Delighted to launch this new 5-episode miniseries on AI in education, sponsored by Nord Anglia Education, host Professor Rose Luckin kicks things off for the Edtech Podcast by examining how we keep education as the centre of gravity for AI.
AI has exploded in the public consciousness with innovative large language models writing our correspondence and helping with our essays, and sophisticated images, music, impersonations and video generated on-demand from prompts. Whilst big companies proclaim what this technology can achieve and how it will affect work, life, play and learning, the consumer and user on the ground and in our schools likely has little idea how it works or why, and it seems like a lot of loud voices are telling us only half the story. What’s the truth behind AI’s power? How do we know it works, and what are we using to measure its successes or failures? What are our young people getting out of the interaction with this sophisticated, scaled technology, and who can we trust to inject some integrity into the discourse?
AI has exploded in the public consciousness with innovative large language models writing our correspondence and essays for us, and systems capable of generating sophisticated images, music, audio impersonations and video.  Whilst big companies proclaim what this technology can do and how it will affect work, life, play and learning, the consumer and user on the ground and in the schools likely has little idea how it works or why, and it seems like a lot of loud voices are telling us one thing, and it’s only half the story.  What’s the truth behind AI’s power?  How do we know it works, and what are we using to measure its success?  What are our young people getting out of the interaction with this sophisticated, scaled technology, and who can we trust to inject some sanity into the discourse?