Wow, they actually *retracted* this so-called meta-analysis about ChatGPT effects on learning performance, though it got massive metrics and social media attention before that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a...
www.nature.com
May 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Wow, they actually *retracted* this so-called meta-analysis about ChatGPT effects on learning performance, though it got massive metrics and social media attention before that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
hm just learning about this Meta company i wonder what their privacy record is like
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to:
appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
September 28, 2026 at 9:03 PM
hm just learning about this Meta company i wonder what their privacy record is like
So let me get this straight, you're saying an unsupervised machine learning model miscategorised legitimate journalism critical of Meta as phishing and despite a growing groundswell of negative coverage the last 24 hours nobody at Meta saw that and was like, "Huh. Maybe we should fix that"?
April 7, 2024 at 4:33 AM
So let me get this straight, you're saying an unsupervised machine learning model miscategorised legitimate journalism critical of Meta as phishing and despite a growing groundswell of negative coverage the last 24 hours nobody at Meta saw that and was like, "Huh. Maybe we should fix that"?
ML here being
{“‘machine learning”,
“meta language”,
“marxist-leninist”,
…..}
{“‘machine learning”,
“meta language”,
“marxist-leninist”,
…..}
September 28, 2026 at 3:07 AM
ML here being
{“‘machine learning”,
“meta language”,
“marxist-leninist”,
…..}
{“‘machine learning”,
“meta language”,
“marxist-leninist”,
…..}
New: "Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Learning: A Meta-Meta-Analysis" by Wagenmakers and colleagues revealing evidence for "severe publication bias and extreme between-study heterogeneity" in existing meta-analyses of the effects of AI on learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
February 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
New: "Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Learning: A Meta-Meta-Analysis" by Wagenmakers and colleagues revealing evidence for "severe publication bias and extreme between-study heterogeneity" in existing meta-analyses of the effects of AI on learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Super excited to share this one!! Meta-learning sparsity and learning rate gives rise to brain-like gradients of complementary learning systems. So complementary learning systems emerge organically through behavior optimization, and it's not just two of them!!
Excited to share a new preprint w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social! Why are there gradients of plasticity and sparsity along the neocortex–hippocampus hierarchy? We show that brain-like organization of these properties emerges in ANNs that meta-learn layer-wise plasticity and sparsity. bit.ly/4kB1yg5
A gradient of complementary learning systems emerges through meta-learning
Long-term learning and memory in the primate brain rely on a series of hierarchically organized subsystems extending from early sensory neocortical areas to the hippocampus. The components differ in t...
bit.ly
July 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Super excited to share this one!! Meta-learning sparsity and learning rate gives rise to brain-like gradients of complementary learning systems. So complementary learning systems emerge organically through behavior optimization, and it's not just two of them!!
If you put “Meta uses Bowie’s ‘Five Years’ in an ad about AI” into a work of parody you’d be considered to be laying it on a little thick:
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
techcrunch.com
July 23, 2026 at 11:10 PM
If you put “Meta uses Bowie’s ‘Five Years’ in an ad about AI” into a work of parody you’d be considered to be laying it on a little thick:
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
techcrunch.com
July 23, 2026 at 4:37 PM
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
this broke me techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
techcrunch.com
July 23, 2026 at 4:44 PM
this broke me techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...
A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted:
www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 4, 2026 at 8:00 AM
A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted:
www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’m over here deleting all META and learning Mandarin #unbothered
January 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I’m over here deleting all META and learning Mandarin #unbothered
This is the giant Canary in the coal mine of what AI will do to education. Improperly adopted, it will destroy critical thinking and educational attainment.
For the oligarchs, this is a feature of AI, not a bug.
restofworld.org/2025/colombi...
For the oligarchs, this is a feature of AI, not a bug.
restofworld.org/2025/colombi...
Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams
When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.
restofworld.org
August 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is the giant Canary in the coal mine of what AI will do to education. Improperly adopted, it will destroy critical thinking and educational attainment.
For the oligarchs, this is a feature of AI, not a bug.
restofworld.org/2025/colombi...
For the oligarchs, this is a feature of AI, not a bug.
restofworld.org/2025/colombi...
