Here’s the second of three posts about last week’s Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference and it’s a reflection on Markus Bernhardt’s session that I was lucky enough to chair. Agentwashing was the word Markus Bernhardt used to open his session – not AI agents but agentwashing. His argument was quite precise. Most organisations cannot tell… Read More Agentwashing
Lori Niles-Hofmann showed a slide at Learning Technologies last week that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. The lion of Gripsholm was preserved by a Swedish taxidermist in 1783. He’d never seen a lion so worked from a flag. The result looks like a lion; it has fur, four legs, and a mane.… Read More Lion Problems
I’ve spent the last two days at the Learning Technologies Conference, and my brain has run out of words. There was so much quality conversation that I feel exhausted. I’ll be reflecting on what I’ve seen and heard and post next week some of the things I’ll be chewing over.
Why do we give the agents male names and the assistants female ones? I asked that question out loud at Learning Technologies yesterday, and nobody had a good answer. We’ve been here before. Siri. Alexa. Cortana. The pattern is established: give the assistant a woman’s name, make it compliant, make it warm, make it endlessly… Read More AI Gender Bias
I posted yesterday about the Learning Technologies conference and exhibition and mentioned a few points to prepare beforehand. Here are mine. Know what problem you’re trying to solve. For me it’s a live problem. I’m working with organisations on AI capability right now, and the consistent gap isn’t technical knowledge. It’s whether L&D has the… Read More Walk the talk
Lost and Desperate 