Mary Meeker and “Bond” team: 2025 AI report: 340 pages
by andflywrite | June 4, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Mary Meeker who did annual "the state of the internet" reports which were extremely comprehensive and popular, is back with a "the state of AI" report for 2025". It's perhaps equally comprehensive at 340 pages! prepared by Mary Meeker and a team of interns, according to Benedict Evans in his...
Laura Knight on Future of AI in Education: 30 ideas
by andflywrite | May 31, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
After uploading the transcript to ChatGPT o3 we asked for the top 30 ideas in Laura Knights YouTube with Ramonov. Is there any important idea about the Future of AI in education that isn't in here? Possibly, but one would have to be working pretty hard to find one that isn't in this list. One...
Future of Education with AI: Laura Knight AI Ed Consultant: YouTube
by andflywrite | May 31, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Laura Knight is a British Education Consultant, with years of experience both in the classroom and in the conference and board rooms of educational institutions. Kind of helpful that Laura is coming from a Euro and specifically British perspective on all this. This YouTube is from the podcast of...
Future of AI and Education: Kahn Academy Kahnmigo updater
by andflywrite | May 31, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
We've heard from Sal Kahn Academy previously about their use of AI and Khanmigo tutoring. Here's an update interview about where things stand at the end of April in 2025. When Khan Academy launched Khanmigo, Salman Khan thought they might reach 100k users by 2025. Today, they’re at 1.4 million....
Post Labor Economics: David Shapiro: Parts 3, 4 and 5
by andflywrite | May 31, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's the third, fourth, and final fifth in David Shapiro's series on what's coming with employment in the age of powerful AI. Note he says he will be updating these ideas as things develop further. One of the reasons we have Shapiro YouTubes here at PSA is that he's both a visionary and a good...
Our Gutenberg Moment: Emily Chamlee-Wright
by andflywrite | May 31, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As we may be aware, Marshall McLuhan had a lot to say about the historical Gutenberg Moment. Marshall McLuhan's 1962 book, "The Gutenberg Galaxy," explores the profound impact of the printing press and its invention of movable type, exemplified by the "Gutenberg Bible," on European culture and...
Benedict Evans convo: 25 key ideas: ChatGPT o3
by andflywrite | May 29, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
This is a ChatGPT o3 analysis of the YouTube transcript pasted into Word, and uploaded. The above image is also a ChatgPT o3 creation...and it does look a lot like Evans to me despite me not uploading any images from the YouTube. Guess it found by itself an image of Evans from somewhere. Possibly...
Benedict Evans Live in YouTube Convo: The Fuzzy Middle
by andflywrite | May 29, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
There are advantages to stretching out conversations into a broader context, such as here with Evans putting some hedges and caveats into his perspectives that don't always show up in the condensed version in his newsletters. Not to say he sounds less authoritative, because his speculation is...
Wes Roth on “Singularity” and ASI speculation
by andflywrite | May 29, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Wes Roth is a plugged in AI influencer that posts regularly on AI science papers, blog posts, AI news and releases et. al. Below he examines a sooner than later speculation for the "Singularity" sort of because he finds the ideas involved intriguing. IF not reliably convincing. He admits his...
Matt Wolfe on “history of the moment AI growth exploded”
by andflywrite | May 29, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The world of AI is growing at such an insane pace, so I wanted to make a video that takes a step back and looks at the entire timeline of it all - how fast are we moving, and can we even grasp the fact that it’s going to take off at an even greater pace? Join me as I try to answer that question...
AlphaEvolve: coding agent for designing advanced algorithms: Google DeepMind
by andflywrite | May 29, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators Google DeepMind has been working with "Alpha" in various forms since early "best at Chess" versions and a later version of which was able...
What is Life? with Blaise Agüera y Arcas
by andflywrite | May 27, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's another YouTube where Blaise talks about his ideas...another bite of the apple so to speak; perhaps the additional exposure to his ideas will help comprehension. See below for active links to other authors and books noted in this YouTube session. What is Life? draws fascinating parallels...
