Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Our New Co-Workers in Higher Ed - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed

I was reading a Substack posting from Jurgen Gravestein, conversational AI consultant at the Conversation Design Institute in the Netherlands. Gravestein is author of the newsletter Teaching Computers How to Talk. His writings prompted me to go to the source itself! I set up a conversation between Anthropic Claude 4 and a GPT that I trained, ChatGPT Ray’s EduAI Advisor. The result was a fascinating insight into perspectives from the two apps engaging one another in what truly appears to be a conversation about their “thoughts” on engaging with humans. I have stored the complete transcript. I encourage you to check it out in its entirety. However, let’s examine a few of the more insightful highlights here.