Episode 11.23: Google’s Gemini from DeepMind and some of its implications for education and life.

This week Google announced the newest AI tool called “Gemini”. It is an integrated multimodal platform that doesn’t stitch together AIs that were originally trained on separate areas, such as video and audio and text and image. It starts from an integrated base and can therefore deal with all of these things straight out of the box. It can mark homework, correct it, and suggest new things ways to approach it, new ways to process it and it can provide new problems to solve to practise the same skills. The teacher as traditionally conceived is redundant. But what about motivation, about the question why it’s worth anyone ever learning this at all?