Donald Clark

Donald Norman said good technology should be invisible. Future of online learning is that it will be smart & that these smarts will disappear. That’s why I wrote ‘AI for Learning’ about how the invisible hand of AI will transform why, what & how we learn bit.ly/2FiaPf7

We need a marketing term like 'Horsepower' to sell AI productivity to orgs; Cogpower, Thoughts per second, Agent power, Read–Write Velocity, Scriptpower....

I love reasoning models but wouldn't want to go to the pub with them. If I want general chat give me a foundational models. For expertise add RAG. For making media generative models and for getting things done, agentic. AI models are like people. But when it's all thing? GPT-5?

Procurement people are in the business of not telling what their process is, then drip feeding it only on request, all the while accusing you of being negligent on their process.

Problem is that it hits those with physical jobs hard - working class people. Try being a plumber at 70. These fools assume everyone works in an office or sit at home having online meetings all day.

AI has outpacing expectations. Underestimated at every turn it has advanced further than we dared imagine. Some deliberately & persistently downplayed what it could do; the brick wall, plateauing, stochastic parrot narrative. Many still stuck in this Pythonesque parrot narrative.

What will astonish most is that this clearly wasn't happening.... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

UK and OpenAI open up productivity plans openai.com/global-affairs…

Agent Sam is here! We're playing around wiyth lots of ideas on teaching, learning, assessment and admin. Immediately useful as a supervised time saver across all fronts.

What he means, is plenty of space in poor. working class blighted communities. Recipe for complete disaster.

10 OpenAI employees have turned down $300m packages. What an astonishing sentence.

We can safely conclude he's losing his already tiny mind....

EHCR Interesting piece that scotches most of the sacred cows. Many have simply ignored it, many don't use it, not necessary for Good Friday Agreement. Over legislates, limits policy and against the grain of common law. gawaintowler.substack.com/p/britain-and-…

Wild West!? As long as you don't come to the gunfight with a silly framework and form ft.com/content/fe49f3…

Reflects status-quo, neophobia, negativity, availability biases and loss aversion.... and don't like 3rd question as it primes with word 'risks'. Adds to the noise rather than illuminating anything deep.

Neat...

Here we go.... the endless Sisyphean fear mongering.... now its online friends. Imaginary friends are OK in literature but not online. And what 10 year old calls LBC at 10 pm? One you probably don't want as a mate.

Sell. In fact, outlaw crypto. Anyone even remotely interested in climate change that deals with crypto is being duplicitous...

Coming....

Truth....

With AGI, UBI needs cash, that means tax, but there's no employees to tax, so it has to come from tech companies. The political solution is NOT UBI but tax.