Prof Simon Lancaster
LightNews LightNews
banner
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Prof Simon Lancaster
@sjlancaster.bsky.social
2.9K followers 6.4K following 450 posts
Woke European educator (Chemistry and Higher Education) he/him
Posts Replies Media Videos
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Yes, and whisper it but something needs to give and graduate skills are (generally) more important than discipline. #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Flattered to have a mention from the Queen of social media! #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Interesting, I always fear that if we (ever) go to fast we get no meaningful learning. #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
This where the old skool chats would get into dereferentialisation territory. #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Who would do such a sociopathic thing?
October 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
The homogenisation to mediocrity has just been super-charged? #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Becksbot 2.0 requires a long-term memory. #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
To be fair, not much of what human beings do is a truly creative intelligent process, but at least we retain that potential. #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
genAI is still generative AI, when it means general AI we can start talking about intelligence #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Absolutely, imagine if this was LinkedIn and the system was suggesting responses for us! #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Interesting, so you're not using an agent that is "getting to know you"? #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Yes, just think of all those poor neanderthals who had to make do with ChatGPT 3.0 #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
The genie is out of the bottle and there's no limit to the number of wishes. But just ask Jafar if there's a catch. I think the risk is of a generation who are stuck in the AI lamp #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Sure, because you've a few years experience learning to reason before AI. What if we'd grown up with it? #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
I've only seen Discovery, isn't that a bit retro? #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
A2 My concern is that we (as a species) don't get enough practice reasoning because our first recourse is to the AI And because they don't really think or create everything stagnates. #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
What you mean like the Kelvin timeline? #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
I am going to get CoPilot studio and create an AI called KatHy who I can ask all the difficult questions. #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
sjlancaster.bsky.social
Does the dialogue have to be between student and teacher? Can it be between students? Does that fulfil the definition? #LTHEchat
October 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM