David Wiley
@opencontent
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Associate Prof of MIS and Entrepreneurship @ Marshall. #AI, #OER, #Learning, #InstructionalDesign, #DesignThinking, #Music, #AmateurRadio
WV, USA
Joined April 2007
In this new episode of the Speaking of Higher Ed podcast, Arthur Takahashi interviews me about #OER, #GenerativeAI, and how the integration of these might change the future of education. I've been interviewed a number of times in the past, but no one has ever been as well
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"Software 1.0 easily automates what you can specify. Software 2.0 easily automates what you can verify." Terrific insights into the so-called "jagged frontier" of LLM development.
Sharing an interesting recent conversation on AI's impact on the economy. AI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm (Software 2.0) because both are
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President Brad D. Smith and First Lady Alys Smith made a historic $50 million gift to Marshall University to advance Marshall For All, a groundbreaking program designed to eliminate student debt. Learn more about this milestone gift at https://t.co/GtwXpHW2DJ
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“Generative AI models don’t understand, they just predict the next token.” You’ve probably heard a dozen variations of this theme. I certainly have. But I recently heard a talk by @shuchaobi that changed the way I think about the relationship between prediction and understanding.
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Some of the best news I've heard lately!
Alys and I consider this role the privilege of a lifetime, and we are honored to serve the university and community we love so much. We’ve built meaningful momentum as a campus community, & we couldn’t be more optimistic about the road ahead. Thank you! https://t.co/G2cPvqbsIj
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Great news! President Brad Smith and Marshall’s Board of Governors extended his contract to 12/31/29. I’m thrilled for our city, university, & state. Let’s go!
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New essay: Gravity, Bandwidth, and Tokens: Fundamental Constraints on Design "Back in the mid-1990s I read an absolutely amazing article that had a lasting impact on my thinking. Despite looking for it several times over the years, I've never been able to find it again. This was
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NEWS Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen says he’s traveling to El Salvador to check-in on the status of his constituent Kilmar Abrego Garcia. "Following his abduction and unlawful deportation, U.S. federal courts have ordered the safe return of my constituent Kilmar Abrego
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Early this morning, @HawleyMO + @RonWyden had a bipartisan amendment in the Senate Budget resolution to strike out any cuts to Medicaid. @SenCapito and @JimJustice_WV voted against it- and against protecting the program.
This amendment narrowly failed, 49-50. Hawley, Collins, Murkowski joined all Dems voting in favor. (Sen. Murray is absent.) This will be the group to watch during the next phase of the reconciliation process
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New essay - Making AI a More Effective Teacher: Lessons from TPACK. Would you be surprised if you pulled a random person off the street, shoved them into a classroom full of students, and then found that they weren’t a particularly effective teacher? Of course not. And why
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If you aren't using #DeepSeekR1 with #Cursor, what are you even doing? WOW.
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This x1,000,000. I'm looking at you, #open, #OER, #openpedagogy, etc. From @Ahmed_Lachheb et al., https://t.co/E3KmQep9Bt
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The US Copyright Office has released a new report on the copyrightability of works created using generative AI. For people working with #OER, these bullets from the Executive Summary will be of particular interest: - Questions of copyrightability and AI can be resolved pursuant
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I'm really excited about this new strand of work, designed to combine the technical power of #generativeAI with the participatory power of #OER. I'm still cleaning up the prototype code (screenshots in the essay), but it will be available on GitHub soon. https://t.co/gkEDiRxCIG
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in a couple weeks, i built a nuclear fusor in my bedroom – with zero hardware experience the secret? Claude sonnet 3.5 + projects a glimpse into the process below
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Last year there was a series of meetings held by SPARC and others orgs discussing whether or not the US needs a national open education strategy. I attended one of the meetings and blogged my concerns about it afterward. https://t.co/3s9plPCsEE Now a new job posting from SPARC
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A new article out today ranks arXiv's most-cited #AI papers from January 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024. It's a greatest hits list that includes technical reports on open models like Qwen, Llama, Phi, and Mistral; new model architectures like Mamba, and fine-tuning techniques like
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