Saturday, May 3, 2025

Choosing the 'right' AI tool!

Nice article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01069-0

All kinds of cool-sounding names: SciSpace, Claude, NotebookLM, etc. & I'm still not sure what these tools could do for me in-practice. But one thing is clear: as expected, there are 'free' versions with limited capabilities and various tiers of 'pro' versions that come at a cost. And here we go again: the rich can get themselves access to the good stuff & further entrench their privilged positions, whereas the poor get the 'decaf' versions.

This is a problem for Higher Education, both between colleges/universities and within them. Now it is not just about who has the coolest gyms & dining facilities, but who offers you access to the best AIs so that you can compete with others. Likewise, poor state-funded schools will not be able to offer any premium AI access to their students.

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