Tag: Claude
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What is MCP and Why Should I Care?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standardised way for AI assistants to communicate with external data sources and tools. I spent a weekend building my own MCP servers to connect Claude to my private data, and learned a lot about where this technology is heading.
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Artificial Intelligence Has Changed the Way I Write Forever
I’ve written fairly regularly about how I use GenAI in my writing process, including why I don’t think AI is very good for a first draft, and how I believe these technologies have flattened the strata of production and publication for digital texts. But the way I write with and without AI continues to shift,…
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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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Which Tools to Use? A Resource List of GenAI for Educators
I get a lot of people asking me which GenAI apps to try out in workshops and professional learning sessions. Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, we’ve been flooded with different Generative AI applications. By now, you’ve probably seen those images of hundreds of Generative AI apps – intimidating looking lists of every…
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Creating a Project Assistant with Claude and Todoist
Claude 3.5 Sonnet surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4o with its ‘Project’ feature, capable of creating custom chatbots and integrating with Todoist. Todoist’s simple interface and powerful API complement Claude, allowing for automation of project tasks and creation of comprehensive timelines. The potential for AI applications like Claude to interact with various platforms is promising for the future.
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More Practical Strategies for GenAI in Education: Part 1
In January 2023, I wrote a post titled Practical Strategies for ChatGPT in Education. At the time, ChatGPT had just been released, and educators were grappling with its implications. The post outlined six strategies where ChatGPT could be used: planning, refreshing, improvising, personalising, collaborating, and communicating. It quickly became one of the most trafficked parts…
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Hands on with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic, a major AI developer and one of the biggest competitors to OpenAI, have just released a new model of Claude – their incredibly capable Generative AI application. It comes just a couple of months after the release of OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and after playing around with it for a few days I think it outstrips…
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Good ideas: When to use GenAI for brainstorming
Applying Generative AI like ChatGPT and Copilot to brainstorming is one of the most touted uses, and there are plenty of situations where the technology is well-suited to idea generation. At the same time, it’s not always a great idea to offload the creative process to GenAI. In this post, I’ll explore a few different…
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Some technologies are created with values, others have values thrust upon them
Back in 2023, I wrote an extensive series of articles called Teaching AI Ethics in which I explored nine areas of ethical concerns with artificial intelligence. In those early articles, I argued that it is absolutely necessary to wrestle with the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence, particularly as generative applications such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot,…
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Building an app in a weekend with Claude 3
I’ve mentioned before (here and here) that I know just about enough code to be dangerous, but not enough to make anything very sophisticated. I’m like a kid who’s learned a handful of foreign languages at school. I can order a beer in Python, HTML and CSS, but I can’t really hold a conversation with…