Arizona’s getting an online charter school taught entirely by AI
by andflywrite | December 21, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This sharp departure from “typical school” is a welcome innovation… And using AI online is a logical next step for a 2 hour academic school structure. The newest online-only school greenlighted by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools comes with a twist: The academic curriculum will be...
Repurposing Buildings Into Schools part 2
by andflywrite | December 16, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's a list by ChatGPT of 25 examples of repurposing buildings into schools, often by grass roots. Adaptive Reuse: Turning Vacant Buildings into Schools https://www.21csf.org/uploads/practice/practice_docs/34BPLW_Presentation_AdaptiveReuseSchools.pdf Puerto Rico’s Rescued Schools: A...
Repurposing Buildings Into Schools
by andflywrite | December 16, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Schools are expensive buildings to create, and then to staff and conduct "school" for students. There are some initiatives where unused buildings can be converted into schools, often outside of the public school system, and often under the auspices of "grass roots" organizations or individuals....
2035 scenario of current signals of change
by kris | December 9, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
See the IFTF imagined a scenerio for ten years in the future. How does this scenerio apply to personalized learning and education as a service for workforce development? What are the current signals of change and drivers for transformation such as Coursera? [pdf-embedder...
AI and Higher Ed
by andflywrite | December 5, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
Below are two early takes on what various forms of AI look like deployed in University settings. The first from a webinar today by Open AI. The second from an earlier webinar hosted by Western University and the company Section. ...
State of the AI art: Axios take
by andflywrite | November 27, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
There is little mention of what people are actually doing with the AI models and tools in this survey by Axios of "major players of AI" in late 2024 .What is actually being done with AI tools will help determine who is the king of the AI hill., and possibly the winner of the race will be a matter...
NM broadband office seeks $70M for satellite expansion
by andflywrite | November 21, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Part of the giant Biden Administration funding measure that provides funds for US infrastructure includes large support for Broadband Access. There's talk the new Administration will attempt to claw back portions of that funding, but that's conjecture at this point. For now, there's this funding...
A Post-Labor Economics Manifesto: David Shapiro
by andflywrite | November 17, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Neoliberalism has quite a few policies and heuristics that have been in play for more than 40 years. We need a new manifesto, a new framework. David Shapiro is a comprehensive thinker and developer with a deep tech background who regularly opines about the AI situation and where it may take us....
Elites, Meritocracy, and AI
by andflywrite | November 17, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
If we sort people only by superior intelligence, we’re sorting people by a quality few possess; we’re inevitably creating a stratified, elitist society. We want a society run by people who are smart, yes, but who are also wise, perceptive, curious, caring, resilient, and committed to the...
Community schools advancing AI and human development
by kris | November 9, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
Prompt to my ChatGPT: How will AI impact the structural aspects of school systems as well as human development? Response by ChatGPT regarding AI and Community Schools: Community schools are in a unique position to advance both AI and human development by fostering inclusive and accessible learning...
Smartphones at school
by kris | November 9, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
My prompt to Chatgpt: Will smartphones have a powerful role to play in advancing AI and enhancing human development within schools? With the right infrastructure, curriculum integration, and responsible use policies, smartphones can become effective tools for learning, engagement, and preparing...
Tips for Beginners
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As Ed Tech takes first steps into the unexplored wonders of AI, seeking to find the promised land of Super Personalized Tutors, one might note that the going looks intimidatingly complex. But as Kris suggests with some help from ChatGPT. getting there is a series of...
Alpha 2 hr Learning Deep Dive
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Two Hours a day for academics? One imagines the freak out that sort of thinking inspires at school districts across the country. But for those who are hoping some new way of schooling comes along, this as discussed below, is certainly one dynamic change being explored. The child care warehousing...
AI Tutors “next big educational gamble”
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
What was the previous "big educational gamble"? Not mentioned, but the article does say Ed Tech Companies have been trying to create personalized learning for decades, but so far have had mixed results. [pdf-embedder...
AI Tutors reshaping college for students
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Expectations are we'll see a lot more of these AI reshaping learning stories in the year ahead. [pdf-embedder url="https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/How-AI-tutors-are-already-reshaping-learning-for-college-students.pdf" title="How AI tutors are already reshaping...
What is AI good for? Shopping
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As OpenAI releases its version of web search, one of the biggest components of online economics, there's research showing that AI can do the shopping for us. Or at least help. And AI probably makes as many hallucinatory orders as humans, where as I know from personal experience, ordering a...
