Caleb Hicks

Education futurist. Putting AI to work for teachers and school leaders at Founded @JoinFactor, cofounded @LambdaSchool, ex @Apple, @AlpineSchools.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

@justmikeyates Somewhere approaching 'all of them'.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

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 https://t.co/prg1eJiFyQ

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

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: https://t.co/SZ0zBa6ZPI
Post with an overview of the strategies: https://t.co/yG23LUljdV

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

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.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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”.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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

[Regina Rini @rinireg]

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.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

@Austen Easier to get to the moon.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

But not right now. Because it's down.

https://t.co/fqTLF5XeRz

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

You could run a $100m company today with Airtable and Zapier as your tech stack.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

@scottcowley SO good at this.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

@dnstevenson Bless that blue bubble.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

@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.

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I think this is important enough that it bears repeating: You can't detect ChatGPT content if people spend any real effort.

I know because I had my students "cheat" & use AI; when they co-created essays with the AI, GPTZero failed & the essays read well. https://t.co/NtDh8waCTG

[Caleb Hicks @calebhicks]

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

[Cahlan Sharp @cahlan]

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