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Online education in the nineties and the early years of Web 2.0 was a largely optimistic period that understood the internet as a public square, not even necessarily a market. Its basic protocols—HTTP, HTML, email, and the domain-name system—did not belong to a single company, and publishing did not ordinarily require entry into one proprietary platform
In retrospe...
The NY Times reports today “U.S. Workers Are More Productive Than Ever. A.I. Isn’t the Key. Companies have been getting more out of employees for several years.” Golf clap for companies. What does it mean to “g...
How might the representations and discourses of the “AI Forward” university be placed within broader conversations and positions on the near future (4 years) of Frontier AI. This is a first effort at mapping out these positions, with all the various caveats. I’d appreciate your thoughts.
What is the current situation?Here is one useful visualization that infor...
A recent arXiv preprint titled “Deep Research Agents can be poisoned by User-Generated Content” describes a capacity for using user-generated content to shape the output of research agents. As Tingwei Zhang, Harold Triedman, and Vitaly Shmatikov write in their abstract in relation to th...
For those unfamiliar with the tokenpocalypse (TechCrunch), the term has been around for about a month and the story begins when Microsoft announces a change in the way it would charge for GitHub CoPilot. Unsurprisingly, the service didn’t become ...