Caleb Hicks

Work on something you’re excited to wake up in the middle of the night for. Because your head is racing and you can’t put down the pen. Because it moves and fulfills you. Because you can’t imagine doing anything else. Everyone deserves this type of work.

@justmikeyates Somewhere approaching 'all of them'.

We know that lecture is amongst the least effective ways to learn. How many classrooms do you think still have desks in rows though?

AI is going to transform education, even if AI technology does not improve further But I think education may be able to adapt to AI far more effectively than other industries & in ways that will improve both student learning and the lives of instructors oneusefulthing.org/p/the-future-o…

@dnstevenson _Loved_ Silo and same re: thinking about it regularly. Hadn't heard it was being made, psyched to see!

Silo series is a book series I read years ago and still think about. Stoked to finally see a series made.

We have a new paper on how instructors can use ChatGPT and Bing to apply complex pedagogy to their classes, while making their lives easier, too. There are lots of prompts to try out. Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Post with an overview of the strategies: oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/using-ai-to-…

Greg Brockman (@gdb) of OpenAI just demoed GPT-4 creating a working website from an image of a sketch from his notebook. It’s the coolest thing I’ve *ever* seen in tech. If you extrapolate from that demo, the possibilities are endless. A glimpse into the future of computing.

The traditional definition of AGI is “what if you had AI that could do pretty much what any average human could do”. I think we’re going to skip right over that and land much closer to “what if you had AI that could do what the 95th percentile in every field can do”.

@albertoarenaza $100B is a hell of a bar for 'disrupting' a sector.

I constantly hear "edtech hasn't disrupted education bc there are no $100B startups" You can disrupt education without capturing the economic upside. You can become a unicorn without changing the status quo. Value generation ≠ value capture

I got access to the Bingbot! I decided to test it with a topic on which I teach graduate seminars. I treated it like one of my students, asking questions to test whether it really understood the material. It did well, and is unnervingly good at following dialectic logic.

@Austen Easier to get to the moon.

Imagine trying to build the Golden Gate Bridge today

@unculturedswine I’m in. Esp if @armadsen can join for the surrounding food and events as well.

If ever there were a sign that I should be hacking w/ @supabase.

But not right now. Because it's down. twitter.com/calebhicks/sta…

@scottcowley SO good at this.

Another thing that ChatGPT does better than existing tools: generating fake data. You can work backward from the shape of or metrics you want the data to exhibit. Using this for more analytical training in our digital marketing program.

@mckaywrigley Seeing the same over here. Plus the fact it's 1/10th the cost is wild.

Using gpt-3.5-turbo in here is absolutely wild. Performance is insane.

Enjoy @balajis’s “The Network State?” Use OpenAI to search & chat with the book at the-network-state-gpt.vercel.app! Code & data used is 100% open-source. GitHub: github.com/mckaywrigley/t…

Fast-growing company is looking for an instructional designer / curriculum developer that speaks Spanish natively. Based in or willing to travel regularly to Utah strongly preferred. Interested or know someone? Get in touch. DMs open.

@dnstevenson Bless that blue bubble.

My daughter’s boyfriend switched to an iPhone before meeting us to “discuss their future together”. I like this guy already and I’ve taught my daughter well 😂

@mattsuthe Classrooms full of shelf ware. Last thing teachers are asking for is another manual task. If you could seamlessly inject it into their existing submission pipeline, that’s one thing. But again… kinda pointless given how easy it is to change up a bit.

@calebhicks Hadn’t really thought that they wouldn’t use it anyway, but makes sense that they wouldn’t.

Spent some time building and testing these detection tools with teachers. They said they wanted it. But it doesn’t work and they wouldn’t use it anyway. Showing how to use AI for deeper learning made classes better with less work. Wins all around.

@TrentMano I'm here for all of the VC / NBA comparisons.

Imagine if venture funds could amnesty their worst deals like the NBA allowed NBA teams to do amnesties a decade or so ago. Which deals would get amnestied the quickest? Sequoia and FTX? SoftBank and WeWork? Something else?

Looking for someone who is deeply experienced with AWS, specifically AWS Lambda and SNS and is open for some contract work. HMU!