Imagine taking $100 million to build superintelligence at Meta and then learning your first job is to make sure Robby Starbuck agrees with all of the outputs www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
Meta, Robby Starbuck Settle AI Defamation Lawsuit
The conservative activist will advise the company on removing political bias from its AI tools.
www.wsj.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Imagine taking $100 million to build superintelligence at Meta and then learning your first job is to make sure Robby Starbuck agrees with all of the outputs www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
A lot of my fellow authors are freaking out after learning more about the conduct of Meta (and other AI). I'm one of the authors who has been involved in suits against Meta and OpenAI since 2023. Authors who'd like to know more about the cases and the latest updates, see llmlitigation.com/index.html
LLM litigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick
LLM litigation
llmlitigation.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A lot of my fellow authors are freaking out after learning more about the conduct of Meta (and other AI). I'm one of the authors who has been involved in suits against Meta and OpenAI since 2023. Authors who'd like to know more about the cases and the latest updates, see llmlitigation.com/index.html
Threads getting increasingly insufferable, especially now that I'm learning there appear to exist *Meta fanboys*
Like, people who seem to think Meta apps are good things
I'll keep cross posting there but its become pretty clear that my energy is best spent here + Mastodon
Like, people who seem to think Meta apps are good things
I'll keep cross posting there but its become pretty clear that my energy is best spent here + Mastodon
December 17, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Threads getting increasingly insufferable, especially now that I'm learning there appear to exist *Meta fanboys*
Like, people who seem to think Meta apps are good things
I'll keep cross posting there but its become pretty clear that my energy is best spent here + Mastodon
Like, people who seem to think Meta apps are good things
I'll keep cross posting there but its become pretty clear that my energy is best spent here + Mastodon
They’re probably gonna shift focus towards Meta AI anyways. They ain’t learning shit.
March 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM
They’re probably gonna shift focus towards Meta AI anyways. They ain’t learning shit.
The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04787-y #AI #education
May 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-04787-y #AI #education
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Our new study ⬇️inspired by the question: does psilocybin influence meta-learning and cortical processing of unexpected uncertainty?
Why is this important? Meta-learning may be critical for therapeutic effects of psychedelics and how the trip creates a window that facilitates clinical intervention
Why is this important? Meta-learning may be critical for therapeutic effects of psychedelics and how the trip creates a window that facilitates clinical intervention
July 21, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Our new study ⬇️inspired by the question: does psilocybin influence meta-learning and cortical processing of unexpected uncertainty?
Why is this important? Meta-learning may be critical for therapeutic effects of psychedelics and how the trip creates a window that facilitates clinical intervention
Why is this important? Meta-learning may be critical for therapeutic effects of psychedelics and how the trip creates a window that facilitates clinical intervention
Meta has dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the US
• They were machine-learning classifiers that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach
• Facebook says they could reduce reach of hoaxes by 90%
(via Platformer)
• They were machine-learning classifiers that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach
• Facebook says they could reduce reach of hoaxes by 90%
(via Platformer)
January 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Meta has dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the US
• They were machine-learning classifiers that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach
• Facebook says they could reduce reach of hoaxes by 90%
(via Platformer)
• They were machine-learning classifiers that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach
• Facebook says they could reduce reach of hoaxes by 90%
(via Platformer)
When I share with educators there is no evidence for learning styles, inevitably they ask for other/better ways to differentiate or personalize their instruction. This meta-analysis shows personalization by learner interest positively affects retention and transfer. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
The Personalized Learning by Interest Effect on Interest, Cognitive Load, Retention, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis - Educational Psychology Review
None of the existing reviews or meta-analyses have focused on personalized learning that accommodates learners’ interests. To address this issue, we conducted this meta-analysis to examine the effects...
link.springer.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
When I share with educators there is no evidence for learning styles, inevitably they ask for other/better ways to differentiate or personalize their instruction. This meta-analysis shows personalization by learner interest positively affects retention and transfer. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
an opportunity to share my thoughts on the revival of meta-learning, etc. for learning an algorithm!
now, if we think of p(output | prompt, a few examples) as a predictive distribution p(y|x, D) ... it looks very much like learning to me :)
see e.g. my slide deck on drive.google.com/file/d/1B-Ka...
see e.g. my slide deck on drive.google.com/file/d/1B-Ka...
November 21, 2024 at 12:44 AM
an opportunity to share my thoughts on the revival of meta-learning, etc. for learning an algorithm!