Today, Cognitive Resonance is releasing a new guide titled Education Hazards of Generative AI. This free resource clarifies common misconceptions about how AI works and warns against misuses of this technology in education. Please share this widely. https://t.co/SmWOTDopSW

Hey anything going on around here today? It's been awhile, nice to see everyone.

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Texas Friends: I am organizing the Stand Up for Science rally taking place this Friday (3/7) at 4p at the State Capitol in Austin. We will be advocating for science and democracy, inquiry and tolerance, and opposing what's happening at the federal level. https://t.co/Wy2cWe4srF

As we all know, Texans absolutely LOVE it when the state government takes its marching orders from DC. What a crock of shit.

There's a war against knowledge happening in America -- which side are you on? It's time to take to the streets. https://t.co/gVPV4xn9CO

Is this a fallacy or a strawman? What's seems to be missing in this debate is that LLMs *predictably* struggle at deterministic tasks that are the same level of difficulty. The embers of autoregression still burn today. (I nod toward you @RTomMcCoy!)

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Over where the skies are azure, my posts comparing my experience as an investment banker for Enron with some of what I see happening with OpenAI now...has gone viral. Curious? Hit the link in my bio!

Link in bio for my latest essay.

The attorney for the plaintiffs say this case will continue, to which I say, good luck with that. What a waste of teachers' time this has been.

I just wrote a quick essay about student plagiarism and AI that prompted the comment "this is about as pure a case of 'f around and find out' as an educator could ask for." Curious? L i n k i n B i o...and man I can't wait to be rid of this platform.

Here's what @OpenAI thinks an "interactive quiz" for 10th graders on the Mexican Revolution should consist of. This is literally using the model prompt they suggest in their new AI course for educators. ¡Viva la ed-tech revolucion!

My first viral, uh, "skeet" over on the other place involves Jordan Peterson suggesting Jiminy Cricket is Jesus Christ. My point is, it's more fun over there now. Come find me and say hi -- same handle as the one here.

Great to see the incoming Trump Administration nominate yet another Secretary of Education with a long track record of leadership toward improving educational outcomes.

What if today's large-language models are (basically) as good as they're going to get? I have a new essay exploring the growing awareness that scale is NOT all we need when it comes to creating artificial general intelligence. Link in bio.

This thoughtful essay from Jason Farago (@jsf) looks to our artistic past regarding automatons so as to understand our present obsession with AI chatbots. https://t.co/TgDsZkC6q6

@thegrade_ @gtoppo @jillbarshay @Stephen_Sawchuk This is great example of area where reporters can and should probe to help deflate the AI hype that companies are pushing out. I've seen prominent people promote these bullshit "results" from MagicSchool.

When @adeelorama of @magicschoolai posted that Aurora Public Schools students in CO had 28% improvement in literacy scores, I contacted the school district for details. No response. @ddmeyer now reports this "data" is from ONE SINGLE CLASS. Hucksterism. https://t.co/QOc98EfgEE

More evidence of LLMs as digital stone soup. Remember, we were told scale is all we need. I've got the receipts!

Really great thread exploring how the impressive leap to GPT4 has not lead to further impressive leaps in AI capacity. If future improvements are marginal, what then?