From BYO AI to the Turing Test: What Just Happened in Education?

This week, Dan and Ray dive into a whirlwind of AI news shaking up the education world. From $40K private schools with AI tutors to universities reporting chatbot-driven grade boosts, they unpack what's hype and what's happening. Plus, they explore the ethics of AI image generation, energy use in data centers, and whether GPT-4.5 is now officially more human than human.
News
Alpha School - AI school in Texas News report: foxnews.com/media/texas-private-schools-use-ai… alpha.school
Macquarie University students' exam scores up by nearly 10 per cent thanks to new AI-powered chatbotMicrosoft case study: news.microsoft.com/source/asia/2025/03/24/macq…
Building an AI-Enabled Workforce: Impacts for Finance, Technology and Business Education and Training futureskillsorganisation.com.au/building-an-ai…
The Future of Jobs Report 2025 from World Economic Forum weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-re…
OpenAI Academy academy.openai.com
Anthropic launched Claude for Education anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude-for-educ…
Open AI image generation announcement openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation

Report: Australia's renewables can power AI and slash energy costs innovationaus.com/australias-renewables-can-po…
UTS Transdisciplinary Innovation course uts.edu.au/for-students/transdisciplinary-inno…
Research
The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and Expertise papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=51…
Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674 News report: futurism.com/ai-model-turing-test