10.12.2023 23:00
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Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools: A good start, but much more to be done
The final version of the Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools has been published, offering six core principles and twenty-five guiding statements for schools seeking to use generative AI. But will it help? Since February 2023, Australian Education Ministers have been working on a Framework for GenAI in consultation with unions, teachers, students, industry, academics, sector organisations and school communities to determine a national approach to the use of generative AI in […]Show Original Post
28.11.2023 23:00
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Science Fiction Worldbuilding with Generative AI
It's been a while since I made a creative post highlighting some of the creative multimodal capabilities of GenAI. It can be easy to get swept up in the drama of recent events like OpenAI's board firing its CEO (and his subsequent possible flight to Microsoft, or return to OpenAI...). It's also easy to focus on the darker side of the technology, including the many ethical issues. But it's also important to acknowledge that these tools offer real benefits to creators and learners. In this […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/11/29/science-fiction-worldbuilding-with-generative-ai/
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26.11.2023 23:00
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Writing against GenAI: Opposite day
This post is part of a series on Writing with GenAI. These posts offer quick ideas, lesson plans, and examples of ways to use multimodal Generative AI writing tools to augment, but not replace, writing in a variety of forms and purposes. Inspired by a post by CEO of The Atlantic Nicholas Thompson, this quick GenAI writing activity leans into the fact that Large Language Models like GPT by definition produce predictable writing. Thompson reflects on a comment from one of the writers of Mr […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/11/27/writing-with-genai-opposite-day/
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21.11.2023 23:00
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Chatbots don’t make sense – they make words
Despite the hype surrounding advanced Large Language Models like GPT-4, there is yet to be any evidence that these kinds of AI can think. In this post, I'm exploring how chatbots are built and trained, and why a little technical understanding goes a long way. Knowing even the broad strokes of how large language models are constructed helps to understand why they "hallucinate" (I prefer fabricate) information, why the output isn't grounded in any real truth, and why, ultimately, they don't […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/11/22/chatbots-dont-make-sense-they-make-words/
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09.11.2023 09:03
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Building a GPT based on my book
OpenAI has just released it's latest updates, and while I'm still not convinced about the future of chatbots in education, I can see some immediate commercial appeal and use cases for information retrieval. This platform is going to make OpenAI a lot of money, and hopefully they'll use it to do something more interesting with this incredibly powerful technology. Here's my quick experiment setting up a GPT based on my book, Practical Reading Strategies. As you'll see, it's ludicrously […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/11/09/building-a-gpt-based-on-my-book/
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07.11.2023 23:00
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Dead-end chatbots: Why chatbots aren’t the future of generative AI in education
I recently ran a series of posts on LinkedIn arguing that chatbots are a dead-end in education. I think it’s fair to say that the posts ruffled a few feathers. My DMs quickly filled with people touting their made-for-education products and services, and if I’d only try them I’d see why I was totally wrong. In the comment threads, we had some fairly civil discussions about the argument that chatbots are a dead-end, and I heard some reasonable counterpoints. A recent comment pointed to […]Show Original Post
05.11.2023 23:00
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Hands on with Video Generation
Of all of the modes of generative AI - including text, audio, image, and code - video generation is still one of the earliest and most complex. This post explores video generation from a couple of the most successful current platforms, but the point isn't really to see what the technology can do right now: it's to see what's on the near horizon. I've written elsewhere about the multimodality of generative AI, and why I'm convinced that increasingly multimodal platforms are the future of the […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/11/06/hands-on-with-video-generation/
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29.10.2023 23:00
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The ChatGPT diaries: How I actually use ChatGPT
Since its release in November 2022, I've used ChatGPT a lot. I've also seen a lot of advice on how to use ChatGPT - some good, some bad, some totally useless. I've also seen a gradual increase in "educational chatbots" which are basically flashy websites built on top of OpenAI's GPT model. Other than image generation, I've never really found much cause to use apps beyond ChatGPT. I've obviously played around with internet connected models like Bing, Bard, and Perplexity, but I still rely on […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/10/30/the-chatgpt-diaries-how-i-actually-use-chatgpt/
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25.10.2023 00:00
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Digital plastic: Generative AI and the digital ecosystem
I've got a love hate relationship with the metaphors we use to talk about Artificial Intelligence, but at the risk of seeming hypocritical I'm going to make one anyway. I'm also going to mangle several fields of science, geology, and archaeology in the process, but hey, it's all in the pursuit of The Metaphor. I want you to imagine a digital archaeologist, some time in the distant future, digging through the strata of online data. Maybe it's a person you're imagining - probably an academic […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/10/25/digital-plastic-generative-ai-and-digital-ecosystem/
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23.10.2023 00:00
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Hands on with DALL E-3: In conversation with… an image generator
This post is part of a series exploring multimodal generative AI (GAI) technologies from text, to image, to audio and video generation. Check out some of the other posts in this series: Hands on with Adobe Firefly: Finally an image generator that can be used in school Hands on with AI audio generation: GAI voice, music, and sound effects Hands on with chat + search: connecting generative AI to the internet Hands on with Bing Image Creator: Microsoft’s image generator just got […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/10/23/hands-on-with-dall-e-3-in-conversation-with-an-image-generator/
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11.10.2023 00:30
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What happens when Generative AI disappears into the woodwork?
As part of my PhD studies, I read and write a lot of stuff that doesn't really fit into my research, but which I find interesting anyway. I'm categorising these "spare parts" on my blog, and if you're interested in following them you'll find them all here. At the moment we’re still in the thick of the Generative AI hype, with social media posts and articles telling us things like “you’re using ChatGPT wrong” and “here’s how you can maximise your profits and automate your […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/10/11/what-happens-when-generative-ai-disappears-into-the-woodwork/
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01.10.2023 23:30
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Hands on with chat + search: connecting generative AI to the internet
So far in this series I’ve taken a look at image generation with Adobe’s Firefly, audio generation with tools like MusicLM and Stable audio, and voice generation via ElevenLabs. In this post, I’m going back to where this wave of AI hype began with ChatGPT and text generation. However, plenty has changed since my early posts about ChatGPT at the end of 2022, and even since more recent posts. In competition with other chatbots like Google’s Bard, we’re now seeing successive releases […]https://leonfurze.com/2023/10/02/hands-on-with-chat-search-connecting-generative-ai-to-the-internet/
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