When ChatGPT was first released, there was (and perhaps still is) some confusion with what it was doing. We mostly got used to the fact that it was, in effect, a text prediction tool, albeit one trained on vast amounts of data, with often quite amazing abilities. This meant that it was prone to making […]
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I thought I’d share some very initial thoughts on Copilot for Microsoft 365, as I’ve had it for a few weeks. It’s been fairly easy for people to try most of the AI tools. That’s not the case with Copilot for Microsoft 365, as it can only be purchased and enabled by central IT […]
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Our AI presentation and workshop slides
In this post, we are collecting the slides from some of our presentations. We’ll keep it updated over time, and also remove older presentations when the content becomes outdated or superseded. We are making these available under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA Digifest 2024 12-13th March 2024 AI2030 – Keynote by Michael Webb Artificial […]
One of first outputs our AI team produced, first released in March 2021, was our ‘AI in education maturity model’ – a tool to frame conversations about institutions journey on adopting AI. The model has proven useful, but obviously an awful lot has happened in the world of AI since then. When we first created […]
Artificial intelligence is already transforming education, the workplace, and society. These principles have been created by Jisc in partnership with the Association of Colleges (AoC) Technology Reference Group. They are intended for colleges to adopt as a statement of intent, guiding strategic direction. They aim to help colleges navigate challenges and maximising the opportunities […]
We are all becoming increasingly aware of the challenges around AI deepfakes. With elections looming this year, there are many concerns about how it might impact the outcomes. Every week we are hearing new and disturbing stories. I was in a conversation with some parents who were considering using safe words so their family would […]
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Some news! A change of name.
Some news! We’ve decided to simplify how we describe our work, so we are going to retire the name ‘National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education’. The name has served us well, especially as it describes exactly what we do, but much has changed since we formed the team nearly three years ago. At the […]
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Pilots going forward
We’d like to share some thoughts about the way forward with pilots. First, we’d like to thank everyone who’s expressed interest or taken part – they have been every bit as successful as we hoped, and then some. They have proven to be extremely popular – almost too popular. we are now getting way more […]
You may have picked up on some of the hype around Google’s Gemini last week, and some of the controversy over the slightly fake video. They also released a 60-page technical report. I thought it might be useful to pick up some of the key facts from the report, and some thoughts about what […]
We’ve had a few member institutions contact us to ask for updated advice on AI detection software. This includes asking about recommendations for alternatives to Turnitin, so we thought it would be useful to produce some updated information. First, the information in our previous blog post ‘AI writing detectors – concepts and considerations’ still holds, […]