Tag: philosophy

• A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

  

  Like any complex technology, Artificial Intelligence has its roots in a number of fields. From philosophy to computer science, mathematics to linguistics, tracing the history of AI and automation is a difficult business. The field was officially named in the 1950s, but ideas about automated machines have existed since long before then. This is a…

  Leon Furze

  February 11, 2023

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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…

  Leon Furze

  January 26, 2023

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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…

  Leon Furze

  January 17, 2023

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  AGI, AI, autocomplete, chatbot, ChatGPT, classroom, Common Crawl, computer science, dataset, education, ethical considerations, ethics, expert systems, fine-tuning, GPT-3, history, Language model, large language model, literature, machine learning, mathematics, narrow AI, Natural language processing, NLP, OpenAI, output, philosophy, prediction, strong AI, teachers, technology, weak AI, writing