Dan GillmorDec 5
I retired from teaching 18 months ago, in part because it was becoming clear to me that the "AI" industry was undermining education in profound ways. This essay makes a convincing case that LLMs are a plague on learning -- and, not incidentally, higher education. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Show threadBrokar

@dangillmor "But there’s a difference between tools and technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the very environments in which we think, work, and relate."

This.

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Show threadProf LutzDec 5

@Brokar @dangillmor
and that:

"I think that new emotions and new feelings are being created, that modern technology is beginning to reach into our dreams and change our whole way of looking at things and perceiving reality... that more and more it is drawing us away from contemplating ourselves to contemplating its world."

-J. G. Ballard, closing of ‘Crash!’ (1971; dir. Harley Cokliss) https://youtu.be/m1eArX2h_2Y

(Rare) Crash! 1971 par J. G. Ballard. (Le film qui a inspiré David Cronenberg)

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