Former Coursera Exec Joins OpenAI to Boost AI in Education
by andflywrite | November 4, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
This is a little bit of older news, but still of note on Nov.4th, as it suggests the Ed Tech innovative baton might be passing on from Coursera to OpenAI. [pdf-embedder...
How connectionist theories inform learning practices: ChatGPT
by andflywrite | October 2, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Asking good follow up questions is really what the LLMs are all about, and now one notices that ChatGPT prompts for a follow up when it gives an answer to a query. One is well advised to follow up as deep as one desires to go, as there's a great deal more content and knowledge available if one...
Connectionism and Learning Theory: Core Ideas: ChatGPT
by andflywrite | October 2, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Kris recently posted a video done by ChatGPT that discussed Connectionism and Learning. As an experiment, I sort of re-uploaded from a copy on my hard drive...that same video to ChatGPT and asked for a full analysis and a text file of the audio. It was able to produce key frames at various points...
Connectionist models on online learning platforms
by kris | September 30, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The following is an AI video showing how AI can integrate a connectionist model of learning on online learning platforms to further personalize educational experiences for students. The video was generated by ChatGPT. [video width="1080" height="1920"...
Alternatives to public school closures
by kris | September 30, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Danny Westneat addresses the financial challenges facing Seattle Public Schools in a Seattle Times opinion. [pdf-embedder url="https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/The-way-out-of-this-crisis-for-Seattle-schools-Retreat-The-Seattle-Times.pdf" title="The way out of this...
AI applications in clinical research: STAT
by andflywrite | September 28, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
STAT, one of the web's most comprehensive and reliable reporters of medical news, just published a free eBook about the current state of AI in healthcare. This is a topic of great interest to PSA, as the advent of less expensive and perhaps even higher quality diagnosis at home would be a huge...
Kurzweil: AI to the rescue of our humanity: MIT Tech Review
by andflywrite | September 24, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 1 Comment
Technology will let us fully realize our humanity. –Ray Kurzweil from his recent book "The Singularity is Nearer: When we Merge with AI." Yes this headline above sounds like an ultra- contradiction in terms, to the point of being a humorous one liner. But Ray Kurzweil has his reasons for making...
High-impact tutoring in schools as a permanent fixture to help bridge learning gaps exacerbated by the pandemic
by kris | September 22, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 2 Comments
The subject of the following article is about how DC schools are getting kids to class by offering tutoring. The article is from the Christian Science Monitor, and is listed under a values filter called Transformations....
Niels Hoven on accelerating kids’ education
by andflywrite | September 19, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's the transcript of an interview with Mentava founder Niels Hoven, conducted and posted by James Pethokoukis, and taken from the Podcast "Faster, Please". Kudos to Gary for the link recommend. Thankfully there's an examination of what the real functions of school are, as we currently conceive...
“AI” in Divi Web Builder
by andflywrite | September 19, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As with many web services, the label "AI" is being attached to many functions with the website builder software we use..."Divi Builder". Here's what their promo page currently looks like, though we can expect much more along the same lines in the future with better capabilities and functions. AI...
AI / GPU hosting to disrupt WordPress
by andflywrite | September 17, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Webpage creating, hosting, and maintaining has been a relatively static undertaking for at least a decade or so, if not longer. However, there are new ways of curating and presenting content arriving through various forms of AI and GPU hosting. This article below is from the Wordfence creator Mark...
MIT Innovators Under 35 for 2024
by andflywrite | September 10, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As has been noted by some, this current period of innovation occurs within a new emphasis on zero-sum competition between countries for tech advances. Tech competition is nothing new, but the emphasis on "us vs them" seems greatly heightened since the release of LLM style AI tools. Many leaders at...
The Pizza Principle, part 3
by kris | September 1, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Kris queried ChatGPT further on how the Pizza Principal theme might work as a model for the PSA website interface. This is what ChatGPT provided. Kudos to Kris. To conceptualize the DALL elements as parts of a “pizza,” where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, you can imagine each...
The Pizza Principle, part2
by kris | September 1, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Kris pushed ahead with The Pizza Principle asking how we might use it to develop our PSA website: Here's the answer Kris received from her "prompt" "Creating this interactive pizza concept on the PSA website will require collaboration between designers, developers, content creators, and UX...
The Pizza Principle, part 1
by kris | September 1, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
PSA may well do a new website constructed from the ground up to support all manner of AI operations and functions for visitors to the site. One where numerous ingredients coalesce into a whole thing that is consumed as a whole, but chomped into by the Interface slice.. While we can pretty much...
