Future of Education - why critical thinking matters more than ever
Most educators are rushing to adapt to AI without fully grasping its implications - are we teaching students just to use technology, or to critically engage with it?
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Reinventing Higher Education in the Age of AI
In this episode, Jason La Greca and Kate Carruthers explore how AI is transforming universities, research, and learning methodologies. Kate and Jason discuss about the evolving landscape of higher education in the context of AI and data. They discuss the challenges universities face in meeting the needs of employers and
From DeepMind to Transformers: Google's AI Impact
In this episode of the Data Revolution podcast, host Kate Carruthers gives an overview of the transformative journey of AI, focusing on Google's pivotal role. From the open-source release of TensorFlow to the groundbreaking AlphaGo, and the development of the transformer architecture, Google's contributions have
Rise of the Fractional Chief Data Officer
Great to have old friend, Gladwin Mendez (https://www.gecprudentia.com/), back on the podcast to talk about the emergence of the new role of fractional Chief Data Officer (CDO). The rise of fractional CDOs reflects the growing recognition of data's strategic value in modern businesses. As organisations
AI and building a free society
My guest for this episode is Dr David Bray. He has been thinking deeply about AI for many years. We had a wideranging chat about AI, cybersecurity, new AI’s, state actor attacks and the ongoing greyzone war, the need to use data to maintain free societies, and the importance
Microsoft Copilot and AI in government
Had a great chat with Kobi Leins about some good feedback on the Australian Governments Microsoft Copilot pilot (full story here: Australian Government trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot). We also had a wide-ranging chat about the upcoming training deficit all organisations have in respect of AI, the recent changes
The challenges of getting robots and AI to be more human
This time my guest is Dr Brandon Rohrer. He is a data scientist who originally started in researching robots to assist with stroke recovery, and who now works on solving data challenges. Brandon, whom I tracked down via his online discovery work on https://e2eml.school/blog.html where I