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Elon Musk plans to open a new university in Austin

University Business

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Texas transplant Elon Musk is planning to start a university in Austin, according to tax filings for one of his charities first reported by Bloomberg News. The post Elon Musk plans to open a new university in Austin appeared first on University Business. Read more from The Texas Tribune.

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Elon Musk plans to open a new university in Austin - Kate McGee, Texas Tribune

Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Texas transplant Elon Musk is planning to start a university in Austin, according to tax filings for one of his charities first reported by Bloomberg News. According to the filing, the university would teach students in person “as well as using distance education technologies.”

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‘Maximally curious’ AI could have disastrous consequences | Letters

The Guardian - Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

History has shown us that curiosity killed the cat, skinned it and dissected it, says David Ansell Elon Musk believes that making artificial intelligence “maximally curious” means that it would be “pro-humanity” ( Elon Musk launches AI startup and warns of a ‘Terminator future’, 13 July ).

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Lecturers urged to review assessments in UK amid concerns over new AI tool

The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

ChatGPT, the latest chatbot from OpenAI, founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, has only been publicly available for a matter of weeks, but has already triggered concerns about the potential for hard-to-detect plagiarism and questions about the validity of the essay as a future form of assessment.

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Academic Twitter is worth fighting for (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Elon Musk is “ Chief Twit.” ” Since Musk’s takeover of Twitter on Oct. These things were the case long before Musk took it over. It is entirely possible that Elon Musk will work tirelessly to make Twitter an insufferable cesspool of right-wing trolls and spam. ” Dominik Stecu?a

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Will Elon Musk’s New University be the SpaceX or the Twitter of Higher Ed?

Echo Delta

JANUARY 11, 2024

This past December, we got news that Elon Musk plans to launch a new university. The question on my mind is whether “Musk U” will follow in the footsteps of successful ventures like SpaceX and Tesla, or go the way of the absurd burning bag of poo that is Twitter/X. Then, there’s Elon Musk’s public persona.

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Higher ed must get ahead of AI paradigm shift (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Indeed, as we track our students’ success, we know that knowledge-based jobs carry the greatest status and rewards (think technology, finance, medicine, law), while more human-focused jobs, even though they all make more use of technology and data today, pay less and carry less status (think education, social work and criminal justice).

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Whither the College or University Presidency

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Today’s CEO is less likely to be a diva, scene stealer or charismatic leader along the lines of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs than a cautious, carefully guarded, focused functionary or apparatchik, eager to avoid controversy at all costs.

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The 4 Stages of AI

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

But unless commercialization limits the growth potential of AI (or the Elon Musks of the world succeed in somehow halting its development), these debates are likely moot. Thus far, many of the digital technologies of the past 40 years have augmented how we teach and learn. We should all do this.

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Is AI the New Homework Machine? Understanding AI and Its Impact on Higher EducationIs AI the New Homework Machine?

WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 5, 2023

The moment is akin to probably the single most important historical technological development—the creation of the movable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the early 15 th century. That time, that technology—it’s here, and higher education must decide how to respond. The post Is AI the New Homework Machine?

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Academics on Twitter disperse in wake of Musk takeover

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 1, 2022

28, Elon Musk tweeted, “The bird is freed,” signaling what would become his chaotic takeover of the social media platform. Carrigan is among those who left Twitter once Musk took over. ’ ‘Could Elon buy Mastodon?’” Image: So far, Twitter endures. Yet on Nov. ‘Who owns it?’

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The Impact of Crushing Student Debt on American Society: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions: Changing Higher Education Podcast 164 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest David Linton

The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

Mr. Linton works at a multinational technology firm managing corporate and customer cash when he’s not teaching or researching. Around the same time, I overheard a podcast with Elon Musk, and he was joking about how he designed the Model S as the car he wanted to drive and not for other people. Just read the book.

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Who Is Winning the Generative AI Race? Nobody (yet).

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Google, which has been a pioneering leader in AI technologies but has been a mess with its platforms and products (as usual), has until recently focused on promoting several of its own models. Years of effort will need to be invested into making this technology easy and reliable for the uses it’s being put to now. Or even 2003?

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Elon Musk plans to open a new university in Austin

Elon Musk plans to open a new university in Austin - Kate McGee, Texas Tribune

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Who Is Winning the Generative AI Race? Nobody (yet).

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