Ai Tech update for educators 16th Mar

0:00Welcome back to the Titcher's AI Cafe. I'm Kane, a teacher and a parent who wants AI to give us back our time. I share practical classroom-tested AI strategies to cut down your workload and prove your feedback and reduce stress so you can get your evenings back and be more presently a friend of family. No jargon, just actual steps, grab your mug, now let's get going. What's been happening in the last week in AI? First is open AI, remove auto models, the 5.1 family of disappeared as of the 11th of March, auto models such as the 40 and the 4.1 have obviously gone much earlier than that. Sounds technical, but if you think you've done something and you've found yourself thinking, I'm sure this worked differently last month, you're probably right because there's a different model. What else? What is happening at Google's? And our substantial Gemma update across dock sheets, slides and drive, Gemma I can now build spreadsheets more fully, fully in missing data.

1:01And so broader questions across your files and related content in your Google Drive. Playing turns the blank page problem is being targeted directly. For teachers this could move faster drafting of documents quicker spreadsheets, an easier synthesis of scattered materials you've got spread across your resources. But this is obviously where a professional judgment question here, as I begin to tauting up our structure, do we really want to do that? And do we really want to do that for our students, creating things from blank pages, as opposed to us actually doing it? Moresof have released this new Way 3 update for Office 365. I basically, once again, more support across its different platforms. I just know in a separate window chat window has been happening so far. And also says, clause no variable in mainline copilot chat. I installed it in wonder Excel the other day, which was quite interesting, as well as Word, it embedded within that.

2:01So you've seen this into locking even different platforms, working with each other. Once again, this is important for schools that actually use Microsoft as their main platform. So Grock 4.2 beta and multi-agent beta has landed. Otherwise it's not directly for the classroom. It does signal this is the way the systems are heading as they're always saying. If I form what IO to be more changed semi-autonomous work, it's made eventually filtering the teaching tools when we look at things like plan, draft, revise, check across more, get some more independence checks coming out of that. And like I said, it all filters out eventually one form or another. Anthropic Institute was launched this week, and this is more about public interest and research around governance than product features. I think that's a good thing with progressing it that way. Anthropic seems to be taking that sort of pathway. I think it's worth including the shoes that AI companies are not just competing

3:02on speeding features. They're also competing to shape the social story around AI, our work and obviously try and build some public trust. So this is important for teachers that IO literacy cannot be just about how to write a prompt. It's obviously how it's actually used, a lot of muskless, reading an article this morning how I was saying AI should be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch to solve a lot of the different problems that are existing. And bit of a lot of story this week, an Australia report described schools are using IO chatbots to question students about their own submitted work. Almost like an oral, I guess, interrogation by bottom. It's funny, slightly absurd and somehow completely believable that we're using AI to check AI. So in the essay submitted, the chatbots says explain paragraph three. And the idea is AI is actually trying to police what AI does, and it'll how well the student can describe their chapter three.

4:03It can actually say whether they're actually written it themselves or not. Also tells us something a bit more serious that I guess the technology of race and assessment is already here. There's a lot of different ways of people are actually dealing with that. But like I said, getting AI to check whether he used AI in a verbal sense is a good progression, though he still should still be the job of the teacher. So the takeaway from this week is simple, check the tools you're already using, as I always probably got some new features integrated into that. And have a play with them. And keep up the good way. I'll talk to you later. You