Tag: ChatGPT
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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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Free PD Video: How to Use ChatGPT
I’m Leon Furze, and in this free PD video, I walk through the features of both the free and paid versions of ChatGPT. From Study Mode to Deep Research, I explain how educators can get the most from the tool. Subscribe for more videos throughout August.
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OpenAI Has Come for Education
OpenAI’s recent partnership with Instructure’s Canvas Learning Management System furthers its aggressive entry into education. While claiming to support students and teachers, I’m worried about the effectiveness of its tools like study mode and Agents, which fail to remotely address pedagogical needs. OpenAI has come for education, and I think we should be concerned.
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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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The Right to Resist
A recent open letter calling for educators and academics to resist AI has divided the education community. But we should be directing our anger at the right people, and not at one another.
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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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Process > Prompts
The article discusses the evolution of using generative AI tools like ChatGPT in education, emphasising the significance of process over prompts. Key advances include file uploads, image recognition, internet connectivity, code execution, and improved reasoning models. These enhance user interaction, streamline tasks, and facilitate effective resource management in educational settings.
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Take-home assessments: AI is not the problem
An article in the SMH, and a follow up editorial in the Sun-Herald, ask whether take-home assessments are invalid because of AI. I think we’re asking the wrong questions.