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Stephen Downes

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Bryanm Alexander offers a comprehensive scan of recent developments in AI. The list isn't explicitly pointed at EdTech, though I know he always has that in the back of his mind. He comments, "there are signs of AI serving as an intermediary between people, often several AIs... I think of this as an automation layer in human activities, an intermediary which increasingly fits into our lives." Alan Levine, meanwhile, takes one to the tools listed here out for a spin: Mistral AI's image description tool. It's enough to make tired metadata authors rejoice. "Mistral is doing a good job of describing and then ending in a bit of context or suggestion of meaning."

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