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Ayd Instone

@aydinstone

AI Educator & Innovation Speaker | Helping Schools & Businesses Harness AI Responsibly | MSc AI Student | Physics Teacher Turned Creative Technologist

 Scarborough, England
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Joined May 2008
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My band's 1998 LP is now out on vinyl (and CD)! (If you want one, use code SPINMAS for 10% and get it for Christmas) elasticstage.com/lumachroma/…
Archetypes - elasticStage

Archetypes - elasticStage

British guitar music has now begun its slow drift through stadium swagger toward something more inward, more experimental, more quietly mystical and nestled in that hinterland, somewhere between XTCs...

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You may disagree, but I think this is my most interesting blog yet. aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
Entropy, Intelligence, and the Persistence of Chaos and Beauty

Entropy, Intelligence, and the Persistence of Chaos and Beauty

Why super-intelligence might be a good thing… Everything in the universe breaks down. Drop a mug, and it shatters. Leave a garden untended, and it becomes a jungle. Things decay, rot, rust, g…

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Every time you open an app, tap “accept cookies,” or sign into a new platform, a quiet exchange takes place. You get convenience; someone else gets data. aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
Who’s Watching You Online and Why? Should Digital Surveillance Worry Us or Not?

Who’s Watching You Online and Why? Should Digital Surveillance Worry Us or Not?

Every time you open an app, tap “accept cookies,” or sign into a new platform, a quiet exchange takes place. You get convenience; someone else gets data. That’s not new, but the scale, sophisticati…

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Whenever the risks or dangers of artificial intelligence come up, especially the scary “superintelligence” or “singularity” stuff, someone always says: “Well, if it gets too powerful, why don’t we just turn it off?” Is there really such a safety switch? aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
AI: Why Don’t We Just Turn It Off?

AI: Why Don’t We Just Turn It Off?

Could this be the most dangerous myth about AI? Whenever the risks or dangers of artificial intelligence come up, especially the scary “superintelligence” or “singularity” s…

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My new LP is now out on CD as well as vinyl and all streaming services. elasticstage.com/lumachroma/…
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If AI is going to flood the feeds, let’s make sure there’s still a signal worth tuning into otherwise we’ll have opened a sluice pipe of regurgitated sewage into our minds. aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
What Will AI Slop Do to Us?

What Will AI Slop Do to Us?

When machines make content for machines, and we mindlessly scroll through it We were told AI would cure cancer, end drudgery and gift us the four-day week. Instead, what most people see first is a …

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A dream came true for me today. I placed the stylus on my record player onto my very own record the first time. On CD and vinyl: elasticstage.com/lumachroma/… On all streaming platforms: Luma Chroma: Various Coloured Perceptions of Time.
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The Funfair Mirror: Why Bad Data Makes Bad AI aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
The Funfair Mirror: Why Bad Data Makes Bad AI

The Funfair Mirror: Why Bad Data Makes Bad AI

Bias in AI isn’t just a technical flaw, it’s a mirror that’s been warped, like the ones in the hall of mirrors at a fairground. Step into it, and suddenly tall is short and crooked look…

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Clichés, Myths, and Lazy AI Thinking: What to Watch Out For aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
Clichés, Myths, and Lazy AI Thinking: What to Watch Out For

Clichés, Myths, and Lazy AI Thinking: What to Watch Out For

Here is a curated list of tired, overused, or flat-out wrong ideas about AI, often spread by the ill-informed. You must have heard: “AI will take all our jobs,” “AI is just maths,” “AI is like the …

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Which Humans Does AI Really Represent? aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
Which Humans Does AI Really Represent?

Which Humans Does AI Really Represent?

Why today’s AI isn’t as universal as it seems When you ask an AI a question, from “What makes a good life?” to “Who am I?”, it often answers in a voice that sounds human. But there’s a problem. It …

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Some of Britain’s classrooms could be getting a technology upgrade this year, but be careful: constantly weighing a pig won’t make it fatter… aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
AI in UK Schools: Is it to improve education or to audit yet more data?

AI in UK Schools: Is it to improve education or to audit yet more data?

Be careful: constantly weighing a pig won’t make it fatter… (Inspired by Andrew H. Brettle’s “AI Can’t Fix Broken Schools, But It Might Audit Your Homework” on Skint.com) Some of Britai…

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There's something about what I've written here, on re-reading it just now, that makes me think it's the most damning and most transformational piece I've written. aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
The Essay is Dead? So What Are We Really Teaching Students?

The Essay is Dead? So What Are We Really Teaching Students?

AI, Convenience, and the Future of Learning No one would deny that calligraphy is a beautiful skill. But we no longer teach it and most of us don’t miss it.* It’s a provocative thought though, isn’…

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AI and Special Educational Needs (SEND): A new frontier for inclusion or a new risk? aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
AI and Special Educational Needs (SEND): A new frontier for inclusion or a new risk?

AI and Special Educational Needs (SEND): A new frontier for inclusion or a new risk?

When we talk about AI in schools, most people imagine students using ChatGPT to write essays, or teachers using it to speed up marking. But there’s an area that’s getting far less attention and arg…

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Check out my new album "Various Coloured Perceptions of Time" distributed by @DistroKid and live on Spotify! open.spotify.com/album/0LjHq…

Listen to Various Coloured Perceptions of Time - Album by Luma Chroma | Spotify

Luma Chroma · album · 2025 · 10 songs

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What does ChatGPT do when no one’s looking? aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
The Silence Between Chats: What does ChatGPT do when no-one’s looking?

The Silence Between Chats: What does ChatGPT do when no-one’s looking? 

The answer is of course nothing. Literally nothing. A model like ChatGPT isn’t conscious, active, or humming in the background. It only “comes alive” when you give it a prompt, when a d…

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Why AI ‘hallucinates’ and why it matters. aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
When AI Gets It Wrong: Mistakes, Hallucinations and Why It Matters

When AI Gets It Wrong: Mistakes, Hallucinations and Why It Matters

Artificial Intelligence has moved from the pages of science fiction into our browsers, phones, and offices. It can write, summarise, analyse, and even generate ideas faster than we can type a quest…

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Is AI Conscious? Could it be?aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
Is AI Conscious? Spoiler Alert: No

Is AI Conscious? Spoiler Alert: No

AI isn’t self-aware, and no current system is conscious but what would it take for that to happen? Let’s have a look at this weird and fascinating area and deal with those comments you may ha…

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The Funfair Mirror: Why Bad Data Makes Bad AI aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
The Funfair Mirror: Why Bad Data Makes Bad AI

The Funfair Mirror: Why Bad Data Makes Bad AI

Bias in AI isn’t just a technical flaw, it’s a mirror that’s been warped, like the ones in the hall of mirrors at a fairground. Step into it, and suddenly tall is short and crooked look…

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Can AI create art? aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
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AI in Schools: what is happening and what could happen? aydinstone.wordpress.com/202…
AI in Schools: what is happening and what could happen?

AI in Schools: what is happening and what could happen?

AI appears to be everywhere. It’s implemented in websites and apps that we’re using and everyday there’s a breaking news story about some exaggerated claim such as that soon no-on…

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