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U.S. Copyright Office Issues Two Reports About Artificial Intelligence

February 21, 2025

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…

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Regular LLM Content Creation Versus LLM Reasoning

February 14, 2025

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…

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Continuing the Conversation With ChatGPT About the Cost of Knowledge

February 3, 2025

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…

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ChatGPT’s Philosophical Thoughts About the Cost of Knowledge

January 27, 2025

Paul LeBlanc, long-time president of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), stepped down on June 30 to co-found and lead Human Systems, an artificial intelligence (AI) and education startup funded by…

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AI Recommended Publications and Links Related to Education

January 22, 2025

I’ve been writing about artificial intelligence off and on since 2010. After the release of ChatGPT-3 in November 2022, I increased my pace of reading and writing substantially. During a…

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WICHE Projection of High School Graduates

December 18, 2024

For a while, various reporters and writers have mentioned the pending demographic cliff, the year in which the number of U.S. high school seniors peak. The data, based on birth…

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College Affordability: Is the Market Driving the Cost of Tuition?

December 10, 2024

Every state in the U.S. provides free education to its residents from grades K-12. Some states have added Pre-K to that free education continuum, and others have added funding for…

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New Tuition-Free Financial Aid Announcements

December 2, 2024

Whenever I read an article touting an announced financial aid policy that eliminates tuition for students whose family incomes are below a specified amount, I cringe. Many reporters appear to…

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New Studies Indicate Many Master’s Degrees Have No Value

November 27, 2024

After decades of touting the benefits of earning a graduate degree, I’m beginning to believe that more and more evidence touts the opposite. In July 2021, Wall Street Journal (WSJ)…

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