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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Legacy post: AI is a fast-moving technology and unfortunately this post now contains out-of-date information.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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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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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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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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GPT-3 and Plausible Untruths

There’s no doubt that GPT-3 and other generative AI models are hugely impressive.  We have shown how it could write a reasonably good short essay in a previous blog post and shown how to explore its ability to generate impressive images another post. Impressive as they are, it’s important to understand the limitations of these […]