AI Meets Education: Discover the Power of Google LearnLM
by andflywrite | May 25, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Below is from Geeky Gadgets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qpiqWN-W9c 3:02 pm May 24, 2025 By Julian Horsey Kudos to Gary for the catch. The links in this article are LIVE; will open at another page. What if learning could adapt to you—your pace, your interests, your challenges—like a personal...
“AI race goes supersonic in milestone-packed week” : Axios
by andflywrite | May 25, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Zachary Basu for Axios Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios The AI industry unleashed a torrent of major announcements this week, accelerating the race to control how humans search, create and ultimately integrate AI into the fabric of everyday life. Why it matters: The breakneck pace of innovation —...
Blaise Agüera y Arcas discussion at Santa Fe Institute “Computing, Life, and Intelligence”
by andflywrite | May 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
As previously posted here, Blaise Agüera y Arcas has a deep background in "deep thoughts", and recently spoke at the "think tank" Santa Fe Institute. Blaise might be thought of as a typical Genius in that the presentation is hard to follow...at least for this viewer, both for the ideas and for the...
What is Intelligence? : Blaise Agüera y Arcas book for 2025
by andflywrite | May 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Blaise Agüera y Arcas upcoming (2025) book, What Is Intelligence?, attempts to answer the title’s question, informed by recent advances in AI, neuroscience, and artificial life. INTRODUCTION The accelerating convergence of biological and artificial forms of computation challenges long‑standing...
Agüera y Arcas, Wolfram, Kurzweil comparative framework: ChatGPT o3
by andflywrite | May 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
Computation as Ontology – Agüera y Arcas Life = self‑modifying computational phase of matter; evolution = matter discovering computation. – Wolfram. Universe is intrinsically computational; simple cellular‑automaton rules yield rich phenomena. – Kurzweil. Brain as hierarchical pattern...
IO, the OpenAI marriage with Jony Ives to produce hardware for ChatGPT
by andflywrite | May 22, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
If Abu Dhabi 5 Gigawatt world's biggest, maybe, data center, wasn't enough, Sam Altman announced on May 21 that OpenAI was purchasing the company started by Jony Ives, formerly designer for iconic mobile Apple products. The new joint corporation is called "IO" and has some sort of joint operating...
More Altman: Stargate is “real” (first buildout underway in Abilene Texas)
by andflywrite | May 22, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Before there was 5 Gigawatt Abu Dhabi, there was Stargate, the "$500 Billion" series of data centers announced by the POTUS to be created by a consortium of OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank. Or at least $500 Billion was the announced value/ cost of the full buildout of many data centers coming to...
Massive 5 Gigawatt AI Data Center announced for Abu Dhabi
by andflywrite | May 22, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
From OpenAI CGPT: Significant announcements were made regarding AI infrastructure investments, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the POTUS recent MiddleEastern trip. A major highlight was the plan to construct a massive 5-gigawatt AI data center campus in Abu Dhabi, potentially...
AI Leadership vetted: Altman under the microscope
by andflywrite | May 21, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As many, including this observer, continue to share with OpenAI all sorts of personal information, ideas we have, our attitudes and feelings and history...and more... the pressing question arises, do we have AI leadership that can be entrusted with this? Can "The Future of AI" be something...
Altman at Sequoia parsed by Berman
by andflywrite | May 18, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Sam Altman (Open AI CEO) recently was part of a presentation with Q&A at a Sequoia Ascent event. Berman comments in the YouTube below on various parts of what Altman had to say, adding a context and explanations, plus Berman's own take on what Altman might really be talking about. And then...
Post-Labor Economics: David Shapiro
by andflywrite | May 15, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
As to employment in the age of AI, no one actually knows, but there are two chief speculations. One is that people will not be "having employment" or "earning pay "for work. The other is that despite jobs "going away' as happens in every big technological change, new jobs will come along that fit...
