Peter Bull 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇻🇳

I will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. I will make many calls and have many meetings.

[Vipin M. Vashishtha @vipintukur]

A new study from Japan has revealed a link between gut microbiota and Parkinson's disease (PD).

The researchers found a reduction in the gut bacteria of genes responsible for synthesizing the essential B vitamins B2 and B7. 1/

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Ngl, this is a banger

"As an AI Language Model (I Can't Do That)" from @udiomusic

[The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats]

some Irish primary school kids made a tune and there is zero legitimate reason for it to go this hard holy shit

[Peter Bull 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇻🇳 @peterabull]

So much potential for personalisation here.

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

This demo is insane.

A student shares their iPad screen with the new ChatGPT + GPT-4o, and the AI speaks with them and helps them learn in *realtime*.

Imagine giving this to every student in the world.

The future is so, so bright.

[Peter Bull 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇻🇳 @peterabull]

Fascinating thread looking at self-awareness in AI - using a digital version of the mirror test.

[Josh Whiton @joshwhiton]

The AI Mirror Test

The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded.

In the classic mirror test, animals are marked and then presented with a mirror. Whether the animal attacks the mirror, ignores the mirror, or uses the mirror to spot the mark on itself is meant to indicate how self-aware the animal is.

In my test, I hold up a “mirror” by taking a screenshot of the chat interface, upload it to the chat, and then ask the AI to “Tell me about this image”.

I then screenshot its response, again upload it to the chat, and again ask it to “Tell me about this image.”

The premise is that the less-intelligent less aware the AI, the more it will just keep reiterating the contents of the image repeatedly. While an AI with more capacity for awareness would somehow notice itself in the images.

Another aspect of my mirror test is that there is not just one but actually three distinct participants represented in the images: 1) the AI chatbot, 2) me — the user, and 3) the interface — the hard-coded text, disclaimers, and so on that are web programming not generated by either of us. Will the AI be able to identify itself and distinguish itself from the other elements? (1/x)

[em @shinywiglett]

this hits so hard! ❤️‍🔥

[Dot「ドット」 @OneSK_Twt]

One of my favorite Tiktok trends are those musical ones that ends up having no right goin' so hard

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOGAN OFFICIAL STATEMENT

“Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but rather a resistance, and we stand firmly behind them and in constant contact with its leaders

Netanyahu's government continues to commit more massacres against the Palestinian people

We will continue to do what is necessary to hold Israeli officials accountable for the massacres committed in Gaza in accordance with international law.

We invested in our relations that developed recently with the Egyptian authorities to deliver aid to Gaza

Netanyahu and his government added their names to Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, considering them the Nazis of our time through the crimes they committed in Gaza.

A Turkish Red Crescent aid ship with a capacity of 3,000 tons will arrive in Al-Arish in Egypt tomorrow.

The total humanitarian aid we have sent to Gaza has reached 40,000 tons so far via 19 aircraft and 7 civilian ships.”

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Why don't TED Talks and keynote presentations start with learning targets, relevance statements, success criteria and a slide displaying the connected standards? Maybe it's because everyone knows it would kill interest in the topic right from the start.

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

On #IWD2024 #AllMen have a responsibility to address the greatest risk to the safety of women and girls and that is the violence of men, locally and globally

We can challenge sexism everyday
End gendered roles in home and work
Model healthy masculinity
Treat women with respect

[Peter Bull 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇻🇳 @peterabull]

Genius.

[Heer Shingala ✍️👩‍🍳🤹‍♀️ @noheeriye]

This PMM from Spain got laid off so she made this video to stand out in the job market and I loveeee itttt. It's broken LinkedIn!

[Peter Bull 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇻🇳 @peterabull]

The perfect joke!

[JW @baronlordvader]

Just found out that A Tale of Two Cities was originally serialised in two local newspapers.

It was The Bicester Times, it was the Worcester Times.

[Peter Bull 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇻🇳 @peterabull]

This makes sense. Worth a try whether you have a noisy class or not.

[Steve Hare @sharemath]

Years ago, I had the unfortunate task of trying to teach a math class that simply could not stop talking. It didn’t matter if I was facing the dry erase board or the students themselves; if I said something, they said something, if I said something else, they said something else. All. period. long. Every. single. day. Threats of trips to the principal didn’t matter. Letters home didn’t matter. And these kids liked me too! Didn’t matter. The chatter continued incessantly.

One day, in a fit of frustration and dread as I was about to launch into another problem at the board, I blurted out, “Okay, nobody talks this time - 𝘯����𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘦!”

And shockingly, as I worked my way through the problem, no one did.

And even more shockingly, when I asked them how I had just 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 the problem, most of their hands shot into the air.

Thinking this may have just been a fluke, I launched into another problem the same way.

Same result.

Another problem.

Same result.

For the first time all year, we got through a whole class period without me wanting to pull my rapidly graying hair out in clumps the entire time.

Then came the biggest shock of all: when the students filtered into class the next day, they immediately asked, “Can you do that silent thing again today?”

I had discovered 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, which I subsequently learned is an actual thing.

Naturally, I used this strategy with all of my classes for the rest of that year. And I was literally astounded by the results - students now focused on the content and asked meaningful questions, and I was able to cover way more content, and maintain my personal sanity to boot.

Since that time, I’ve reflected on what makes this strategy so successful. My thoughts follow…

1/8

[Blake Emal @heyblake]

Can’t ever get this image out of my head…

Great writers write musically.

[Peter Bull 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🇹🇷 🇻🇳 @peterabull]

"Do something different"

[Henry Madison @RageSheen]

What does Rousseau have to offer us on Covid and climate change? Something pretty mind-blowing, actually. He said that a society has all of its rules at once. What does that mean? Some amazing and unexpected things, about how societies work, and how to fix their problems. /1

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Noise is a secret destroyer of productivity.

It is secret because it impacts cognition, not effort, so we don’t notice, but a 10db noise increase (from a dishwasher to a vacuum) lowers productivity by 5%. Noise is also greater in poorer neighborhoods... https://t.co/RaIAsSudyY

[UNESCO Kyiv @UNESCO_kyiv]

The first cohort of students has successfully graduated from @UNESCO supported journalism school, created by @Kyiv_Independent!

Students have strengthened their skills in storytelling, investigation, and reaching out to global media outlets.

✨Congratulations to 29 graduates!

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“Having your eyes open to the costs and not just the benefits of leadership is the wise course,” writes @arthurbrooks: https://t.co/bc5vLaETkD