to grab a bite to eat, it may be that your more “intelligent” premium AI assistant can guess what restaurant you might like based on reasoning about you and your…
Hallucinations aren’t a problem to be fixed

Dec 19, 2023

in AI

creativity, hallucination, language models, LLMs

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…
My biased enthusiasm for generative AI, clearly articulated

Dec 16, 2023

in AI

bias, foundation models, language models, large language models, LLMs, mass education, open source, philosophy, values

I understand the serious ethical concerns many have raised about generative AI. These are important issues that deserve thoughtful debate. I believe that I know something about these concerns and I know the critical position I’m meant to take as an academic working at the intersection of education and technology. I’ve spent 15 years in…
Podcast: The trouble with AI

Sep 27, 2023

in AI

agi, alignment problem, artificial general intelligence, ChatGPT, control problem, deep learning, gary marcus, human values, language models, machine learning, narrow ai, Sam Harris, Stuart Russell

https://samharris.org/episode/SE5DD11091B Sam Harris speaks with Stuart Russell and Gary Marcus about recent developments in artificial intelligence and the long-term risks of producing artificial general intelligence (AGI). They discuss the limitations of Deep Learning, the surprising power of narrow AI, ChatGPT, a possible misinformation apocalypse, the problem of instantiating human values, the business model of the…
Don’t use assessment design to solve the ChatGPT problem…

Jun 29, 2023

in AI, Assessment

assessment, assessment design, ChatGPT, language models, reliability, validity

Note: These are my first thoughts on this idea, so I may not be articulating this well. Feel free to tell me how wrong I am in the comments 🙂 Don’t use assessment design to solve the ChatGPT problem. Use ChatGPT to solve the assessment design problem. I’m seeing a lot of chatter around the…
Assessment idea: Debate ChatGPT

Jun 28, 2023

in AI, Assessment

assessment, assessment task, ChatGPT, clinical practice, debate, language models, placement, placement hours

I know a lot of people are concerned about students’ use of ChatGPT, especially when it comes to essays. The question I get asked most often is, “How do I make sure that students don’t cheat?” I always try to reframe the question to something like, “How do I make sure students are learning?” When…
Bing allows you to modulate the amount of ‘hallucination’ in your response

Jun 26, 2023

in AI

Bing, creativity, hallucination, language models, large language model, LLM

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…
Conversation with Dave Nicholls on generative AI

Apr 17, 2023

in AI

ai, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, GPT, higher education, language models

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with Dave Nicholls for his Paradoxa substack, on the topic of large language models and other forms of generative AI. Dave and I wanted to talk about the implications of generative AI, and of ChatGPT in particular, on higher education and professional practice. In addition to our…
Having a conversation with an article through natural language processing

Nov 6, 2022

in AI, Clinical

academic writing, artificial intelligence, explainpaper, GPT-3, language models, natural language processing, nlp, physiotherapy, writing

Thanks to Ben Gordon for pointing me towards explainpaper. In How to read a book (1972), Mortimer Adler says that “Reading…should be a conversation between you and the author.” Which is why I don’t read without a figurative pen in my hand; As I’m reading I want to mark up the text with questions and…