A very interesting discussion about a Microsoft Research paper on the relationship between genAI use and domain expertise. punyamishra.com/2025/02/13/the…

I find this very amusing. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-…

A little late to the game reading what Punya Mishra has been writing about genAI. This is definitely worth sharing: punyamishra.com/2024/02/03/the…

A thought based on reading this afternoon's selection of AI-related news: how do we, as a society of overlapping and interlocking communities, adjudicate someone's claim that [insert thing here] is revolutionizing [insert aspect of life here]?

We tested a pre-release version of o3 and found that it frequently fabricates actions it never took, and then elaborately justifies these actions when confronted. We were surprised, so we dug deeper 🔎🧵(1/) x.com/OpenAI/status/…

At what point should it be reasonable to expect coherent answers to these? How far beyond PhD-level reasoning must we climb?

This seems like evidence that the untruthful answers are a more complex learned behavior, and not simply hallucinations due to basic language modeling. Read the full conversation in ChatGPT here: chatgpt.com/share/6800134b… (5/5)

The University of Michigan (my alma mater) is considering this today: "Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise "

This explains a lot about why we seem to be on the Darkest Timeline. arstechnica.com/science/2016/0…

So far my only complaint about Dr. Liz Norell (she/her)’s “the Present Professor” is that no time machine exists so that I could have read the chapter on “academic culture” before I started grad school 26 years ago.

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

For a year and a half I’ve been saying that it’s only a matter of time before students either sue or demand refunds when they learn their instructors have used AI. #TwoEdgedSword

I ate when I get the NYT answer correctly but don’t get how it makes sense.

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

I don't even know what to say. theverge.com/news/705015/gr…

I give a decent number of conference presentations that seem to go well. But the number one question that I almost always get asked afterwards is "how did you control your slides from your phone?"

More evidence that the conversation about generative AI and education involves fundamental misunderstandings about basic concepts—even if you're a CIO. Yellow bubbles are my annotations. er.educause.edu/articles/2025/…

Academia.edu offered to turn one of my conference papers into a comic. I was skeptical—but apparently not skeptical enough. #WhatValueCouldThisConceivablyProvide #WhatsWrongWithTheSecondPanel