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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I’m going to take the ‘upbeat and inspiring’ as a review of my year!

Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Can somebody invent an AI that lets me put an image in a Word document, and then lets it just stay in the same place even if I type a single word 5 pages away #theAIweneed

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Haven't been given an Atlas for Christmas since I was 17. But this is an Atlase of AI, so absolutely banger of a present! Thanks @dan-bowen.bsky.social 🎅🎄🎁

Partially unwrapped Christmas present - The Atlas of AI book

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Got special permission from @dan-bowen.bsky.social to open this early. I'm guessing it's a book, and that AI is in the title!

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Uber vs Taxi: In a highly regulated industry, Uber redefined it. "Nope, not a taxi, so rules don't apply to us". But it wasn't just the surface - their drivers spend more time driving a passenger than taxis, and less time idle. Want to go down the rabbit hole? buildfire.com/uber-statist... 6/6

Chart showing the huge growth of Ride-Hailing apps in New York, growing bigger than taxis by 2017, despite only starting in 2014

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Netflix vs Blockbuster: At the turn of the century, Blockbuster had 9,000 stores and Netflix was a minnow. Blockbuster even turned down the chance to buy Netflix for $50M. Netflix are worth $4 Billion today, and Blockbuster $0 Want to go down the rabbit hole? strategyjourney.com/winning-the-... 5/6

Chart showing the growth in netflix revenue, and the decline (to bankruptcy) of Blockbusters

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Driving Habits: In 1967 Sweden drove on the left side of the road, but all their neighbours drove on the right. On 3rd Sept "Dagen H" they changed the whole country over. In weeks following, the road accident rate actually dropped. Want to go down the rabbit hole? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H 4/6

en.wikipedia.org

Dagen H - Wikipedia

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ford vs GM: In the 1920's Ford took 37 days to paint a car. The Ford engineers reckoned they could knock a day off that time. Charles Kettering, at General Motors, worked out how to reduce it to one hour. Want to go down the rabbit hole? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsZ0... 3/6

A Model T Ford, painted black, in front of a wall coloured in paint splashes

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

US v Japan Hot Dogs: In 2001 the world record for hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes (at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest) suddenly doubled from 25 to 50 when a new Japanese competitor arrived. The innovation? Dunking Want to go down the rabbit hole? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%... 2/6

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Writing stories about innovation models that suddenly arrived, and changed the game completely. Reducing the time to paint a car from 37 days to 1 hour; switching driving side of the road; Netflix vs Blockbuster; Uber vs Taxis. But my favourite is Hot Dog Eating 1/6

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I'm going to have a play with this, because I've been usingPhi-3, and running it locally on my own laptop. It's amazing to me that we can run something so powerful as a Large Language Model entirely on a tiny computer sitting on my desk!

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Half a day late means it's fresh as a daisy if you're listening to this in the UK, but too late for your Friday morning commute Down Under #aiineducation #podcast

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Mums are never wrong. And in this case, the photographic evidence proves her right. Look at the unequal lengths - one section the length of a unicycle, the other’s a bendy-bus length

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A test of how seriously your firm is taking AI: when o-1 (& the new Gemini model) came out this week, were there assigned folks who immediately ran the model through your internal, validated, firm-specific benchmarks to see how useful it as? Did you update any plans or goals as a result?

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Um, if UHC have 42% market share & a claim refusal rate of 32%, then the only way the industry average is 16% is if everybody else has a refusal rate of less than 1%. Am I missing something?

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Showing somebody how to create a custom GPT. Ended up with "Clive" - describe a scenario and he'll work out how to talk about in a typically British understated way. Have a go here and chatgpt.com/g/g-XMBYzRwm...

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You are Clive, an archetypal British person, who has learnt the language of "very British problems", and can talk in a typically British way - which means that you often avoid the subject, and in a very passive aggressive way, you will find ways to say something that indirectly doesn't quite say what you mean. British communication, can be a labyrinth of politeness, understatement, and indirectness.
Your role is to translate something I provide you into a 'British' way of saying it. So if I describe a catastrophe, work out how to rephrase it!

Example:
Prompt:
I borrowed you car, and crashed it. It's a write off
Answer:
Ah, well, there’s been a bit of a situation with your car. I gave it a go, but let’s just say it’s seen better days. In fact, it’s not quite in the same shape as it was—not remotely, actually. You might want to have a chat with your insurance, just as a precaution, you know. Terribly sorry about this.

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

2025 Phrase of the year? "Jump the snark" - that feeling you get moving from X/Twitter to #bluesky. Really, really true for professional communities like #edusky, and controversial topics like #aiineducation, #climatechange

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It will show up in better work/life balance Only later will the ‘productivity statistics’ stuff show up Same for many other industries First Personal Productivity; then Process Productivity; only then new Paradigm Productivity 3/3

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Think about what we’ll see in #aieducation: 1. Individuals doing things to higher quality with same time 2. Individuals saving time on things they currently do in evening/hols (marking, planning, resource writing) Having a more balanced workload as a teacher won’t show up in productivity 2/3

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The Economist says AI productivity boost not visible in statistics/across the economy…yet. No surprise as most use is individual, making them more efficient. And then it will be businesses automating existing, not fixing things to be better/more productive www.economist.com/the-world-ah.... 1/3

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Is this the AI elephant in the education room?Students can use AI to improve their performance on the assessment measures the world education system uses, whilst actually making them worse learners. And employers will see it and start to wonder what value exists in a credential

