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Working with students Noah Lape, Aziz Muminov, and Youssif Golda, we’ve written a simple application that allows instructors to embed a chatbot within Moodle. Students can simulate a conversation on any topic with ChatGPT playing a specified role . In the code, you can set the name the bot will use for the simulated conversation…

In the last post, we introduced NotebookLM as a way to create AI focused queries on a user’s selection of texts for education in research. There have been other improvements in the capabilities of the AI models, particularly in the area of multimodal AI, which allow for the input and output of mediums besides text.…

One of the weaknesses with AI has been that its answers are always very general. The response is based on their language models containing enormous amounts of text from the web. In many cases, this provides an adequate answer, but often we want the response to based on a much more limited set of text.…

Refined Look Activities and sections clearly defined. File MIME type icons updated. Single Section Page Focus on one section only in its own page. Bulk Actions Bulk delete, move, duplicate and set availability Adding Activities and Resources Insert activities and resources anyway in your outline Activity Icons Updated activity icons use an accessible color palette.…

Working with students Noah Lape, Aziz Muminov, and Youssif Golda, we’ve written a simple application that allows instructors to embed a chatbot within Moodle. Students can simulate a conversation in their target language with ChatGPT playing the role of a native speaker. In the code, you can set the name the bot will use for…

Prompt Engineering  “Prompt engineering” may be the most common new term created with the growth of AI.  It also suggests more complexity than is involved. However, if like most people, you’re limiting your AI prompts to one or two sentence questions or requests for text, a basic understanding of writing effective prompts can improve your…

Created with Firefly. Prompt: a thanksgiving turkey on a platter in the middle of a table but the turkey is alive and staring at you Courtesy of Ryan Burke

We were happy to see the Japanese chat bots highlighted in the Dickinson Today.  While there are some advantages connecting to AI services with code via an API, there are also many potential uses for AI with their freely available web sites.  I have highlighted some examples below, and if you’re interested, have questions, or…