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August 2024

The 𝐀𝐈 Log
a story about the history of education and technology
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A brief guide to 𝐀𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐠
To celebrate writing on the internet for a year, I added some navigation.
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Ben Franklin Matters
An introduction to History of Higher Education in the US
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Banal impersonations and historical reenactment on the cheap
Do LLMs based on historical figures offer anything of educational value?
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Let's Stop Treating LLMs like People
At least in the workplace and classrooms. For many, it seems natural, even inevitable, that we anthropomorphize large language models (LLMs). After all…
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July 2024

The revolution will not be, and other thoughts on AI this fall-Part Two
In Part Two, I talk about reasons to be skeptical that universities will pay for generative AI at the prices AI companies are asking. And I argue that…
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The revolution will not be, and other thoughts on AI this fall
Part One of Two is about reasons to be skeptical that generative AI is as revolutionary as it first appeared. I also argued that personalized chatbots…
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Beyond Co-Intelligence: 𝑨𝑰 𝑳𝒐𝒈 Reviews "Teaching with AI"
Guest Post by Rob Nelson
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June 2024

The LA Unified School District's chatbot is a disaster and AllHere is close to bankrupt. What's next?
I questioned the mostly uncritical news coverage of Ed, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s new chatbot in March. Turns out the news is much worse…
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On the language of LLMs: Old paradigms for new (part 2)
This essay covers the problems with using words we use to describe human cognition to talk about LLMs, Alan Turing’s influential solution to the problem…
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May 2024

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