Would you like to learn more about AI and GenAI? In this page we offer a few recommendations, whilst we encourage you to explore further.
Contents of this page:
Generative AI for Students Padlet
This Padlet provides access to a range of online courses to help you better understand Generative AI, alongside a detailed resource about prompting. In addition, from this page you can access the full Guidance to Students on the Use of Generative AI, a short video explaining the guidance and a set of FAQs about the guidance.
University of Westminster AI blog
The blog feed for the site will provide visitors with updates on things that are happening in relation to the application of Generative within the university and across the sector. The site also has static pages that provide ready access through to policy and guidance in relation to the use of this rapidly emerging and exciting technology.
Some AI tools that can help you in your studies:
General text and image generation
Specific tasks (research, intellectual companion, time management)
If you find some interesting resource or tools, please share it with us sending an email to studentcentre@westminster.ac.uk, FAO AELD team. We thank you in advance for your suggestions!
AI contributions to different fields
And how is AI contributing to different fields? Watch these fascinating videos showing how AI is used to increase productivity, increase the quality of our work and achieve scientific breakthroughs!
LinkedIn Learning offers many professional videos and courses. We have identified a selection, below, but also do your own search!
Our AI collection on LinkedIn Learning
Bender, E.M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., and Shmitchell, S. (2021) On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 610–623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922
Berreby, D. (2024) Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Scientific American March, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-are-putting-chatgpt-brains-inside-robot-bodies-what-could-possibly-go-wrong
Biever, C. (2023) ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02361-7
Bontridder, N. and Poullet, Y. (2021) ‘The role of artificial intelligence in disinformation’, Data & Policy, 3, p. e32. doi:10.1017/dap.2021.20.
Psychology of Technology Review (2019) Cognitive Artefacts, https://www.psychoftech.org/blog/2020/3/10/cognitive-artifacts#:~:text=The%20mathematical%20biologist%20David%20Krakauer,us%20worse%20off%20without%20them (Accessed: 18 December 2023)
Dergaa, I., Ben Saad, H., Glenn, J. M., Amamou, B., Ben Aissa, M., Guelmami, N., Fekih-Romdhane, F., & Chamari, K. (2024). From tools to threats: a reflection on the impact of artificial-intelligence chatbots on cognitive health. Frontiers in psychology, 15, 1259845. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1259845
Haggart, B. (2023) "Unlike with academics and reporters, you can’t check when ChatGPT’s telling the truth" in The Conversation, 30 January 2023, https://theconversation.com/unlike-with-academics-and-reporters-you-cant-check-when-chatgpts-telling-the-truth-198463
Lawton, G. (no date) What is generative AI? Everything you need to know, https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/generative-AI
Monteith, S., Glenn, T., Geddes, J. R., Whybrow, P. C., Achtyes, E., & Bauer, M. (2024). Artificial intelligence and increasing misinformation. The British journal of psychiatry: the journal of mental science, 224(2), 33–35. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.136
Musser G. (2023) ‘How AI Knows Things No One Told It’, Scientific American. Available at: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ai-knows-things-no-one-told-it/ (Accessed: 18 December 2023).
Nyholm, S. (2024) ‘Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement: Can AI Technologies Make Us More (Artificially) Intelligent?’, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 33(1), pp. 76–88. doi:10.1017/S0963180123000464.
Rigg, K. (2022) “Our kids are heading for a ‘digital dementia’ epidemic, experts warn”. Available at https://www.htworld.co.uk/news/kids-heading-for-a-digital-dementia-epidemic/ (Accessed: 18 December 2023).
Russell, S.J., Norvig, P. and Chang, M.-W. (2021) Artificial intelligence : a modern approach. Fourth edition. Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson.
Shors, T. J., Anderson, M. L., Curlik, D. M. 2nd, and Nokia, M. S. (2012). Use it or lose it: how neurogenesis keeps the brain fit for learning. Behav. Brain Res. 227, 450–458. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.04.023
Tegmark, M. (2017) Life 3.0: being human in the age of artificial intelligence. London: Allen Lane.
Thorpe, J. (2023) The real risk of generative AI is a crisis of knowledge, https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-real-risk-of-generative-ai-is-a-crisis-of-knowledge/
