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AI State of Play Oct 25

On 20th October 2025 By Kate ScottIn Commentary, LLMsLeave a comment

Every few months, Ethan Mollick puts out a blog post on using AI - covering what's changed, what's useful, and what's confusing. If you haven't come across him, he's professor at Wharton, has a great blog called One Useful Thing, and wrote a book about living and working with AI, called Co-Intelligence. The latest of …

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The ‘Your Brain on ChatGPT’ Article

On 1st July 2025 By Kate ScottIn Commentary, LLMsLeave a comment

Taking a slight detour this week to dive into the recent MIT article with the very catchy name Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. Given this is a 200+ page academic article, I've enlisted some AI help, to find some quicker ways to absorb …

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Learning to use AI tools

On 17th February 202510th February 2025 By Kate ScottIn Commentary, Learning, ToolsLeave a comment

I ran a survey (mostly on LinkedIn) over the past few weeks to get a feel for where people go to learn about AI tools, and also what they think are going to be the important skill areas to be able to get on top of. The skill areas I asked about were: Understanding and …

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Welcome to my new adventure

On 14th January 202524th February 2025 By Kate ScottIn CommentaryLeave a comment

So I've been playing around in AI for a while, and writing for a while, and teaching for a while. I figured it was about time to bring it all together.

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