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Thought #7 - Education Will Save Us From AI? Or is it the other way around?

OpenAI has lots of news, as always. New research and releases from Antrophic. And Taught by Humans has been blogging away.

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Laura Gemmell
April 04, 2025

Hi lovely humans,

It’s been another busy one - both in the world of AI and at Taught by Humans (we’re cooking up some very fun things we’ll share soon). It’s also been refreshing to see education leading some of the AI news this week - from OpenAI and Anthropic, no less.

Here’s hoping this continues, and that AI skills and learning take centre stage in more of these conversations.

What We’ve Been Up To

Writing lots of blogs

Based on a chat with a friend, I put together some of my thoughts around whether we should be worried about our jobs, what we learnt from previous industrial revolutions and how AI is increasing my joy:

Should We Be Panicking? Is AI Going to Take Our Jobs or Our Joy?

With all the news about AI taking jobs, and whole industries - coding, graphic designers for example - being replaced by AI tools, it feels like a good opportunity to reflect on history. I don't often...

www.taughtbyhumans.com/blog/should-we-be-panicking-ai-jobs-or-joy

I played around more deeply with ChatGPT’s image generation features:

Putting ChatGPT's New Image Generation Features to the Test

Aside from flooding my LinkedIn with Studio Ghibli images of everything (and sparking a deep discussion on the impact of AI on creative endeavours), we were pretty impressed with ChatGPT’s new image g...

www.taughtbyhumans.com/blog/putting-chatgpts-new-image-generation-features-to-the-test

Tom decided to test out Apple’s image generation tool:

Is Apple Finally Joining in the AI Race? A Brief Look at Apple’s AI Image Playground

I’ve had a few pop-ups on my mac recently regarding Apple Intelligence and the new AI Image Playground app. As AI is basically my job, I thought I’d save it for a work day and record my testing to exp...

www.taughtbyhumans.com/blog/apple-ai-image-playground-review

We’ve had so many chats about AI and society this week - oddly jumping between the impacts on social mobility, and our joy!

AI New Releases

Anthropic has launched "Claude for Education," a specialised version of their AI assistant tailored for higher education institutions. This initiative introduces a "Learning mode" designed to guide students through Socratic questioning (eg asking students to explain their thinking and asking for counterexamples), promoting critical thinking by encouraging them to explore problems deeply rather than receiving direct answers. Additionally, partnerships with universities such as Northeastern University, the London School of Economics, and Champlain College will provide campus-wide access to Claude, integrating AI into teaching, learning, and administration.

OpenAI have released lots of educational resources to help people learn about AI (obviously we think this is important!). It seems to be live online and in person workshops on everything from AI for Older Adults to Conversational AI for Business Automation; and a library of content on how to do everything OpenAI.

Anthropic has developed tools to trace how Claude "thinks," revealing that it plans ahead, reasons across languages in a shared conceptual space, and can sometimes fabricate convincing but incorrect explanations (and a cute video explainer).

Claude Gets a (Slightly) New Feel

Anthrophic have changed how Claude looks - it’s slick and makes using the chatbot easier.

We've done some spring cleaning. The Claude interface is now more… | Anthropic | 110 comments

We've done some spring cleaning. The Claude interface is now more refined, thanks to your feedback. We’ve also added new suggested prompts to inspire more conversations, right from the start. The refreshed look is rolling out today on claude.ai and on our desktop apps. Try it out: claude.ai/download | 110 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/posts/anthropicresearch_weve-done-some-spring-cleaning-the-claude-activity-7311104793714872320-lWBW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAtlbd4BcTL1v6x3krO4g1kkwyMDwT0IVMs

Meta AI in WhatsApp

No we have not tested this out yet, feels a bit invasive.

But a little circle popped up in the corner of our WhatsApp this week, which I’ve accidentally clicked on several times. Even if they’re transparent about data use, I’m still not sure what the point is - or who it’s actually helpful for.

AI News

It’s all about OpenAI this week…

  • OpenAI added 1 million users to ChatGPT with the roll out of their new image generation features.

  • OpenAI servers are melting due to image creation. We’ve noticed a lot more errors using ChatGPT this week…

  • OpenAI funding round - they have raised $40 billion (at a $300 billion valuation) to “build towards AGI”

  • UK Gov has announced an accelerator to upskill data scientists to work as Machine Learning Engineers through hackathons and project.

  • Potential test for lung disease COPD using AI which takes 10 mins - Independent

Also worth a read

Not exactly news but we thought these were useful and worth reading:

  • TechCrunch have put together a list of the latest AI models

  • More discussion about whether AI models training on artists (of all kinds) work needs to be prevented - Guardian

  • Lots of chat on Reddit and other forums about whether the tariffs released by Donald Trump were actually calculated by ChatGPT - computing.co.uk

  • Google AI tricked by an April Fools news report about roundabouts in Wales - BBC

LinkedIn AI Poll

Last week we asked if people were using AI for research (as some of our commenters were wondering the week before).

We got much less votes - but again an overwhelming majority were using it for research at least once a week!

Vote in this week’s poll - please!

It’s about whether OpenAI using Studio Ghibli style images is actually a copyright issue.

Final Thoughts

As always we hope this was helpful!

Feel free to share this with anyone who might find it useful.

Next week, we’ll be sharing some resources on how to start thinking about AI - for you and your team.

Laura
Always learning