Leveraging Incompetency: Why AI Sucks and why that’s a good thing

For all their amazing capacity, there are a lot of places where AI and specifically LLMs fall flat.

Developing critical literacy about this “jagged edge” of the technology is one of the biggest remits we have.
Luckily it can be fun, engaging and interesting.

By building tasks that lean into where the technology falls down, we open up exciting ways to challenge deep and critical thought and the opportunity to ask questions like:

  • Why did it misinterpret me?
  • How do I clarify my expectations?
  • What are my expectations?
  • Is this misunderstanding my own, or the AI?

Fundamentally, AI introduces a new challenge, in that we now have highly capable, but also highly fallible systems. The best AI experiences are the ones that lean into the weaknesses of the technology and exploit it.

Facilitated By

Ryan Tannenbaum

Owner, For.Education

Ryan is a former tech director/principal turned consultant.
He specializes in building bespoke solutions that empower schools to own and action their own data.
He also works with organizations big and small building out AI solutions.
Starting from a technical understanding of how the models work, he helps educational institutions build technology aware initiatives to fully leverage the potential, and also disruption of this new technology.