Mildly concerned that the LLM explainer I’ve seen get the most traction is by a someone whose professional and personal behavior seem very questionable. (And who is also very litigious.)
I would really like to live in a world where some small but significant proportion of academics get to consider it part of their job to collaborate with news outlets on accessible and self-contained explainers of stuff in the news.
@evanwolf I’m not an academic (or a news person), so I don’t really know. I think the nexus here might be the tenure committees and how they evaluate outreach and engagement. But I could easily be wrong.
@vruba it would be amazing if unis would value civic community and see their jobs as access to knowledge beyond students in the classrooms, truly
@vruba you might call it “public education”
@vruba any prior art on how to make it happen? what virtuous cycles can accelerate the new behavior?