The aggregate of all of the information in all of our brains and across all our books, and everything publicly found on the internet, is now the genome of a new creature– ‘Agora’ By Byron Reese, author and entrepreneur, and Brett Hurt, CEO and Co-founder of The data.world team ChatGPT…

I originally published this yesterday morning on LinkedIn. I was asked by Juan Sequeda to speak on Board governance given what happened at OpenAI. That internal Lunch & Learn at data.world is coming up post Thanksgiving. To organize my thoughts, here are ten lessons from OpenAI’s five-day rollercoaster: 1. Their…

How antisemitism and Islamophobia flourish in the ‘Age of Maximal Ignorance’ and its spreading mind virus of false equivalency — I published the original version of this article on 11/7, the one-month anniversary of the horror of 10/7. I had a lot to unpack, and it received a lot of gratitude. It was long — over 4,300 words, around a 17-minute read. I was asked by a good friend, Erin…

How antisemitism and Islamophobia flourish in the ‘Age of Maximal Ignorance’ and its spreading mind virus of false equivalency — It’s time to tame the perverse tyranny of this word “but” in our discourse on Israel and the now month-old war raging in Gaza after the gruesome slaughter, rape, and torture of more than 1,400 innocent people. The slaughtered are primarily innocent Israelis but they also include innocents from 27…

Internally, we’re harnessing AI to elevate our teams and foster critical thinking, introspection, and empathetic collaboration. Externally, we’re using AI to reshape how we engage with customers and prospects. We’ve covered education enhanced by Artificial Intelligence for our children in Part One and Part Two. Now I want to turn…

Everything advanced so quickly this week, as discussed in this week’s episode of the Hard Fork podcast. In that spirit, I created this short story with some advanced prompting in ChatGPT’s GPT-4 model. Welcome to “The Great Convergence”. The Great Convergence The excitement in the air was palpable. Billboards across the city screamed…

I wrote a science fiction short story today named “River’s Secret”. I spent about an hour on it with Google’s Bard as OpenAI’s GPT-4 didn’t allow me to given the subject matter. Bard, the newest version, was a helpful brainstorming partner. …

Rather than fearing or banning artificial intelligence, some education innovators and students are moving to design new ways to learn with new tools of technology at the exponential pace of AI itself Part Two In Part One of this series on the power of artificial intelligence in education, I started big by addressing the planetary learning crisis we urgently need to acknowledge and confront. So to kick off Part Two, I’ll start small, with a microcosm of AI’s global promise that can…

Let’s climb onto the shoulders of the AI-in-education pioneers Ethan Mollick and Sal Khan to radically reimagine a new, “post-linearalist” ecology of learning Part One As the purpose of this series is to share a few thoughts on learning and artificial intelligence, let’s start with an educational exercise: First, pick any country in the world. Recall the dreamy destination of your honeymoon. Pick a spot off your bucket list. Throw a dart at…