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Established AI research Resource 8d ago
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In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

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“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

“I did not know of this joke quote Funnily enough, a tool for seeing how you're weighted in the LLMs recently told me that Kashmir Hill is either me or a Himalayan mountain range, so it could indeed be a land of contradictions. Tool: intheweights.com”

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austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Established AI field signal Analysis 7d ago
Bulwark slop doctrine marwick essay

The Slop Doctrine - by alice e. marwick - The Bulwark

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“The right loves AI slop. Why? I investigate in @thebulwark.com today: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...”

“«AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagement.» #Slopaganda www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...”

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Roland Meyer: «AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagem…
Roland Meyer: Great article, thanks to @alicetiara.bsky.social @thebulwark.com for citing my work
Ben Williamson: «AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagem…
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Developing Culture, work & education Signal 1d ago

Ai is rapidly changing education and research needs to keep up

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“AI hasn't just affected educational *practices* - it's affecting what is even considered by think tanks as good evidence in education research. This Brookings report details what has been evident a while - a shift in evidence standards due to AI being seen …”

Established Culture, work & education Resource 11d ago
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automated classrooms 1960s to present event

Automated Classrooms from the 1960s to the present day: is there a future?

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“Fancy learning more about the history of AI in education? This is a nice little event on the past and present of the "automated classroom" with Barbara Hof, Apolline Taillandier and me next Monday 20 July (in Edinburgh or online) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/auto…”

Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

tandfonline.com

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“Our other special issue this year was on "Theorizing the future of AI in education". It got dozens of proposals but published only 7 papers afyer review, all of them belters. We're still focused on high quality over mass quantity, esp on popular topics like…”

Developing Culture, work & education Development 2d ago
London first AI primary school

London’s first AI primary school: bright idea or a sign of the dystopian times?

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“Inspired Edge, an “AI-enabled primary school," is setting up as a global brand. “'Education must evolve to reflect the world children are growing up in, not the world as it was,'” says its founder..., who has a background in private equity." Of course he do…”

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Ben Williamson: Inspired Edge, an “AI-enabled primary school," is setting up as a global brand. “'Education must evolve to reflect the world children are growing up in, not the world as it was,'” says its founder.…
Charles Logan: Somebody saw that Alpha School cash and wanted in too
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Developing Culture, work & education Resource 2d ago
Eddie AI teaching assistant launch

Eddie: Your Personal Teaching Assistant | Enhance Learning Outcomes Today

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“A new "AI Teaching Assistant" is being marketed as retrieving "actionable" evidence from 400,000 education research articles to support teachers' "evidence-based" lesson planning. But... www.eddieai.net”