EduHacker / Instructional Designer / Political Scientist
West Michigan
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Thank you to the engineer at Apple who ensured that when you’re flying in an airplane, the Peanuts Apple Watch face will show Snoopy flying in his doghouse.
Academia.edu offered to turn one of my conference papers into a comic. I was skeptical—but apparently not skeptical enough. #WhatValueCouldThisConceivablyProvide #WhatsWrongWithTheSecondPanel
More evidence that the conversation about generative AI and education involves fundamental misunderstandings about basic concepts—even if you're a CIO. Yellow bubbles are my annotations.
er.educause.edu/articles/202…
I give a decent number of conference presentations that seem to go well. But the number one question that I almost always get asked afterwards is "how did you control your slides from your phone?"
In her "Second Breakfast" newsletter today, @audreywatters echoes what I've been saying about generative AI.
Matthew Roberts retweeted
I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
For a year and a half I’ve been saying that it’s only a matter of time before students either sue or demand refunds when they learn their instructors have used AI. #TwoEdgedSword
So far my only complaint about @liznorell’s “the Present Professor” is that no time machine exists so that I could have read the chapter on “academic culture” before I started grad school 26 years ago.
This explains a lot about why we seem to be on the Darkest Timeline.
arstechnica.com/science/2016…
Matthew Roberts retweeted
This seems like evidence that the untruthful answers are a more complex learned behavior, and not simply hallucinations due to basic language modeling.
Read the full conversation in ChatGPT here: chatgpt.com/share/6800134b-1…
(5/5)
Matthew Roberts retweeted
We tested a pre-release version of o3 and found that it frequently fabricates actions it never took, and then elaborately justifies these actions when confronted.
We were surprised, so we dug deeper 🔎🧵(1/)
xitter.cf/OpenAI/status/19125493…
OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
openai.com/live/
Matthew Roberts retweeted
At what point should it be reasonable to expect coherent answers to these? How far beyond PhD-level reasoning must we climb?
Matthew Roberts retweeted
The University of Michigan (my alma mater) is considering this today:
"Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise "
A thought based on reading this afternoon's selection of AI-related news: how do we, as a society of overlapping and interlocking communities, adjudicate someone's claim that [insert thing here] is revolutionizing [insert aspect of life here]?
A little late to the game reading what @punyamishra has been writing about genAI. This is definitely worth sharing:
punyamishra.com/2024/02/03/t…
