Keynote: From Hypnotised to Heretic: Immunising Society Against Misinformation.
summary
Smartwatches claim REM sleep while owner makes breakfast, wrist activity monitors show mean percentage error ~200–860%, and a Fitbit logs a swim during folding washing; image AIs repeatedly fail to generate a three‑legged puffin while LLMs output 232 words for a 200‑word request and insist they can count. The Australian Data Science Education Institute builds classroom projects (a 3 million rows CSV Victorian senate dataset), trains teachers, and reports one workshop scaling to ≈9,000 students and a doubled number of girls taking year‑11 CS.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:13Critique of smart devices
- 4:54AI hype and failures
- 7:27The myth of sentient AI
- 11:07How generative AI works
- 15:47Ethics and social media
- 18:20The benefits of technology
- 20:06Education and critical thinking
- 23:05Data literacy in schools
- 28:34The problem with assessment
- 35:38The role of ADSEI
- 37:22Redefining education goals
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