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I wrote recently that no homework is safe now, and that the right response is to treat homework as practice, not assessment for grades. Case in point: a 30-month study of 26,811 Chinese secondary students. When students adopted AI, homework scores rose 18% and homework time fell 30%
Having defended em dashes from the AI-shame brigade, you know where I stand on stigma as a strategy. Anil Dash makes the bigger version of the point: shame doesn't stop technology where its owners have accounted for it. What changes people is a better offer. Anil points
This week I gave a presentation to my college about assessment in the age of AI. Here's a written version of what I shared. AI eats all the homework Before the talk, I took the fundraising campaign analysis assignment from my nonprofit course and handed it to Claude.
Considering how I at least skim pretty much every single one of Zvi’s (very long!) posts, I don’t link to him enough. Here’s a great and not-as-long summary of where your thinking fits in the current moment around AI. Worth it just for the self-
I’m so grateful Brian Phillips wrote this article. There have been moments recently that I’ve avoided em dashes knowing how people fixate on them as proof of AI slop. But they’re just so useful and deserve rescue from the ire of the internet brigade. It would be
My home state, Utah, is packed with law-breakers, scofflaws. They do it with impunity, on a daily basis. To make matters worse, law enforcement is complicit. It’s illegal to drive faster than the speed limit. Utah takes this very seriously; the penalty is not trivial. Anywhere from just
I was talking to my mother-in-law this week about how she downloaded ChatGPT to her phone two weeks ago. It’s her first experience with an LLM. We talked about all the ways she’s started using it, but also the common things that people misunderstand about how
I'd looked forward to spending more time with Anthropic's Fable model today, but alas the government had other plans. As usual, Zvi has the most thoughtful, thorough commentary on things. I am however taking the position that the implementation method chosen by the government, with no
All thoughtful and nuanced perspectives. Speculative at times, but for smart reasons you might not have considered before; at least that was the case for me.
The third of a series by Alexander Kustov on AI attitudes among academics. I found the entire series to be quite persuasive. I suspect before long that AI use in academic writing will be common as long as its use is disclosed. But the idea that AI use in research
Language itself is why LLMs are a big deal
As predicted, Anthropic has the obviously superior legal argument and Judge Lin has granted a preliminary injunction shutting down (for now) the Government's actions agains the company. Here's an excellent and detailed overview from Zvi Mowshowitz. Quoting Zvi, who's quoting the judge: At bottom,