Academic misconduct seems to have been brought into sharp relief over the last few months with a huge amount of hyperbole around large language models, or “generative AI”. Probably the most talked about was the arrival of ChatGPT3 just before Christmas 2022, social channels quickly lit up with discussions about how it will disrupt education, […]
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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 (recall) […]
So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to start? This is the fourth in a short series of blog posts giving some pointers on how to start. If you’ve not done so already, we’d recommend reading the first blog before you get started, where we cover some of […]
So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to start? This is the third in a short series of blog posts giving some pointers on how to get going. If you’ve not done so already, we’d recommend reading the first blog before you get started, where we cover some […]
So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to start? This is the second in a short series of blog posts giving some pointers on how to get going. If you’ve not done so already, we’d recommend reading the first blog before you get started, where we cover some […]
So you’ve heard about ChatGPT and want to explore it but don’t know where to start? This is the first in a short series of blog posts giving some pointers on how to get going. In this series we’ll look at potential timesaving examples around creating lesson/course plans, quizzes and getting feedback on your writing. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]