Tag: OpenAI
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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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What happens when Generative AI disappears into the woodwork?
As part of my PhD studies, I read and write a lot of stuff that doesn’t really fit into my research, but which I find interesting anyway. I’m categorising these “spare parts” on my blog, and if you’re interested in following them you’ll find them all here. At the moment we’re still in the thick…
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Hands on with AI audio generation: GAI voice, music, and sound effects
This is the second post in a series exploring the multimodal possibilities of generative AI. This series will take a detailed, hype-free look at text, image, audio, video, and code generation and explore the creative potential as well as the ethical concerns of GAI. Although Generative AI isn’t a new technology, it’s definitely been having…
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Artificial Intelligence and Film Studies: Midjourney versus CAMELS
CAMELS? As an English teacher, I’ve done a lot of analytical film studies over the years. The biggest problem is always students’ grasp of technical language: film analysis tends to drift off into character and plot description, even more so than for written texts. So, when I teach film, I lean more into my Media…
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Advanced Techniques for ChatGPT in education
In a previous post on Practical Strategies for ChatGPT, I explored some of the basics of prompting the AI language model. I also organised education tasks into six areas: In this post I’ll go deeper into prompt techniques, and I’m organising around five key skills that could be used to lift your prompts in any…
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Teaching AI Ethics
Update: since I wrote this original post covering the nine areas, I’ve expanded each one into a complete article. Have a read through this post, and then when you’re ready to dive deeper into AI ethics, check out the full series here. If you linked to this post as part of a course or university…
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ChatGPT in Education: Back to Basics
Chances are slim by now that you haven’t heard of ChatGPT. Every major news outlet from the Guardian to the Herald Sun has run articles on OpenAI’s latest offering, and it has featured heavily on social media newsfeeds across Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. I’ve written a lot of posts lately about ChatGPT in education, and…
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Socrates Against The Machine: Can Looking Back Help Us to Think About the Future of Education?
Socrates Against The Machine: Can Looking Back Help Us to Think About the Future of Education? In the past two weeks, AI writing has gone mainstream. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an app sitting on top of its latest large language model, was released for “public testing”, and it seems to have captured the imagination of a large chunk…
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Prompt Whispering: Getting better results from ChatGPT
This article was originally posted over on LinkedIn. If you haven’t heard about ChatGPT in the past week, then your LinkedIn feed looks dramatically different to mine. Probably due to the nature of the people I follow, and the algorithms lurking under the hood, the latest experiment from OpenAI has almost entirely filled my feed, Chrome suggestions,…