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Millgate_Jon

Millgate_Jon

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I asked AI to draft up an Ayrton Senna tribute livery for my Mk 1 Ford Puma as a means to getting some ideas.......pretty impressed with its suggestion but it was too difficult to deal with the vinyl so we settled on a couple of easy to cut and stick stripes 🙂

 

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mikes

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with the unicode, pupils often paste the output into a rewriter anyway so that would either break the rewriter or they would get rewrited out. 

I was recently asked by English - they had suspicions a sixth former had used AI to write their homework/coursework - and asked if I knew a way to tell - I had to tell them I hadn't heard of a detector that was reliable - even if one is 95% reliable do you want to risk accusing a student of cheating if there's a 5% chance they are totally innocent? that would mean 5 students per year falsely accused potentially!

 

mavhc

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2 hours ago, mikes said:

with the unicode, pupils often paste the output into a rewriter anyway so that would either break the rewriter or they would get rewrited out. 

I was recently asked by English - they had suspicions a sixth former had used AI to write their homework/coursework - and asked if I knew a way to tell - I had to tell them I hadn't heard of a detector that was reliable - even if one is 95% reliable do you want to risk accusing a student of cheating if there's a 5% chance they are totally innocent? that would mean 5 students per year falsely accused potentially!

 

Just talk to the student about their work, then you can easily tell if they understand what they wrote

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6Foot2

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Link: Google starts embedding AI chatbot into search - BBC News

 

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Google is introducing a new artificial intelligence (AI) mode that more firmly embeds chatbot capabilities into its search engine, aiming to give users the experience of having a conversation with an expert.

 

The "AI Mode" was made available in the US on Tuesday, appearing as an option in Google's search bar.

 

The change, unveiled at the company's annual developers conference in Mountain View, California, is part of the tech giant's push to remain competitive against ChatGPT and other AI services, which threaten to erode Google's dominance of online search.

 

The company also announced plans for its own augmented reality glasses and said it planned to offer a subscription AI tool.

 

Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google-parent Alphabet, said the incorporation of the company's Gemini chatbot into its search signalled a "new phase of the AI platform shift".

 

"With more advanced reasoning, you can ask AI both longer and more complex queries," Pichai told the audience.

 

The company's foray into AI-powered glasses comes more than a decade after it pioneered smart glasses with its "Google Glasses", which ultimately flopped.

 

The new Google glasses are being developed with eyeglass retailers Warby Parker and Gentle Monster and will feature a camera, microphone, and speakers.

 

With the renewed effort, Google hopes to compete against Meta's AI-powered glasses made with Ray-Ban.

 

The company said it expected to start building the new product later this year.

 

Leo Gebbie, principal analyst and director for the Americas at CCS Insight, said Google had been expected to wrap AI more tightly into its products.

 

He said he thought the chatbot would help minimise the number of web pages that users must sift through, while also allowing people to ask more complicated queries.

 

"For the end user, this should mean less time spent browsing the web itself, and more time spent talking with Google's AI tools," he said.

 

Any updates that Google makes to search are "of critical importance," added Gebbie, since the search business contributes the vast majority of Google's revenues.

 

Google's attempts to keep up with ChatGPT could fundamentally change the nature of its search engine, which could impact its profits.

 

"Google is getting more efficient at answering questions, but less efficient at generating clicks – and clicks is how they get paid," said Cory Johnson, chief market strategist at Epistrophy Capital Research.

 

The announcements also come as the company fights a court battle in the US over potential changes to its business after a judge ruled it had a monopoly in search.

 

Rocky road

 

Google has had mixed success in its recent attempts to incorporate more AI into its services.

 

Its AI Overviews feature, unveiled by Google at its developers conference last year, offers AI-generated summaries that currently appear at the top of search results.

 

It initially generated ridicule from users who posted some of the odd responses they received, as when it advised one user that non-toxic glue could help make cheese stick to pizza.

 

Another widely circulated response stated that geologists recommend humans eat one rock each day.

 

A Google spokesperson said at the time that these were "isolated examples."

 

Mr Pichai said on Tuesday that AI Overviews now gets 1.5 billion uses per month in more than 200 countries and territories.

 

In its biggest markets - the US and India - AI Overviews drive more than 10% of growth in the types of queries that show them, Pichai said.

 

"It's one of the most successful launches in search in the past decade," he added.

 

6Foot2

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VEO 3 has been announced and published by Google DeepMind today. It is literally insane and mind blowing. But in literal sense. There has never been anything like this before. It is able to generate 8 seconds HD videos with ultra realistic and perfect audio. I have collected 60 user generated wild non-cherry pick examples from Twitter. You know seeing the user generated examples is only real compared to hyped releases of publishers.

