Image generation in everyday AI In late 2022 we looked at what was available to try out image generation, we recommended a few popular demo tools to try including Hugging Face’s Stable Diffusion demo, Dream Studio and Dalle-2. As with text-generating tools, we’ve since seen a huge increase in both the capability and availability of […]
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 thought it would be useful to pull our resources together in a more structured way to support different stages of AI maturity. Our aim is to develop a dynamic web based easy-to-use toolkit that grows with your needs. Initially we are sharing in blog format mapped to both support areas and maturity stage. The […]
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 […]
Update with more sessions – 18th March 2024 With the ever-chaining world of AI it is difficult to keep up and stay on top of the changes, so we have put together a series of 5 webinars to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education. The series will focus on what generative AI is and how […]
Two months ago, OpenAI announced the launch of GPT’s (Generative Pre-trained Transformers), custom versions of ChatGPT powered by its text- and image-generating AI models (e.g. GPT 4 & Dalle 3). These tools allow users to combine skills, instructions and knowledge to perform most tasks within the limitations of a large language model. We covered the […]
We’ve been delivering a lot of sessions recently around taking a whole institution approach to moving into operational Artificial Intelligence (AI) and therefore thought it would be useful to share some thoughts to support those embarking on this journey. Adopting a comprehensive, institution-wide approach to operational AI is vital to ensure that all departments and […]
(Note: updated 23rd Jan 2024 ) We’ve had lots of interest in the best way to provide advice to learners in colleges. One approach is to clearly seperate policies (which are more formal statements) from more friendly, learner facing advice. In this blog post we’ve created an example of learner advice for comment and feedback. […]
A series of guides part 4 of 4 Welcome to the concluding instalment of our Empowering Educators by Harnessing Generative AI tools. Google Bard was part of Google’s LaMDA family of large language models, Bard has undergone significant evolution, transitioning first to the PaLM model and subsequently to Gemini. Google Gemini is a multimodal tool, […]