David Watts ’89 featured on Voices of Student Success podcast from Inside Higher Ed
Watts majored in chemistry at Carleton.
David Watts ’89 was a guest for episode 182 of Inside Higher Ed‘s Voices of Student Success podcast. The episode, “A Liberal Arts College Goes All In on AI,” discusses new tools to evaluate and compare various LLMs for higher education learning and research.
Since 2022, there’s been a surge in the number and types of applications using generative AI, but not all tools are the same. So how can faculty, staff and students learn to identify the differences and determine when it’s appropriate to use these tools?
Colby College developed a platform, called Mule Chat, that allows users to explore several large language models, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and LLaMA. The platform provides a safe on-ramp into generative AI usage and relies on student tutors to disseminate information to their peers.
In the latest episode of Voices of Student Success, David Watts, the director of Colby College’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Michael Yankoski, Davis AI research and teaching scientist, discuss the college’s AI institute and how Mule Chat works.