Alex Grech

Thank you, @BryanAlexander Great to catch up after all this time.

Love therapy. Via Meta.

the best so far

@acmilan Who cares? Why don't you just concentrate on the important stuff? Like getting into Champions League. And real football. It's with a round ball.

Super Bowl LIX! 🏈 Who you banking on: the Chiefs or the Eagles? ⚔️ May the best team win! 🏆 #SBLIX #SempreMilan

There's a meaningless claim every second it seems. These stupid times.. and we're only just starting. But hey, it's what drives AI investment, platforms like X.... Online spaces for the new-old public sphere? When did I hear that before? 20 years ago?

One thing for sure. Echo chambers will get louder. Filter bubbles will get tighter. World views will get narrower. And disinformation will become so normalised that nobody will blink.

Required reading for those who also work hard to provide their children with a decent education, in the hope that it will enable them to speak truth to power.

If most of the campaign #disinformation is coming from this platform, why are people still here? ft.com/content/7f0e65…

A very interesting read from Anthropic CEO #basic-assumptions-and-framework" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">darioamodei.com/machines-of-lo… #AI

So why exactly are we here? To watch the network effects in horror? For some perverse academic interest? For ongoing research? Vanity? #edtech

It's amazing what the owner of this platform thinks is amazing. Then again, it's the attention economy, stupid.

To be filed under 'wishful thinking by wise people.'

Ah... friends of friends. Boissevain would be having a field day if he were till around. As for any links between SF Bay Area, smart people, smart Elon, smart anything c/o the US of A... good luck when you wake up to Trump 2.0 in November.

@ProfNoahGian The folly of the young and carefree. Alas, poor Yorick.. [to be intoned to Rage against the Machine, for good effect..]

@AlexGrech More fun to just fire away and face the consequences later. Isn’t that what this platform is all about? 😂

Last year I got tenure, this year I'll be a visiting scholar at Harvard, and I got a 6-figure advance to publish a book next year. In honor of these accomplishments, here's a list of embarrassing confessions revealing how dumb my brain is in many ways:

@ProfNoahGian Never forget to indulge in bit of preliminary critical discourse analysis before posting anything here, my friend ;)

Oops didn't expect this to go so far, now half the world thinks I'm endearingly relatable and half the world thinks I'm obnoxiously self-aggrandizing and obtuse. Oh well. Such is the nature of a viral humblebrag.

Everyone performing. That could be an automated, repeat update on this platform. If I could be bothered.

@karpathy Get AI to teach critical thinking. Seeing my students think they can now rely totally on Gen-AI to do their thinking. While academia thinks critical thinking is some proprietary domain to justify its very existence, although nobody can quite agree on what it means. Etc.

⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs. The announcement: --- We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman, who is there to guide you every step of the way. Unfortunately, subject matter experts who are deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world's languages are also very scarce and cannot personally tutor all 8 billion of us on demand. However, with recent progress in generative AI, this learning experience feels tractable. The teacher still designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant who is optimized to help guide the students through them. This Teacher + AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common platform. If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted). Our first product will be the world's obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the student through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself. The course materials will be available online, but we also plan to run both digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together. Today, we are heads down building LLM101n, but we look forward to a future where AI is a key technology for increasing human potential. What would you like to learn? --- @EurekaLabsAI is the culmination of my passion in both AI and education over ~2 decades. My interest in education took me from YouTube tutorials on Rubik's cubes to starting CS231n at Stanford, to my more recent Zero-to-Hero AI series. While my work in AI took me from academic research at Stanford to real-world products at Tesla and AGI research at OpenAI. All of my work combining the two so far has only been part-time, as side quests to my "real job", so I am quite excited to dive in and build something great, professionally and full-time. It's still early days but I wanted to announce the company so that I can build publicly instead of keeping a secret that isn't. Outbound links with a bit more info in the reply!

Amen to that. Or maybe not.

The #EBSICAN team is working on the project's final technical report, including use cases in cross-border education #credentialverification, and #educationalmobility between Canada and the EU. @3CLMT @NGISargasso #InternetOfHumans @AlexGrech @larinyo 3cl.org/embracing-ebsi…

@BKCHarvard Aha! On to bigger and better things. Pleased for you my friend.

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media @BKCHarvard is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 Visiting Scholars! This incoming cohort brings years of experience, innovation, and thought leadership to tackle social media’s most pressing issues. Meet the scholars 🧵 rebootingsocialmedia.org/2024/05/29/ann…