From markcarrigan.net
Are UK universities ready to cope with generative AI in the 25/26 academic year?
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In a month we’ll enter the second full academic year in which large language models (LLMs) have been a routine feature of staff and student practice within universities. While their uptake wa…
#ai #llms #learning #pedagogy #students #ianbogost #assessment #highereducation #assessmentintegrity
on Aug 10
From simonwillison.net
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New hosted vision-enabled reasoning model from xAI that's designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and "was trained end-to-end with …
#ai #llm #grok #llms #pelican #generative #openrouter
9h ago
From wandering.shop
Charlie Stross (@cstross@wandering.shop)
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Attached: 1 image Friends don't let friends mindlessly accept advice from "AI": supporting evidence:
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on Fri, 6PM
From oneusefulthing.org
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Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
#ai #llms #learning #pedagogy #students #ianbogost #assessment #highereducation #assessmentintegrity
2h ago
From umn.edu
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How generative AI systems capture a core function of language Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning i...
#llms #henryfarrell #leifweatherby #socialontology #poststructuralism #structuralistlinguistics
1h ago
From hepi.ac.uk
Student Generative AI Survey 2025 - HEPI
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Building on our 2024 AI Survey, we surveyed 1,041 full-time undergraduate students through Savanta about their use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. In 2025, we find that the student use of AI has surged in the last year, with almost all students (92%) now using AI in some...
#ai #llms #learning #pedagogy #students #ianbogost #assessment #highereducation #assessmentintegrity
on May 13
From scalarlm.com
LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs Into Datasets
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Large Language Models compress massive amounts of training data into their parameters. This compression is lossy but highly effective—billions of parameters can encode the essential patterns from terabytes of text. However, what’s less obvious is that this process can be reversed: we can...
#ai #llm #llms #ngated #datasets #research #aistorage #llmdeflate #neuralnets #ycombinator
on Sat, 10AM
From microsoft.com
The LLM Lobotomy. - Microsoft Q&A
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I am working on a product that uses Azure in the back-end for LLMs and Audio Models. Just like how I test the code for every release, every time I add or update things on the system prompts for calibration or new features I also test the conversational…
#edge #llms #tech #azure #humor #ngated #效能 #myspace #upgrade #insights
15h ago
From americanbanker.com
How M&T Bank ensures data quality as it implements gen AI
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Andrew Foster, the bank's chief data officer, explained how he has been instilling data discipline across the organization and making the bank's data AI-ready.
#ai #llms #banking #finserv #fintech #generativeai
16h ago
From arstechnica.com
Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers
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LLM “tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity” when writing news briefs.
#ai #llm #llms #news #media #chatgpt #science #chatbots #journalism #generativeai
on Fri, 6PM
From sspnet.org
Guest Post — A Smarter Way to License Research Articles for AI - The Scholarly Kitchen
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If LLMs are the future of information discovery, valuable scholarly content risks being left behind—unless we build a bridge with better licensing.
#llms #citations #attribution #scholarship
17h ago