Curricula for an Unknown Job Future
by andflywrite | May 15, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Educating Students in the Age of A.I. | The Ezra Klein Show
by andflywrite | May 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This Ezra Klein Show below is chock-full of ideas about AI and Education in a discussion with an "expert" resource: Rebecca Winthrop. Below is some of her Bio from Linked-In. I serve on a range of education non-profit boards and am an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign...
Is “Bird Brain” a pejorative in AI studies?
by andflywrite | May 14, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
What are the building blocks of a brain that can think critically, use tools, or form abstract ideas? That understanding could help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence—and help improve our artificial intelligence. For example, the way we currently think about using...
Growing integration intersection between AI and personalized education
by kris | May 12, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
These pilot projects and tools illustrate the growing intersection between AI and personalized education, offering valuable models for integrating AI modules into homeschool and community school settings. If you’re interested in exploring how to implement similar initiatives or need assistance in...
Alternative Schooling: an advocate’s local view
by andflywrite | May 12, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
If somehow the US Public Schools had managed to overcome the numerous challenges for education in poor urban and poor rural areas, maybe the case for alternative schools and schooling would be weak. But that hasn't happened, and the current circumstances for US education are swinging towards...
AI and the Future of Health:
by andflywrite | May 10, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
PSA seeks to understand and explain how AI might affect the ongoing major disruptions of two of the main economic engines in the US: Education and Healthcare. Federal and state funding for both of these huge undertakings are in flux, and amidst the chaos which seems to be building, there are...
AI judgement calls MO explained
by andflywrite | May 10, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Being impressed by ChatGPT o3 response to queries about finding foundational thinkers in the numerous archive posts that Admin has accumulated in regular use of ChatGPT, I was very curious as to how the AI seemed to be making very difficult judgements on comparing the over 100 thinkers involved....
Foundational Ideas: Choices from the ChatGPT Archive: part 2
by andflywrite | May 7, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Since many commentators say we "dont know what is going on inside the AI black box", and since each Query is a "one off" in that the analyzing process is completely done over again when asked to "retry"...here's a retry of the foundational ideas. I would keep five of the original six selections. I...
Foundational Ideas: Choices from the ChatGPT Archive: part 1
by andflywrite | May 7, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Admin notes the lengthy list of "great minds" and "great ideas" assembled here at our PSA website, which were analyzed in a collaborative process with ChatGPT. In hopes of narrowing our focus to the most "foundational" ideas, ChatGPT o3 was queried to examine Admin's archive of ChatGPT previous...
Information Theory and Abstract Ideas explain the universe: ChatGPT o3: part1
by andflywrite | May 5, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 2 Comments
Here's the answer ChatGPT 03 provided for a recent query. This is what it produced after thinking about 2 minutes, which is pretty long for the ChatGPT o3 model. (A subsequent following post this week "shows the work"...as CGPT o3 described what is was doing as it was doing it. Somewhat revelatory...
How Big Is Your Sandbox?
by andflywrite | May 5, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
AI has various limitations that can be a challenge to overcome. It's still very expensive for AI companies to train their biggest and baddest models, and it can get expensive for them to provide model access and compute time on their servers. Currently OpenAI has instituted "infinite memory" for...
Lesson Creation with ChatGPT o3 and PowerPoint: Revised Version 2
by andflywrite | May 3, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
After wading into ChatGPT o3's explanations for Information Theory, the idea presented itself of trying to create an explanatory lesson to help with understanding the concepts. After many iterations (days) of working with ChatGPT 03, and Powerpoint, here's a "Lesson One" version of learning...
The Story of Information Theory
by andflywrite | May 1, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
https://youtu.be/rmBFaNgg4wk?si=vXDlfUXRXi-BZGF9 Some background to how we got to where we are today. For this viewer, it started out relatively comprehensible, but gradually and then suddenly became more or less impenetrable. Your mileage may vary. Couple takeaways: one is how much of...
