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Rolling along the world current everywhere
Iā€™m still rolling this contraption of words, just not as often or as urgently as I once did.
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Watch your tone: language machines as writing technology
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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Pluralism in practice
Teaching with and without AI
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On the use of historical analogies in writing about AI
Something big is happening, but how do we describe it?
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Ancient wisdom and evitable futures
On reading Plato and Mark Carney
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Appreciating Rotten and Good
Is there anyone better at using the essay form to understand the experience of living and working within the institutional constraints of the modernā€¦
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Disanthropomorphize Chat
Language without mind and the ends of OpenAI
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Language machines as educational technology
Alternatives to language-as-a-service
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Trump offers carrots to nine universities
And why Chad Orzel has me worried
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What comes after the chatbot?
Notes and image credits for my talk at the AAC&U AI Institute
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To what problem is the modern American university a solution?
AI Log reviews "Dartmouth College V. Woodward: Colleges, Corporations, and the Common Good" by Adam R. Nelson
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Small matters
Logpodge #9 When it comes to AI in education, models, teams, and ambitions should be small
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