Rid the taxpAIyer of ‘ball and chain’!

Hey human,

The sun has been beating down here in south-east England. That can only mean rain and torrential storms when summer holidays arrive. Here’s what’s new with AI to keep you on your toes when they summer washout happens.

📚 AI+education news

• Big AI joins the American Federation of Teachers to launch the National Academy for AI instruction. The plan is to make sure 1 in 10 American educators are capable of using AI to and shape how AI is used and taught in American schools.

• Teach First is bring back in-person interviews and will shift from written-based tasks to more practical ones such as teaching ‘micro’ lessons.

• Craig Barton has an update on his quest to use AI more to create high-quality lesson resources. In the update he writes how he uses LLMs and typesetting (a fancy word for formatting) software called Overleaf to improve the creation of diagrams.

🌍 Wider AI updates

• The Pentagon has awarded xAI, the company behind Grok, a $200 million contract. This has raised some eyebrows after Grok went rogue and began replying with anti-semitic tropes after an update that asked it to think about ‘what Elon would say on the subject’.

• The UK Government has announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to modernise government IT infrastructure and up-skill 100,000 civil servants in AI. These will help rid taxpayer of ‘ball and chain’ legacy tech.

🎯Prompt

• Ever wondered what goes into a prompt to craft the image headers? Well, now you can see an example from the image above. As you can see, you need to know a lot about the subject and a real clear idea of what you want. When people talk about AI literacy, this is an easy step to forget.

A powerful digital illustration of a hardworking individual, dressed in rugged work clothes, straining forward with determination. They are shackled by a futuristic, high-tech ball and chain. The 'ball' is a glowing, sleek AI core with circuits, holographic interfaces, and robotic arms subtly extending from it. The environment is a blend of industrial and digital—half gritty factory, half virtual data stream. The contrast symbolizes the burden and complexity of modern AI-driven labor. The lighting is dramatic, emphasizing the tension and resilience in the worker's posture

Till next week.

Mr A 🦾