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How-To Guides

Legacy post: Getting Started with ChatGPT Part 3 – Quizzes

Legacy post: AI is a fast-moving technology and unfortunately this post now contains out-of-date information.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 […]

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How-To Guides

Legacy post: Getting Started with ChatGPT Part 2 – Drafting Lesson Plans etc

Legacy post: AI is a fast-moving technology and unfortunately this post now contains out-of-date information.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 […]

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How-To Guides

Legacy post: Getting started with ChatGPT Part 1 – Understanding ChatGPT

Legacy post: AI is a fast-moving technology and unfortunately this post now contains out-of-date information.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 […]

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Advice and Guidance

Hidden Workers powering AI

Many people are aware of various AI tools and technologies but most of us aren’t aware of invisible workers involved in the production of AI. This blog post focuses on hidden labour involved in AI production. We aim to raise awareness and educate educational institutions about this important issue. Although research in this area is […]

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Product Pilots

Student Voice Pilot – Call for participants 

This year we are partnering with Student Voice to conduct a pilot evaluating their service which uses AI to provide analysis of student feedback for institutions. We are accepting expressions of interest to take part in this pilot until 10/03/2023.  Please read through this post to find out whether this pilot could be the right […]

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Advice and Guidance

Considerations on wording when creating advice or policy on AI use

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 […]

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Advice and Guidance

A short experiment in defeating a ChatGPT detector

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 […]

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Advice and Guidance

A review of Jisc’s chatbot webinar

On Friday 27th January 2023, Jisc’s national centre for AI in education were joined by Dr Andrew Cox (University of Sheffield), Neil Dixon (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Tim Coughlan (Open University), who co-delivered an absorbing webinar on the topic of chatbots.  Andrew and Neil kicked off the session with an interactive workshop, where participants […]

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Advice and Guidance

Exploring the potential for bias in ChatGPT

Summary Bias can be defined as AI that is systematically unfair to certain groups of people The data that ChatGPT is trained on contains many forms of bias. OpenAI have tried to mitigate this by introducing human feedback in the training. This prevents some of the worse behaviour seen in previous chatbots such as Microsoft’s […]

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Advice and Guidance

AI Bias and Explainability Webinar Resources and Further Reading

In January 2023 we held a webinar to introduce the concepts of bias and explainability in AI, and how we should consider these when thinking of using AI tools in education. This post is primarily for attendees and viewers of the webinar and aims to list the resources we mentioned, so the resources are presented […]