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An idea I buried in 2015, and finished this month
I wrote the script and drew the scenes, and I wanted to make it in clay. Then I gave up and forgot it. A month ago I remembered, and built it from scratch.
Tagged Opinion
Practical notes on AI in the workplace, written from the training room, not from a press release.
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Are your students cheating with AI? The answer is harder than you think
The detectors do not work, and they misfire most on students writing in a second language. In our schools, that is most students.
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The parent's guide to children and AI
I am not going to frighten you. You are frightened enough. Here is what parents actually lack: house rules you can apply, and questions to ask the school.
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Ten open maths problems fell overnight, for two thousand dollars
Andrew Wiles wept after seven years of isolation solving Fermat. Keep that image, because it now belongs to the past.
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An invisible watermark on everything Claude writes
A wave of anger, cancelled subscriptions, and researchers frightened for their careers. The irony is that defeating the watermark is easier than you would think.
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Ten trillion parameters: does size buy the lead?
ByteDance is training a ten trillion parameter model while OpenAI's strongest are believed to sit under five. My view is that it will not be enough.
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When the chatbot becomes your child's best friend
Not because it is clever, but because it never mocks, never gets distracted, never interrupts. Those are things a teenager misses badly, and that is exactly where the worry starts.
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99% of "AI agents" are chatbots in a trench coat
Wiring a model to an interface does not make an agent. A real agent plans, calls tools and corrects itself. Here is the test that exposes the difference in two minutes.
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A head who bans, a teacher who looks away, and a student ahead of both
Banning does not work and permitting everything does not work, and the evidence satisfies nobody. What do we actually know about AI in education?
Start with a short call
Fifteen minutes to understand what your team does and what you want to change. If training is not the right answer, I will say so.