What next for 2025?

Hello human,

We are back for 2025. This week, it is all about what the future may hold for AI in 2025. I would love to know what you think!

On a personal note, we got 2,000 subscribers just before the new year. Thank you everyone who has shared this with your colleagues.

📚 Knowledge builders

Here are a two blogs from leaders of AI companies who talk about what 2025 has in store for AI advances.

• Sam Altman blog → Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote a blog post reflecting on the journey of ChatGPT and predicting the future of AI. Notable points included:

  1. AGI (Artificial General Intelligence): Altman predicts AI will soon perform complex tasks like humans and that by 2025, AI tools will become essential in workplaces.

  2. Superintelligence: AI could help solve huge problems, speed up scientific discovery, and create new opportunities for everyone.

  3. Safe and gradual progress: OpenAI is focused on releasing AI tools slowly to ensure they are safe and useful for real-world needs.

  • What this means for education: There is growing momentum in using AI to support teachers and pupils, improving efficiency and enabling new ways to create and engage with content that were previously unimaginable. With the EU AI Act and increasing interest from the DfE, Ofsted, and the EEF, AI will remain a major theme in education this year. Even developers are still discovering AI’s capabilities—early models surprised them by automatically understanding every language without being explicitly trained to do so.

• Mustafa Suleyman’s blog → Here are the predictions of the CEO of Microsoft AI:

  1. Enhanced Visual Perception: AI systems will gain the ability to interpret visual data, enabling them to understand user contexts more comprehensively. This development allows AI to collaborate seamlessly within software environments, facilitating interactions like co-browsing and providing assistance based on visual inputs.

  2. Reduction of Hallucinations: Significant improvements are expected in minimising AI-generated inaccuracies, commonly known as hallucinations. As models advance in quality and grounding capabilities, AI interactions will become more reliable, fostering greater user trust.

  3. Agentic Era Emergence: AI is poised to transition from passive assistance to taking proactive actions on behalf of users. This shift, termed “artificially capable intelligence” (ACI), signifies AI’s evolution into performing tasks autonomously, enhancing productivity and efficiency.

• What this means for education: Advances in AI, such as enhanced visual perception and proactive capabilities, have the potential to support in the working lives of teachers and learning by automating administrative tasks. As tools become more reliable and accurate, educators can trust AI to provide innovative solutions that improve efficiency and equity in education. With growing interest from policymakers, researchers, and developers, AI’s role in reshaping how we teach and learn, if it can, will continue to expand this year.

Get in touch with how you think AI will change in this 2025!

🤖 Industry updates

• AI Confident → AI confident provides CPD for school and trust leaders on the bigger picture of AI in education and its use in schools. They regularly run ‘AI Leader Cohorts’ which cover the basics to make sure your school is prepared for AI. (Full disclosure, I have done some work with AI Confident, and while this is not sponsored, I can attest to the quality of the training provided).

• Notebook LM: Join the conversation → A fun update to NotebookLM’s ‘podcast’ feature, which allows you to ‘call in’ and interrupt the ‘hosts’ to ask a specific question. It does make a for a cool demo, but it’s uses, like most AI, lie in knowing something about the subject that you want to ask the question about.

✨ Fresh prompts

1. Resource Curation → This prompt has appeared previously but with the advent of ChatGPT Search its results are better!

   Novice teachers, if they are in a school that does not have a resourced curriculum, can often spend a lot of time looking for resources to help the teach the subject matter.

You are a lesson design expert. Generate a list of online resources for teaching the [concept] for pupils who are in [year group and nationality]. [Detail about pupils prior experience of the concept]. Create a table that uses these headings: educational websites, articles, online videos. One additional heading should 'subject knowledge'. This should provide some articles that are appropriate to the teacher to read to increase their subject knowledge.

Here is the output:

As ever, thanks for reading and keep on prompting! Mr A 🦾