Category: Hands On
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Open Source AI is Going Mainstream
A few interesting things are happening around open source artificial intelligence, and even if you haven’t been paying much attention to generative AI beyond the big name brands like ChatGPT, I think this is something that you should take a look at.
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GPT-5 Review: Benchmarks vs Reality of the PhD in Your Pocket
GPT-5 promises PhD-level intelligence – but does it deliver? See my comprehensive testing revealing surprising limitations, hidden improvements, and why the update matters even if it isn’t really a “PhD in your pocket”. Includes hands-on tests, coding, and education experiments.
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First Impressions of ChatGPT’s Study Mode
ChatGPT has released its new ‘Study Mode’. What is it, and will it actually help students to learn? Or is it simply a way for OpenAI to reclaim territory from third party edtech?
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Everything I’ve Learned so far About OpenAI’s Agents
This post distills everything I’ve learned so far from testing OpenAI’s Agents, including all available tools and code functions. It includes a 20 minute walkthrough video of a range of tasks.
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Initial Impressions of OpenAI’s Agents: Unfinished, Unsuccessful, and Unsafe
By 12 hours after the announcement I had seen OpenAI’s promo video shared so many times on social media that I could recite the whole thing backwards. I am highly cynical of anything produced by a tech company to advertise a new feature – remember Google’s made up videos? Or OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson stuff up?…
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Hands on with OpenAI’s Operator
OpenAI’s Operator is a standalone application which uses ChatGPT to control a simple web browser, and can control a mouse and keyboard to complete online tasks semi-autonomously. In this post, I’m going to explore how Operator works, what it can do, and what is on the horizon for this technology.
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Hands on with Deep Research
Deep Research is the title of a new mode in several GenAI apps, including Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and most recently, Perplexity. In this article, I will be focusing on the currently most hyped of these: OpenAI’s Deep Research. Although they weren’t first to release a product with this title (that was Google), they have…
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Claude Computer Use: The Next ChatGPT Moment
In May 2022, I made the decision to step out of the classroom and apply for a PhD, broadly focused on digital texts. I grabbed a few articles, like Bradley Robinson’s on automated writing technologies, and began reading up on these “large language model things”, like OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer. Back then, people accessed GPT…
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Hands on with ChatGPT Canvas
Canvas is OpenAI’s latest addition to the ChatGPT interface, offering editing tools for text and code. It rolled out shortly after the release of the o1 model and Advanced Voice Mode for Plus subscribers, coinciding perfectly with OpenAI’s latest fundraising round. Although it’s far from perfect, the feature represents an important step for how AI…
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3 Ways for Educators to Run Local AI and Why You Should Bother
The article advocates for experimenting with local AI models, emphasising their accessibility and privacy benefits. It details three methods for setting up local AI: GPT4All for PCs, PocketPal for smartphones, and Ollama for command-line users. The author stresses the potential impact of local AI on education, questioning its implications for equity and academic integrity.