How can we harness AI for learning without it being a crutch, when kicked out, doesn’t leave us flat on the ground? I kept thinking about Khanmigo and how it never just gives the answer and makes the students go through the steps. Can we do that with language learning? The Unresolved Tension Between AI and Learning.
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First Taxi Drivers, Now Nurses. Teachers next?
Take nurses: increasingly, American hospitals are firing their waged nurses and replacing them with gig nurses who are booked in via an app. There’s plenty of ways that these apps abuse nurses, but the most ghastly is in how they price nurses’ wages. These apps buy nurses’ financial data from data-brokers so they can offer lower wages to nurses with lots of credit card debt, on the grounds that crushing debt makes nurses desperate enough to accept a lower wage:
Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024)
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So many AI tools
Subscribing to a newsletter by There Is an AI For That has opened my eyes to how many new AI tools are out there. Setting up a digest makes it all the more valuable because I only get tools I am interested in. Today, for example, I see tools for both reading and writing (not shown: speaking or listening). Highly recommended. It may seem like a firehose at first, but you can filter it.
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New AI is here
And OpenAI says it is significantly better. Does it really reason? Claims aside, we need to look at this development closely. Read more about it at the Atlantic. The GPT Era is Already Ending (gift).
