davidlms | A personal blog

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 Without fanfare. Without making waves. Machines have conquered the penultimate bastion they needed to supplant humanity: reasoning. The great barrier that automation faced has been demolished. I’m referring, of course, to OpenAI’s announcement of o31. It’s true that these models don’t reason as humans do; they only simulate doing so. But, setting our ego aside, the question is: How much does that difference really matter?

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 It seems unbelievable that a year has passed since the last time I wrote a new article. And yet, here we are. The truth is, I don’t like returning to write about the same topic as last time at all. Artificial Intelligence has almost monopolized our context, and I’m not thrilled that it monopolizes this personal space as well. But at the same time, I feel the need to talk about it, as I have the conviction that reflection on the uses of this technology is urgent and essential.

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 In my previous life as a student, the preparation of monographic works, both individual and group, went through several stages. In the first, we would go to the library (I’m sure this word sends shivers down many people’s spines) hoping to locate among the voluminous volumes some useful paragraph that we could copy manually. A little later, some privileged few of us were lucky enough to have some CDs labeled “Encarta”1.

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 Undoubtedly, in recent years we’ve been experiencing a tsunami of innovations in what’s known as Generative Artificial Intelligence, which are nothing more than trained models to generate texts, images, videos, voices, music, and other types of content. Several media outlets have pointed to Apple as the major tech company absent in this race towards who knows where (AGI, according to some). This accusation was particularly pronounced after the last WWDC 2023, where the big star was the Apple Vision Pro and the “new” concept of spatial computing.

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 Or a year and a half later. That could have been the title too. Most people think of years as running from January to December. And it’s tradition to use the last few days to reflect on what I’ve done, what I wanted to do, and what I want to do before facing a new cycle around the sun. But the teaching collective measures the passage of time in academic years1.

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 As educators, we must constantly update ourselves. In the use of new (which are no longer new) technologies, classroom management, project development, different forms of assessment, pedagogical research… And about our subject. It doesn’t matter which teaching body1 you belong to. Internet communication has allowed different fields of study to evolve at a speed never seen at any other time in history.