*Cover image of me learning with a computer in a fairy tale created (obviously) with AI…Adobe Firefly, to be exact. I’ve been thinking a lot about what learning with generative AI is or could be. Is it different from other ways we learn? Does it call for a whole different theory of learning, or is […]
Note: The shared blogging experiment with Punya Mishra and Nicole Oster continues. This time we delve into metaphors of the mind, technology and generative AI. The core idea and first draft came from me, to which Punya contributed a substantial rewrite. The final version emerged through a collaborative process between all three. The featured image above was created […]
Note: This is the first post in an experiment at shared blogging by Punya Mishra, Nicole Oster and myself. Over the past months we have found ourselves engaged in some fascinating conversations around genAI, education, bias and more. This shared blogging experiment is an attempt to take some of these conversations and move them into this sharable […]
An important feature of a learning machine is that its teacher will often be very largely ignorant of quite what is going on inside. A. M. Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950 Last week at the SITE conference, I talked with Katrina Tour from Monash University about her work with refugees in Australia. She is […]