LLMs have had a dramatic impact on education. There are obvious reasons for concern, but what about the less obvious opportunities afforded by LLMs? Bryan and Adam were joined by Michael Littman, professor at Brown University and Associate Provost for AI, to talk about his role advising the university on productive, innovative, creative uses for AI in higher education.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Michael Littman.

Previous, on Oxide and Friends:

OxF s01e18 - Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm
OxF s04e02 - Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison
OxF s05e18 - AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

Michael's home page
Leslie Kaelbling
Computing Up: Rich Sutton
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