Artificial Intelligence in Education: Context, Rules, and Limits
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, greetings from Canada. Thank you for inviting me to speak at this important forum on artificial intelligence and education. Here is a QR code that…
Stephen Downes
L’intelligence artificielle dans l’éducation : contexte, règles et limites
Mesdames et Messieurs, bonjour, je vous transmets mes salutations du Canada. Merci de m’avoir invité à prendre la parole à cet important forum sur l’intelligence artificielle et l’éducation. Voici un…
L’intelligence artificielle dans l’éducation : contexte, règles et limites
Mesdames et Messieurs, bonjour, je vous transmets mes salutations du Canada. Merci de m’avoir invité à prendre la parole à cet important forum sur l’intelligence artificielle et l’éducation. Voici un…
Bank Street
Answering the question on Reddit r/Ottawa, "What is your favorite part of Ottawa?"Bank StreetFor me, it has been everything up and down Bank Street (when I was young I lived…
Bank Street
Answering the question on Reddit r/Ottawa, "What is your favorite part of Ottawa?"Bank StreetFor me, it has been everything up and down Bank Street (when I was young I lived…
Free Speech Maximalists
Leo Laporte said once again today "I'm a free speech maximalist" on the TWIG podcast, and once again I had the same visceral reaction to the term. We know that…
Why Free Learning Needs Free Artificial Intelligence
'Free' learning means two things to me: first, the idea that learning ought to be zero cost, and second, the idea that learning ought to be open and inclusive. Together…
What Is the Soul of Open Educational Resources?
I have already written a short post in OLDaily responding to Heather Ross's post but I would like to expand a bit on it with a short post here.The gist…
My Top 10 Tools List for 2024
This is my submission for this year to Jane Hart's annual list.1. Firefox - this is my web browser of choice, the only one properly effective against tracking and advertising,…
A 100-page Textbook on Logic.
I was wondering whether ChatGPT could so it, so I asked it, "Please write me a 100-page textbook on logic." I'll reproduce what it produced below, but I want to…
Why I Attribute
Alan Levine gave me the old h/t (hat tip) for referencing a post recently on AI and copyright law. In a follow-up he recognized my own version of the h/t,…
Some Notes on Intelligence
Responding to Benjamin Riley, Modeling Minds (Human and Artificial): What are we talking about when we talk about intelligence? See also the discussion here.In the paper on Modelling Minds Riley…
Perplexity on Connectivism
This is a response from Perplexity, an AI engine that promises accuracy and cites real sources in its answer. The question was: “What is Connectivism”. It’s worth noting that while…
Response to Questions for Member States
This is in response to a contribution to an OAS meeting distributed in my office this morning. It is of course my set of opinions only, and not reflective of…
Text Editing in Ubuntu Cloud Environment Within a Powershell Environment
Sorry about the headline; it’s mostly a bunch of keywords to help it be found when I need it again. The Problem I have an Ubuntu container in a cloud…
Accessing Reclaim Cloud Containers by SSH and SFTP using Public and Private Keys
Goodness, I hate working with public and private keys. But that’s the only way to access Reclaim containers by SSH (for SSH file transfer and SSH terminal access). I’m using…
On the Sentiment of Rationality
I’ve wrestled with the question of whether there can be an ‘artificial intelligence’ over the last few days. The question of course comes down to what we think ‘intelligence’ is,…
21 Answers
Ben Williamson argues that the 21 arguments he summarizes “demonstrate how AI cannot be considered inevitable, beneficial or transformative in any straightforward way.” Of course, nobody is actually proposing this.…
A Quick Guide to Pyramid-Style Writing
The secret of my success (assuming that I’ve had both secrets and success) is that I learned to write like a journalist at a relatively early age. This approach is…
How Can Neural Nets Recreate Exact Quotes If They Don’t Store Text?
I often see arguments that show an original bit of text and a close duplicate output by a large language model (LLM) offered as evidence that the neural networks that…