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LLMs, Embeddings, Context Injection, and Next Generation OER

April 13, 2023 by opencontent
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If you can remember the web of 30 years ago(!), you can remember a time when all it took to make a website was a little knowledge of HTML and a tilde account on the university VAXcluster (e.g., /~wiley6/). While it’s still possible to make a simple website today with just HTML, making modern websites … Read more

Categories artificial intelligence, improving learning, open content

OER / ZTC Advocates Have an AI Problem

March 21, 2023 by opencontent

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. The two are intertwined now in a manner that would be difficult to disentangle even if you wanted to try. There are plenty of practical reasons why this might have happened. For example, … Read more

Categories artificial intelligence, open content, politics, teaching

Emerging Standards for Using LLMs Like ChatGPT in Research Publications

January 25, 2023 by opencontent
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The journal Nature, and all other Springer Nature titles, have updated their Guide to Authors with rules for using LLMs like ChatGPT when writing research articles for the publication. To summarize, the rules say: 1. DO NOT list the LLM as an author, and 2. DO describe how you used the LLM in a Methods, … Read more

Categories artificial intelligence, research
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