PSA website is back up as of today Aug.28 2024
by andflywrite | August 28, 2024 | BEST LINKS EVER | 2 Comments
For various reasons the PSA website was inaccessible from early 2024 until today, and we are so happy to be back! We may still have some technical issues to resolve from the restore, or maybe everything will just work correctly. So we'll run some tests, and if you encounter something not working...
AI tools to access full public content in education
by kris | November 28, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Recent PSA postings ask questions about how to use ChatGPT tools for a single purpose such as education? Answers to this question now supposedly come directly from ChatGPT using data up to 2023. Bill Gates, in a recent blog, shares specific examples of how to use and train a chatbot in a...
Universal Models and AI
by andflywrite | November 6, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
We are suddenly trying to fully rationalize our experience in order to understand AI implications, but we don't have any actual means of fully rationalizing human experience available. (essence of what B. Evans stated in recent post). We don't understand our own brain/ mind duality, and we don't...
B. Evans on AI rules and regs
by andflywrite | November 6, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." - Larry Tesler Laws for AI by Benedict Evans (excerpted) “The term “artificial intelligence” or “AI” has the meaning set forth in 15 U.S.C. 9401(3): a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions,...
Tutored by Teachers: Virtual Learning Program used in Las Cruces Public Schools
by andflywrite | November 2, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Principal Cherie Love said students in the Tutored by Teachers program are usually at 5% to 10% proficiency at the start of the school year and end with 41% proficiency. Love said while the school would like to see more improvement, “it’s significant growth in a short period of time.” It would...
OMB Releases Implementation Guidance for Biden’s AI Exec Order
by andflywrite | November 1, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As the United States takes action to realize the tremendous promise of AI while managing its risks, the federal government will lead by example and provide a model for the responsible use of the technology. [pdf-embedder...
What’s in Biden’s AI Exec. Order — and what’s not: Axios
by andflywrite | November 1, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The Biden Administration has released a very lengthy Executive Order covering multiple aspects of the current boom in AI. It addresses many parts of the Federal Government's policy, rules, and regulations for what can and cannot be done by AI businesses and NGOs. [pdf-embedder...
Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education: AI Tutoring May Aid further growth.
by andflywrite | October 31, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Home schooling has become — by a wide margin — America’s fastest-growing form of education, as families from Upper Manhattan to Eastern Kentucky embrace a largely unregulated practice once confined to the ideological fringe, a Washington Post analysis shows. Washington Post Data Graph:...
The Foundation Model AI Transparency Index
by andflywrite | October 24, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
No major foundation model developer is close to providing adequate transparency, revealing a fundamental lack of transparency in the AI industry. AS we transition from the "Wow!" AI stage to the devil in the details, various ways of holding AI developers accountable are arriving too. Here's...
More states teaching financial literacy to address sluggish math scores
by kris | October 13, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
This article by an education reporting collaborative promotes hopes to promote engagement with the public regarding education policy changes. Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. This...
Government funding of basic and applied research
by kris | October 13, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Steve Blank is recognized as a thought leader in the field of entrepreneurship and in this newsletter he contributes thoughts on the history of US government investments in funding research driven by the needs of the military. The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in...
Unbundling AI ChatGPT and LLMs
by kris | October 13, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Benedict Evans a well known analyst in the technology industry shares his insight in this newsletter on what you can you do with AI ChatGPT and LLMs. [pdf-embedder url="https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Unbundling-AI-—-Benedict-Evans.pdf" title="Unbundling AI — Benedict...
Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools?
by andflywrite | October 10, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The big idea for having charter schools was to show how things could be done differently, and to see what changes brought better results. Here below is one example, that brings into question just how the US Public School System fails in comparison to how the US Dept of Defense schools succeed....
Google announces Health Care “Vertex” AI Search platform
by andflywrite | October 9, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
One of the ways AI can help humans is to aggregate and amass far more details and data, (IOW information), than a single human can hold in mind at any one time. After AI goes and finds all the relevant data in seconds, it can then search and find the most useful pieces for a specific moment such...
Smorgesbord Schools: Routing Around in the Year of living dangerously with AI
by andflywrite | October 7, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As Autonomous AI Agents are developed, educational modalities will be something assembled from a varied menu of agents, somewhat like one piles cuisine on a plate at a Smorgesbord buffet. A little of this, a little of that, and pretty soon there's a meal to be had. Because Education as we...
