NotebookLM now excelling at Infographics: youtu.be/596Ye-J42ks?...

Gemini (Nano Banana Pro): please generate an A-Z poster of cats/animals/eh try UK University buildings

ADHD in Students: it’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it: ianwaring.substack.com/p/adhd-in-st...

Last night just before bed, I downloaded the Student Mental Health & Depression Indicators Dataset from Kaggle, loaded the CSV file into Gemini Pro (thinking rather than fast mode) and said “Draw an infographic based on the trends you see in this dataset”. Within 20 seconds I got this. Any good?

Gemini 3 looks like it has some pretty advanced reasoning on board. What one professor saw when he inadvertently got subjected to prerelease A/B test of Gemini 2.5 vs 3 when trying to decode ancient ledgers. Infographic below, full article at generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google...

Where does Higher Education go when Gemini becomes your personal sorcerers apprentice? This was one prompt away in Nano Banana Pro - to summarise one persons 2024. Wild: www.reddit.com/r/nanobanana...

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social would you like a share of a NotebookLM with all the text files from Epstein loaded? Ask any question and all that??

Using AI as a personal tutor: this is another use case, beautifully executed in NotebookLM. From personal experience, this is product of the century: open.substack.com/pub/aimaker/...

Bingo. The false pursuit of using LLMs toward AGI explained thoughtfully. Deepmind are using the full arsenal of other approaches, but most others are riding a false tidal wave: open.substack.com/pub/srinipag...

Agentic AI patterns: x.com/boringdev17/...

There is at least one industry that's already entering a nuclear winter due to the rise of AI. See the genesis of a fictitious music artist in this segment between 1:27 and 3:13: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uf8... then see what someone else created based on that work: youtu.be/z_JB-10HqKE?...

Used Google Veo3 to turn my local Unisex Hairdressers kiddie first haircut barbers chair (modelled on a Mini cabriolet) into the owners Bank Holiday escape wheels.

ChatGPT 5 - oops already

Curiosity is the hidden superpower. Well, that and compound interest.

UK Govt signs up with OpenAI. Really? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Voice transcription and summarises - sitting on the magnetic charger back of any iPhone. Apparently very impressive for under £130: www.mobvoi.com/uk/pages/mob...

Databricks stores metadata just above the Lakehouse in Unity - where it is shared by everyone. Where does it sit in Microsoft Copilots? #tryingtofindanswers

All the AI copyright controversy is because the line between original and derivative vanishes (and other thoughts about the AI future): open.substack.com/pub/sonderun...

On

My MacBook Air is combining 200+ PDFs in 8 seconds. Usain Bolt class.

Simply the best treatise I’ve read to date on the subject of the impact of AI: open.substack.com/pub/platform.... Very worth pre-ordering his book.

Got a Windows instance running Office in AWS Workplace. Now to get kutools to bulk download emails for processing by NotebookLM Plus #LearningByBuilding

Upgraded to NotebookLM Plus. Had an interview. Helped a friend processing audio transcripts for a legal case. Ordered a light to sit atop my 28” monitor to even up light distribution on my face during calls. Good start to the week.

You’ve met folks that are excellent bullshitters but who never get things done. Say but not do. I’m currently trying to generate a prompt that will break through a whole series of recorded conversations and call it out. NotebookLM taking things too much at face value - but ideas welcome.

Learning the nuances of applying AI tools to business problems by building things. Still stymied by a Microsoft decision to remove ribbon button bars in Outlook - where a really useful kutools add-in (bulk download of Hotmail history) bases all its UI on them. #doh

Basking in NotebookLM on my new MacBook Air. Its ability to summarise multiple audio recordings and weave them into a Podcast discussion is unreal #impressed

Life sometimes throws lemons, but I had the best teams working for me. Now for the next stage in lifes journey...

CV done. Unfortunately LinkedIn reminded the world I'd just celebrated 7 years at Jisc. It wasn't me getting the itch two weeks ago. I'm no longer there...

AirPod Pro 2’s through a wash cycle. Oops.

Saw someone lamenting that this is the first time in 25 years he hadn’t received a valentine card from a secret admirer. He said “first my Nan died, and then this…” :-)

@tillathenun.bsky.social the CEO of Ford drives a Xiaomi car and loves it. When are you going to have Flaviana whiz around in a SU7 or some of the latest Chinese cars?

Lusting over BYD Sealion and Xiaomi SU7 EVs. Beautiful cars.

Simply impressive: open.substack.com/pub/aisuprem...

Jisc are incredibly well positioned, even if we dont yet realise it… www.linkedin.com/posts/ianwar...

People are complicated, environment, microbiome, body physics play major parts - and the failure of 23andMe thinking there was a simple shortcut: substack.com/@davidepstei...

Don’t know why, but I remember an IBM import at DEC drawing up a strategy diagram on a whiteboard that was always coffin shaped. Ex colleague said the same thing to me when his name came up today, 30 years on. Strange things remembered.

Escape is watching Ludwig on iPlayer. Going to be a defining week at work next week

This is really well written. This is what quality of thought and empathy in politics looks like

Ruby, (Grandma) Jane, Joanie and Lola. All together for Jane’s birthday.

If a process is behaving irrationally, it’s because you don’t understand it. Casting voters as stupid won’t get you far; they act in what they feel are their best interests. If they feel disenfranchised by political parties, the incentive is to take it all apart.

Went around the Jersey War Tunnels today. No direction signs, so inadvertently started with victory, then defeat, then the accession of a new dictator. There’s a subliminal message in there somewhere.

OCR on the left hand barrier of Car Park Red, Short Stay at Gatwick South is pretty crap. Then sentenced to recursive chatbot hell trying to get it mapped against my prepayment before exit. Eventually found a customer services email address to fix it #BadCX

Jisc meeting mixed metaphor of the week. Step forward Phil Richards in a Data Foundations Advisory Group call: “just wait until the dust settles on the custard pie”.

There are no words. Have to read SPQR in the bookshelf to work out the next gripping instalment.

Hello Darkness, my old friend. Work machinations are denying me sleep.

My gut is that the US Election being a close run thing is bunk. Too many places trying to make polls bend reality one way or the other. Harris I expect will romp home. Anyone offering odds for later this week?

Reading the announcement this morning that Python has surpassed JavaScript as the No. 1 language on GitHub. Took a while :-)

One of the unintended consequences of Generative AI use is that outputs feed useful replies, which then acts as inputs to improve the quality of the information source. Using an LLM breaks the virtuous circle

Business Intelligence: “the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action towards a desired goal.” Yes, suits me. Story telling helps that too.

AI in the classroom: excellent analysis at Deepmind: chrt.fm/track/9D87F7...