Category: technology
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Technical Writing with Generative AI: Comprehensive Document Review
Generative AI is not just a tool for content creation; it can also significantly improve the technical writing process through thorough document review. By using AI to check for clarity, style, alternative explanations, overlooked information, and more, technical writers can elevate the quality and effectiveness of their documentation even while accelerating the publication schedule. Here’s… Read more
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Technical Writing With Generative AI: Customization and Personalization
These days, just about everyone is a technology user. As tech products become available to all, creating one-size-fits-all documentation is no longer sufficient. Users have varying needs, backgrounds, and levels of expertise, making customization and personalization crucial for effective technical writing. Generative AI is at the forefront of this transformation, offering innovative ways to tailor… Read more
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Technical Writing with Generative AI: Content Generation
In technical writing, creating high-quality documentation quickly and efficiently is paramount. While proficiency with a range of content creation software is essential, writers of all disciplines are discovering the power of generative AI to assist in their work, significantly accelerating the process. The Power of AI in Drafting Content Generative AI can produce coherent and… Read more
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Are You Getting the Most out of Your Generative AI?
Generative AI, a marvel of modern technology, has capabilities that often mirror the complex functions of the human brain—processing, recalling, and manipulating information with ease. However, despite its intelligence, generative AI doesn’t inherently prioritize factual accuracy. This characteristic makes it a double-edged sword: depending on how we use it, it can serve as a powerful… Read more
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Risk vs Accuracy: Determining How Best to Use Generative AI
In a context of using artificial intelligence to enhance productivity, one of the crucial considerations is how we deploy generative AI in scenarios where its use must be both effective and appropriate. One simple tool for quickly determining the advisability of applying generative AI in a particular use case plots risk and accuracy as a… Read more
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Using Chat to Do the Silent Jobs
When we consider the ways technology has seeped into our daily lives, it’s clear that some of its most profound impacts are the ones we hear the least about—literally. Today, I want to explore an intriguing facet of generative AI technology, particularly focusing on the Code Interpreter feature of ChatGPT. It’s more than just a… Read more
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How to Know if AI is Hallucinating
This is always going to be a grey area with LLM conversations. But there is, in general, a good way to gauge the degree to which the LLM is composing or hallucinating versus analyzing and interpreting. This is to look at the ratio of output to input. When the input contains very little information, it… Read more
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The First Useful Thing I Learned About Generative AI
The first useful thing I learned about generative AI was that it is not a conversationally enabled search engine. My initial mistake – one that I see many beginning users make – was that I did not yet understand that generative AI is unlike traditional AI, like what powers search engines. Rather than being programmed… Read more
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Welcome to the Nexus: Emerging Technology, Learning, and Consciousness
Greetings, and welcome to my blog! I’m delighted to have you join me at this vibrant intersection where emerging technology, learning, and consciousness converge. As an educational technology specialist with over two decades of experience, I’ve witnessed firsthand the transformative power of technology in educational settings. This blog is designed to be a platform where… Read more