Ask the Experts: Generative AI at the OU

Generative AI tools such as have made headline news in the past few months partly due to the popularity of ChatGPT which was the fast-growing online application in history. The current consensus is that the emergence of these tools is going to change how we work, how we play and how society operates in the same way as the internet and web have in the past decades. In this session we will first quickly give an overview of the technology, outlining how Generative AI systems work, where they are used today, associated ethical issues, the results of a small number of OU Generative AI innovation projects and emerging OU policy in the area.