Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Paul Stacey has written a comprehensive description of, on the one hand, the tragedy that is AI, and on the other hand, how we might come out of this with a "catharsis". I disagree with a lot of it, but that's not the point, since what he writes could be seen as echoing a lot of what a lot of other people have said, in order to set a stage. Ultimately, the article gets to its point, which is point five in part to (the last point), which is Martin Dougiamas's proposed OER Dataset for AI project. "There are opportunities to create not just Large Language Models but smaller more customized openly licensed data sets for various academic domains using open science and open education sources." The rest, to my mind, is preamble. Supporting an open dataset for open and publicly accessible AI should be the goal.

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