Digital Learning Lab

The Digital Learning Lab (DLL) explores cutting-edge Internet technologies having high potential value for closing the Digital Divide.

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This is the first of three notes whose original purpose was to suggest strategies for engaging chatbots as tutors when a user wants to learn the basics of a new subject, as coaches when a user wants to master a subject, or as research assistants when a user wants to develop new solutions to problems.

However, the editor of this blog soon realized that his proposed strategies were really about maintaining one’s capacity to engage in critical thinking when using chatbots as currently configured. Younger users are especially vulnerable to a chatbot’s glib misinterpretations.

Colleges and universities are acutely aware of this challenge, so it made more sense to suggest a strategy wherein academic learning experts could identify ways to reconfigure chatbots to become reliable teaching
assistants whose behavior would enhance, rather than diminish a student user’s capacity to engage in critical thinking.
#chatbot #CriticalThinking #college #university #cheating #DARPA #chatbotTA

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https://t.co/u1vlVktTAE
This is the first of three notes whose original purpose was to suggest strategies for engaging chatbots as tutors when a user wants to learn the basics of a new subject, as coaches when a user wants to master a subject, or as research assistants when a user wants to develop new solutions to problems.

However, the editor of this blog soon realized that his proposed strategies were really about maintaining one’s capacity to engage in critical thinking when using chatbots as currently configured. Younger users are especially vulnerable to a chatbot’s glib misinterpretations.

Colleges and universities are acutely aware of this challenge, so it made more sense to suggest a strategy wherein academic learning experts could identify ways to reconfigure chatbots to become reliable teaching
assistants whose behavior would enhance, rather than diminish a student user’s capacity to engage in critical thinking.
#chatbot #CriticalThinking #college #university #cheating #DARPA #chatbotTA

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A satirical critique of Anthropic's pivot from maximum AI safety to maximum market. It's about the impact of Sam Altman‘s superpower, his extraordinary capacity to drive would-be competitors, including His Satanic Majesty, a/k/a HSM, to losing their minds and their souls in ever more costly attempts to beat him in ever more complex games he's never played before, but always wins. #Anthropic #OpenAI #LAWS #CriticalThinking #Pentagon #drones #UnsafeAI #SupplyChainRisk #agents

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https://t.co/VVIeg1PQzP
A satirical critique of Anthropic's pivot from maximum AI safety to maximum market. It's about the impact of Sam Altman‘s superpower, his extraordinary capacity to drive would-be competitors, including His Satanic Majesty, a/k/a HSM, to losing their minds and their souls in ever more costly attempts to beat him in ever more complex games he's never played before, but always wins. #Anthropic #OpenAI #LAWS #CriticalThinking #Pentagon #drones #UnsafeAI #SupplyChainRisk #agents

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U.S. President Trump met with China's President Xi in Beijing on May 15-16. This TL;Dr  summary of our lengthy report, China vs. The World, should make it easier for readers to understand what really happened and what did not happen, no matter how loudly President Trump proclaims the details of his success in persuading President Xi to accommodate America's economic and political objectives. The good news is that the meeting could not fail to achieve substantial mutually beneficial strategic objectives ... because President Xi could not risk letting it fail. ...#Trump #Xi #Beijing #Detente #DeepSeek #leverage #exportcontrols

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https://t.co/9mOoc9YbmA
U.S. President Trump met with China's President Xi in Beijing on May 15-16. This TL;Dr  summary of our lengthy report, China vs. The World, should make it easier for readers to understand what really happened and what did not happen, no matter how loudly President Trump proclaims the details of his success in persuading President Xi to accommodate America's economic and political objectives. The good news is that the meeting could not fail to achieve substantial mutually beneficial strategic objectives ... because President Xi could not risk letting it fail. ...#Trump #Xi #Beijing #Detente #DeepSeek #leverage #exportcontrols

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https://t.co/9mOoc9YbmA
U.S. President Trump met with China's President Xi in Beijing on May 15-16. This TL;Dr  summary of our lengthy report, China vs. The World, should make it easier for readers to understand what really happened and what did not happen, no matter how loudly President Trump proclaims the details of his success in persuading President Xi to accommodate America's economic and political objectives. The good news is that the meeting could not fail to achieve substantial mutually beneficial strategic objectives ... because President Xi could not risk letting it fail. ...#Trump #Xi #Beijing #Detente #DeepSeek #leverage #exportcontrols

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https://t.co/9mOoc9YbmA
U.S. President Trump met with China's President Xi in Beijing on May 15-16. This TL;Dr  summary of our lengthy report, China vs. The World, should make it easier for readers to understand what really happened and what did not happen, no matter how loudly President Trump proclaims the details of his success in persuading President Xi to accommodate America's economic and political objectives. The good news is that the meeting could not fail to achieve substantial mutually beneficial strategic objectives ... because President Xi could not risk letting it fail. ...#Trump #Xi #Beijing #Detente #DeepSeek #leverage #exportcontrols

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This is the final installment in our intensive exploration of how China leveraged its monopoly on the processing of rare earths to achieve a powerful and highly profitable position in the world’s most advanced manufacturing sectors, a strategy first envisioned in 1992 by Deng Xiaoping, the ‘Father of modern China'

