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Shocking AI quality
A paper by Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Lab and reported by The Byte found that a "shocking amount of the web" is already made up of poor-quality AI-generated and ... -
Anthropomorphism of AI in Learning Environments: Risks of Humanizing the Machine
There is a flood of reports and publications around AI in education, driven, I guess, by the increasing use of Generative AI in education. One that caught my eye today ... -
Is AI a wedge for privatisation and commodification in education?
Last week Open AI released their GPTs store. According to OpenAI more than 3 million custom GPTs are created and claim analysis shows that the the GPT Store currently contains ... -
In the UK the legal presumption is that computers are reliable
Interesting article in the UK Guardian newspaper today, illustrating both how people have failed to cope with digital technologies and computers in the past, how they might be failing now ... -
Generative AI: three key ethical challenges
I have had a break from AI and education (or at least writing about it) over the holiday period. But here goes again. Generally there seems to be a little ... -
Prompt engineering
Two questions I get asked a lot by educational practitioners about AI are firstly which AI is the best and secondly how do I write prompts. The first I will ... -
AI in Education - the question of hype and reality
I have spent a lot of time over the past two weeks working on the first year evaluation report for the AI pioneers Web site. Evaluation seems to come in ... -
Imperfect Interactions – should we develop EdGPT?
As you may seen from the media, last Friday the Board of Open AI, sacked the CEO, Sam Altman. In a confusing weekend, Altman initially announced he was going to ... -
Unesco AI Competency Framework
Unesco have released the latest version of their draft competency framework for teachers in the use of AI. Fengchun Miao says "We expect that all teachers should be able develop ... -
AI and the Future of Adult Education and VET
Catching up on last weeks activities. On Monday 6 November we held ran the opening session at the European Digital Learning Week online conference organised by EDEN. Here is Graham ...
