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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2h

AI tutors coming to California Community Colleges #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78344

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2h

Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78343

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 3h

What Large Language Models Teach Us About 'Human Knowledge' #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78342 I like the way this article topples the 'wisdom' pyramid. Consider AI: it "doesn't climb a virtual digital pyramid from data to information to knowledge to wisdom...

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 3h

To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78341 This is quite an interesting article on how we understand AI, though it feels like it ends too soon. I recommend reading it from the perspective of human learning.

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OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 22h

How accessible is the educational research literature? #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78340

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 22h

Modeling AI for Authentic Writing #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78339 As I read this article it once again occurs to me that access to AI levels a disparity that until now preserved an entrenched advantage for some people.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 23h

The Future of Higher Education: The Age of Sponsored Knowing, and What This Means to Higher Education #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78338

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d

TeachLM: Post-Training LLMs for Education Using Authentic Learning Data #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78337 Large language models (LLM) may be experts but they have no experience conversing with students.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d

HHMI Enacts “Immediate Access To Research” Policy For Its Scientists #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78336 This is how easy it is for an academic institution to embrace open access. "Going forward, preprints will form the basis of HHMI's assessments of its researchers' work.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 1d

Content Credentials #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78335 Provided by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), Content Credentials are "an open technical standard for publishers, creators and consumers to establish the origin and edits of digital content.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2d

A cartoonist's review of AI art #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78330 It will take a few minutes to scroll through this mixture of artwork and essay, but it's an easy read and gives you some insight into how generative AI is seen through the eyes of a cartoonist.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2d

Google’s latest AI model uses a web browser like you do #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78334

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2d

What Can We Learn From Anthology's Demise? #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78333

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2d

Open Heritage Statement #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78331 In 2008 I stood outside the Prado Museum in Madrid - probably one of the most famous in the world - and decided not to go in, because they would not allow me to photograph anything inside.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2d

Virtual Microscope #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78332 This is a cool resource.

OLDaily @oldaily.bsky.social · 2d

Do AI Reasoning Models Abstract and Reason Like Humans? #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78327