The doctoral school of the University of Lleida has invited me to give a conference (keynote) at their PhD day on 6/3/2024. Here you will find the audio and video of the conference:
ChatGPT gives me a summary of the article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/13/software-student-cheated-combat-ai
Robert Topinka, a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, explores the dilemma professors face with students’ use of AI to write essays. After flagging an essay as “100% AI-generated,” Topinka lands in a tough spot when an exceptionally bright student challenges the accusation. The case highlights the problems with AI detectors like Turnitin, which can mistake legitimate technological support used by students for cheating. Topinka argues we must adapt academic assessment to the AI era, proposing alternatives such as presentations and podcasts to demonstrate students’ critical and original thinking, avoiding unfair accusations and promoting equal educational opportunities.
ChatGPT summarizes the article in The Guardian for me: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/13/software-student-cheated-combat-ai
Robert Topinka, professor at Birkbeck, University of London, explores the dilemma professors face with students using AI to write essays. After detecting an essay marked as “100% AI-generated”, Topinka finds himself in a difficult situation when an exceptionally brilliant student challenges this accusation. The case highlights the challenges of AI detectors, like Turnitin, which can confuse students’ legitimate use of technological support with cheating. Topinka argues for the need to adapt academic assessment to the AI era, proposing alternatives like presentations and podcasts to demonstrate students’ critical and original thinking, while avoiding unfair accusations and promoting educational equality.
In this post, I present an important document prepared by the UPC Doctoral School. It is the study “Data and applications: analysis of habits in data management and application use among doctoral students at the UPC North Campus”, based on a survey and a focus group carried out during the months of June and July.
Table Of Contents # AI-Generated Content Search Engine or Database Content Dealing with Hallucinations What Are Hallucinations? Hallucination Mitigation Strategies Practical strategies and use cases of Chatbots like ChatGTP Language Considerations: for best results, use English Putting Context i context. Text Formatting: a neat trick in LLM Conversations Use text formats like a ninja Other uses of text formats and chatbots. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are a new family of technologies that offer a lot of potential but also come with their own set of challenges. We’re using these AI tools more and more for everything from simple questions to generating complex code. So, it’s important to ask: Do we really understand how to get the best out of them?
Organizations linked to free software such as Creative Commons, Github, Huggingface have made public a document in which they offer suggestions on how to improve the AI Act to protect and foster the development of free software.
Found that on the former Twitter and I thought is was on point.
Based on the courses I have designed and taught to over 300 university professors titled ‘ChatGPT, opportunity and challenge for teaching’, and at the request of the UPC Vice-Rectorate for University Policy, I have written this draft decalogue of recommendations. With additional contributions, this document has been presented to the community of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. This is my version with some additional revisions.
Legend has it that the wise Anand (a name suggested by ChatGPT, whom I call Skippy ^2) helped King Devendra (a name also proposed by Skippy) solve a difficult problem. In gratitude Devendra offered Anand the payment he desired. Anand asked that the king give him a grain of rice for the first square of a chessboard and that he double the amount in each successive square. The king accepted, but after a good while the king’s mathematicians informed him that there was not enough wheat in the entire kingdom to pay what Anand asked for.
[Note: using OpenAI’s API has its costs. The cost of using the translator will depend on the size of the documents you translate. As a guideline, so far with development, tests, and translating a few documents I’ve spent €0.03. ]
[Note: this post has been translated with my own translator] [Note: using the API has costs; the cost of use depends on the size of the documents. As a rough guide during development, tests and various translations of 2-page documents I spent 0.0.3€ over 5 days]
On March 2, 2023, I took part in the session on AI chatbots in higher education organized by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya UIC. At https://www.linkedin.com/events/sessi-sobrexatbotsd-intel-lig-n7034187811851235329/comments/ you can find the video of the event. Yours truly and his talk appear starting at 1h:25 minutes.