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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Mar 8

I increasingly feel the John Warner’s of higher ed are right more than wrong about these things. Although it feels very task-specific.

I’m going on vibes here not trying to argue anything sophisticated.
@biblioracle.bsky.social

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Mar 8

In the cycle of enchanted, disenchanted, and re-enchanted with the AI world, I’m briefly stuck in the disenchanted space. Mainly in applications to writing.

I’m relying on these tools for STEM-related tasks, analysis, etc, but becoming very cynical about its use in (non-technical) writing.

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Feb 23

It's interesting that this has gone under the radar: OpenAI began adopting a constitutional approach to alignment in late 2024, updated last week. Their "deliberative alignment" specs tell the model to treat a list of rules deontologically and deliberate how they apply to particular examples.

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Feb 22

@annamillsoer.bsky.social the Model Spec's for o3 seem ripe for humanities discussion, no? a lot of this is about how to remain principled and useful: model-spec.openai.com/2025-02-12.h...

OpenAI Model Spec

The Model Spec specifies desired behavior for the models underlying OpenAI's products (including our APIs).

model-spec.openai.com

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Feb 21

I wonder if it’s a platform issue?

I see a ton of humanities conversation around this, locally and in my online networks.

But AI chatter on X is dominated by tech circles—more so now that AIED seems to have drifted to LinkedIn and here.

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Feb 20

My recent article explores how colleges can scale AI readiness in First-Year courses, drawing insights from our FYE program at CWI. It also includes links to the training we developed (CC BY). Some of these resources may work in First-Year Writing courses as well.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-co...

How Colleges Can Scale AI Readiness: Lessons from a First-Year Experience Program

I recently presented at the 44th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience and wanted to share what my amazing team (Liza Long, Ed.D.

www.linkedin.com

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Jan 22

I used the DeepSeek R1 reasoning model to prepare for a new course proposal. These screenshots show with and without the "DeepThink" option turned on--strikingly different. R1 does a lot more synthesis and offers clearer suggestions. It also accepts pdf files, o1 doesn't. Crazy this is open source.

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Jan 19

haha I just posted something similar before seeing this. ya there's an incredible amount of oversight in that experiment.

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Jan 19

What worked so well in this Nigerian experiment with using AI to boost literacy is how carefully each step is overseen by actual teachers. Perhaps the "deskilling" we see in other studies (students losing skills because of too much assistance) is bad strategy. blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Jan 13

Prompt engineering with o1:

Interesting to compare this o1 strategy with the CLEAR or RFTC framework (role format task constraints)

I currently find myself relying less on “role” and more on “context dump”

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Dec 20

ARC claims o3 is not using brute force: arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-.... It also tempers expectations around the benchmark.

OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub

OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.

arcprize.org

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Dec 20

here's the article's summary of what o3 seems to be doing on the backend

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Dec 20

This is one of the most elegant definitions of LLMs I’ve seen.

(from this post explaining the new o3 model and the ARC benchmark: arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-...)

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Dec 11

I'm shopping for broccoli sprout seeds on amazon and the "most helpful review" is 100% AI-generated. It's hard for me to read because half the words are completely pointless--but apparently it's helpful to others! 🤷‍♂️

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Dec 8

Thanks! I put it on the list

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Dec 3

My program is collecting data on this (through surveys) and it somewhat tracks. A small percentage of students are definitely “anti-AI”.

Most students, OTOH, say they’re uncomfortable with faculty using AI to evaluate their work, but they’re comfortable with AI in ed otherwise.

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Joel Gladd @brehove.bsky.social · Dec 3

I love seeing health gurus compete like this

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Dec 1

The anecdote in the Hard Fork podcast may have been intended as—and should definitely be interpreted as—an apt and colorful analogy one researcher perceived between Arrival and the simultaneity of processing in Transformers.

It won't bear much weight as a literal claim about historical causality.

Tilman Bayer @tilmanbayer.bsky.social · Dec 1

OK, so maybe what Kevin Roose bungled here was that one of the paper's authors (Polosukhin) had made a comparison to "Arrival" ("believed self-attention was a bit like ...") - but without claiming it had been the actual inspiration
www.ft.com/content/37bb...