Kevin Casarez
Dan GillmorI 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
James M.
Justin M@jamesmarshall @dangillmor slop in general. Currently a big waste of the resources needed to power those data centers.
@jamesmarshall @dangillmor speaking of which. Attending a conference for work and one of the presentations had AI generated video's in it. Yuck. ..
Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)@dangillmor Welcoming OpenAI - who's whole purpose is absorbing human knowledge & skill then replicating it, onto your campus is the most self-defeating move ever.
Just wait until OpenAI University™ hits the market.
Why pay a university $80,000 for a degree when OpenAI will soon sell you one for $599. 🤦♀️
AdamLong but very well written and researched essay
DonCCits the opposite of learning, its de-education, purposeful ..the sole purpose thereof to create a obedient and brainless population of consumers...
Brokar@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.
Prof Lutz@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)
@iveyline@dangillmor Humans are going to become brain dead zombies because of AI.
six_grandfathers_mountain@dangillmor
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the very programs best equipped to study the social and #ethical implications of #AI were being #defunded...
Well, that's bad, one negative reason (given on this poscast below) is the possibly of folks getting (weak, stupid, wrong) info on politicians during voting week.
#NilayPatel #TheVerge #Decoder #Anthropic
Thx 4 orig Dan boost
@steter
Mastodon MigrationThe article mentions Neil Postman's book Technopoly (https://ia601802.us.archive.org/27/items/235p-technopoly-neil-postman/235p%20technopoly-neil-postman.pdf) in which he explores the interrelationships between technology and humanity, and in particular the effect of new technology on "rewiring" our minds. This is not a new phenomenon and has been going on since the advent of the written word. Lately, however, things have really taken off. Postman would not be surprised by AI, but he would certainly be profoundly saddened.
Werawelt@mastodonmigration
thanks for shareing!
Henk LangeveldBy giving students early access to AI generated content for free, they were able to crowbar themselves into universities' budgets.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesI got enough blocks for the day, so I'll just mention that the MIT study showing cognitive atrophy from AI is;
a) Preprint
b) It lacks solid result data and merely reports interpretation of the hidden results.
Yet somehow folks use it as evidence because it supports their narrative.
CheekyBadger☭@dangillmor
100% this article.
"AI systems are no exception. They encode assumptions about what counts as intelligence and whose labor counts as valuable. The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.”
100% this article.
"AI systems are no exception. They encode assumptions about what counts as intelligence and whose labor counts as valuable. The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.”
theantladyI have not learned much that's new from this article. While it might reflect a lot of the dynamics unfolding right now, it does not contribute to addressing the underlying problems meaningfully.