22+ Examples of ChatGPT Vision uses
by andflywrite | October 5, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The competition ongoing for who can offer the most useful AI the fastest continues apace with OpenAI incorporation of DALL-E 3 Image AI into ChatGPT4. The YouTube below spells out 22 examples of what can be done with image analysis, a few of which he says explicitly are tools for education. IOW,...
Envisioning Ed in 2025
by andflywrite | September 26, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
It seems like perhaps a good time to revisit visions of what education possibly will look like in, say, 2 years or so. If we want to achieve a goal, it helps to envision it first to guide the process. Here's what ChatGPT 'thinks" when queried about 2025, including admin prompts about re-designing...
7 Core Elements Enhanced with AI for Community Schools
by andflywrite | September 25, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Asked ChatGPT4 to regenerate the 7 Core Elements with AI in the context of "Community Schools". Which it then produced the table of content below. Core Elements Original Focus with AI Community School Focus with AI AI in Community Schools as Venue/Base Understanding Media in the Mobile Age Analyze...
GPT and 7 Core Elements Projection
by andflywrite | September 25, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Current Core Elements of DLE Projected Core Elements with AI Integration 1. Understanding Media in the Mobile Age 1. AI-Powered Media Analysis & Personalization 2. Enabling the Individual Learner 2. AI-Driven Personalized Learning Paths 3. Creating the Learning Community 3. Virtual...
Autonomous AI Agents: Tools of choice for AI transformation?
by andflywrite | September 23, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Much of the challenge for "grasping the AI revolution" comes from being unable to imagine what it might look like writ large in our economy. There seems to be a consensus developing that Autonomous AI Agents will be the structure for this transformation. Essentially, these are assembled units of...
Continuing AI Education: Generative Pre-trained Transformer
by andflywrite | September 22, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Much of the current AI advance seems to have arrived out of nowhere. Not so; it was a series of advances steadily taking place over decades. The article below from MIT Technology Review sketches the significant steps along the way. Perhaps knowing the past we might get some sense of what we are in...
ChatGPT on coping with employment change brought about through AI advances
by andflywrite | September 12, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Here's copy and paste of a query to ChatGPT4 on what we can do about the expected unemployment of knowledge workers that AI will bring. Kudos to Gary for the VAT idea. One would probably seek to drill down and get more details on this outline of possible steps to take, as the devil is usually in...
“Precog” for AI, Galatea 2.2
by andflywrite | September 8, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Another very prescient writer, Gary Powers, penned Galatea 2.2 in 1995. It explored the theory of machine learning, and the issues that arise when a sentient AI comes into being. That's almost 30 years ago now. The take away being that yes, we face dramatic change and much is unknown, yet human...
“Precog” visionaries of AI and the Human imagination
by andflywrite | September 8, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
One of the values of artistic creation sometimes present is the visionary element, where we get a chance to experience what might take place in the future. Certainly we have already read and watched and played video games covering a full spectrum of what the future might look like with the...
Better, Faster, Cheaper, Smarter
by andflywrite | September 7, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The rise of thinking machines does warrant concern if we anthropomorphize AI as a competitor to humankind. But if embraced as tools amplifying human abilities and liberating us from repetitive tasks, advanced AI systems can unleash new realms of economic dynamism, scientific discovery, and...
“Solving problems by design competence instead of by political reform”: Buckminster Fuller
by andflywrite | September 2, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
There have been a number of salient perspectives proposed for educational innovation, some very fresh based on AI innovation, and others decades older based on exceptional visionary skills and capabilities, such as in this case, what Buckminster Fuller was saying back in 1962. One might also cite...
Virtual School routing around conventional ed systems
by andflywrite | September 2, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”~ Buckminister Fuller There's a continuing push and pull between interests that want to confine "public educational financing" to public schools, and interests...
Teaching with AI: OpenAI Guides and Resources
by andflywrite | September 1, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias. Resources published online by OpenAI about using their tools for teaching are available here. And...
Teachers thousands of miles away to teach students remotely: EdSurge
by andflywrite | August 30, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
That teachers can be remote too isn't frequently noted, but of course, that happened frequently during the pandemic when both students and teachers were connecting from home; just not the same home. As a model for the physical space being much less important, remote teaching and learning still...
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: Utilizing Neuroscience in Education
by andflywrite | August 23, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang may seem like 4 or more people given all the hats she wears related to neuroscience and learning. Among other funded work, Immordino-Yang has a cross-cultural, longitudinal NSF CAREER study investigating adolescent brain and social-emotional development, and relations to...
