GenAI Digest February 2025
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Q1 2025 recommendations
Tech: China’s DeepSeek (DeepSeek is a Game Changer for AI - Computerphile) AI modal has fired the starting pistol on the latest round of the GenAI arms race - this amplifies the need for critically considering the safety of AI tools as it has proved highly susceptible to cyber risks and data breaches - DeepSeek Jailbreak Reveals Its Entire System Prompt.
Academic: CRADLE at Deakin University brining their A game yet again - Full article: ‘Where’s the line? It’s an absurd line’: towards a framework for acceptable uses of AI in assessment
Tools: AI has an accuracy problem - how better to educate about this issue than to use a GenAI that deliberatley hallucinates? - Try Max Hallucinator to find out.
Podcast: Dan and Ray have become my go to AI podcast, and they didn’t disappoint with their AI Education Podcast: Reflecting on 2024 and Predicting the Year Ahead. What better way to reflect on 2024 than to use Google Notebook LLM to listen to their content and produce a podcast summarising the keys themes - though it gets a bit repetitive and there is lots of Sam Altmanesque/Kardashian vocal fry, the results are pretty spectacular.
Media: ‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - the discussion of AI and cheating is unfortunately unavoidable - higher education is in crisis, AI is exacerbating this.
Research: The Latest Insights into Academic Integrity: Instructor & student experiences, attitudes, and the impact of AI 2024 update - Wiley have done some excellent research into concerns about academic integrity and AI, with students and staff.
Blog: Digital Literacies, Educational Technology Against AI-Shaming, the ever insightful Maha Bali considers the ned for considering context and respecting wide range of views to incorporate AI into Education.
Public Policy: UCL are doing excellent work bringing together Artificial Intelligence research relevant for a policy audience.
“There are many legitimate reasons to resist using AI in education, and we should not be silencing them. There are also some real reasons why some people are very optimistic; concrete ones separate from the hype. As long as they’re not uncritical hype.”