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Review: The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI, by Justin Hutchens

May 17, 2024

AI might not be ā€˜intelligent’ in the strictest sense – but it can certainly appear to be, which is almost as worrying.

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In AI, Bookshelf, Reviews Tags reviews, e-safety, Deception, Hutchens, AI, Artificial Intelligence

This is what Ideogrm.ai came up with in response to the prompt ā€œPerson using AIā€.

Do kids still need to learn how to code?

April 30, 2024

A week or so ago we were chatting to a neighbour. She said she thinks her daughter, who looked about six years old, should learn how to code, as that’s the future. Didn’t I agree? I’m afraid I said that didn’t.

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In AI, Discussion topic, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags AI, artificial intelligence, Hello World
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How useful is AI for generating words?

March 25, 2024

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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In AI, Reflections Tags AI, artificial intelligence, writing

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.

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In AI, Research Tags AI, artificial intelligence, press release

AI in education Conference

February 9, 2024

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

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In AI, Professional development Tags AI, artificial intelligence, conference
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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.

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In AI Tags AI, artificial intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence News November 2023

November 7, 2023

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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In AI Tags AI, artificial intelligence
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