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What and why I write
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Boring revolutions and large-elbowed models
Logpodge #7 where I explain why last year's AI may be all you need and ask who benefits when OpenAI and Anthropic pay universities to be theirβ¦
Apr 9
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On Beyond AGI!
We need new language for talking about large AI models. Alison Gopnik, Henry Farrell, James Evans, Cosma Shalizi, and Dan Davies provide one.
Apr 6
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On Beyond AGI!
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March 2025
What is an LLM doing in my classroom? Part 4: What's Next
This essay is the fourth and final in a series about how I used generative AI in a class I taught in the fall term of 2024.
Mar 29
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Can the Trump-Musk regime claw back funds already dispersed to universities?
An underappreciated risk to institutions of higher education is that the regime will do to a university what it did to New York City: claw back fundsβ¦
Mar 19
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Can the Trump-Musk regime claw back funds already dispersed to universities?
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Writing after the homework apocalypse
ailog.blog reviews "More Than Words" by John Warner
Mar 16
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OpenAI's NextGenAI press release is horse of a different color
Like the press release last month announcing its partnership with California State University, I see NextGenAI as an act of desperation by OpenAI, aβ¦
Mar 9
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It's Bad
Here is my advice for higher education executives facing the unprecedented challenges of the coming years: invest in your people first and theβ¦
Mar 2
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February 2025
Home fires burning
Institutions that pay millions for an enterprise license for ChatGPT or for consultants to tell them how to reduce costs are wasting much-needed fundsβ¦
Feb 23
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On Confabulation
Hallucination is the wrong word to describe when ChatGPT or another generative AI model gets something wrong. Confabulation is a much better wordβ¦
Feb 16
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The CSU system and OpenAI have an alignment problem
The news out of CSU feels important because it sets a precedent for treating OpenAI as if it were an educational technology company when really it isβ¦
Feb 8
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What exactly is an AI-Empowered University System?
And why would you empower your university with OpenAI?
Feb 6
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