Stephen Downes

With the arrival of multi-modal AI our lives will get more complicated, not simpler. Multi-model AI uses more than just text, and uses what are called 'world models' to interpret data from cameras and sensors. The experimentation in the classroom has been underway for a while now. Illustrated here is an experiment "to use the AI monitoring application inside our classroom. Just for fun, honestly." The equipment is provided by a company called Guardex.ai, which also promotes the use fo cameras and AI-based analysis to monitor areas for unauthorized intrusion, idle equipment, safety violations, and employees not hard at work. The classroom equivalent of this is what we are told 'only teachers can do'. But when it becomes so questionable when done by a machine (and make no mistake, people won't like it), it's worth asking whether we should be doing it at all.