Evaluation of a press release created by AI

February 18, 2024

I 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.

AI in education Conference

February 9, 2024

Sessions include how schools can use AI effectively, curriculum and teaching methods, and assessment.

AI

February 9, 2024

I've experimented with AI a lot, especially ChatGPT and Perplexity, for generating course outlines and even creating quite probing assessment tasks.

Difference engine #2. Photo by Terry Freedman

Artificial Intelligence News November 2023

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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.

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