Have we seriously considered the possibility that the six-fingered man Inigo Montoya was looking for might have just been bad generative artificial intelligence?
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A word cloud based on the transcript would probably be just as good and wouldn't suggest that things happened or were agreed to 100% opposite of what actually occurred.
Holding "Exit Conversations" with my students via Zoom and, since I struggle to take good notes while holding them, thought I'd try the new-ish Zoom AI Companion meeting summary. NOT impressed. If you want an actual and accurate understanding of what happened, you won't get it.
The latest piece from @pluralistic on the centaur/reverse-centaur problem in generative AI is a brilliant explanation of some of the technology's key problems and its limited potential beyond the hype.
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-01-human-in-the-loop-monkey-in-the-middle-14e72bd46b7a
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-01-human-in-the-loop-monkey-in-the-middle-14e72bd46b7a
I have a feeling that the editor of this morning's local paper email newsletter did not really intend to pair this picture with this headline. Or did they?
Episode 3 of the T-Squared podcast is now available. This is part two of a conversation with Eric Covey about generative AI and ethics. In this episode we cover the nature of knowledge and creativity, bias in AI training data, openness and corporate interests, and the importance of digital literacy in higher education.
Watching my son’s karate class. I wonder what the intellectual/academic equivalent to martial arts discipline and training would be? Yes, I know martial arts are intellectual in addition to being physical. Just curious what a “life of the mind” (not body) version would be.
Putting aside all hype and hate—and no I'm not buying one—here's a VisionPro/XR app I would love to see: the XR/spatial ebook reader. 1) Buy a multi-page physical "blank book"; 2) the XR device maps the text of your ebook to the blank pages. All the feel of a real physical book with all the benefits of an ebook.
I'm excited to share that we've released the next episode of the T-Squared podcast season focused on generative AI. Jacob Fortman and I, along with guest Eric Covey, look at the ethics of genAI, talk job training and the neoliberal university, and discuss the possible rise of "Artificial Intelligence University".
Please listen, subscribe, and share!
https://gvsu-elearn.org/t2/episodes/302/
Dear faculty, if you adopted an alternate grading strategy that eliminates "points" as a way to pseudo-measure learning, you wouldn't have to spend so much time at the end of the semester wondering why your grade "calculations" aren't working right.