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Assistive technology 3: Conversational AI

Conversational artificial intelligence Conversational artificial intelligence, often referred to as conversational AI, is a subfield of artificial intelligence that focuses on enabling machines to engage in human-like conversations with users. …

Assistive technology 2: Generative AI

Generative artificial intelligence Generative artificial intelligence, often referred to as generative AI, is a subset of artificial intelligence focused on creating new content, data, or information. Instead of simply recognising …

Assistive technology 1: Predictive AI

Artificial intelligence is revolutionising the workplace, in a similar way to how to steam engines revolutionised factories during the industrial revolution.  Although AI is unlikely to replace workers just yet, …

Activity 3: Overview

In this activity we will explore how artificial intelligence can be used in the workplace to make work more efficient, more accurate and to produce documents and communications with a …

Summary and next steps

Having completed the two activities in Week 1, you should now have a better understanding of how AI can have both positive and negative impacts on the world. As AI …

AI, intellectual property and regulation

The recent interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and the wide availability of AI tools to the general public means that law makers around the world are struggling to keep up. …

Artificial Intelligence and the environment

Earlier, you learned a little more about how algorithms are trained and how this can introduce bias into artificial intelligence (AI) systems, but there is another flaw with how AI …

Optional: Try generating song lyrics

Now that you’ve learned more about some of the ethical concerns of AI, it’s time for you to experiment with one of the AI tools you used earlier- either ChatGPT …

Artificial intelligence and bias

Now let’s look at another potential limitation of AI. Bias refers to a preference or unfairness that can influence decisions or actions in a way that is not objective or …

Artificial Intelligence and employment

As you might remember from ‘A brief history of AI’ there have been concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it might replace workers for many years. Considerable concerns were …

Activity 2: Overview

Now that you’ve learned a little bit about artificial intelligence (AI) and looked at some of the tools you can use, you can probably think about how how you can …

Summary and next steps

In this activity, you were introduced to the history of AI, and have gained an understanding of how it has grown from simple computer programs which play chess to much …

What confuses large language models?

Now you have seen how to write a good prompt, let’s see how to deliberately confuse the AI tool. It should be noted that these tools confuse themselves sometimes. This …

Writing good prompts

When you use AI tools such as ChatGPT or Bard, you sometimes don’t get the answer you want. In order to have more success, you can write better and more …