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A(I) model student
In a week where more than one Jargon Group employee has become a proud parent of a University graduate, I was curious about this article that claimed researchers at the University of Reading had fooled professors into giving AI-generated content better marks than real, actual student work. The article claims this as evidence that AI has passed the Turing test - where it is undetectable to experts.
Maybe I'm being cynical but - having tested Chat GPT-generated content multiple times against human created content - I'm a little concerned about the abilities of the professors that were fooled.
While there's no doubting the quality of AI-generated content (I've been surprisingly impressed by its capabilities in several very niche areas) but it has never come close to providing copy that I would consider sharing with a client for a nano-second.
It's often quite good, but more often simply not quite right. For me, the key concern is that aggregated internet content is getting ranked better than real life student opinions. I'd hope universities would be more inclined towards the latter.
Back to school for “old school” phones
Sticking with the education sector, pupils at Eton will now be banned from bringing smartphones to school and instead be provided with old school talk and text phones.
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of smartphone use among kids, I was struck by the fact the Nokia brand is now synonymous with the concept of a "brick" phone - something that would have been impossible to believe 15 years ago. The report doesn't tell us if Snake will be installed.
Mobile Phone Museum
If a trip down mobile memory lane is your thing, around 10 years ago I wrote this LinkedIn post listing all the phones I'd owned at that point. I've never really updated this because 2015 is when the handset form factor innovation stopped evolving (at least until foldables but I've not tried those yet!).
For a more comprehensive history of the mobile phone, you can't do better than the Mobile Phone Museum curated by Ben Wood and Matt Chatterley and supported by our very good friends at Genuine Solutions.