Ninja Learning: AI Created A Podcast Of Your Paper

Yes it did.

Entirely unbidden, I have to say.

And while I was at first a little wary of what might be revealed, I decided to embrace the madness and share what is a weirdly-trippy exercise in what, I’m not quite sure.

Although the Podcast relates to a book I wrote (it says so at the start), I’m not altogether certain how. It seems to jump from (wonderfully florid) references to the general structure of the book (this was back when I actually thought about how to structure stuff…) to comments that refer obliquely – and sadly literally – to a little joke about “digging a tunnel from my window to yours” I added in the preface: a quote from my then favourite band Arcade Fire.

The AI definitely discovered something in there that related to some sort of pioneering approach to Sociological education I was apparently endeavouring to forge. It’s just a shame that I didn’t realise it at the time.

Or since.

This probably tells us something about AI but it would take a sharper mind than mine to actually know what that might be.

Anyway. Overall, the AI review was incredibly positive and exciting about my work.

Which is nice.

As was the bit when it referred to the book as a form of “Ninja Learning” – where was AI when I needed it most when so many teachers ignored the book’s very existence?

Finally, I must admit, in all honesty, that although I didn’t actually understand what the review was saying about my work, I am grateful for it being able to see and understand various links in the narrative that never occurred to me at the time. It just goes to show how effortlessly I was pushing the boundaries without having much of a clue.

All that probably remains to be said is that if you’d like to dip your toes into the wild’n’wacky world of Ninja Learning™ you can now discover just what you missed…

And, if you’d like to hear the evidence in all its voice-synthesized glory for yourself…