'Drawing on survey responses from 104 university libraries, the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) finds about three-quarters of libraries (73 per cent) are making cuts in their budget ranging from 1 per cent to 30 per cent, with an average mean cut of 8 per cent.' 1/2

In the crucible of change, what matters isn't who stands with us in moments of comfort, but what truths we're willing to defend in moments of solitude. True innovation rarely arrives with unanimous applause, it emerges from the willingness to wade into uncertainty and remain standing.

The Cognitive Revolution open.substack.com/pub/hybridho...

My Christmas Day attire arrived just in time !

‘AGI is nearly here!' shout people who can't define AGI 'AGI will destroy us!' counter people who also can't define AGI 'AGI is impossible!' others who,you guessed it can't define AGI Perhaps the real artificial intelligence was the undefined terms we argued about along the way... 🎭 #GenAI #AIhype

Making snow angels in 35°C might sound crazy, but so did letting go of AI control in education... until we did it. 2024 was the year wonder started winning over worry. Want to know why I'm surprisingly optimistic about 2025? 👇 #AIinEducation #GenAI

A festive thank you to the LinkedIn AI experts still explaining why GPT-3.5 is 'just a stochastic parrot.' Your commitment to 2022's insights is heartwarming. Looking forward to your detailed explanations of why o3's ARC-AGI results don't really matter. Comfort is a gift that keeps giving 🎁😉

From Test Subject to Testament: A Year of Cognitive Amplification open.substack.com/pub/hybridho...

Have witnessed Gemini 2.0 do some logic leaps I’ve not seen other models do, both exhilarating and unnerving - making connections I missed … but are entirely logical.

I think I’ve finally found a Gemini I’ll use … Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental join Carlo’s club of regular use.

‘I’ve had access for a bit’ humble bragging in genAI world 👌

Engagement for complaining is the best kind of engagement 👌

While everyone’s discussing o1 pro - im just happy o1 is now available- that’ll do pig, that’ll do #GenAI #OpenAI

2024 When AI Became Personal open.substack.com/pub/hybridho...

www.linkedin.com/posts/nickja... The AI Adoption Imperative- Why Starting Now Matters More Than Ever by @carloiacono.bsky.social & my addendum on the benefits of engaging with the nuances of GenAI and getting your hands dirty in the engine room of working with LLMs in chatbot or other forms

The saddest part of educational transformation isn’t resistance to change - it’s watching insight die by committee. #AIinEducation

The most dangerous thing about AI in education isn't what it can do - it's what it reveals about what we've been doing. #AIinEducation #GenAI

People only know when others use AI in their writing when it’s used badly. Stop thinking you’re some sort of AI detecting savant - you are not.

When you're operating at the edge of what's possible, every conversation becomes a choice between depth and accessibility, between pushing boundaries and building bridges.

Technology evolves at lightning speed, while institutions move like a tortoise stuck in cement. The gap isn’t just frustrating—it’s a lost opportunity for innovation.

The real danger of ‘never’, the real danger of ‘resist’ is reducing complex ideas to slogans, creating an easy escape route for the uninitiated who don’t consider the nuance. #GenAI

Honestly I’m not being monolithic…but here’s a binary choice anyway. Amazing. #AIinEducation #GenAI

Intellectual outsourcing is a luxury we can't afford. Whether you write code or teach literature, AI technologies demand your engaged, critical attention - not just acceptance of someone else's oversimplified pronouncements #AIinEducation #CriticalThinking #GenerativeAI

The "stochastic parrot" argument has become a convenient way to avoid engaging with the complex reality of AI's impact. It's a thought-terminating cliché that offers the comfort of dismissal without the burden of deeper analysis. #GenAI

I'm baffled by educators choosing comfortable ignorance over critical engagement. How does flat rejection of AI prepare students for their reality? Since when did 'never' lead to better understanding? Baffled and disappointed. #AIinEducation #EdTech #GenAI

Every time educators say 'never' to AI, we surrender our opportunity to shape how students use it. They're not waiting for our permission - they're waiting for our guidance. The only thing absolute rejection guarantees is our irrelevance. #genai #AIinEducation

The uncomfortable truth about AI in education isn't that it's changing everything - it's that it's revealing how little we understood about learning in the first place. Time to challenge some comfortable myths. lnkd.in/g7VerTzg #AIinEducation #FutureofLearning #HigherEd #GenAI

Professors: 'AI can't think!' Students: *thinks about better ways to use AI* Professors: *surprised Pikachu face*

Loving the comments section of my latest LinkedIn post - between that and this platform - I see a glimmer of hope in a mire of awfulness that is generally social media!

Working title: 'The Death of Individual Intelligence?' Brewing up a post about how solo genius might've been evolution's brief experiment between collective instinct and hybrid consciousness. Coming to LinkedIn later today. (With ❤️ to everyone who still thinks GenAI is 'just autocomplete')

Gotta love Midjourney!