 

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jthompson

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On 25/05/2025 at 20:06, 6Foot2 said:

 

 

In a similar vein, Ars has a good write-up of Veo3's capability and its significance.

 

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-video-just-took-a-startling-leap-in-realism-are-we-doomed/

 

The conclusions they draw are quite interesting.

 

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Media has always been vulnerable to forgery since ancient times; trust in any remote communication ultimately depends on trusting its source.

 

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6Foot2

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Link: Super Trouper meets supercomputer: AI helping Abba star to write musical | Abba | The Guardian

 

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After bringing a blockbuster hologram version of Abba to a purpose-built venue in east London, Björn Ulvaeus’s next technological exploration is a musical that he’s written with the help of artificial intelligence.

 

Ulvaeus, 80, told an audience at SXSW London that he was “three-quarters” of the way through writing a new musical which he has created with assistance from AI songwriting tools.

He said the technology had limitations when it comes to songwriting, saying it was “lousy at [writing a whole song]” and “very bad at lyrics” but was helpful whenever he reached a creative impasse.

 

“You can prompt a lyric you have written about something, and you’re stuck maybe, and you want this song to be in a certain style,” Ulvaeus said.

 

“You can ask it, how would you extend? Where would you go from here? It usually comes out with garbage, but sometimes there is something in it that gives you another idea.” ...

 

pete

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https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

 

My favourite comment (emphasis mine):


Last year, I taught a class as part of a doctoral program in responsible AI development and use. I don’t want to share too many specifics, but the course goal was for students to think critically about the adverse impacts of AI on people who are already marginalized and discriminated against.

 

When the final projects came in, my co-instructor and I were underwhelmed, to say the least. When I started digging into the projects, I realized that the students had used AI in some incredibly irresponsible ways—shallow, misleading, and inaccurate analysis of data, pointless and meaningless visualizations. The real kicker, though, was that we got two projects where the students had submitted a “podcast.” What they had done, apparently, was give their paper (which already had extremely flawed AI-based data analysis) to a gen AI tool and asked it to create an audio podcast........

Koldov

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I guess they passed though, as they demonstrably proved the 'adverse impacts of AI' ... and I guess as students they could claim in some respects they are 'marginalized and discriminated against'...?

sigma

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https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-collapses-15bn-ai-startup-exposed-actually-indians-pretending-bots-1734784

 

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The tech world is reeling from revelations that Builder.ai, once hailed as a $1.5 billion (£1.11 billion), 'AI' powerhouse, now faces scrutiny as its highly promoted artificial intelligence facade crumbles, revealing a human-powered operation behind the cutting-edge AI automation.

Builder.ai, the British no-code AI startup that once garnered acclaim for its strategic partnership with Microsoft and secured a $250 million (£184.64 million) investment led by the Qatar Investment Authority, declared Tuesday that it is initiating bankruptcy protection.

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'It turns out the company had no AI and instead was just a group of Indian developers pretending to write code as AI,' he wrote in a LinkedIn post. Beliūnas also highlights that Duggal reportedly presented false revenue figures to investors. Remarkably, the company managed to sustain this deception for eight years.

 

sigma

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7 hours ago, Ditto said:

Pehaps controversially, deception apart, does it matter?! If a RI (real intelligence) setup performs at least as well as a AI setup, Is there a danger we devalue RI over AI?


I don’t think that’s controversial and is a real danger.

 

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gaz350b

gaz350b

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On 10/06/2025 at 07:37, sigma said:


Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kvyj7dkp0o

The problem with using AI tools to mark work how are teachers going to really understand and connect with students based upon the work they are producing and students really showing they understand a topic.
there needs to be a lot of thought to how the tools can complement current practice and not replace it. 

For example I could see it used as a coaching tool for students and staff to improve their writing and understanding of work.

student produces work, AI feedback given. Make a revision and then presents to teacher their understanding of what they have produced.

AI as a moderation tool reviewing large pieces of work across an entire year group and checking for fair marking would be good use and give large amounts of time back.

 

 

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dmj

dmj

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Teacher uses AI to write assignment -> student uses AI to complete assignment -> teacher uses AI to mark assignment

Can we get rid of teachers and students yet?

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Fazza

Fazza

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15 hours ago, dmj said:

Teacher uses AI to write assignment -> student uses AI to complete assignment -> teacher uses AI to mark assignment

Can we get rid of teachers and students yet?

 

This is the future right here!!

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