My MA Leadership Journey

  The Ghost in the Machine: Do AI Think? As artificial intelligence systems become a part of our daily lives—writing emails, creating art, and generating blog posts—a question naturally arises: are they truly thinking? The more we interact with these tools, the more we notice their patterns. A certain sentence structure, a common phrase, or a predictable flow begins to feel recognizable. This observation is at the heart of the debate about what we call "intelligence." AI models are not conscious in the way a human is. They don't have emotions, personal experiences, or a subjective sense of self. What they do have is an incredible capacity for pattern recognition . They are trained on vast datasets of human-created content, learning the statistical relationships between words, images, and ideas. When you ask an AI to write a blog post, it's not "thinking" about the topic; it's predicting the most probable sequence of words that would follow your prompt, b...

  Let me start this Blog with a storytelling tone. I was lucky enough to grow up in a household that was equipped with a desktop but I wasn't wise or tech savvy enough to realise my fortune. I spent my days devouring books and daydreaming. That big piece of equipment would have caught dust if it had not been for my elder sister who would switch it on every day, much to my annoyance as the sound made me cringe, especially when the Dial up was activated. Fast forward to 1998 when I started my Teacher's Diploma and Ms G handed us our first team assignment of 4000 words that she expected to be word processed. [Say that again, Ma'am.] Word processed. None of those in my group were familiar with the computer, let alone knew how to word process a document. My beloved computer addict sister had already left for tertiary studies. Painstakingly, she tutored me over the phone from Mauritius until I finally took the decision to fly her over for a long weekend where we barely slept....