A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

Microsoft quantum computing physicists skeptical d3ec07f0 https://www.wsj.com/science/physics/microsoft-quantum-computing-physicists-skeptical-d3ec07f0?st=JP4YBn

Anthropic’s new ‘hybrid reasoning’ AI model is its smartest yet https://www.theverge.com/news/618440/anthropic-claude-3-7-sonnet-ai-model-hybrid-reasoning

One impact of AI coding tools is how they will make “technologies preferred by LLMs” dominant even more. “Build me a mobile app” is much easier to have an LLM do it using React Native or Flutter than native iOS or native Android. So most AI-scaffolded apps will be this!

Global electricity demand expected to grow 4% annually through 2027 | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/14/global-electricity-demand-expected-to-grow-4-annually-through-2027/?utm_source=dlvr.it%26utm_medium=mastodon%26guccounter=1

I filled in this form just now and was emailed an API key a few seconds later, strongly recommend doing the same

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Now that we are 2+ years into the general public having access to ChatGPT-style systems, are there any credible studies out there exploring how susceptible to LLM-generated mistruths users of these things are? Do people tend to develop good instincts on whether they should trust their output?

ICYMI: In fields ranging from AI to health care to Hollywood and beyond, 20 UC Berkeley students, faculty and alumni have been recognized for their achievements on this year’s edition of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. 🌟🐻 news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/07/2...

Scoop: Perplexity has been in negotiations to sign a sponsorship deal with Red Bull Racing, worth $5 million a year. But after both parties had agreed to the terms, the deal was blocked by Oracle, the team’s biggest sponsor. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

This UC Berkeley scientist uses satellites to map the Earth’s plant life — and help combat #ClimateChange.🌎 youtu.be/NJLzVEAdExc?...

New UC Federal updates website: “With numerous, quickly evolving federal policy shifts underway, the University of California is working diligently to monitor these developments and seek clarity on a range of issues.“ www.universityofcalifornia.edu/federal-upda...

Cal State unveils artificial intelligence tools for students https://edsource.org/2025/cal-state-unveils-artificial-intelligence-tools-for-students/726205

Quick! ChatGPT is down send a litmus test to all your coworkers to see if they actually know anything.

Is there a “Duty to Serve” Hyperscale Loads? https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/is-there-a-duty-to-serve-hyperscale-loads/

It's that time again-- How Do You 💗 Your Data? -- "UC Love Data Week is a week-long offering of presentations and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation.": uc-love-data-week.github.io

A government busy carving out tax breaks so non-local multinationals stay: but they leave, anyway (Shell, Unilever). Meanwhile ignoring their own companies that could create a *lot* more local jobs, with some help (ASML). Story of most governments. Including the Dutch:

Six short video demos of LLM and Datasette projects https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/office-hours-demos/

"The Apereo Foundation invites open source enthusiasts, IT professionals, nonprofit staff members, scientific researchers, and open education advocates to our February micro-conference aimed at navigating the complexities of grant funding." www.apereo.org/news/2025/fe...

Since 2010, the training computation of notable AI systems has doubled every six months https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/since-2010-the-training-computation-of-notable-ai-systems-has-doubled-every-six-months

Uncanceled Units xkcd.com/3038

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Excited to see the set of 28 speakers for the 2025 Spring Semester offering of the Brilliance of Berkeley Course. This 1-unit course has in-person lectures on Fridays from 12-2 in Wheeler Auditorium at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Further details can be found here: 2ly.link/2217X

Great work from @johanm.bsky.social, creating a resource connecting people to aid in LA. www.fireaid.info

Thoughtful piece on AI and open access by Günter Waibel from the California Digital Library: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... @insidehighered.com

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For the first Platformer of the year, a look at Sam Altman's claim today that OpenAI knows how to make superintelligence now www.platformer.news/openai-agi-s...

Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs. Four new RTX 50-series GPUs are on the way, including the $1,999 RTX 5090 and $999 RTX 5080. Full details below 👇 www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/243...

#EnergySky A fun and informative blog post from Max Auffhammer to start the Energy Institute blog year. What should the new driver in the family be driving? Maybe not a tank after all. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/g...

Some rough notes on how I program with LLMs and on how tooling can make it better. crawshaw.io/blog/program...

New AI Snake Oil essay: Last month the AI industry's narrative suddenly flipped — model scaling is dead, but "inference scaling" is taking over. This has left people outside AI confused. What changed? Is AI capability progress slowing? We look at the evidence. 🧵 www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-prog...

New work from my team at Anthropic in collaboration with Redwood Research. I think this is plausibly the most important AGI safety result of the year. Cross-posting the thread below:

GitHub added a permanent free tier for GitHub Copilot today, including access to both GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/18/...

Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

“In my field, Crispr gene editing and genomics more broadly, we often deal with enormous datasets—or, in many cases, we can’t deal with them properly because we simply don’t have the tools or the time…” -Jennifer Doudna Enter AI, stage left: www.wired.com/story/combin...

"At Middlebury, the percentage of students who admitted on an annual survey to violating the honor code rose from 35 percent in 2019 to 65 percent in 2024." www.chronicle.com/article/chea...

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Prof. Deirdre Mulligan was featured in @orcapchronicle.bsky.social, commenting on the influence of AI in meeting rooms and its risk of stifling academic discourse. 📚 🍎 📝 More: www.chronicle.com/article/ai-a...

Detailed and thought-provoking article highlighting both the need to reward developing countries for minimizing eco-disruption that increases GHG and the fundamental challenges of paying for offsets. I see no easy answer here. e360.yale.edu/features/ind...

My first Earthquake Bluesky moment.

A global team of astronomers and machine learning researchers announced the release of the "Multimodal Universe" - a groundbreaking 100 terabyte dataset that brings together hundreds of millions of astronomical observations in unprecedented detail and scale. physics.berkeley.edu/news/astrono...

An agenda to maximise AI’s benefits and minimise harms, by UC Berkeley’s David Patterson www.economist.com/by-invitatio... from The Economist

Some notes on the new AWS S3 conditional write feature where you can use an if-match header to avoid over-writing an object if it's been changed since you last read it simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/26/...

Wiz is acquiring Dazz.

Nice! Cc @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Bluesky keeps freezing because so many people are trying to use it and I think that’s beautiful