English summary: Utrecht Uni retracting from '2024' Times Higher ranking finally leads to some contextualisation in the Dutch press.

Mooi dat bij het niet meer opgenomen zijn van Universiteit Utrecht in de Times THE World University Rankings nu in de pers ook context geboden wordt, o.a. over het @tweetsunl initiatief https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en_GB/f_c_rankings.html. in o.a. AD https://www.ad.nl/utrecht/universiteit-utrecht-komt-niet-meer-voor-op-wereldranglijst-en-dit-is-hoe-dat-komt~ae432a3e/ en DUB: https://dub.uu.nl/nl/nieuws/universiteit-utrecht-doet-niet-meer-mee-met-ranking

I'm quite happy with my current job, but if I was considering universities in the Netherlands, Utrecht is winning

"Utrecht University chose not to be included on the Times Higher Education rankings"

"According to Utrecht University, the rankings place “too much emphasis on scoring and competition,” while the university says it considers collaboration and openness of scientific research to be more important."

https://nltimes.nl/2023/09/29/utrecht-university-chose-included-times-higher-education-rankings

I agree with @sharplm who wrote on Twitter:

“OpenAI has just released APIs for ChatGPT and Whisper (speech to text). Expect #edtech developers to pile in, with apps for conversational language learning, quizzes, creative (and essay) writing. Add speech for educational toys, virtual worlds, tutoring...”

Some of that will be good, a lot will be bad, but the genie is definitely out of the bottle.

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis

Anarchists, preservationists, protesters and parents - this is a fantastic history of how the Netherlands went from car culture to bike culture. It was no accident - it was an amazing, long, brilliant campaign.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/de-fiets-is-niets/

#AI #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #Chatbots #LLMs #AIRegulation: "Given the radical uncertainty about the progress and impact of AI, we are better served by mandating transparency and building institutions for enforcing accountability than we are in trying to head off every imagined particular harm.

We shouldn’t wait to regulate these systems until they have run amok. But nor should regulators overreact to AI alarmism in the press. Regulations should first focus on disclosure of current monitoring and best practices. In that way, companies, regulators, and guardians of the public interest can learn together how these systems work, how best they can be managed, and what the systemic risks really might be."

https://www.oreilly.com/content/you-cant-regulate-what-you-dont-understand-2/