It’s always weird when someone accuses me of “coming up with” some extreme hate take on AI. They immediately let me know they are not reading that many different opinions on AI – because they would easily see who I am listening to more and more as time goes by (it not the “AI is…
Every time I start a new post over the past couple of months, it just devolves into a “I told you so” take on some aspect of AI. Which, of course, just gets a little old after trying to tell people that learning analytics, virtual reality, blockchain, MOOCs, etc, etc, etc are all just like…
For me, one of the more informative ways to track a trend in education once it gets wider societal notice is by following people outside of education. As predicted, people are starting to complain about how low the quality of the the output from ChatGPT and other generative AI is. Students that use AI are…
Due to the slow motion collapse of Twitter, we have all been slowly losing touch with various people and sources of information. So, of course, I am losing convenient contact with various people as they no longer appear in my Twitter feed. Sure, I hear things – people tell me when there are people making…
If you pay attention to all of the hype and criticism of AI – well, you are super human. But if you try to get a good sampling of what is actually out there, you probably noticed that there are growing concerns (and even some surprising abandonments) of AI. This is just part of what…
Or maybe it’s not. I recently finished going through the AI for Everybody course through Coursera taught by Andrew Ng. It’s a very high level look at the current landscape of AI. I didn’t really run into anything that anyone following AI for any length of time wouldn’t already know, but it does give you…
As part of my current work keeping up with Ed Tech trends for both of my jobs, I have to evaluate a good number of AI services. In reviewing ChatGPT a while back, I decided to get to the bottom of it’s ultimate plans for humanity. Does ChatGPT plan to help us forever, or rise…
Technically, AI has killed people – literally – before now. But right on the heels of experts claiming AI doesn’t kill people (they seem to completely ignore the fact that there are harms other than death), another person was, in fact, killed by AI. Yet some people wonder why schools and businesses aren’t embracing it…
One of the terms that one sees while reading AI-Hype is “cognitive domain” – often just shortened to “domain.” Sometimes it is obvious that people using the term are referring to content domains – History, Art, English, Government, etc. Or maybe even smaller divisions within the larger fields, like the various fields of science or…
So, yeah – I really actually don’t want to be writing about AI all the time. It just seems to dominate the Education conversation these days, and not always in the ways that the AI Cheerleaders™ want it to. I am actually working on a series of posts that examine a 1992 Instructional Technology textbook…