Keeping up with AI links
by andflywrite | August 21, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
As the progression and development of AI continues apace, we need all the help we can get to keep up. Below are 2 tried and true examples of YouTube "latest AI news" channels that post once or more per week. There are other additional channels out there. If it seems like there's more than any one...
Essentials for Community Schools Transformation
by andflywrite | August 21, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Lynn Middle School referenced in the Brookings article below was the first community school in Las Cruces NM, and it’s located amidst some of the most hardcore poverty in the city…nearby gun play is common place. Zia School, the dental service link in the story, is more rural, over near the town...
Future of generative AI models
by kris | August 16, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Coursera is offering an AI mini-course through Institute for the Future called called Three Horizons. Looking at the upcoming class schedule, the course seems popular as August classes are already full. The next available class is in October. This course will help you make sense of this rapidly...
AI changing way people work and work people do
by kris | August 15, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER, Embed Resources & Tools | 0 Comments
PSA postings continue to ask questions about generative ChatGPT and other AI initiatives in organizational Learning and Development (LD). How will AI change the way people work and the work people do in the next few years? Here is the latest annual McKinsey Global survey conducted in April 2023 as...
AI + HI (Human Intelligence) for Learning: Eliot Masie
by andflywrite | August 11, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
A lot has changed in the world of Eliot Masie's huge annual Learning Trends seminar/ conferences. They were canceled during peak Covid years, as were most in-person large gatherings. Here's some PR about the latest conference now planned which clearly is attempting to respond to the challenge of...
Mamacitas Ciberneticas and Broadband Promotores
by andflywrite | August 4, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Mamacitaas Ciberneticas seems like a great idea similar perhaps to the Promotores' idea of seeding colonias with trained cadre that the local population knows and trusts. [pdf-embedder...
Community College Students = 20% now in High School.
by andflywrite | August 2, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
The challenge of who does remedial work for students, and when it is done, exists in our hierarchical grade system of education. Each part of the system wants students that are ready to enter the hierarchy at the appropriate level, but that only happens with a certain % of students who for...
Newell, Simon, Hofstadter, Wolfram; plus Deep Learning: by ChatGPT4
by andflywrite | July 30, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon, as well as Douglas Hofstadter and Stephen Wolfram, are all renowned figures in the field of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and computational theory. However, their ideas and approaches to these fields differ significantly. Perhaps some greater...
Altman ChatGPT Odyssey: Atlantic
by andflywrite | July 24, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Altman believes that people need time to reckon with the idea that we may soon share Earth with a powerful new intelligence, before it remakes everything from work to human relationships. ChatGPT was a way of serving notice. Do we want/need 42 pages about how Sam Altman led...
ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter (And Other AI Initiatives) Could Revolutionize Education: EdTech Insiders
by andflywrite | July 19, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
"Code Interpreter" sounds wonky, true enough. It's just one of the new AI plugins which are adding new capabilities to ChatGPT and other similar AI daily. It's not unusual, for example, to discover that Google has released multiple plugins and added features to their generative AI versions all on...
Douglas Hofstadter and his change(s) of heart/ mind on AI
by andflywrite | July 16, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
“It’s a very traumatic experience when some of your most core beliefs about the world start collapsing. And especially when you think that human beings are soon going to be eclipsed.” ~Hofstadter (Gödel Escher Bach author). Brooks, the NYT opinion columnist, has a recent article (below)...
FCC award will help advocates enroll residents in $30 per-month subsidy (update)
by andflywrite | July 14, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Eric Pearson, president and CEO of the El Paso Community Foundation, said the coalition has found that the percentage of residents without adequate internet access is much greater than what is recorded in FCC data. The recently announced $300K grant goes to Borderplex Connect, which is under the...
AI support for teaching: WaPo
by andflywrite | July 13, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
In the months after ChatGPT was released in late 2022, K-12 teachers began to discover its potential to produce rubrics, lesson plans, quizzes, classroom management strategies, step-by-step answers to math problems and more. Yet another in an ongoing series of "what AI can do for teaching and...
150 “Extra Engineers”: AI and jobs that currently don’t exist.
by andflywrite | July 3, 2023 | BEST LINKS EVER | 0 Comments
Younger people may not believe this but before spreadsheets investment bankers worked really long hours. It's only thanks to Excel that Goldman Sachs associates can get everything done and leave the office at 3pm on Fridays. Now LLMs mean they'll only have to work one day a week! ~ Benedict Evans...