On this page, you will find all the posts for Blog Post 3 – Generative AI. The instructions for this blog post are located in Module 4 Week 1.
Hallucinations, Hard Lines, and The Empathy Gap: How Can We Best Use AI
Part 1: I have been fascinated with generative AI since Google first rolled out Gemini 1.0, but Kalota’s 2024 primer finally demystified how the technology actually functions. The specific concept that corrected my previous understanding was the clear distinction...
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Part One: Before reading the article, I honestly didn't realize there were so many different forms of AI. I always pictured AI as the Google summary that pops up when I search something or people making AI pictures and videos. I never really stopped to think about...
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Part 1: Understanding Generative AI In Social Work Practice A New Understanding Of How AI Works A concept from Kalota's article that changed my perspective on AI was that large language models predict the most probable next word in a sequence instead of thinking or...
Blog Post 3: Generative AI
Part 1 – Kalota’s Primer Before reading Kalota’s article, I had constantly thought about why AI had to be incorporated into so many things and whether it actually worked properly. I knew it had been used to answer simple questions and generate images of people in meme...
From Curiosity to Caution: Where I Stand on AI in Social Work
If someone had asked me seven weeks ago whether AI belonged in social work, my answer probably would have been a quick "no." Not because I understood AI well, but because I didn't...
Blog 3: The Tug of War Between AI and Human Judgement
What I Thought AI Was... and What I Learned Have you ever stopped to think about how AI actually works? I know I hadn't. Before reading Kalota's Primer, I simply saw AI as a helpful tool that corrected mistakes, organized my ideas, and improved the structure of my...
Blog Post 3 – Generative AI
Part 1 Kalota's article brought up a ton of concepts about AI I have never heard of. One AI concept that stood out to me was the distinction among AI, machine learning, and deep learning. Before reading this article, I thought of AI as a single technology. However, I...
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Part 1: Kalota’s Primer Kalota’s primer discusses how generative AI systems do not fully understand questions or search for the correct answer. They study patterns in training data and predict which words are most likely to come next. Before reading the article, I...
Blog Post #3: Generative AI
I found Kalota’s Primer interesting as it pulled the curtain back on AI. I believed that AI systems essentially just extracted data from numerous databases and resources, but I was intrigued by the concept of “unsupervised machine learning”. During this process, the...
Before reading this article, I believed equated artificial intelligence and generative AI as the same thing. I see now that for it to be generative, it must generate, produce, or create something. As opposed to AI which could be anything from the program that empties...