Tag: writing
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Updating this website (and career plans)
If you’re a regular visitor to this blog you may have noticed a few changes over the past few weeks, most notably the addition of a new theme, new name, and updated home page. I also created a new blog icon using Copilot, by describing my idea of a creative space. Visible changes The new…
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Building custom GPTs to provide feedback on samples of 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…
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Link: How are you using AI in writing?
https://www.publishnotperish.net/p/how-are-you-using-ai-in-writing “…quickly free-write letters of recommendation, allowing the AI tool to transform them into an appropriate format for the letter genre while correcting my spelling and grammar errors done in haste.”
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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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Link: Writer-defined AI personas for on-demand feedback
https://montrealethics.ai/writer-defined-ai-personas-for-on-demand-feedback-generation/ “Overview: People write for people: Writing is inherently social, yet writers often lack real-time feedback from their intended audience. To support writers, this paper introduces the concept of ‘AI Personas for On-Demand Feedback.’ Through our new text editor system, Impressona, writers receive feedback from various perspectives on how they define themselves by creating personas…
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Podcast: Using language models to support thinking
in AIhttps://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/using-chatgpt-as-a-copilot-for-your-mind/ “In this episode, Nathan chats to Dan Shipper, CEO and Co-founder of Every, for the series “How I Use Chat-GPT”. They discuss Nathan’s prompting techniques for creative and cognitive labour, and using GPT in copilot instead of delegation mode.” I got a lot of practical advice out of this episode. Strongly recommended if you’re…
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My Physiopedia Plus courses on building skills for learning
In 2023 I put together a series of short courses for Physiopedia Plus, on the topic of building skills to support learning, which were published towards the end of the year. The stats (see image above) suggest that they’ve been well-received so far. Overview of all courses in the series, and here are the individual…
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Physiopedia courses on developing skills to support learning
During 2023 I prepared a series of courses for Physiopedia Plus, aimed at helping students develop skills to support their learning. These courses are an extension of the Learning to Learn In Beta project I started a few years ago. Here are the courses on Physiopedia Plus, which are are accredited in Australia, South Africa,…
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Intention over skills
I use AI to write the email I would have written if I was better at writing email. AI enables us to make our intentions manifest, even when we lack the skills to do so independently.
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Claude, help me convert a process into a narrative
Recently I needed to provide a description of a process that we’re going to implement for an upcoming conference, but the process we’d developed in our meetings was written as a list i.e. short, incomplete sentences in bullet point format. We wanted to submit a narrative description so I took that outline and gave it…
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Taylor and Francis clarifies their position on the use of AI for academic content creation
https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/taylor-francis-clarifies-the-responsible-use-of-ai-tools-in-academic-content-creation/ “Taylor & Francis recognizes the increased use of AI tools in academic research. As the world’s leading publisher of human-centered science, we consider that such tools, where used appropriately and responsibly, have the potential to augment research outputs and thus foster progress through knowledge.” They go on to say: “…AI tools must not be…
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Focus on what you can do with AI
This is a great example of why you should avoid focusing on what AI (or any technology) can’t do. The statement above was true when it was published, but it’s no longer true. ChatGPT can now read your institution’s hiring policy, point out inconsistencies and areas of misalignment with the stated values of the institution,…
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Claude, help me to write
Yesterday I published a post describing my concerns with how universities are responding to the new paradigm of expertise-on-demand that’s facilitated by generative AI. At the end of that post I noted that I wrote it collaboratively with Claude, and this post describes what that process (kind-of) looked like. I also want to be clear…
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Podcast: Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/michael-webb-ai-jobs-labour-market/ Host Luisa Rodriguez interviews economist Michael Webb of DeepMind, the British Government, and Stanford about how AI progress is going to affect people’s jobs and the labour market. They cover:
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Claude, help me draft the outline of my academic paper
My last 2 posts have dealt with 1) the use of Claude to complete a peer review, and 2) how journals could include this process in their workflow. It follows that authors should be using LLMs as well. There are the obvious use cases; rephrasing passages, summarising, expanding, correcting, and so on. However, I think…
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Claude, you are an expert peer-reviewer…
I recently completed a peer review for an academic journal, and as I was submitting it I wondered how Claude would perform if given the task. Since the article was anonymised, I didn’t think there’d be any problems uploading the PDF and asking Claude to review it. And, I had already submitted my review so…
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Comment: Automated feedback for reflective essays
Solopova, Veronika, et al. PapagAI:Automated Feedback for Reflective Essays. arXiv, 10 July 2023. arXiv.org, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.07523. Written reflective practice is a regular exercise pre-service teachers perform during their higher education. Usually, their lecturers are expected to provide individual feedback, which can be a challenging task to perform on a regular basis. In this paper, we present…
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Prompts you can use to train ChatGPT to write in your style
This article describes 5 steps you can take to train ChatGPT to write in your style. Full disclosure; I haven’t tried it but given my previous experiences with ChatGPT, it seems plausible. As I said, I haven’t tried this but it seems like the kind of thing that’s possible. Having said that, I don’t see…