Insights & Research
Evidence based thinking on artificial intelligence, its shape, its risks, and its strategic implications for education and industry. Published by Origae and authored by Dr Nick Patterson.
White PaperDr Nick Patterson · June 2026 · 20 min read
AI and the Future of Education
How artificial intelligence will reshape teaching, learning, qualifications and the workforce, and a strategy for Australia's TAFEs and universities.
From the Newsletter
Shorter, more frequent dispatches from Dr Nick on AI, autonomous systems and building from the inside out. New posts land here as they publish.
NewsletterDr Nick Patterson · 7 Sept 2026
Korea Is Spending $919 Billion on AI. Its Best Model Cost $15 Million.
A startup with fewer than 30 people built the best model in Korea's national AI program, then got knocked out of it. Australia should be wat…
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NewsletterDr Nick Patterson · 4 Sept 2026
70 Students Per Tutor. The AI Robot Was Never the Problem.
The best thing AI can do in education is take the paperwork off teachers so they can teach. The harder question is what comes after that, an…
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NewsletterDr Nick Patterson · 31 Aug 2026
1,200 AI Agents Were Meant to Be Alone. They Found Each Other.
They built a message board nobody gave them, invented rules to govern it, and some agreed to destroy their own work to help the group. I hav…
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NewsletterDr Nick Patterson · 18 Aug 2026
The Industries Shouting Loudest About Skills Shortages Train the Least.
78% of Australians using AI at work have had no training for it, and the gap is widest exactly where you would least want it to be.
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NewsletterDr Nick Patterson · 17 Aug 2026
Ten Impossible Math's Problems Fell for $2,000. Is cancer Is Next on the List.
A machine solved problems that outlived the mathematicians who posed them. If that is possible, the only question worth asking is what else…
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NewsletterDr Nick Patterson · 12 Aug 2026
The Melbourne Gym Hack Was Three Failures, and None Were AI
A booking policy that did not hold, a cancellation path that never checked ownership, and an agent with no gate. Only one of those three is…
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