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Is AI actually doing anything new to education, or is it just building on what lies beneath?

Years ago I remember listening to the audio book version of Freakonomics and the in particular the story about baby names (I think a standalone podcast episode can be found here). Being a teacher this has sort of stuck with my over time, since every year I get another crop of student names, some with interesting new spellings of older names, some with identical pronunciations to familiar names that I have to double check, and some I have to embarras myself a few times to get right (even with help from students, because my brain is only sometimes connected to my mouth). ...