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As it happens, I first addressed this question in 2012, and the first part of this essay, down to the part about robots, is taken from the notes I made then. My opinion hasn’t changed, in spite of the enormous strides in AI in the last twelve years.
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I’m not convinced to any extent at all that not being able to tell the difference between a computer and a person means that the computer is intelligent. However, the original formulation of Turing’s ‘imitation game’ was whether a machine could be perceived as being intelligent.
Read MoreI have a course coming up, one that I’m teaching. I asked an AI writer to draft a press release for it. Here’s what it came up with, with my annotations in italics and in square brackets.
Read MoreThis resource comprises a number of prompts to kickstart a discussion in your classroom about AI and its effects in society.
Read MoreSessions include how schools can use AI effectively, curriculum and teaching methods, and assessment.
Read MoreI've experimented with AI a lot, especially ChatGPT and Perplexity, for generating course outlines and even creating quite probing assessment tasks.
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Difference engine #2. Photo by Terry Freedman
We need to know how an AI decision-making tool arrives at it's conclusions, which might be hard given that even the designers of these tools don't always know.
Read MoreIn my opinion, the potential benefits of artificial intelligence make it a very attractive proposition for use in education. Since republishing this article, I commented on a post by Miguel, who then responded with another blog post citing mine. His article takes mine a few steps further, because he asked ChatGPT to advise him on how to give feedback to some work.
Read MoreIn this article I bring my AI experiment to its logical conclusion. I’ve asked AI to create personas for my blog, asked it to suggest some article titles, and selected an article and asked it to write an outline of points to be covered. In this article, I asked it to write the article.
Read MoreIn preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In this phase I used a blog outline generator.
Read MoreIn preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In the first part I used ChatGPT to develop a few personas, ie representatives of my target readership. In this article I report on using AI to generate ideas for blog posts.
Read MoreIn preparation for a course on blogging that I ran recently, I wanted to see how far I could get using AI tools to help me with my intended audience, outlining a post and drafting a whole article. In this first part I report on using ChatGPT to create a few personas.
Read MoreA development that I think is potentially interesting is the embedding of generative AI in the tools we already use.
Read MoreIn my opinion, the potential benefits of artificial intelligence make it a very attractive proposition for use in education.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
I checked if my websites had been scraped, and this what I discovered…
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From Tom Gauld’s Revenge of the Librarians
A depressing future for writers?
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My depiction of ChatGPT getting more and more frazzled by the number of assignments I throw at it — Drawing by Terry Freedman
Yes, it’s all over the internet, but ChatGPT is still worth looking at. I am compiling a list of useful (I trust) links, and have a few things to add to the plethora of comments already out there.
Read MoreI’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT to write course outlines, and for one of the courses I compared the result with the outlines I had already written (and taught to). The results were interesting.
Read MoreI asked ChatGPT to write some dialogue advertising my newsletter in the style of a 1930s wise guy gangster.
Here’s what it came up with….
Read MoreI asked ChatGPT, and here’s what it said…
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