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Judy Spak
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Corgimum, medical librarian, rose admirer, liberal.
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June 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.
honeypisquared.bsky.social Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · Jun 9
I am delighted to announce that my new paper with @darrenmacey.bsky.social is now published, entitled 'All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education'

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A picture of the title and abstract of the research paper: All sizzle, no steak: AI tools are not able to act as credible knowledge brokers by summarising evidence in mathematics education Lucy Rycroft-Smith, Darren Macey University of Cambridge Current discourse around AI (artificial intelligence) tools suggest they can offer users quick access to research evidence, with the goal of improving our practice and policies in mathematics education. However, recent evaluations suggest that AI often falls short of human capabilities in accurately summarising complex information, raising questions about trust, credibility, and reliability. In this paper, we investigate whether AI tools are able to successfully perform the educational knowledge brokering function of finding, selecting, and summarising research with implications for practitioners. In particular, we ask if AI tools are able to find research papers that actually exist (accuracy), are relevant to the question (relevancy) and are able to interpret findings into useful, actionable implications for practitioners (applicability). We find that generally they are not, and even when they are, they do so in a way that is so inconsistent as to be a serious threat to credibility. Keywords: artificial intelligence; AI; knowledge brokering; large language models; mathematics education
June 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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My Saturday PSA:

Joe Biden isn’t the president anymore.

Instead, we’ve got a mentally deranged and ethically compromised old man with the nuclear codes trespassing in the Oval Office.

Stop talking about Joe Biden.

Start talking about the Convicted Felon, Donald Trump.
May 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”

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Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags
His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.
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April 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Hearing now that ERIC, the major database for Education research worldwide, is going to be reducing the number of journals it indexes by 45% (as a start) as of the end of April this year. What do you want to bet the first journals to be cut will be anything remotely related to DEI? #academicsky
March 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM