# Understanding / Doing Some AI **URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/understanding-doing-some-ai/4013 **Category:** Open Pedagogy Summer Adventure **Tags:** ai **Created:** [June 14, 2022, 5:27am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/understanding-doing-some-ai/4013 "2022-06-14T05:27:01Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/user_avatar/connect.oeglobal.org/cogdog/32/2_2.png) [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog) #### Post date: [June 14, 2022, 5:27am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/understanding-doing-some-ai/4013/1 "2022-06-14T05:27:01Z")
Artificial Intelligence, can we understand it without being data scientists? Is it too complex to grapple? Do we just have to trust the experts, like [the ones who claim sentience](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/)? No. I hope not. But I do know I can better come to my own understanding if I can do more than read papers and blog posts, but actually dabble in a technology. I am somewhat propelled by a fabulous discussion started by @wernerio for the OEGlobal “Unconference”: > [@Artificial Intelligence and Open Education: indifference or unable to connect](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/artificial-intelligence-and-open-education-indifference-or-unable-to-connect/3889): > > Hello non-travellers to OEGlobal but want to be there, in anyway possible. So many discussions to catch up to, but we have learned to look for alternative ways to deliver!! Let’s see if this one sparks something to share. Without a doubt Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most important trends in ICT development, extending its influence and effect in many aspects of our lives. [AI also promises to impact Education](https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000376709) and there’s growing concern about its real potential as well as many th… I want to connect… by doing AI. [![Imgur](https://connect.oeglobal.org/uploads/default/original/2X/3/34175771685185fc139c702646f2e17e07c35ecf.jpeg "Are You Seeking AI?") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/39124130691/) _[Are You Seeking AI?](https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/39124130691) flickr photo by [cogdogblog](https://flickr.com/people/cogdog) shared into the public domain using [Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)_ I started by the familiar signing up for a MOOC, [AI for Everyone](https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone) taught by that guy who co-launched Coursera. As usual I watched a few videos and then never went back. One AI resource I might explore again is [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/) calling itself [open source](https://github.com/huggingface). A few tears back I used it in to show students how to create a bot that completes sentences based on their twitter history as the text source, see ([my demo](https://huggingface.co/huggingtweets/cogdog)) or [as an example](https://huggingface.co/huggingtweets/cogdog?text=Open+education+can) While I cannot make too much out of their open source code, I prefer to try to dabble myself to better understand the limits and potentials. I was interested in their [free course in NLP](https://huggingface.co/course/chapter1/1) though I see it requires strong python skills. Also something I spotted worth exploring: > **[How to use the GPT-3 language model](https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/5/play-with-gpt3/)** > > I ran a Twitter poll the other day asking if people had tried GPT-3 and why or why not. The winning option, by quite a long way, was “No, I … And I find these types of playful sites interesting > **[This Image Does Not Exist](https://thisimagedoesnotexist.com/)** > > Test your ability to tell if an image is human or computer generated. I don’t know where I plan to go with digging into AI, I want to get a better sense of what I can do hands on. Anyone want to explore too? _Note: This is one example of an [Open Pedagogy Adventure topic](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/what-is-happening-for-the-open-pedagogy-adventure-2022/1810/) - you can [start your own here](https://connect.oeglobal.org/c/open-pd/summer-adventure/47), just make a new topic, post, share, do something, update, repeat!_ --- _[View the full topic](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/understanding-doing-some-ai/4013)._