Frederik Cornillie

OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on U.S. Department of War classified network OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Friday it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of War to deploy its AI models on classified cloud networks.

Another reason to delete your ChatGPT account: OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on U.S. Department of War classified network www.reuters.com/business/ope...

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investemtns are translating into US GDP growth.

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

It's a competitive field but this might be the stupidest thing I've heard about ai

AdventureX 2025 – Talk: Jon Ingold "Always Trade Up: from Inspiration to Storyline" YouTube video by AdventureX

Pirates! Narrative design prototyping! Contemporary politics (a bit)! Geeky references to books, games, series and films! And a swashbuckle with AI at the very end (spoiler: the narrative designer wins). Love every bit of @jon.inkle.co's talk for @adventurex.bsky.social 2025 youtu.be/Vajgyh246t8?...

QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

I just joined the @quitgpt boycott. OpenAI's president was the biggest donor in Trump's Super PAC's year-end report. It's time to quit. Join us: quitgpt.org // #QuitGPT

Yaaaay @adventurex.bsky.social is happening again this year in London, November 7-8 ! Hope to make it this time.

What compelling #CALL questions do you have? What are you interested in learning more about? Want to work on developing your academic writing skills?

Why not submit to one of CALICO's scholarly communications, Research Briefs or InfoBytes?!

Designing games is a deeply creative and hence human activity. The fanbase is too important. Larian are not Duolingo.

Larian reageert op ophef rond gebruik van generatieve AI bij ontwikkeling van Divinity Je gaat geen AI zien.

I can imagine that game developers are having a hard time staying original and 'human' while exploring the opportunities of genAI. Having some experience working directly with @larianstudios.com , I cannot imagine that there is a push from management to use genAI for replacing human craftsmanship.

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But the tech marketeers are better at getting their message across to a wide audience than academic researchers.

Gamification defined as a points-badges-leaderboards approach to interaction design is behavior control and typically undermines intrinsic motivation. We have known this for so long (eg Butler 1987) and the widely accepted and evidence-based feedback model of Hattie and Timperley 2007 confirms this.

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Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says its app is most popular with young people

As the number of enrollments in language-focused university programmes continue to fall (in the UK and beyond), data from popular apps like Duolingo show that interest in learning languages in people under 22 is not the problem. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department

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It has also been a charm to work with the editors, Shawn Loewen, Fred Poole, Hyun-Bin Hwang and @mattcoss.bsky.social. This has been my fastest publishing experience in a top-tier venue, and our chapter is free for anyone interested in understanding how to learn and teach language with IF!

I am very grateful to Joeri Van der Veken for this collaboration. Working on this project with a teacher as deeply experienced as him has been very instrumental to my thinking and hopefully will contribute to bridging the gap between research and practice in the field of CALL.

The second chunk of the chapter offers ideas for implementation in the language classroom, and a tried-and-tested pedagogical scenario from the @fantales.bsky.social project.

In this chapter we first discuss the affordances of IF for instructed language learning from the perspective of three cognitive theories of second language acquisition, and then review the (little) empirical work there is on learning outcomes.

Interactive fiction is considered a niche game genre for geeks who like to play with language and puzzles, but it is both underexplored and IMO undervalued in research and practice of language learning and teaching. So I'm excited about our chapter in a new book that connects research and pedagogy!

Digital flyer reminder for Call for Proposals deadline for CALICO 2026 (Nov. 1st).

Hello CALICOers! This is a friendly reminder that the Call for Proposals deadline for #CALICO2026 is Sunday, November 2nd!

What should you do?

👇 Check out these simple steps for submission!

#CALL #ComputerAssistedLanguageLearning

Votre citation, "Malheureux celui qui veut gouverner autrui, et ne peut se gouverner lui-même !", est une profonde observation sur l'importance de l'autodiscipline et de l'intégrité personnelle pour quiconque aspire à un rôle de leadership. Elle est souvent attribuée à l'écrivain et moraliste français Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704). Ce dernier, évêque de Meaux, était une figure majeure du XVIIe siècle, connu pour ses sermons et ses écrits sur la politique et la religion. Il soulignait souvent que la véritable autorité ne vient pas du pouvoir sur les autres, mais de la maîtrise de soi.

Give Gemini AI a quote from a woman and it still attributes it to a man. Even though it could Google it. And in this case the man is much more obscure than the actual author.

📅 The deadline for submitting your abstract proposal will be November 2, 2025.

Learn about the beautiful Miami University campus and more details about the conference:

Gaia’s Fever: Why an Overheating Earth Could Turn Deadly An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal accidents.

"It is shameful that we know far more about the surface of Mars and its atmosphere than we know about parts of our oceans."

When the prompting stops: exploring teachers’ work around the educational frailties of generative AI tools Neil Selwyn, Marita Ljungqvist and Anders Sonesson [1] Abstract: Teachers are now encouraged to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to complete various school-related administrative tasks, with the promise of saving considerable amounts of time and effort. Drawing on interviews from 57 teachers across eight schools in Sweden and Australia, this paper explores teachers’ experiences when working with GenAI. In particular, it focuses on the large amounts of work that teachers put into reviewing, repairing and sometimes completely reworking AI-produced outputs that they perceive to be deficient. Rather than reflecting teachers’ lack of skill in prompting GenAI effectively, the paper shows how this work foregrounds the educational limitations and frailties of AI and other automated technologies – with teachers having to act on a wide range of complex professional judgements around pedagogical appropriateness, social relations and overall educational value to bear on AI-generated content. The paper concludes by considering the need to challenge ongoing industry and policy claims around the labour-saving benefits of artificial intelligence in education, and instead focus on the ways in which these technologies are dependent on the hidden labour of humans to co-produce the illusion of automation.

new paper 🔓! Teachers are having to put *considerable* amounts of work into making GenAI outputs suitable for their classrooms ... amidst the going hype we need to talk more about what GenAI clearly *cannot* do, and the uniqueness of teacher expert knowledge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

AI textbooks targeted for phaseout under South Korea's new administration - The Korea Times Following Korea’s presidential transition, significant changes are expected in education policy, as President Lee Jae-myung appears poised to halt the rollout of AI-powered digital textbooks. Once cha...

Korean government looks set to give up on its much-heralded national 'AI textbook' policy after only a few months ... www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

Preview the research results bit.ly/3GyjASn , read more about the implementation of the learner model in the game bit.ly/3U2T6vi , or play with the adaptive system yourself, for free! www.languagehero.app . Full paper coming out this fall in CALICO Journal @calicojournal.bsky.social [3/3]

🔬 In our research with EdTech company Linguineo, we developed an efficient learner model for a game-based spoken dialogue system that is both transparent and grounded in theory about second language acquisition. And Linguineo has implemented the model in their game! [2/3]

🤖 LLM-based chatbots are increasingly being used as personal tutors for language learning, and will make you believe that they intelligently adapt to your proficiency. But adaptive systems for language teaching need to be transparent, in particular with regard to how they assess learning. [1/3]

EuroSLA 35 to be held in Lisbon in June 2026 - Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa The Research Center for Linguistics (CLUNL) at NOVA University Lisbon is proud to announce that the 35th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 35) will take place in L...

EuroSLA 35 will be in Lisbon, 24-27 June 2026

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