A list of papers I reviewed for a future post about Parent PLUS loans surfaced an eye-opening sentence about financial aid fraud from a 2022 article published in the American Journal of Cardiology: “At the suggestion of Larry Summers (the Obama Administration) ‘urged state unemployment offices to send a letter to every person receiving jobless […]
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I use an AI-related tool daily. Last October, I wrote about NotebookLM, Google’s personalized AI collaborator. In that article, I described my activities of loading links to previously published blog articles and creating audio files, aka podcasts. There were a few “hiccups,” but I enjoyed the audio output. Recently, I read that Google added more […]
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For nearly two decades, I led the online American Public University System through the early, medium, and high enrollment growth stages of online courses and degree programs. In those early years, I knew and worked with many of the major contributors to the development and improvement of online education and understood online course pricing very […]
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By now, it should be evident that generative AI tools will impact the future of the workforce. Predictions of the extent of the impact vary widely. There are several papers and articles that have come to my attention over the past few weeks that provide similar findings and viewpoints. Using AI in the Workplace as […]
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I frequently write and speak about the higher-than-inflationary college tuition increases since the late 1970’s. More specifically, how the decision by Harvard’s Board in 1978 to increase Harvard’s undergraduate tuition the next year by 18% led to similar increases by its Ivy Plus peer institutions and many private colleges. Moreover, Harvard continued to increase its […]
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(The article below was written by Stanford University’s STORM application. A summary of the article was included in my previous blog post. I decided it was worthwhile to post the article in its entirety as a separate post. STORM uses hyperlinks for each of its sources. I opted to create a list of works cited […]
Generative AI’s release to the world less than three years ago triggered a frenzy of new “products,” as well as predictions and criticisms of the technology. Over the past year, the term AI agents began appearing more frequently in the news. The July 24, 2024 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly included an article written by […]
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The U.S. Copyright Office is charged by statute with administering the United States’ copyright laws. It is housed in the Library of Congress, and its mission is “to promote creativity and free expression by administering the nation’s copyright laws and by providing impartial, expert advice on copyright law and policy for the benefit of all.” […]
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Artificial intelligence tools, particularly those offered by well-funded companies like OpenAI, are constantly changing. Some of those changes occur thanks to the software’s machine learning design. Other changes are based on observations and implemented by programmers with access to the code. An emerging feature that’s been getting attention recently is LLM reasoning. One of my […]
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After my last post, a few friends and colleagues contacted me and noted that the article posing several questions to ChatGPT about the cost of knowledge was excellent. A few of them indicated that they might pursue a similar series of prompts with ChatGPT or another AI tool. As I noted in my post, I […]
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