As an early adopter of the Becta scheme for teachers back in the day I cannot but agree with you. Most staff I worked with were very reluctant to include technology in their teaching. Only when they saw how the tech could enhance their teaching, their use of time and even their relationships with the children did they, slowly, start to integrate it into their teaching. It made an enormous difference and got them to examine and change practice as well as, and in my opinion most importantly, to share and develop the things that really worked.
AI as a tool is invaluable and the learning it can enable is at the core of how it can improve lives.
My only fear is that politicians will be reactive and behind the game rather than steering and owning the game.
Great piece Tom. This jumped out ‘Our danger isn’t that the machine can’t think well enough. It’s that it spares us the care of thinking. An institution that rents its mind grows mediocre even when the mind is exceptionally gifted.’
If we outsource our daily thinking or creativity to ai, we can achieve 80% good enough. And for many tasks that’s, well, good enough. But when everyone can do 80% good enough, it’s our institutional talent and memory that takes us into the top 5%.
Fascinating Tom. I've been extremely worried about Palantir and the NHS without much understanding of the issue. Your piece has made me think a bit deeper and wider. I still consider Peter Thiel to be extremely dangerous, with some very strange ideas and very highly placed strategic acolytes!
Ai only uses known knowledge, the adage rubbish in rubbish out, is also true for AI . The is a lot of so called knowledge which nothing but deception, lies . We are witnessing the destruction of our English culture. Why because we have allowed another culture to undermine us. Give an example . The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan , came out with lie , he said that Islam is a peaceful tolerant, compassionate religion that respects other religions, when the Koran says something completely different.where it says that if people do not submit then they are to be killed of submit and pay money. The world situation tells another story , where people if they do not toe the Islamic line are killed That’s not tolerance or compassion this religion is destroying our society. Wake up
Interesting. Somewhat reassuring re: Palantir. I feel that there's a central split here that comes from the usual lazy language (not yours!) - AI now means both machine learning, which has been here for a long time and is very useful, involving exactly the sort of training of computers to which you refer. And LLMs, which currently are like the demos I used to see in e-learning. Look at how quickly it can do this! (And the unspoken bit was always - yes, it's not good enough, but imagine if it were!). Plenty of people are focusing on the latter bit - Ed Zitron, Cory Doctorow, et al - and suggesting that there's a good chance that actually, LLMs are a money-burning machine that may never be good enough. And that's a problem if they are the focus of 'AI'. Machine learning? Great! (Albeit not new.)
As an early adopter of the Becta scheme for teachers back in the day I cannot but agree with you. Most staff I worked with were very reluctant to include technology in their teaching. Only when they saw how the tech could enhance their teaching, their use of time and even their relationships with the children did they, slowly, start to integrate it into their teaching. It made an enormous difference and got them to examine and change practice as well as, and in my opinion most importantly, to share and develop the things that really worked.
AI as a tool is invaluable and the learning it can enable is at the core of how it can improve lives.
My only fear is that politicians will be reactive and behind the game rather than steering and owning the game.
Great piece Tom. This jumped out ‘Our danger isn’t that the machine can’t think well enough. It’s that it spares us the care of thinking. An institution that rents its mind grows mediocre even when the mind is exceptionally gifted.’
If we outsource our daily thinking or creativity to ai, we can achieve 80% good enough. And for many tasks that’s, well, good enough. But when everyone can do 80% good enough, it’s our institutional talent and memory that takes us into the top 5%.
Fascinating Tom. I've been extremely worried about Palantir and the NHS without much understanding of the issue. Your piece has made me think a bit deeper and wider. I still consider Peter Thiel to be extremely dangerous, with some very strange ideas and very highly placed strategic acolytes!
Ai only uses known knowledge, the adage rubbish in rubbish out, is also true for AI . The is a lot of so called knowledge which nothing but deception, lies . We are witnessing the destruction of our English culture. Why because we have allowed another culture to undermine us. Give an example . The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan , came out with lie , he said that Islam is a peaceful tolerant, compassionate religion that respects other religions, when the Koran says something completely different.where it says that if people do not submit then they are to be killed of submit and pay money. The world situation tells another story , where people if they do not toe the Islamic line are killed That’s not tolerance or compassion this religion is destroying our society. Wake up
Interesting. Somewhat reassuring re: Palantir. I feel that there's a central split here that comes from the usual lazy language (not yours!) - AI now means both machine learning, which has been here for a long time and is very useful, involving exactly the sort of training of computers to which you refer. And LLMs, which currently are like the demos I used to see in e-learning. Look at how quickly it can do this! (And the unspoken bit was always - yes, it's not good enough, but imagine if it were!). Plenty of people are focusing on the latter bit - Ed Zitron, Cory Doctorow, et al - and suggesting that there's a good chance that actually, LLMs are a money-burning machine that may never be good enough. And that's a problem if they are the focus of 'AI'. Machine learning? Great! (Albeit not new.)