HeyJaredAI Goes to College
Helping college staff and faculty move "up the stack" through the use of AI. The goal of this substack is to help faculty and staff embrace AI so that they benefit from the coming changes to higher ed rather than being run over by those changes.
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Six Simple Ways AI Can Make Faculty Life Easier (opens the original)
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If you’re already comfortable with AI, this one probably isn’t for you. But you might want to pass it along to the colleague who keeps asking where to start.If you’re like me, you dread updating your syllabus. Every term, it’s the same mildly irritating routine: open last term’s version, pull up the new academic calendar, hunt down every date, paste in whatever required language came down from the provost’s office, and then reread the whole thing to make sure I didn’t mess up anything along the
Using ChatGPT Sites for Teaching and Learning (opens the original)
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If you haven’t checked out ChatGPT Sites (or Claude’s equivalent, Artifacts), you’re missing out. Basically, ChatGPT Sites builds a website based on your specifications. You build and refine the site through ChatGPT’s familiar chat-based interface. That’s pretty much it; the process is straightforward. OpenAI provides a brief tutorial on how to create Sites: https://openai.com/academy/chatgpt-sites/. It’s short, but enough to get you started.A Curiosity Experiment<span
In less than five hours, I wrote a textbook and course handbook with AI … and both are good (opens the original)
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We may be on the cusp of a new era in bespoke learning materials. As a professor, this excites me. As a textbook author, I’m worried. Regardless of which proverbial hat I put on, this is, at the very least, interesting.Let me give you the backstory. I wanted to play around with Codex (which is now called ChatGPT Work) and push its capabilities, while at the same time exploring more about context engineering. In order to make my test productive beyond what I learned, I decided to try to write a t
Fable 5 and the Coming Model Access Gap (opens the original)
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Fable 5, we knew you all too briefly. As Claude users probably know, Fable 5, Anthropic’s most capable model is no longer available through normal Claude subscriptions. Fable 5 is based on Mythos, which is the model that was so capable that the US government imposed export controls on it, leading to it being pulled for several weeks.By virtually all accounts, Fable 5 was an extremely capable model. In my own testing, I thought it was good, but not substantially better than Opus 4.8. But that was
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