Caleb Hicks
@calebhicks
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Education futurist. Putting AI to work for teachers and school leaders at https://t.co/6fEXENNsdu. Founded @JoinFactor, cofounded @LambdaSchool, ex @Apple, @AlpineSchools.
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Work on something you’re excited to wake up in the middle of the night for. Because your head is racing and you can’t put down the pen. Because it moves and fulfills you. Because you can’t imagine doing anything else. Everyone deserves this type of work.
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AI is going to transform education, even if AI technology does not improve further But I think education may be able to adapt to AI far more effectively than other industries & in ways that will improve both student learning and the lives of instructors
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A positive vision for the transformation to come
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We have a new paper on how instructors can use ChatGPT and Bing to apply complex pedagogy to their classes, while making their lives easier, too. There are lots of prompts to try out. Paper: https://t.co/SZ0zBa6ZPI Post with an overview of the strategies:
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Greg Brockman (@gdb) of OpenAI just demoed GPT-4 creating a working website from an image of a sketch from his notebook. It’s the coolest thing I’ve *ever* seen in tech. If you extrapolate from that demo, the possibilities are endless. A glimpse into the future of computing.
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The traditional definition of AGI is “what if you had AI that could do pretty much what any average human could do”. I think we’re going to skip right over that and land much closer to “what if you had AI that could do what the 95th percentile in every field can do”.
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I got access to the Bingbot! I decided to test it with a topic on which I teach graduate seminars. I treated it like one of my students, asking questions to test whether it really understood the material. It did well, and is unnervingly good at following dialectic logic.
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But not right now. Because it's down. https://t.co/fqTLF5XeRz
You could run a $100m company today with Airtable and Zapier as your tech stack.
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Fast-growing company is looking for an instructional designer / curriculum developer that speaks Spanish natively. Based in or willing to travel regularly to Utah strongly preferred. Interested or know someone? Get in touch. DMs open.
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Looking for someone who is deeply experienced with AWS, specifically AWS Lambda and SNS and is open for some contract work. HMU!
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Spent some time building and testing these detection tools with teachers. They said they wanted it. But it doesn’t work and they wouldn’t use it anyway. Showing how to use AI for deeper learning made classes better with less work. Wins all around.
I think this is important enough that it bears repeating: You can't detect ChatGPT content if people spend any real effort. I know because I had my students "cheat" & use AI; when they co-created essays with the AI, GPTZero failed & the essays read well.
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Using Langchain or another wrapper around these models helps. Never ideal to have a single point of failure. We’re falling back into Cohere and others with the tools we’re building. Basically a single if-statement for redundancy.
Breaking 🚨 None of the OpenAI services including ChatGPT, GPT-3 playground and API is serviceable at the moment. 1000s of apps built on top of OpenAI API are down. High time to avoid reliance on a single platform, big opportunity for companies like Cohere, Anthropic & OneAI
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When we talk about using AI to raise the bar on student critical thinking and assessment, this is exactly the type of thing we are talking about. History professor has Chat-GPT write history essays and students review them. Get creative. https://t.co/oVdVc1DRrQ
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AI is really good at the things we're currently testing in MAP tests, SATs, etc. Instead of outhinking AI, let it augment our strengths and focus our efforts on what AI *can't* do. Performance assessments emphasize these human skills. https://t.co/wmgZWGNZHH
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1 of dozens of impromptu IRL chats that happen every day @ Seis – because we're in person Walmart, Vanguard, Disney, Blizzard, many others moving back to in office ∞ more productive & you get to build actual relationships w/ the people you spend 50%+ of your waking life with
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Creating something from nothing with a group of similarly motivated people is a peak life experience I hope everyone gets to experience it at least once in their life
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Just spent an hour rebuilding my high school iPod into a Spotify playlist from a 2008 backup of iTunes. AMA.
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I'm working to help teachers take back 10+ hours a week to level up their lives and classrooms so they can give their 200+ students outsized results. If you want to stay tuned, follow me @calebhicks. If you know a teacher that would benefit, likes and RTs are much appreciated.
About 13 years ago I started my first teaching job. 7 periods of ⌨️ keyboarding. Thrilling, I know. Here's 4 steps I took to refactor my course load, become the first teacher in Utah to teach Google Docs, open a school marketplace, and launch a business club w/ 200+ students.
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There are hundreds of thousands of teachers who want to do the same type of work – but they're stuck teaching to the test, using multiple-choice quizzes, grading 200+ of the exact same projects, and tip-toeing through mazes of red tape and busywork.
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All of this was possible because I started w/ seven periods of Keyboarding, which had zero state requirements beyond "Get them to 40WPM", and practically graded itself. Most teachers don't have that luxury. Yet.
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