Being “Cutting Edge” is Being Behind
Feb. 10, 2025. The speed of AI innovation has exposed how difficult it is to create guardrails for emerging technologies. Government systems are often too slow to keep up. Kevin Roose, with The New York Times, reports five takeaways from the AI Summit in Paris with a brilliant quote that calls out efforts to manage fast-advancing technologies.
It feels, at times, like watching policymakers on horseback, struggling to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini.
My takeaway? No one knows how to regulate or predict AI’s “next thing,” including those who develop it.
5 Notes From the Big A.I. Summit in Paris
A College Report Card on AI
Jan. 23, 2025. Colleges and universities are places for knowledge—experiential knowledge, skills, explicit knowledge—they produce and grapple with it. Enter AI, which (other than experiential knowledge) can do many of the same things. No wonder higher education grapples with how to make sense of generative AI. Beth McMurtrie of The Chronicle of Higher Education analyzes the results of a study by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center that examines AI’s impact on teaching and learning. The survey results tell a tale of two LLMs: some institutions are wary. Others (14% of institutions who participated) have embedded AI literacy into core learning.
College Leaders Are Divided on the Risks and Benefits of Generative AI
(Another) Advance in Reasoning
Feb. 17, 2025. Add “there’s always another model” to the saying “there’s always a bigger fish.” xAI announced Grok 3, touting that it has 10x more computing power than Grok 2. The new models’ training set includes filings from court cases. xAI claims this model beats GPT-4o on a variety of benchmarks. In a release conference, Elon Musk blamed Grok’s training data—public web pages—for leaning politically left, but that work was underway to “shift Grok closer to politically neutral.”
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