This is the Windows/Word new AI assist, though in this instance my flying with is not as in zoaring but simply being in the seat next to.

Working in a Word document you now have a ‘Copilot’ which – as shown above – will ask if you want any AI assitance with whatever you have written. You can be offered an option like turning your writing into a table format or as above with ‘Inspire me’.

In my first use, I was playing around with generative TextArt using the letter Z. What I produced wasn’t all that interesting, and so I tried Copilot for the first time.

It’s ‘inspiration’ is the fith in the sequence below. Well…!

I recently came across an online video of a classroom video demonstrating an odious direct instruction lesson and the teacher-mantra ‘I say/you say’ followed by the student repetitions with their robotic, choric shouts of this obnoxious rote ‘learning’. Quite disturbing…

With my thanks to IT and Rupert for posting my poem – read it here: https://internationaltimes.it/listening-out/

With thanks to Rupert and IT for posting my poetry review of Kenny Knight’s collection ‘Love Letter to an Imaginary Girlfriend’. Highly recommended, and read review here: https://internationaltimes.it/memories-realities-imagination/

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My thanks to IT and Rupert for posting my poem here today: https://internationaltimes.it/todays-walk/

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