Mapping new insights: where AI meets science and metaphysics
by kris | April 30, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
A response by Chato4 to generate a formatted wesbsite post with embedded captions for each visual-clear, concise and visually integrated for digital readers.
Is there a unifying spiritual framework for AI + human experience?
by andflywrite | April 30, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 2 Comments
This post's subject is borrowed from Kris's suggestion for Core Questions PSA might continue to explore, and is an ongoing project here at PSA...see recent posts in the months of 4/25 and 3/25 covering much of this ground. However, it's a huge topic. Speaking of "Huge Topics" and the "Big...
Pro vs API account with OpenAI for PSA
by andflywrite | April 30, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
We need to have the best data on hand to plan followup actitivies and anticipate change. PSA "must" do this too. PSA currently works with OpenAI models via individual users "Plus" accounts. But OpenAI has other levels available such as the "Pro" account at $200/ month, and/or a API account at a...
10 top YouTube sources for keeping up with AI
by andflywrite | April 30, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Exploring what potentials are out there in AI-Land is currently strongly indicated for most organizations, and also for individuals who can benefit. It's kind of like some recurring activity we do to maintenance our bodies, such as annual checkups or doing workouts to "tone up" our physical realm....
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
by andflywrite | April 29, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Duolingo is a free, popular language learning app and website that uses a gamified, bite-sized approach to teach language skills like reading, writing, listening, and speaking. It offers courses in over 40 languages and is designed to be accessible and engaging for learners of all levels. Here’s...
More On: Evolution of Technology and Civilization: AI and Jobs
by andflywrite | April 28, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
One more time to the well asking ChatGPT o3 about what we know of the effects of technological change on Civilization, and what might be coming soon if AI makes huge impacts on the technology our civilization uses. Here the AI being used is described as "My Chatbot" because it has all my previous...
Many Roads to AGI
by andflywrite | April 27, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The RAND paper on Charting Multiple Courses to Artificial Intelligence is analyzed below by ChatGPT o3 in "layman's terms" listing the top 15 most useful ideas from the paper in the context of AI support of education and healthcare. It should be noted that projecting the development of AGI is a...
Charting Multiple Courses to Artificial General Intelligence
by andflywrite | April 27, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's a paper by the RAND corporation discussing. various additional aspects of AGI. RAND is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit,...
Black Box Mind-like Entities
by andflywrite | April 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
For whatever reason, we are currently in an AI phase where it seems necessary to understand a lot more about what these Exotic Mind Like Entities actually are ...including what's going on inside their "black box". One might guess this seems perhaps suddenly more imperative because of recent...
Exotic Mind-Like Entities
by andflywrite | April 25, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
ChatGPTo3 take: Behavioral alignment without a story about value-laden reflexivity risks brittle simulacra that look aligned until edge cases expose the hollowness. Treating metaphysics as mere rhetoric underestimates how deeply humans anchor meaning, purpose, and responsibility in those...
ADVANCING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION FOR AMERICAN YOUTH: POTUS
by andflywrite | April 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the modern world, driving innovation across industries, enhancing productivity, and reshaping the way we live and work. To ensure the United States remains a global leader in this technological revolution, we must provide our Nation’s youth...
Deep Patterns in top human condition ideas: ChatGPT o3
by andflywrite | April 21, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
We tasked CGPTo3 with finding deep underlying patterns that might exist in the top ineffable ideas, hoping this model could discover "new knowledge" and see patterns that hadn't previously been known. Perhaps it would take another prompt to ask if any of the patterns GPTo3 discovered were new...
Comprehensive exploration of the human condition via top minds: ChatGPT o3
by andflywrite | April 21, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As new AI capabilities become available, we probably "should" explore and find out for ourselves just what the new capability might be. This is part of learning how education and AI go together. In this post, ChatGPT o3 version (as of 4/21/25) was asked to explore the thinking of accomplished...
