Gareth Manning
@worldteacherman
Learning systems designer | AI • well‑being • agentic futures • real‑world PBL • ikigai • deep learning | REAL School Budapest
Video overviews in @NotebookLM would add huge educational value, once done well, which seems only a matter of time. We can already help kids to create personalised study guides and tutors, which is great. I’m hoping the ability for students to craft flash cards and generate…
🎚️We’re turning up the dial with expanded #Gemini & #NotebookLM features for educators/students! From personalized learning to boosted efficiency, these updates help you make the most class time. Swipe through to see all the updates & check out our blog:⬇️ goo.gle/4kO6GNZ
Psychedelics used to be so edgy to talk about. Now, federal tax $ is used to study their effects in mice & there are human clinical trials completed & ongoing. People are discussing psilocybin for longevity. MDMA & ibogaine likely to gain FDA approval soon. Things. Have. Changed.
Psilocybin shows potential as an anti-aging molecule, with lifespan-enhancing results in human cells and mice observed in a new study. In vitro, psilocin (psilocybin’s metabolite) extended cellular lifespan by 29% at baseline and 57% at higher doses. It also reduced markers of…
I’d suggest replacing all with @PerplexityComet.
How many Browsers do you have installed? 😅 I have Brave, Firefox, and Opera
Propaganda bots—automated accounts set up to amplify certain narratives or spread disinformation—actually have a huge reach, sometimes making up to 45% of accounts on platforms like X (Twitter), and their messaging can potentially reach hundreds of millions of people. The people…
GPT-5 early August. Not AGI.
scoop: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5 in early August. It will also ship with mini and nano versions. Details about GPT-5 in my Notepad 📒 newsletter this week, where I also dig into the SharePoint attacks. Live for subscribers 👇 theverge.com/notepad-micros…
Crazy how far technology has advanced since when I was a kid. I got my first computer, an IBM PC compatible 80286 with MS-DOS, in 1990. It often took an hour and several floppy disks to load a program. C:\>WP.EXE was how I used to launch WordPerfect 5.1. I’d play SimCity…
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Pew have updated their ChatGPT polling from a year ago. Usage has roughly doubled since summer 2023. The share of employed adults who use ChatGPT for work has roughly tripled over the same period to 28%. Two thirds of US adults have still not yet used ChatGPT.
This is insanely cool.
Our Aeneas AI model gives historians valuable new insights into ancient inscriptions & ancient history that may have taken years to uncover otherwise. Published in @Nature today: deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
Super long-awaited (and I still don't have access), but this is amazing. Game-changing for educators and students!
Introducing Imagen 4 in Google Docs, Slides, and Vids! Generate incredible images with improved text rendering & multilingual prompt support (over 20 languages!). Your creativity just got a multilingual boost. ✨👉 goo.gle/3GBiPbm
Geoffrey Hinton says LLMs are immortal. Destroy the hardware, save the weights. Rebuild them later, and “the very same being comes back to life.” But humans don't work that way. We're bound to our substrate. Not even Kurzweil gets a backup.
Working with sheets sucks and Manus is by far the best at it. It was the only tool for months that could transform data into different sheet formats I needed for curriculum design without making mistakes. o3 can now do this decently, but Manus is still better. Plus it can…
Working with data often means juggling multiple spreadsheets and spending hours turning them into clear, compelling charts. It takes time, the right tools, and know-how. For event marketers, that challenge starts right after the event: Turn raw event data into structured…
Mass starvation is spreading across Gaza. ChatGPT-o3 projects around 300k additional deaths by January if the current situation continues without sufficient humanitarian aid. That would surpass the level of both Darfur and Bosnia, which were declared legal genocides despite…
EU citizens in most countries overwhelmingly believe their governments are corrupt.
I just realised that I have not had to deal with a single "consent to cookies" popup since I started using @PerplexityComet. Returning our attention to us is a hugely underrated feature.
One odd weakness of ChatGPT Agent is that I cannot ask o3 to first generate a prompt, or for Deep Research to do research, and then switch to Agent mode. With limited uses, and each follow-up prompt counting as a full one from the limited prompt budget, this is not a good way…
The fact that I am now using apps like @WhatsApp and @Spotify in a browser via @PerplexityComet, and no longer in the actual apps themselves, speaks volumes to how AI agents will transform how we use computers. @Apple needs to join 2025.