A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

“Why Are Some Of Us Bonding Over AI While It Divides Others?”

“Over the past four years I’ve joined some of best professional communities of my career, all forming around AI. I’m also seeing this technology dividing some of the communities I’ve belonged to for decades. Many others across higher ed are experiencing something very similar. Some of us are forging completely new, unexpected ties with peers […]

LLMs Are More Than “Next Token Predictors”

“This has implications for how we teach AI literacy. If the model is a parrot, the right pedagogical move is to emphasize how mid the outputs are. They’re “just statistical regularities” and AI literacy is mostly about correcting their middling outputs. If the model is a geometric object, then learning to navigate that space is […]

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– Peter Nilsson

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