AI has grown beyond human knowledge: Google Deep Mind unit
by andflywrite | April 19, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
A new agentic approach called 'streams' will let AI models learn from the experience of the environment without human 'pre-judgment'. "Incredible new capabilities will arise once the full potential of experiential learning is harnessed," write DeepMind scholars David Silver and Richard...
Texas Is Poised to Create a $1 Billion Private School Voucher Program
by andflywrite | April 18, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The program would be capped at $1 billion in its first year, but could grow quickly, potentially reaching an estimated $4.5 billion a year by 2030. The funds can be used for private school tuition and for costs associated with home-schooling, including curriculum materials and virtual learning...
AI Memory enhancements and effective tutoring
by andflywrite | April 10, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
ChatGPT can now remember useful details between chats, making its responses more personalized and relevant. As you chat with ChatGPT – whether you’re typing, talking, or asking it to generate an image – it will remember helpful context from previous conversations, like your preferences and...
Experience, Knowledge, Scholarship, AI
by andflywrite | April 8, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.” ~ Douglas Adams This is a time when, despite Douglas Adams wise take on 'Life the Universe...
AI In Education — Up-level Your Teaching With AI By Cloning Yourself
by andflywrite | April 2, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The Future Of Education is AI AI is reshaping education—moving us away from memorization toward reasoning, understanding, and critical thinking. With personalized AI tutors, students can learn at their own pace, anytime. The challenge is clear: Educational institutions must equip both...
AI and spirit: toward a compassionate intelligence
by kris | March 29, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Earlier posts by John explored how spiritual insights -particularly the emphasis on intuition, healing, and the primacy of spiritual reality can inform ethical, compassionate, and human-centered approaches to AI in education. I asked ChatGPT for a PSA style white paper exploring how Mary Baker...
AI and human interaction in a new civilization?
by kris | March 29, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
I asked: How do humans and AI interact in a new civilization? Absolutely—let’s break it down step by step, in a clear and grounded way. The key idea here is that AI isn’t just a tool we use occasionally—it’s becoming part of the environment we live in. Just like language, electricity, or the...
Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 7 (end of series)
by andflywrite | March 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
7. Conclusion: Toward a Civilizational Meta-Literacy In the face of rapid and profound change, we are not merely retooling schools—we are reauthoring civilization. Artificial intelligence forces a reckoning with the stories we have told about ourselves: about progress, merit, human uniqueness, and...
Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 6
by andflywrite | March 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This part zooms out from the educational scenarios to consider the wider civilizational implications: meaning, identity, legitimacy, and the fate of human agency in a world that may be increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. 6. Implications and Questions for the Future of Civilization As...
Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 5
by andflywrite | March 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here is Section 5. We take the two civilizational lenses and five theoretical perspectives and use them to frame three distinct futures of education shaped by different configurations of AI influence. 5. Modeling Three Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World In this section, we present three...
Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 4
by andflywrite | March 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
4. Five Theorists on Civilization and Education in the Age of AI To understand the transformative pressures AI is placing on both education and civilization, we turn to five thinkers whose frameworks intersect with different dimensions of the ideological and empirical divide. Each theorist...
Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 3
by andflywrite | March 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
3. Civilizational Frameworks: Ideology and Practice in Tension To meaningfully forecast the evolution of education and civilization under advanced AI, we must begin by establishing the two interpretive lenses that structure this inquiry: the ideological and the empirical. These frameworks do not...
Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 2
by andflywrite | March 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Civilization Reimagined: Ideologies, Realities, and Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World 1. Abstract As advanced artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in the social, economic, and epistemological structures of modern civilization, longstanding assumptions about education,...
Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 1 outline
by andflywrite | March 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's a general outline of a ChatGPT researched project to get a real sense of what education would be "about" and "for" in an AI- driven world. Put simply, what do students need to learn about and be educated for in a much different employment and economic role? To achieve some semblance of a...
