There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.
Commonly attributed to Vladimir Lenin, but the actual providence is uncertain
7 links for the week ahead
- Sari Azout (2024-10-12). What Does Slow AI Look Like?.
- Donald Clark (noreply@blogger.com) (2024-10-11). Robot Teaching Assistants – I’ve Changed My Mind….
- Leon Furze (2024-10-27). Claude Computer Use: The Next ChatGPT Moment.
- Matthew Kirschenbaum (2024-10-08). AI and the University as a Service.
- Adam Mastroianni (2022-12-13). The Rise and Fall of Peer Review.
- Ethan Mollick (2023-10-22). The Best Available Human Standard.
- Kevin Roose (2024-10-23). Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?.
Social AI for education
Sharples, M. (2023). Towards social generative AI for education: Theory, practices and ethics. Learning: Research and Practice, 9(2), 159–167.
This opinion paper explores educational interactions involving humans and artificial intelligences not as sequences of prompts and responses, but as a social process of conversation and exploration. In this conception, learners continually converse with AI language models and other human learners within a dynamic computational medium of internet tools and resources. Learning happens when this distributed human-AI system sets goals, builds meaning from data, consolidates understanding, reconciles differences, and transfers knowledge to new domains. Building social generative AI for education will require development of powerful AI systems that can converse with each other as well as humans, construct external representations such as knowledge maps, access and contribute to internet resources, and act as teachers, learners, guides and mentors…
# OpenAI’s ChatGPT Does Research
Personal update
- Completed the slides for 4 different presentations I’m giving this week.
- Completed an outline for an editorial I’m co-authoring for the British Journal of OT.
- Submitted an Expression of Interest to participate in this UKRI sandpit on AI-supported decision-making.
- Completed a full draft of our Simulated Practice Learning framework, which will guide SPL across the school.
- Updated my Head space book recommendations page, with notes from books I’ve read in the past. I still have quite a few to add, but it’s at least useful now. I hope that this drives a more intentional reading practice for Head space.
- Finally finished backporting all the Head space tweets to short pieces in the Marginalia section of the site. The plan is to publish more frequent, short-form posts in parallel to the bi-weekly newsletter. More on this soon.
- Published the Nov In Beta newsletter, on Note-taking.
- Went trick-or-treating with the girls.