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A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...artificial intelligence is likely to play in the future of language. As has been noted in the previous sections, the relationship between language and technology has a long history and has given rise to dramatic changes in the way humans live their lives and organise themselves in societies. The impact of the internet and other digital technologies are a prime example of...
The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...Artificial Intelligence at The Open University and Stream Lead for Ethical and Responsible AI at the Centre. Her research agenda revolves around advancing Responsible AI, ensuring that technological innovation aligns with ethical principles and societal values. With a portfolio of more than 100 scientific articles and having won numerous external grants supporting her...
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...artificial intelligence. Through a series of practical sessions, learners explore AI fundamentals, generative AI, responsible AI principles, and the real world impact of AI across work, accessibility, and society. The course also introduces Microsoft Copilot, showing how AI tools can support creativity, productivity, and everyday problem solving. Suitable for students,...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...artificial intelligence. They’ve developed a chatbot that sits inside Facebook Messenger. It enables you to do payments, but within Facebook Messenger, because one of the big issues nowadays with apps is that people have way too many apps. And the reality is that most people only use five or six apps on their phones. 90 per cent of the time they’ll be on five or six....
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...were really tenable. The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Today, computer scientists working in artificial intelligence and science fiction authors still argue whether Ada was right....
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...artificial intelligence. In 2016, Google Translate adopted neural machine translation, NMT, which uses neural networks to process words as numbers and sentences as patterns. While NMT produces more human-like translations, it doesn’t understand emotions, metaphors, or context, often resulting in errors and biases. Machine translation might seem easy and straightforward,...
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...artificial intelligence and robotics in surgery. You will probably have heard a lot of different terms to describe digital health and social care technology. For example, the Digital Health & Care Institute (2018) use the term ‘Health Information Technology’ (HIT), The Welsh Government (2015), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2019) and...
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...Artificial intelligence and social work writing - Many social workers and organisations have been thinking about using technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce the time it takes to produce written documents. This remains an evolving area of social work. In this course we have already explored the importance of the language used, and the focus required to...