Dilani Kahawala
Key moments
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- 0:00 Cold open: the school pickup Georgie forgot
- 1:17 AI headlines: Navier-Stokes and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- 4:38 Meet Dilani and Anna
- 7:36 WhatsApp group chat or inbox
- 9:12 PhD or three WhatsApp groups
- 10:26 How Anna handles the boring admin
- 11:16 The day Georgie forgot the school pickup
- 13:17 Are kids doing too much?
- 15:14 The magic wand week and the lunchbox bin
- 16:35 How Anna was built
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