Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT and Beyond: In-Service October 2023 Notes

Reminder: AI is everywhere:   

Google is putting Bard in Gmail, Google Docs, YouTube, etc.

Microsoft is putting their AI - CoPilot -  in Windows 11, Word,  Outlook, etc. 

Grammarly is using an AI summarizing tool along with other AI features

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Information from UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) short course on AI: Impact and application of Generative Artificial Intelligence within Education

Prompts

• GENAI Chatbot Prompt Library of Educators  (a few broken links)

• General AI Prompting Guide for Educators Tarrant County - Connect Campus - Arturo Ozuna 

• American Psychological Association: How to use ChatGPT as a learning tool 

Tools with assignments for students to try each tool and post a comparison

Generative AI Tools

• ChatGPT 

• Bard   (Bard has been rebranded as Gemini) 

• Claude 

• HuggingFace Chat (access to many models, including Llama)

Text-to-Image Generators

• https://dezgo.com/

• https://picsart.com/ai-image-generator

• https://wepik.com/

• https://www.canva.com/ai-image-generator/

• https://creator.nightcafe.studio/text-to-image-art

Video Generators: 

• https://www.d-id.com/

• https://www.synthesia.io/

• https://runwayml.com/

• https://kaiber.ai/

• https://www.heygen.com/

• https://fliki.ai/

 

AI Anti-Plagiarism and Detection Tools - recommended reading

• OpenAI (creators of ChatGPT) developed their own detector, but quickly admitted it was ‘impossible to reliably detect all AI-written text’. The tool has subsequently been discontinued [25.7.23]

• Comprehensive study of the main AI ‘detection’ tools by Debora Weber-Wulff and colleagues finds that they are ‘neither accurate nor reliable and have a main bias towards classifying the output as human-written rather than detecting AI generated text’. The study identifies the ‘serious limitations of the state-of-the-art AI-generated text detection tools and their unsuitability for use as evidence of academic misconduct’ [28.6.23]

• Evaluating the authenticity of ChatGPT responses: a study on text-matching capabilities - research article by Ahmed M. Elkhatat (stats heavy). Concludes that ‘ChatGPT … can generate unique, coherent, and accurate responses that can evade text-matching software, presenting a potential risk for academic misconduct’. Suggests alternative approaches to assessment in higher education [1.8.23]

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Notes from a recent webinar about AI and writing: 

Generative AI Activities for the Writing and Language Classroom.  Maha Bali and  Anna Mills October 17 2023  Slides from the presentation 

Examples of resources from the presentation: 

• WAC Clearinghouse. AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry 

• Jon Ippolito. University of Maine: Learn with AI 

Consider doing some microlessons. 

• Share a chat session where the chatbot makes something up.  Show a credible source with accurate information.  

• Ask students to critique some AI writing using some template phrases for critiquing AI outputs to get the conversation started.  

• Discuss stereotyping. Koh, Reena. (2023, July 11).  A list of AI-generated Barbies from ‘every country’ gets blasted on Twitter for blatant racism and endless cultural inaccuracies.  Insider. 

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An elaborate prompt: 

Mollick, Ethan, & Mollick, Lilach.  (2023, September 25). Part 1: AI as feedback generator: Harnessing the power of instant input. Harvard Business Publishing. Education.