Should we still be teaching online? From the open web to Platform U.
The generic pedagogical tools of any LMS (discussions, quizzes, etc.) are generally “free to use” elsewhere on the web. The feature set, while necessary in an LMS, is not where the commercial value lies. The value-added of the LMS is that it provides a digital enclosure that demonstrates a university’s due diligence in privacy protection,…
The reverse centaur productivity machine
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 “get more out our employees”? The American mythology is that increased productivity makes everyone’s life better, but this apparent…
Is the AI Bubble Bursting? Gambling on the AI Forward University
The bubble doesn’t have to be that bad to bring financial and reputational damage to the AI Forward university. All that really has to happen is that decreased confidence in investment in Frontier AI destabilizes the value proposition of investing in the AI Forward university. The financial damage will be obvious in all the money…
Context Laundering and the Human Bottleneck in AI Research
This research suggests that AI remains dependent on human evaluation as a filter. While our digital experiences are algorithmic, aside from AI slop, the content of the internet is human filtered in the sense that we made it. It is also filtered post-hoc in many human ways. There are moderators on Reddit, Wikipedia, and so…
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Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence 