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AI-first educational institutions

Nov 23, 2023

in AI, Education

administration, AI-first learning, assessment, cost, higher education, internet, mooc, network, university, value

In a previous post I mentioned in passing the idea that universities, if they want to remain relevant, will need to adopt an AI-first position for everything they do. Soon, AI will be embedded in everything, from preparing course materials, to developing assessments, to budget allocation. And email. It will be a huge part of…
Why I think that AI-based grading in education is inevitable.

Jan 28, 2020

in AI, Education

assessment, Complexity, cost, creativity, grading, machine learning, teaching

A few days ago I commented on an article that discusses the introduction of AI into education and why teachers shouldn’t worry about it. I also said that AI for grading was inevitable because it would be cheaper, and more reliable, fair and valid than human beings. I got some pushback from Ben on Twitter…
A small team of student AI coders beats Google’s machine-learning code

Aug 17, 2018

in AI

cost, hardware, machine learning

The Fast.ai algorithm was trained on the ImageNet database in 18 minutes using 16 Amazon Web Service instances, at a total compute cost of around $40. Source: Knight, W. (2018). A small team of student AI coders beats Google’s machine-learning code. A few things that I took from this: Access to massive data sets is…