Plus a Troll, a Marking Robot & a Mystery Guest 🍺
Episode 20. Somebody told Neil his content is lazy and rehashed. He's decided being trolled is an accolade. Kieron got ambushed on stage when a customer asked a live audience whether KnowledgeFlow had helped or hindered them. (Spoiler: he survived. Every hand that went up said helped.)
The big question this week: is AI conscious? Kieron — who has a psychology degree — points out that you can't dismiss the idea until you can define consciousness, and nobody's managed that yet. Meanwhile AI companies are pillaging university philosophy departments and Anthropic is reportedly monitoring Claude's mood. Third-beer conversation territory, and it's brilliant.
Also this week: the hackathon that built an AI marking assistant in 30 minutes (and why AI marking is dangerously generous by default), the college trip risk assessment process so bureaucratic that teachers have stopped taking students on trips, Raven Housing's masterclass in doing AI adoption slowly and properly, and why Microsoft is throwing 6,000 people and billions of dollars at the adoption problem everyone pretends doesn't exist.
And a first for the podcast: a special guest pulls up a stool tomorrow. Tankard at the ready.
Two mates. A bar. Thirty years of business between them. And all they want to talk about is AI.
Pull up a stool — we'll get the beers in. 🍺
