Ina Fried: “‘If we can evolve ChatGPT the right way, if we can let people build into it, then maybe you will be spending a lot of time in ChatGPT, the sort of operating system,’ Turley [Nick Turley, ChatGPT head] told Axios in a follow-up interview. ‘But it won’t feel like you’re in a chatbot.'” (“OpenAI’s push to make ChatGPT the new OS,” Axios Communications, 6 Oct 2025)
Matt Pearl: “Marty Cooper, who led the team that developed the first modern cell phone,” [offers insight on a principle that guides digital technology:] ‘First, people are mobile,’ and ‘second, people connect with people—not places’…. With 6G, there may be a convergence of computing and communications, making mobile networks a distributed and global inference engine. Centralized data centers will continue to have a significant role in data processing, training, and inference, but wireless networks may have a larger place in the inferencing and rendering computation ecosystem. (“6G and AI: How Wireless Technology and Edge Devices Are Shaping the Global AI Race,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, 6 Oct 2025)
Dan Nakaso: “A new, homeless ‘command center’ will open in January at new city offices…. It will use artificial intelligence to sift through homeless provider apps to get more data on how homeless services are meeting the specific needs of Honolulu’s homeless, which could include mental health issues, substance abuse or serious medical treatment…. So the new focus of the state and city will be to track whether beds aimed at specific needs are going unfilled or are overwhelmed with demand, potentially requiring more similar bed space…. Along with real-time drone images, the new command center also will allow employees to communicate with city drone operators to offer their perspectives on what they’re seeing at specific locations.” (“Honolulu and Hawaii Eye Data-Driven Way to Stem Homelessness,” Honolulu Star-Advertiser, GovTech.com, 6 Oct 2025)
Sylvie Zhuang: [AI] technology can be useful for the creative process. That has been the experience of Hao Jingfang, who wrote Folding Beijing, for which she won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2016…. Hao said her writing process involved 30 steps – from research to building profiles for characters and creating worlds – and AI could help in each of them. ‘Recently, I’ve not only been able to use AI to do the setting for the story but I’m also getting more and more skilled at having AI write up many paragraphs,’ she said. ‘Finally, when making requests, I need to follow a detailed scene-by-scene outline to clearly explain the plot and requirements. A single prompt may be over 200 words.'” (“Is AI a blessing or a curse for China’s new generation of writers?” SCMP, 5 Oct 2025)
Charlotte von Essen: “Over the past decade, much of what is celebrated as pedagogical innovation has been supported by the rise of learning design. To create online and blended programmes, universities paired faculty with education specialists…. But as universities scaled up online provision, the dynamics changed. Learning design roles expanded, production models took hold, and the focus shifted from creativity to efficiency…. [Some] have noted that the field of learning design has too often “relied on isolated frameworks and compartmentalized approaches…. The days when innovation rippled out naturally from learning design are gone…. Top-down directives rarely transform teaching. Building online courses and writing “how to improve your teaching” guides is often pointless. Change spreads through faculty trust, dialogue, inspiration and shared trial and error. That’s why innovation should be supported through overlapping spaces – such as workshops and peer groups – where faculty engage with one another. (“Beyond learning design: supporting pedagogical innovation in response to AI,” Times Higher Education, 6 Oct 2025)
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