Tag: microsoft

BIP AI – AI fundamentals and prompting

May 13, 2024

in AI, Presentation

Anthropic, artificial intelligence, BIP, Blended Intensive Programme, chatbot, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, GPT, microsoft, openai, prompt framework, prompting

In this workshop for the Blended Intensive Programme on AI in education and research, Antonio Lopes, Hugo Santos and I introduce generative AI models and techniques for effective prompting. Participants explored responses across chatbot platforms to compare nuances in AI outputs. The workshop provided a practical foundation for understanding and harnessing generative AI capabilities.
My thoughts on the different generative AI tools I’m using

Feb 23, 2024

in AI

Anthropic, BingChat, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Plus, Claude, Copilot, DALL-E, Gemini, Google, GPT-4, large language model, LLM, microsoft, openai

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…
Access GPT-4 for free (with limitations) in Microsoft’s new Copilot mobile app

Jan 9, 2024

in AI

Copilot, DALL-3 3, DALL-E 3, GPT-4, microsoft

https://the-decoder.com/new-copilot-app-use-gpt-4-and-dall-e-3-on-your-smartphone-for-free/ “Microsoft releases its Copilot chatbot as a smartphone app. This gives users free access to GPT-4, the most capable language model from OpenAI, and DALL-E 3.” There are substantial limitations to this free version (see below) but what’s important here (IMO) is that a couple of months ago you couldn’t get access to this…
Using AI to get better at getting better

Nov 24, 2023

in AI, Education

AI Pin, API, artificial intelligence, Bard, Claude, higher education, Humane, learning, microsoft, Microsoft 365, multimodal, plugin, teaching, university, user interface, Windows

Yesterday I wrote a post suggesting that new educational institutions will soon emerge, with AI at the centre of every aspect of the process. I recognise that this might feel like a step too far for some, so thought I’d expand on that claim here. There are a few reasons for why I think AI…
Updating assessment policies in response to generative AI is a waste of time

May 18, 2023

in AI, Assessment

assessment, assessment policy, content generator, Google, microsoft

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…
My presentation at SAAHE 2009

Jul 4, 2009

in Conference, Research, Social media

blogging, creative commons, license, microsoft, opendocument, openoffice, physiotherapy, presentation, saahe, slideshare

My presentation at SAAHE looked at the use of blogging as a tool to facilitate ethical and clinical reasoning among final year physiotherapy students in my department. The abstract is available here, and I’ve shared the presentation slides on Slideshare. You can either view it online, or download it. I’ve shared it under this Creative…
Microsoft ignoring standards?

Jun 24, 2009

in Technology

email, html, microsoft, open source, outlook, standards, word

It seems as if the beta release of MS Outlook 2010 has stirred up some controversy around it’s decision to continue using Word’s rendering engine to display HTML emails. This hasn’t gone down too well in some parts of the community, with some groups of people struggling to accept the fact that MS doesn’t care…
Google Docs for collaborative writing

Mar 13, 2009

in Research, Social media

buzzword, cloud computing, collaboration, copyright, desktop work processor, Firefox, Google, Google Docs, google gears, greasemonkey, journal, microsoft, microsoft office live, missouri, online version, online word processing environments, peer review, physiotherapy, publication, research, thinkfree, twitter, undergraduate, word processing, zoho

We’ve recently started using Google Docs for collaborative work in the physiotherapy department and it’s been great so far. There are other online word processing environments with different feature sets (Zoho, Thinkfree, Microsoft Office Live, Buzzword), but after playing around with all of them, I found that Docs offered the best mix of features, usability…
Weapon of mass distraction

Nov 24, 2008

in Productivity, Technology

author, credible, distraction, Google, IBM, ICT literacy, information overload, Information Overload Research Group, microsoft, reliable, search

The title of this post is taken from the text in an article from Time magazine, called “The Off-line American“, about John McCain’s low level of IT literacy and it’s potential implications for his campaign. What I found more interesting though, was the suggestion that for all the potential of the Internet to provide a…
Open source alternatives to proprietary applications

Jul 7, 2008

in Technology

cross platform, Discovery Channel, facebook, GIMP, instant messaging, Internet Explorer, Internet TV application, linux, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, National Geographic, open source, operating system, operating systems, proprietary, social networking, social networking service, software, software application, technology, TED, ubuntu, web browser, word processing

I thought I’d take a moment to briefly mention a few open source alternatives to popular computer applications. The following programmes are all: Here is my incomplete list of the open-source software I use: Firefox – A very popular web browser that offers a more secure, more intuitive and faster alternative to Internet Explorer. OpenOffice.org…