Too often, inspring big ideas emerged from particular moments did not get remmberred. Blogging is one way to capture before they are gone.
2026, 29th May
Lisa Su - AMD CEO Address to MIT Class of 2026.
MIT motto is "Mens et Manus," which translates from Latin to "Mind and Hand." This resonates with the Maker Culture/Mindset and in education, learning by doing from constructionism.
"Run towards the hardest problems. Hard problems really teach you what you're capable of."
The engineer's instinct - It's the ability to face what seemed like an unsolvable problem, break it down, and methodically work through it step by step. The engineer's instinct is even more powerful when it becomes shared by a team.
"Over the last few decades, we've experienced several major technology shifts. The internet changed how we communicate. Mobile computing changed how we live. Cloud computing changed how we work. And now we're at the beginning of the AI wave." "AI is not just a tool that helps us do things faster. It has the potential to accelerate discovery in every field and help us solve problems that we've never been able to solve before." Lisa gave examples in medicine and health, and I am contemplating about AI in education. Every major technoogical shift would change the ways we teach and learn.
"Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. The best people do. For everything that AI can do, AI can't decide which problems are worth solving. It can't make the hard judgments when the data is not there. It can't take responsibility for the outcomes."
2026, 1st June
Nvidia GTC Taipei 2026: Jensen Huang delivered keynotes on 1st June right before the COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei from 2-5 June.
Jensen announced the arrival of Agentic AI with the new Vera Rubin supercomputing platform. It is already huge impacts of GenAI on education, and certainly the Agentic AI will bring another big wave to every aspect of human life including education. Curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and how we learn and work will be reshaped and redefined. What could agentic teaching and learning be like? How do we design classroom strategies to foster human student agency? How could Agentic AI tools be integrated into school curricula? How should we address the ethical and academic integrity challenges of AI agents in online learning?
Jensen revealed new generation of personal computers that are capable of serving agentic AI at home, office, labs, factory, shops and virtually everywhere. Interestingly they took the same shapes as current laptops and desktops computers which I thought is less innovative. I can imagin that supercomputing would drill its way down to mobile and smaller personal devices. Commuicating with AI would see more intuitive in verbal and visual communications (it is already quite satisfactory in GenAI). With agentic AI in robots, autonomous vehicles and smart devices, do we get more time to better ourselves or misbehave?
Physical AI will be coming soon.