Marc Watkins
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Assistant Director of Academic Innovation at the University of Mississippi. Teacher trying to figure out this AI thing.
Oxford, MS
Joined January 2014
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Faculty guidelines and frameworks for using generative AI with their students are often unclear and vague. The institutional silence around faculty AI usage risks sending a message of indifference instead of charting a clear path forward. I created a VALUES framework for faculty.
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I really hope people dunking on OpenAI for how crappy GPT-5 is and how hyped AGI has been take a step back and consider how the LLMs we have today will take society years to fully absorb how this technology will impact our world. AI isn't going away because a hohum product launch.
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RT @TheLincoln: I wrote about why it is still worth making art and literature in an age* of human and AI slop. *which maybe isn't so differ….
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A little over a year from now, the first generation of ChatGPT students will graduate college with no guidance about how to use or resist AI in their careers. A college freshmen will arrive on campus having 4 years of access to a chatbot and we think bluebooks are the answer?.
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Another semester approaches and faculty face a super charged version of ChatGPT. I want to talk about value and meaning with my students, not necessarily AI. Here are some ideas to do just that. I also have a session submitted to SXSW Edu about AI awareness you can vote for.
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Pretty far cry from “I can feel the AGI.” This week has been a wake up call for quite a few people in how limited AI is for real life tasks.
I've been a daily user of Alexa for a decade. So when I got access to Alexa+ (the new LLM-ified version) I was psyched to test it. But oof, it's kind of a mess. Alarms that don't cancel, routines that don't run, and the hallucinations.
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Will Microsoft update the education version of Copilot with GPT-5? This was formerly known as Bing Chat Enterprise and hasn't been updated with a new model since GPT-4 launched in 2023. That would give data protection w/ GPT-5 to a lot of schools.
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I stand corrected. They simply moved it to the "+" feature. I missed it under the . more section
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RIP ChatGPT's Study Mode. It lasted a whole ten days as a feature before GPT-5's launch removed it. Now students will need to ask the model to not complete tasks for them. The point was a ⏹️ button students could use to create a socratic tutor.
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The new GPT-oss open weights models suffer from higher hallucination rates compared to proprietary models, don't ground results to improve errors through search, and you need 80 gigs of memory on your device to run the largest model. Technically impressive, but not practical.
One worry, reflected in the benchmarks, is hallucinations. A common small model problem, but too early to know how big a deal it is.
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A time when you should not use AI-. My daughter starts back to school tomorrow in the 6th grade and the school used an AI voice over video with slides likely generated as well to talk about how her school was all about relationships.
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The new “Study Mode” for ChatGPT turns it into a Socratic tutor and it is a prompt. The implication is OpenAI could have released this years ago—a version of ChatGPT that wouldn’t complete your homework for you.
The new ChatGPT "study mode" feature appears to be entirely implemented as a carefully crafted system prompt - thankfully OpenAI mostly don't take measures to protect those these days so it's easy to extract it and see how it works
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RT @MarcusLuther6: If you as an educator are using AI as a tool for efficiency and then expecting students to walk into your room and use i….
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I really hope folks wake up and understand how far generative AI has gone beyond ChatGPT. This is technology your students are using regardless of your course policy on AI. Talk to your students about it. Please.
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As the fall semester approaches, we’re bound to hear more talk about AI policies, what new skills students will need, and how to curb AI misuse. We’re also likely to hear renewed calls for faculty to redesign assessments. A year ago I wrote a series about how AI impacted learning
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