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Digital & Computing
Tips for using a large language model
How should you use Chat GPT and other language models for work, study and life? This article gives you eight top tips for using this sort of artificial intelligence.
Digital & Computing
Large language models - the chatty computer
Chat GPT is a large language-model based chatbot but is the information it gives accurate? This article looks at the limitations of this advanced open artificial intelligence.
Digital & Computing
From boom to bust: the AI winter
This article explains perceptrons and what this had to do with an AI hiatus from the late 1960s.
Digital & Computing
A very brief history of AI
When was artificial intelligence (AI) first developed? This article looks at the first wave of AI - in particular ELIZA, one of the very first chatbots.
Digital & Computing
What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?
According to mathematics we'd all die in a zombie apocalypse but nature and computer science offer us more optimistic outcomes.
Education & Development
OpenLearn supports Get Online Week
Get Online Week is an annual campaign to support those who don’t have access to a device or data to get connected. It has helped hundreds of thousands of people to get online for the first time and improve their digital skills.
Science, Maths & Technology
My career goal: digital
Your technical expertise and analytical precision could propel a cutting-edge digital career. You'll find a variety of relevant training resources as well as first-hand experiences of programmers and web developers on this page.
Education & Development
Social media - fake news, filter bubbles and sharing wisely!
Meet Frank and travel with him on his adventures through the (sometimes foggy) realms of social media. Explore sharing, filter bubbles and fake news- maybe you can learn from Frank's mistakes with the help of Josie Long.
Digital & Computing
Free resources for a safer online experience
Safer Internet Day is celebrated on 7 February. We've pulled together some of our top FREE courses on cyber security, interactives on safe sharing and cyberbullying, and more content on fake news to mark this event.
Digital & Computing
Ministry of Sharing: Are you a safe sharer?
Are you a model citizen or a menace to society when it comes to divulging personal details? Take the test from the Ministry of Sharing and find out whether you share too much information.
Digital & Computing
Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer trawsnewid digidol
Mae dyfodol y gweithle'n parhau i ddatblygu, ac mae trawsnewid digidol yn cyflymu, gan ofyn am alluoedd, ymddygiadau a dealltwriaeth newydd yn y maes digidol. Mae'r rhaniad digidol wedi bod yn ehangu ac mae data'n dangos bod y bwlch sgiliau yn y DU yn tyfu gyda phrinder pobl â sgiliau digidol. Mae gan bron bob swydd ryw elfen o sgiliau digidol...
Digital & Computing
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
The future of the workplace is continuing to evolve, and digital transformation is accelerating, requiring new digital capabilities, behaviours and understanding. There has been a widening of the digital divide and data shows that in the UK the skills gap is growing with a shortage of people with digital skills. Nearly all jobs have some ...