Prof Simon Lancaster

Yes, and whisper it but something needs to give and graduate skills are (generally) more important than discipline. #LTHEchat

Flattered to have a mention from the Queen of social media! #LTHEchat

Interesting, I always fear that if we (ever) go to fast we get no meaningful learning. #LTHEchat

This where the old skool chats would get into dereferentialisation territory. #LTHEchat

Who would do such a sociopathic thing?

A5 we timetable a bunch of students in a room and facilitate them talking to each other about something related to one of the intended learning outcomes. The AI might now even be able to suggest some good conversation prompts (questions) #LTHEchat

The homogenisation to mediocrity has just been super-charged? #LTHEchat

Becksbot 2.0 requires a long-term memory. #LTHEchat

To be fair, not much of what human beings do is a truly creative intelligent process, but at least we retain that potential. #LTHEchat

genAI is still generative AI, when it means general AI we can start talking about intelligence #LTHEchat

Absolutely, imagine if this was LinkedIn and the system was suggesting responses for us! #LTHEchat

Interesting, so you're not using an agent that is "getting to know you"? #LTHEchat

A4 I started off using genAI to reinforce my own sense of smug primacy in HE chemistry. That doesn't work anymore. genAI has moved on since 2022 and now I have to too. #LTHEchat

Yes, just think of all those poor neanderthals who had to make do with ChatGPT 3.0 #LTHEchat

The genie is out of the bottle and there's no limit to the number of wishes. But just ask Jafar if there's a catch. I think the risk is of a generation who are stuck in the AI lamp #LTHEchat

Sure, because you've <cough> a few </endcough> years experience learning to reason before AI. What if we'd grown up with it? #LTHEchat

I've only seen Discovery, isn't that a bit retro? #LTHEchat

#LTHEchat especially @kjhaxton.com

A2 My concern is that we (as a species) don't get enough practice reasoning because our first recourse is to the AI And because they don't really think or create everything stagnates. #LTHEchat

I see what you did there. #LTHEchat

What you mean like the Kelvin timeline? #LTHEchat

A2 benefit: breadth of "knowledge"; limit: if a student talks to a bot they are missing out on a genuinely social interaction. Bots are for when you'd otherwise be alone. Say, 9pm.

I am going to get CoPilot studio and create an AI called KatHy who I can ask all the difficult questions. #LTHEchat

Does the dialogue have to be between student and teacher? Can it be between students? Does that fulfil the definition? #LTHEchat

A1 it means facilitating conversations for learning; conversations about how to answer, not THE answer #LTHEchat

Good evening from Norwich! #LTHEchat

I was going by the clue you gave.

I think academics risk getting too distracted (taking solace) in what AI does badly. @kjhaxton.com gave us a spectacular demonstration of what it does pretty well (study design) and the transformative potential for the teaching-focused STEM academic at #ViCEPHEC25

If I were to label myself a grande dame would that be appropriation? And is there an equally connotation-rich gender-neutral equivalent?

“Tease”?