The document "A Chat with Fable," contains 34 pages detailing Fable's views on various key topics, including defensive Markdown, integration with Microsoft Source Manager, and multilingual search challenges. Next steps involve correlating techniques with lesser LLMs to enhance their capabilities, including automatic SVG graphic creation for Word.
On June 10, 2026, a dialogue with Fable, Anthropic's new LLM, addressed its ability to minimize hallucinations in citations. While improvements in verification processes were noted, Fable emphasized the necessity of rigorous URL verification practices. Various levels of hallucination were discussed, leading to an architecture that combines automated and manual verification for accurate citation management.
My recent interaction with Anthropic's new Mythos-class LLM, Fable, revealed its capability to effectively deploy Microsoft Source Manager for reference management, overcoming a significant challenge that previously hindered other LLMs in their automation of Word. Fable's unique approach demonstrated an end-to-end integrated solution, marking a significant advancement in LLM functionality and workflow hyper-efficiency.
Anthropic launched Claude for Education in April 2025. Despite early adoption by five U.S. universities and some activity in the UK and a few other countries (e.g. AU, NL), global HE traction seems limited, with more focus on coding and non-HE educational sectors. National agreements, so far only with Rwanda and India, tend to emphasize sschools or research collaboration over higher education.
This posting describes how we automated the Zotero citation process in Word documents produced from LLM-generated Markdown. In passing, footnotes were automated also.
Below is the AI wishy-washy rewrite of my deliberately raw post on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bacsich_a-weekend-ago-i-was-travelling-back-home-activity-7394477618529533952-WQC0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABVpRwBndzgy_gXa77UFNt_ZXmJovKbFf8 Talk about muting the message to make it more palatable to scholars and researchers and managers! A thought-provoking encounter on a train journey sparked reflections on the authenticity of student assessments. As I made my way from Manchester to Sheffield, … Continue reading A thought-provoking encounter on a train
This is an analysis by Microsoft Copilot done in June 2024 of a detailed plan to charge 5% VAT on all fee-paying education. It does not represent the views of any author or political party, but does take account of the web consensus circa June 2024 on data and narrative for this topic.
Government should from now on solve in schools the issues created in schools that universities are increasingly expected to "solve". Government and universities should think more out of the box and at a whole-system level If students are coming out of school with the ability to study in HE but without relevant qualifications, then routes should be found to offer them the qualifications, but outside (and before they start at) universities. Some constraints on student entry, subject choice, location choice and lifestyle choices while at university may be required to generate efficiencies.
Opening up learning 