Category: AI

Writing and AI

I just finished John Warner's More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI and I wanted to take time to reflect a little more at le... Read more

A Critical Approach to Teaching AI

This week, I was talking with some colleagues about the rate of students using AI to comlpete classwork. The short story is that their students are... Read more

AI Citations

I made a post on my Mastodon account which struck a chord and kind of went big (for me, anyways). It had to do with new resources coming out on how... Read more

Asking AI Something I Already Know

I saw a post, I don't remember where, about how to gauge the usefulness of a model. Instead of asking it something you don't know about (and, as a ... Read more

Playing with llamafile and llama.cpp

Warning: This gets a little rambly, but I'm collecting a lot of my experimenting into one place. Sorry. In my quest to toy with large language mode... Read more

On Teachers and AI Use

The Markup had a post this month looking at educators' use of AI tools. I took some time to read it this week, first on my phone and then printed o... Read more

LLM Absolutism?

How do you square away the ethics of using an LLM? I'm wrestling with how to responsibly engage with this technology but my unease with everything ... Read more

A More Measured Response to AI in Education

LLMs are here and there isn't anything I can personally do about the fervor. Education is no different than any other industry grabbing to put "AI"... Read more

Hot Garbage AI and Education

This week, Axios published an article about teachers turning to AI to give students feedback and then went on to extol the benefits of a new AI com... Read more

No, I Don't Want Your AI Assistant

I opt out of most prompts from sites and services to use their "intelligent" tools becuase I don't want them to harvest any more information from m... Read more

Knowing AI Limits

I've spent the last couple of weeks taking deep dives into LLMs and how they work. Stephen Wolfram's essay (more of a mini-book) took me several da... Read more

Yes, You Can Use ChatGPT with Students

We got talking about ChatGPT yesterday at work and surprisingly, none of us have really been asked by teachers to block it from students. It could ... Read more

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