AI can be responsibly integrated into classrooms by answering the ‘why’ and ‘when’Answering the questions of why and when to use AI requires us to be architects of learning. It demands that we engage with thinking about learning and what it means to produce knowledge through the works of people like Dewey, Noddings, Zagzebski and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-07-20
AI Oversight Is Becoming a Board IssueBoth AI and ESG encompass a wide breadth of corporate issues, with considerable overlap, including: Environmental—As AI models grow in size and complexity, so does the necessary computer processing power, which can carry a very large carbon footprint. Social—Companies that deploy AI for hiring, lending, housing, or insurance decisions […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-07-13
The Astronomer CEO’s Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance DystopiaThere are so many levels to this embarrassment—the Coldplay of it all, the HR violation occurring on jumbotron, etc—that one could likely write a doctoral dissertation on this 15 second video. Documenting what you’re willing to support (and not)The idea is that […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-07-06
Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weights Live Music Model The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communicationThe lethal trifecta of capabilities is: Access to your private data—one of the most common purposes of tools in the first place! Exposure to untrusted content—any mechanism by which text (or images) controlled by a malicious […]
OCR and old newspapers
I’ve got a couple of faculty members who are doing research that involves old newspapers and magazines. The captures are of varied complexity and quality. Some of them are from the nwespaper.com site, some are phone photographs. I hear that Acrobat’s OCR function does a good job with normal scans of documents. I did a […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-06-29
Identify, solve, verifyMy job is to identify problems that can be solved with code, then solve them, then verify that the solution works and has actually addressed the problem. A more advanced LLM may eventually be able to completely handle the middle piece. It can help with the first and last pieces, but only when […]
AI Commenting Chaos Incarnate
As I tell my kids . . .1 Me: Remember Jim Groom? Kid 1: The guy who shaved his head in our downstairs bathroom? Kid 2: Bava bloody, bava? Kid 3: From that creepy baby picture? Kid 4: The guy you made a pumpkin carving of? Kid 5: That guy on Santa’s lap? Kid 6: […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-06-22
Cartesia – The fastest, ultra-realistic voice AI platform. Pipecat by DailyOpen source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI. […]
OpenAI API in a WordPress Plugin
My goal this morning was to see if I could tie in the OpenAI API for a project where I uploaded images to WordPress and it automatically extracted the text from the image. Since I’ve been using the OpenAI API previously and had a decent amount of success with text extraction, I went ahead and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2025-06-15
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity – Apple Machine Learning ResearchThrough extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity […]