Over the summer the university has been working with external company to develop AI Assistants for specific purposes. These AI Assistants are all grounded and trained on specific sets of information, ensuring that the level of hallucinations in responses is…
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Anyone who could not catch the live stream earlier in the week can access a recording of this event, held at Westminster, via this link. There were some very interesting presentations, including one that provided a sound overview of ethical…
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From early September, the AI Conversations tool will be released in the Blackboard environment. In early September, a new AI feature will appear in Blackboard. It’s called AI Conversations, and it’s all about helping students get comfortable with AI while…
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The University of Westminster is one of 8 universities in the UK selected to work with the JISC on piloting a Generative AI system designed to support educators with their work. The system being used is called Teachermatic and is…
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Microsoft has recently announced the expansion of Microsoft Copilot access to all university colleagues and higher education students aged 18 and above, with commercial data protection. The Copilot will offer features like GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 at no additional cost,…
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Microsoft has released Bing Chat Enterprise to the University of Westminster (I believe other universities with Microsoft clients would have the same access). This enterprise version is just like the public-facing version of BING AI, except that any exchanges by…
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