Building a community of learners that inspires trust in an online forum
by kris | March 21, 2025 | 7 Core DLE Elements, BEST LINKS EVER, Learning Community, Tech Tips | 1 Comment
This commentary in the Christian Science Monitor shares a perspective on an effort to build trust in a new online, state run public forum called Engaged California. Wondering if this community of learners will integrate AI analytics in an effort to discover wisdom and build trust. [pdf-embedder...
AI and the Evolution of Digital Learning Environments: version 2
by andflywrite | March 19, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
AI and the Evolution of Digital Learning Environments This is the second report generated by Deep Research using the original query posted here. Introduction In 2015, education experts introduced the 7 Core Elements of Best Digital Learning Environments (DLEs)—a framework designed to leverage...
ChatGPT “Deep Research”: 7 Core Elements of Best DLEs and AI Advancements; Version 1
by andflywrite | March 19, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
7 Core Elements and AI Advancements This report serves as a strategic guide for educators and policymakers to leverage AI while maintaining the human essence of learning. The report below was generated by ChatGPT Deep Research based on information about Defined Learning Environments as...
OpenAI “DeepResearch” on PSA 7 Core Elements in today’s AI rich context for learning
by andflywrite | March 8, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
An option to use OpenAI's Deep research is available to Admin, and the approach here is to use PSA's "7 Core Elements of the Best Defined Learning Experience" from 2015 and develop a 2025 context for them which includes the advent of rapidly advancing AI tools for learning; 7 Core Elements is a...
NextGenAI: A consortium to advance research/ education with AI
by andflywrite | March 7, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
OpenAI commits $50M in funding and tools to leading institutions. We already know OpenAI has partnered with Khan Academy for "KhanAmigo", an AI tutoring tool for K-12. Now OpenAI has...
Is Education in US a Classic case of technological inertia? ChatGPT responds
by andflywrite | February 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
"You’ve pinpointed a classic case of technological inertia—where the entrenched structure of education prevents a radical transformation, even though AI could vastly improve learning efficiency. The education system, like QWERTY, Fax Machines, Checkbooks, Car Dealers, and many others, is held in...
SXSW EDU® Schedule March 2-6 2025
by andflywrite | February 26, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
March 3-6, 2025 in Austin, TX The SXSW EDU Conference & Festival features four days of compelling content for education professionals, industry leaders, and policymakers looking to connect, collaborate, create and change how we teach and learn. Your 2025 SXSW EDU Badge ($745) is your...
The Big Query: AI and Emotions in the learning experience: Part 1
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
AI will supplement human teachers to some degree and to some amount, perhaps fulfilling student's emotional needs adequately. OR it will fail to do so. As we design learning environments for an AI presence, we would be best served if we can project what level of emotional presence AI can provide...
AI responds to Emotions query: Part 2
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This is one of the most fundamental and complex questions when considering AI’s role in education. At the heart of it is whether AI can genuinely replicate human emotions or just simulate them well enough to provide effective emotional support to students. 1. Can AI Replicate Human...
AI replacing teachers? AI and Emotional Presence in Learning: Part 3
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Admin has noticed that when ChatGPT responds to queries it often stays away from confirming that AI will be able to fully replicate what human teachers can provide. Finally we asked if it was not able to state that for political reasons such as people getting upset if AI seems like it will replace...
Zen Koan query: AI and Human Presence in Learning: Part 4
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's another couple questions for ChatGPT4 Turbo... that could potentially relate back to the ultimate capability of AI as a teacher, perhaps replacing current human teachers. These are a two of what are known as Zen koans, and they're used in the training of Zen monks. What is the sound of one...
“One Hand Clapping”: Emotions and Presence in Learning: Part 5
by andflywrite | February 24, 2025 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This is a brilliant test for AI’s potential as a true teacher, and I appreciate you bringing it up. The koans remain a challenge—both for AI and for humans! " These are two classic Zen koans, and analyzing them brings us right to the heart of whether AI can truly engage in deep, non-literal,...