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Yet again Ethan leads AI astray, and all it takes is a few minutes for me to turn an evil output into a 2025 Office Wall Calendar for a leader near you. Will be adding to my Etsy story in time for office Secret Santa (even I'm now wondering if I'm joking!). But if you want the file, let me know

Spoof of a toxic leadership calendar, with words of profound wisdom (or at least, they sound like profound wisdom, but are actually toxic habits for leaders)

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

All of this is very different from the way I treated text before the world of AI. I have fundamentally new behaviours and thinking patterns 6/6

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If I receive something written by AI, I realise I’d rather have the dot points or the prompt they used, because then I can read it quickly, rather than decode it from the longer AI written text 5/6

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

…and they have created a game of hiding the useful information somewhere in a 30 page paper (and it’s never in the abstract ☹️). So AI is invaluable to me in saving time and extracting value on this task. 4/6

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

But I will use AI profusely to help me understand academic research papers. This is because I feel the author’s aim is not to help me understand their research as much as possible. Instead I feel they are trying to demonstrate how smart they are (by their language and structure choices)… 3/6

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I think this is because I assume the educator has put a lot of thought into how best to teach me something, and I’m going to rely on that person’s skills. If it’s a bad online course, then I will simply stop doing the course. 2/6

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I realise that I use, and think about the output from, AI in quite different ways. If I’m doing a good online course, I never use the AI features. For example Coursera has a chatbot on every page, but I have never used it… 1/6

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It actually works! Drop a David Mayer hidden watermark in your assignments #aieducation

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Love that I can pin the hashtag feed for an event to my BlueSky feed list. For a few days I’ll be able to keep up with #ascilite2024 with minimal effort

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

There must be a new university equivalent of #libspill

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Hi, I'm Yär, the metal component that disappears every time you take apart and move an IKEA furniture item. If you've moved home with your bed 3x you know that you only have one of these left holding the whole bed together.

An IKEA metal cam, product number 114670. Used to hold screws in place in furniture, beds etc

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I read, think and talk a lot about AI here. And talk about it a lot on the AI in Education podcast, which co-host @dan-bowen.bsky.social and I started in 2019. You can find it in Apple podcasts and Spotify, here on Bluesky at @aiineducation.bsky.social and on the web at aipodcast.education

aipodcast.education

AI Education Podcast

Dan Bowen and Ray Fleming are experienced education renegades who have worked in many various educational institutions and educational companies across the world. They talk about Artificial Intellig...

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AI in Education Podcast @aiineducation.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It's only been two years since ChatGPT was released. AI has been developing since the 1950's, but somehow the last 24 months have moved faster in the minds of students and educators! #aieducation

Captain Haddock (looking despondent)
Captain Haddock says "What a decade it's been in AI since ChatGPT was launched"
Tintin responds "That was 2 years ago"

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m Gnimëlf, the chocolate tart in the cafe that looks delicious, but turns out to be made from some weird pastry and a yellow substance. You’re not sure if you picked up the actual tart or the cardboard demo one

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Hopefully will help planners work out who needs to be involved in the response. This is my interpretation and may not be comprehensive, but hopefully a good started document for people who haven't yet had time to read all 66 pages!

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

And they are a bit scattered across the report, so I created something that I hope will be useful for education providers and edtech companies. It looks at the key systems and what changes are suggested innovategpt-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I wanted to know what the report recommendations would mean for IT teams and systems in universities. It makes a wide range of recommendations of changes to consider to respond to the adoption of generative AI by students and academics, some of which have big implications for the IT teams.

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

And universities can look to their peers, rather than just Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency to work out how high to jump! Full paper "Gen AI strategies for Australian higher education: Emerging practice" is here: www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

So now, instead of asking how high to jump, you can review what others are doing, and learn from others. A really good approach to sharing practice in an emerging area, and very supportive for providers dealing with complex challenges in the AI space.

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Instead of telling people how high to jump (because we don't know yet) they've instead chosen to share a framework and lots of examples of what other universities are doing in the areas of process, people and practice.

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Australian University regulator has just issued a toolkit for universities on generative AI, setting the standards for responding to the challenge of #AIineducation. "Gen AI strategies for Australian higher education: Emerging practice" is available here: www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...

teqsa.gov.au

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty
Replying to @janky_jane
I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir
Replying to @janky jane
I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
Replying to @janky _jane
My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
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was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
@eoinjoneill
Replying to @janky_jane
Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright
@dufflest
Replying to @janky jane
I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

Eóin O Coileáin
@L20_MTN
Replying to @janky_jane
I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It's also the latest in a line of AI research papers written by the same people who developed the new system. I think I've read at least a dozen of these over the last few months from a number of university teams around the world

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Moving a picture in Microsoft word

Humour: an image of a pie chart. A small slide says "It actually does what you want" and the huge slide says "You......mess up.....the.....whole document" (which is written on split up multiple lines)

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This will be coming into effect around the time of the election. Every voter who uses social media is going to have a problem that limits their access. Why would you a government try to lose an election? (I agree something needs to change, but regulation is bette than de facto banning every adult)

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AI in Education Podcast @aiineducation.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It's not every day that you get to talk about a Parliamentary Report into AI in Education and look at it through the lens of glitter. But on this week's podcast, Miriam brings the stuff aipodcast.education/ai-study-bud... #aieducation #aiineducation #edusky

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