Tag: ChatGPT
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Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools: A good start, but much more to be done
The final version of the Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools has been published, offering six core principles and twenty-five guiding statements for schools seeking to use generative AI. But will it help? Since February 2023, Australian Education Ministers have been working on a Framework for GenAI in consultation with unions, teachers, students, industry,…
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Science Fiction Worldbuilding with Generative AI
It’s been a while since I made a creative post highlighting some of the creative multimodal capabilities of GenAI. It can be easy to get swept up in the drama of recent events like OpenAI’s board firing its CEO (and his subsequent possible flight to Microsoft, or return to OpenAI…). It’s also easy to focus…
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Writing against GenAI: Opposite day
This post is part of a series on Writing with GenAI. These posts offer quick ideas, lesson plans, and examples of ways to use multimodal Generative AI writing tools to augment, but not replace, writing in a variety of forms and purposes. Inspired by a post by CEO of The Atlantic Nicholas Thompson, this quick…
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Chatbots don’t make sense – they make words
Despite the hype surrounding advanced Large Language Models like GPT-4, there is yet to be any evidence that these kinds of AI can think. In this post, I’m exploring how chatbots are built and trained, and why a little technical understanding goes a long way. Knowing even the broad strokes of how large language models…
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Building a GPT based on my book
OpenAI has just released it’s latest updates, and while I’m still not convinced about the future of chatbots in education, I can see some immediate commercial appeal and use cases for information retrieval. This platform is going to make OpenAI a lot of money, and hopefully they’ll use it to do something more interesting with…
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Dead-end chatbots: Why chatbots aren’t the future of generative AI in education
I recently ran a series of posts on LinkedIn arguing that chatbots are a dead-end in education. I think it’s fair to say that the posts ruffled a few feathers. My DMs quickly filled with people touting their made-for-education products and services, and if I’d only try them I’d see why I was totally wrong.…
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Hands on with Video Generation
Of all of the modes of generative AI – including text, audio, image, and code – video generation is still one of the earliest and most complex. This post explores video generation from a couple of the most successful current platforms, but the point isn’t really to see what the technology can do right now:…
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The ChatGPT diaries: How I actually use ChatGPT
Since its release in November 2022, I’ve used ChatGPT a lot. I’ve also seen a lot of advice on how to use ChatGPT – some good, some bad, some totally useless. I’ve also seen a gradual increase in “educational chatbots” which are basically flashy websites built on top of OpenAI’s GPT model. Other than image…
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Digital plastic: Generative AI and the digital ecosystem
I’ve got a love hate relationship with the metaphors we use to talk about Artificial Intelligence, but at the risk of seeming hypocritical I’m going to make one anyway. I’m also going to mangle several fields of science, geology, and archaeology in the process, but hey, it’s all in the pursuit of The Metaphor. I…
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Hands on with DALL E-3: In conversation with… an image generator
This post is part of a series exploring multimodal generative AI (GAI) technologies from text, to image, to audio and video generation. Check out some of the other posts in this series: DALL-E in ChatGPT: The basics If you’re using ChatGPT with a Plus subscription I’m going to assume that you’re fairly familiar with image…