Hopefully, it will provide our readers with the background information they will need to assess the outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with China President Xi Jinping in Beijing ... #RareEarth #ExportControls #Extraterritorial #Trump #Xi #China #TradeWar #Detente #REE

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https://t.co/wxVOKykyod
This is the final installment in our intensive exploration of how China leveraged its monopoly on the processing of rare earths to achieve a powerful and highly profitable position in the world’s most advanced manufacturing sectors, a strategy first envisioned in 1992 by Deng Xiaoping, the ‘Father of modern China'

Hopefully, it will provide our readers with the background information they will need to assess the outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with China President Xi Jinping in Beijing ... #RareEarth #ExportControls #Extraterritorial #Trump #Xi #China #TradeWar #Detente #REE

[Neoskeptics @neoskeptics]

https://t.co/wxVOKyl6dL
This is the final installment in our intensive exploration of how China leveraged its monopoly on the processing of rare earths to achieve a powerful and highly profitable position in the world’s most advanced manufacturing sectors, a strategy first envisioned in 1992 by Deng Xiaoping, the ‘Father of modern China'

Hopefully, it will provide our readers with the background information they will need to assess the outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with China President Xi Jinping in Beijing ... #RareEarth #ExportControls #Extraterritorial #Trump #Xi #China #TradeWar #Detente #REE

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This is the first in a series of notes that will suggest effective strategies for using chatbots as tutors when you want to learn a new subject or as research assistants when you want to create your own solutions to problems ... #tutor #ResearchAssistant #DARPA #chatbots #LLM #models #mistakes #ActiveListening #RLHF #sycophant #dystopia #influencer #disruption #criticalthinking

[Neoskeptics @neoskeptics]

https://t.co/wxVOKykyod
This is the final installment in our intensive exploration of how China leveraged its monopoly on the processing of rare earths to achieve a powerful and highly profitable position in the world’s most advanced manufacturing sectors, a strategy first envisioned in 1992 by Deng Xiaoping, the ‘Father of modern China'

Hopefully, it will provide our readers with the background information they will need to assess the outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with China President Xi Jinping in Beijing ... #RareEarth #ExportControls #Extraterritorial #Trump #Xi #China #TradeWar #Detente #REE

[Neoskeptics @neoskeptics]

https://t.co/wxVOKykyod
This is the final installment in our intensive exploration of how China leveraged its monopoly on the processing of rare earths to achieve a powerful and highly profitable position in the world’s most advanced manufacturing sectors, a strategy first envisioned in 1992 by Deng Xiaoping, the ‘Father of modern China'

Hopefully, it will provide our readers with the background information they will need to assess the outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with China President Xi Jinping in Beijing ... #RareEarth #ExportControls #Extraterritorial #Trump #Xi #China #TradeWar #Detente #REE

[Neoskeptics @neoskeptics]

https://t.co/43vleUDCIv
This is the first in a series of notes that will suggest effective strategies for using chatbots as tutors when you want to learn a new subject or as research assistants when you want to create your own solutions to problems ... #tutor #ResearchAssistant #DARPA #chatbots #LLM #models #mistakes #ActiveListening #RLHF #sycophant #dystopia #influencer #disruption #criticalthinking

[Neoskeptics @neoskeptics]

https://t.co/43vleUD4SX
This is the first in a series of notes that will suggest effective strategies for using chatbots as tutors when you want to learn a new subject or as research assistants when you want to create your own solutions to problems ... #tutor #ResearchAssistant #DARPA #chatbots #LLM #models #mistakes #ActiveListening #RLHF #sycophant #dystopia #influencer #disruption #criticalthinking

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https://t.co/43vleUD4SX
This is the first in a series of notes that will suggest effective strategies for using chatbots as tutors when you want to learn a new subject or as research assistants when you want to create your own solutions to problems ... #tutor #ResearchAssistant #DARPA #chatbots #LLM #models #mistakes #ActiveListening #RLHF #sycophant #dystopia #influencer #disruption #criticalthinking

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EXTENDED with closing comments ...
Amazon recently announced its intentions to replace a high percentage of its blue collar staff with robots. In the same time frame, Anthropic, Amazon's genAI partner, reported that large enterprises will be able to realize substantial increases in their profits by replacing substantial segments of their white collar staff with Anthropic's autonomous agents ... #Amazon #Anthropic #robots #autonomous #agents #DARPA #Mythos #cyclops #GenAI #ARPA #Bezos #Amodei #MCP #Glasswing #CLARA #cyclops #Caltech #Pauling #Feynman #Pentagon

[Neoskeptics @neoskeptics]

https://t.co/43vleUD4SX
This is the first in a series of notes that will suggest effective strategies for using chatbots as tutors when you want to learn a new subject or as research assistants when you want to create your own solutions to problems ... #tutor #ResearchAssistant #DARPA #chatbots #LLM #models #mistakes #ActiveListening #RLHF #sycophant #dystopia #influencer #disruption #criticalthinking

[Neoskeptics @neoskeptics]

https://t.co/43vleUDCIv
This is the first in a series of notes that will suggest effective strategies for using chatbots as tutors when you want to learn a new subject or as research assistants when you want to create your own solutions to problems ... #tutor #ResearchAssistant #DARPA #chatbots #LLM #models #mistakes #ActiveListening #RLHF #sycophant #dystopia #influencer #disruption #criticalthinking