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Nathan Kelber

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Senior Educator at Ithaka S+R. Higher education and AI literacy. https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/?fwp_authors=322490

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β€˜I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race

An interesting long read, focused on Song-Chun Zhu and American/Chinese relations to AI research. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

16.09.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A tremendous pick for very big shoes. Lo's work on AI Literacy has been very useful for my current research, and Unsworth's work was essential for launching the digital humanities. UVA sure knows how to pick them.

16.09.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Illusions of AI consciousness The belief that AI is conscious is not without risk

My paper with @ericelmoznino.bsky.social on AI consciousness and the danger of people seeing it (whether or not it is there) is out in @science.org.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

15.09.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Sweet! Reach out whenever you're ready to schedule. I want to learn, and this sounds like fun.

15.09.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really enjoyed it, and I am excited to listen to the new episode that just dropped. If you ever need a guest, I think that might be fun. (I've been thinking about starting a podcast, but I have no idea what I am doing.)

15.09.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
https://humanities-and-ai-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="robo...

Listening to a new podcast called "Humanities and AI" by Elizabeth Callaway and Rebekah Cummings. humanities-and-ai-podcast.simplecast.com

12.09.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

At this point, I assume anyone who mentions "AI" is talking about ChatGPT until they demonstrate they know what AI is. It's far more likely to be a marketing term than a field of study.

10.09.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Aerial photo of UW campus with Mt. Rainier in the background

Aerial photo of UW campus with Mt. Rainier in the background

Job alert! πŸŒΈπŸ”οΈ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here!

Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).

Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020

09.09.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My review of Claude’s new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name Today on the Anthropic blog: Claude can now create and edit files: Claude can now create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks, and PDFs directly in Claude.ai and …

Claude just released their new version of ChatGPT Code Interpreter! It can run Python and Node.js code in a sandboxed Linux environment, and unlike OpenAI's version the Claude one can install additional packages

Here's my detailed review: simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/c...

09.09.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

There's a significant schism here for field entry: Sesame Street era (BERT, Ernie, Elmo, etc.) scholars who readily pick up models on HuggingFace vs. post-ChatGPT scholars who tend to conflate AI as an entire category of scholarly activities with Big Tech chatbots. Most DHers are the latter.

05.09.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blog - Ithaka S+R

Adding old friends today to catch up on what everyone is up to. As for me, Constellate has been sunset, and I started a new position at Ithaka S+R as "Senior Educator." I'm working on a lot of AI Literacy projects, but this one is probably the largest: sr.ithaka.org/blog/integra...

04.09.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Welp. Hello blue sky world! Let's see what the fuss is about.

24.11.2024 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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