A journey through my working life and related thoughts
Sometimes when I am sitting in meetings or speaking to colleagues regarding software deployments, coding changes, databases, conversational design tech even blogs I might say the words “I haven’t got a clue what that is or how it works” (queue your best Luke Skywalker The Empire Strikes back scream of ‘No!’) and sometimes they laugh […]
Read More I haven’t got a clue how that works….but thats okI recently attended a JISC event @ Bolton College which discussed the usage of chatbots at the institution (thank to Jisc and Bolton for the hospitality). Bolton are doing alot with chatbots and are using IBM Watson Conversation (which is now rebranded as Watson Assistant) and starting to expand from text to voice platforms (e.g. […]
Read More Bolton College Ada ChatBot NotesWhen I am usually asked ‘what do you do?’ by friends or relatives I consider my reply however most of the time I state that I work with digital learning technologies within a university. This is usually met with the statement ‘do you turn things off and on again?’ to which I quickly retort ‘I […]
Read More What do you do except for turn things off and on?I have been reading a lot about AI and bots and in my own naive mind thought this would encompass working with other leading-edge institutions, SMEs and large global companies (having not worked with this technology or dare I say if it is pedagogically applicable to education). Much to my surprise upon reading articles, watching […]
Read More Smart, Bots, AI and other kinda related buzz words