News: Artificial Intelligence
A "pedagogically sound and valuable" offering 鈥 Studiosity Writing Feedback Plus
最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide post-doctoral researcher Daniel Lee recently using Writing Feedback Plus in the classroom, finding Studiosity's AI-powered feedback to be a "pedagogically sound and valuable" tool offering long-term learning opportunities.
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Staff use and perception of Generative AI in 最新糖心Vlogn Universities
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How to reason with ChatGPT4
ChatGPT4 is the latest version of the ChatGPT application from OpenAI. It is not only considerably larger than the previous 3.5 model but also seems to be displaying subtle traits of 鈥済eneral鈥 intelligence.聽聽AGI stands for Artificial General Intelligence, which is the ability of a computer or agent to intellectually understand and carry out tasks like a human.聽 A recent paper from March 2023 authored by researchers at Microsoft titled 鈥楽parks of Artificial General Intelligence鈥1 had access to a non-aligned (unrestricted)version of ChatGPT4 to play with, and they discovered a number of emerging behaviours that indicate that the model may be showing the first signs of AGI.
Turnitin AI Writing Detection Preview
On April 4, 2023, Turnitin released an AI writing detection preview across several products, including the Turnitin Feedback Studio and Originality products, which are integrated within MyUni.
Artificial Intelligence Communities of Practice
The new Artificial Intelligence (AI) CoP tackled some of these challenging questions in our first meeting last week. Nobody has all the answers to these questions yet, and it feels like the technology is evolving almost daily. The last few weeks has seen announcements from Google, Microsoft and the launch of GPT4, which will once again change the conversation around the capabilities and affordances of AI tools.聽
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Creating masterpieces from AI
One of the most interesting aspects of artificial intelligence in 2023 is its ability to be creative. We once thought that AI would replace jobs such as manufacturing or self- driving garbage trucks. However, AI now appears to have significant capabilities in creative industries such as graphic design, copy editing, concept art and music. Is this the end of artists?聽聽Tavik Morgenstern, Academic Integrity Investigations Officer, explores this in more depth.
Teachers beating AI
The challenges posed by developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated text have been getting a lot of attention recently. Assessment design can help to secure assessments by making them more difficult to outsource, either to a contract cheating provider or to AI. Associate Professor Georgina Drew (Social Sciences) explains how her assessment design engages students and encourages them to do their own thinking and learning.
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