Textbooks That Teach Themselves, Agents That Code: Sept 17 AI x Higher Ed Update

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AI x Higher Ed Podcast

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AI x Higher ed is a podcast for educators about AI in education. Hosted by Stefan Bauschard and Anand Rao, AI x Higher Ed will provide weekly updates on developments in AI and their impact on education, as well as interviews with special guests.

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Textbooks That Teach Themselves, Agents That Code: Sept 17 AI x Higher Ed Update

AI x Higher Ed Podcast

32 minutes 17 seconds

1 month ago

Textbooks That Teach Themselves, Agents That Code: Sept 17 AI x Higher Ed Update

This fast-paced update unpacks the latest AI usage reports from OpenAI and Anthropic, what they reveal about real-world adoption (and automation), and fresh K–12/teacher data summarized by the Allen Turing Institute. We dig into OpenAI’s upcoming age-gating changes, then shift to Google’s just-announced Learn Your Way—a research pilot that turns static PDFs into adaptive, quiz-ready, audio-narrated lessons tailored by grade level and interest.We also scan the horizon: Meta’s newest smart glasses, bold 2030 capability projections, and the accelerating robotics curve—from Stanford’s BEHAVIOR-1K household benchmark to delivery bots on city streets. On the dev side, agentic coding is surging: Replit’s Agent 3 now runs ~200 minutes autonomously, and we share a striking “six-hour flight → production-ready stack” case. Plus: simulated “AI societies,” an AI anti-corruption role in government, liberal-arts-reimagining in higher ed (with career design front and center), and a candid look at job disruption, three-day workweek talk, and AI-generated YouTube Shorts.If you’re an educator or campus leader, you’ll come away with concrete signals on where AI is moving—right now—and the implications for teaching, learning, and institutional strategy.Chapter Markers00:04 — Welcome & today’s roadmap01:04 — Usage snapshot: OpenAI’s categories & how people actually use ChatGPT02:16 — Anthropic/Claude: fewer individuals, more enterprise—and visible automation03:26 — Teacher surveys: adoption, productivity gains, and critical-thinking concerns05:23 — Kids 8–12 using AI: what they do with it (and why it matters)06:26 — Guardrails: OpenAI’s planned age-gating and parental permissions08:07 — Google Learn Your Way: AI-augmented textbooks (mind maps, quizzes, audio)11:48 — Meta’s smart glasses: where on-device AI could be headed12:22 — 2030 projections: timelines for SWE benchmarks, bio/wet-lab guidance, more14:13 — Robotics rebound: OpenAI’s interest, Figure, China, and BEHAVIOR-1K17:23 — Autonomy in the wild: delivery robots roll through Miami17:45 — Agentic coding surge: Replit Agent 3 and longer autonomous runs19:36 — Case study: a six-hour, multi-agent build → near-production stack21:58 — Toward AI societies: 22,000-agent sims & Albania’s AI anti-corruption role23:27 — Higher ed shifts: AI in the classroom; liberal arts reimagined; CC innovation26:01 — Jobs & policy: three-day workweek talk, layoffs, and political rifts30:24 — AI video gen comes to YouTube Shorts: opportunity vs. “AI slop”31:05 — Wrap-up & takeaways for educators#aixhigheredpodcast #AI #HigherEd #EdTech #AIinEducation #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #Robotics #PersonalizedLearning #GoogleAI #Anthropic #OpenAI #Replit #K12 #Policy #AcademicInnovation #TeachingAndLearning #AIethics