Tag: literature review
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Generative AI for research – Stellenbosch University physiotherapy division
Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude are rapidly improving next-word predictors capable of generating multimodal content. They share similarities with humans, including biases and hallucinations. Treating GenAI as an expert research assistant for idea generation, literature review, writing, and data analysis requires critical evaluation of outputs.
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BIP AI – AI in research: Opportunities and challenges
In this Blended Intensive Programme on AI, Guillem Jabardo and I explore the potential of generative AI to support all stages of the research process. However, while extremely powerful, these tools still have limitations, necessitating critical review. The ability of generative AI to augment human cognition represents a paradigm shift for academia.
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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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AI for research – University of the Western Cape research week
I was invited to give the opening address at the University of the Western Cape’s research week, where I talked about the use of large language models in academia and research. I highlighted the use of generative AI applications for tasks like literature reviews and idea generation, despite limitations like biases and a lack of…
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Generative AI for researchers
Generative AI for researchers I’ve been collecting some bits and pieces on the use of generative AI for researchers, and thought I’d share a few resources that you may find useful. Blog posts about using AI for research AI tools for research (note that these are only the ones I’ve played around with a bit…there are…
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Weekly digest (14-18 Jun 2021)
This digest has an AI and machine learning focus because I’m preparing a presentation for the SAAHE conference next week, and my topic is Clinicians’ perceptions of the introduction of AI into clinical practice. It’s from an international survey I completed in 2019, mostly forgot about in 2020 (because, Covid) and am finally trying to…
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Comment: Should we use AI to make us quicker and more efficient researchers?
The act of summarising is not neutral. It involves decisions and choices that feed into the formation of knowledge and understanding. If we are to believe some of the promises of AI, then tools like Paper Digest (and the others that will follow) might make our research quicker and more efficient, but we might want…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-16
RT @amcunningham: An analysis of clinical reasoning through a recent and comprehensive approach: the dual-process theory http://is.gd/WrvHwI # The use of tense in Lit review. http://bit.ly/ma0MBm. I also prefer the present tense to situate the conversation in a current context # 13 Photographs That Changed the World. http://bit.ly/iK9LFP # “Dropbox Lied to Users about Data…
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Posted to Diigo 05/15/2011
elearnspace › The Problem with Literature Reviews When at the level of writing a thesis or dissertation, a review of literature is critical I was reading 7000 words when I really only needed the 2000 or 3000 that provided new information A literature review is a context forming activity. It lets the reader know that…
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UWC writing for publication retreat: day 2
Today has focused on the practical aspect of publication i.e. actually writing, so we didn’t have as many presentations. We began by reviewing some of what was discussed yesterday and adding a few reflections and comments from participants. Yesterday, one of the presenters suggested the CARS (link downloads PDF) model for structuring an Introduction. Today,…