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opencontent Rather than imagining “prompt engineering” as a new form of writing that appeared *ex nihilo* three years ago, I find it helpful to think about the ways this new kind of writing remixes existing forms of writing. For example, the primary goal of prompt engineering is getting a model to behave in a specific way. … Read more
tl;dr – Go play around with generativetextbooks.org and let me know what you think. Earlier this year I began prototyping an open source tool for learning with AI in order to explore ways generative AI and OER could intersect. I’m specifically interested in trying to combine the technical power of generative AI with the participatory … Read more
“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 Shuchao Bi that changed the way I think about the relationship between prediction and understanding. The entire talk is terrific, but the section that inspired … Read more