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 […]
Author: Michael Webb
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, […]
Introduction We’ve just finished our extended chatbot pilots, started in 2022, in collaboration with Bolton College. A lot has changed in the world of chatbots since we started, particularly with the release of ChatGPT. We think a lot more is going to change over the next year as well. The chatbot pilots were well received, […]
There has been much discussion of the role of AI writing detectors. The issue has become more urgent for us with Turnitin announcing the imminent release of an AI detector. At the moment we’ve very little information about the Turnitin offering, other than the detail in the press release, where it claims 97% accuracy […]
Legacy post: AI is a fast-moving technology and unfortunately this post now contains out-of-date information. The post is now available just for those that need to reference older articles. We have published a newer guide for educators on ChatGPT here. So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to […]
Legacy post: AI is a fast-moving technology and unfortunately this post now contains out-of-date information. The post is now available just for those that need to reference older articles. We have published a newer guide for educators on ChatGPT here. So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to […]
Legacy post: AI is a fast-moving technology and unfortunately this post now contains out-of-date information. The post is now available just for those that need to reference older articles. We have published a newer guide for educators on ChatGPT here. So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to […]
Legacy post: AI is a fast-moving technology and unfortunately this post now contains out-of-date information. The post is now available just for those that need to reference older articles. We have published a newer guide for educators on ChatGPT here. So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to […]
We are seeing the first guidance to students on the use of ChatGPT and AI tools in assessment starting to emerge. Getting terminology correct on this is a little challenging, so we are going to explore this. Much of the guidance is, for the time being at least, telling students not to use AI in […]
In our webinar before Christmas, we suggested that “A war between AI plagiarism detection software and generative AI won’t help anyone“ We want to share a quick example that shows why this might be the case. For this experiment, we are using GPTZeroX, which has recently been updated. Our aim isn’t to call out a […]