Asking a chatbot isn't better than nothing -- it's worse than nothing. Unless the goal isn't learning but rather "turning in assignments".

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I was looking at an AI assignment recently and one of the instructions was to "not trust" any of its output. So why ask students to use it then?

My generous reading was that it would push them to review notes/readings to verify everything, but surely there are better ways to get students to do that

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but AP exams won’t fix the literacy crisis either.

Awesome! 😅

I'd love to see the full list when you have it together.

I liked Ian Milligan's work on Geocities. Sapnar-Ankerson's Dot-Com design is good. Niels Brugger has a lot of historiographic stuff. Competing on Internet Time for the browser wars. Tim Berners-Lee's memoir is great view of the internet's early goals (good contrast w/Barlow's libertarian views)

What this reveals is that for most people in charge right now “AI” is less useful as a technology than as a piece of language to shift a conversation in whatever direction they need it to go. In one minute it will propel a new economy; in another it’s the reason for a recession.

"I mentioned Erat’s empty office hours and asked Phal how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. 'The professors themselves,' he said, would be responsible for figuring that out." 🙃