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Today our campus AI strategy working group begins authoring recommendations to dean's council. Anybody authored a doc like this before? Examples welcome.
In this engaging @parismarx episode O'Gieblyn reminds us that Kurzweil's transhumanism - ("to go beyond our limitations") is rooted in Christian eschatology. (Worth noting: there r other tech stories about American dreams of limitlessness as told by historians of the emotions).
In this engaging @parismarx episode O'Gieblyn reminds us that Kurzweil's transhumanism - ("to go beyond our limitations") is rooted in Christian eschatology. (Worth noting: there r other tech stories about American dreams of limitlessness as told by historians of the emotions).
"university students are given a lot of reading and expected to hand in a lot of writing, but it is not the artefacts themselves that are central to learning . . . .it is the doing of that reading and writing" tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…
50 years ago Weizenbaum lamented the way instrumental reason was imperializing university education & depoliticizing computer science students. Developing AI literacy represents an opportunity to reverse that trend.
50 years ago Weizenbaum lamented the way instrumental reason was imperializing university education & depoliticizing computer science students. Developing AI literacy represents an opportunity to reverse that trend.
ARE TOMORROW'S ENGINEERS READY TO FACE AI'S ETHICAL CHALLENGES? Our team finds engineering students are woefully unprepared for AI's ethical dilemmas & engr colleges often provide little serious training w/@egoldenkoff @CindyFinelli theconversation.com/are-tomorrows-… - @ConversationUS
Perhaps the Turing Test (and the Loebner Prize?) deserve more credit than Roose gives it here?
Perhaps the Turing Test (and the Loebner Prize?) deserve more credit than Roose gives it here?
ELIZA is conveniently left out of Marcus' tweet. Still, it poses an interesting question. To what extent is the capacity to see AI in machines a product of our own willingness to b decieved rather than technological advance?
ELIZA is conveniently left out of Marcus' tweet. Still, it poses an interesting question. To what extent is the capacity to see AI in machines a product of our own willingness to b decieved rather than technological advance?
A reminder of two things. First, AI so often billed as modelling human intelligence, is often just modelling the division of labor. Second, beware fauxtomation. techpolicy.press/dont-be-fooled…
My review of @JonHaidt's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘹𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, a book I urge Christians to read: thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/anxiou…
Super excited to be heading to the @SeminaryCoop tonight to engage big questions about ethics, robots, #MaryShelley, rights & (seeming) apocalypse with author David Gunkel!
Super excited to be heading to the @SeminaryCoop tonight to engage big questions about ethics, robots, #MaryShelley, rights & (seeming) apocalypse with author David Gunkel!
Instructure has never really been a rebel. But they were brilliant at marketing. youtu.be/dCIP3x5mFmw?si…
Instructure has never really been a rebel. But they were brilliant at marketing. youtu.be/dCIP3x5mFmw?si…
A testament to the fact that Silicon Slopes is a locus for innovation. Continuing that tradition, might Canvas add a simple option to allow a test to be taken over more than 24 hours? In the era of ChatGPT, it would be nice option to add to help "writing to learn".
A testament to the fact that Silicon Slopes is a locus for innovation. Continuing that tradition, might Canvas add a simple option to allow a test to be taken over more than 24 hours? In the era of ChatGPT, it would be nice option to add to help "writing to learn".
Book excerpt in @IEEESpectrum--featuring some amazing original artwork--on the behind-the-scenes, low-wage labor that kept a tech startup running: spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startup
Next in our line up of super great STS speakers is @STS_News who will be giving a talk titled "AI on Campus & Beyond: Don't Get Distracted by the Hype". Very much looking forward to his visit. weber.edu/east/speaker-s…
The Eliza Effect is when 1) ppl attribute intelligence to machines 2) ppl become "aware of their own desire to breath life into a machine" 3) computers degrade human intelligence 4) computers deceive humans 5) ppl willingly engage in self deception
Really intriguing. As @simone_natale says "Looking at the history of computing since Turing’s time, there is no doubt that cultural attitudes about computing and AI did change. . ." The big question. What attitudes changed ? What makes us more disposed toward the idea of AI?
When I was in grad school (@LoyolaChicago and @DePaulU), I spent a lot of time (and $) at the @SeminaryCoop, wondering if anything I ever wrote would be on those shelves. Not only are the books there, but I will be there on 3/28 at 6pm @mitpress semcoop.com/event/david-j-…
Nietzsche: "boredom is that disagreeable "windless calm" of the soul that precedes a happy voyage and cheerful winds. . .To ward off boredom at any cost is vulgar" Boredom in other words, is something to be endured. Not cured. But ChatGPT subverts that.
Nietzsche: "boredom is that disagreeable "windless calm" of the soul that precedes a happy voyage and cheerful winds. . .To ward off boredom at any cost is vulgar" Boredom in other words, is something to be endured. Not cured. But ChatGPT subverts that.
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620 Followers 2K Following Politics & Info Tech | Researching & Teaching with the Ethics in Information Technology Group @UniHH | PhD on Platform Governance & Content ModerationSo now, what, they're handing over our entire archives of painstaking reported work, and *encouraging* OpenAI and co to build chatbots that summarize entire articles? That's so much worse than a headline and a link! It's actively encouraging readers to stop meaningfully engaging
... and granting the tech co's all the power over how that chatbot product is developed and monetized—and how it siphons subscribers and advertising dollars away from actual journalism. It's just so shortsighted and all but certain to further exacerbate the crisis in journalism.
“There are certain tasks which computers ought not to be made to do, independent of whether computers can be made to do them.” - Joseph Weizenbaum (1976) futurism.com/catholics-defr…
@STS_News I will look forward to reading! Teach FRANKENSTEIN almost every semester and sometimes in two classes at once!
Just got done proofreading my essay "WHY THE MYTH OF PROMETHEUS HAUNTS TALK OF TECHNOLOGY?" which will be coming out with The Montréal Review in May in a special issue on the Prometheus myth. Really looking forward to sharing it.
Btw, if folks want to support the bail funds for these students, their tag is mechadeuofu on Venmo. A lot of the students organiziners don't have the types of resources students on some of the other campuses have and their legal battles are going to be a lot more uphill.
I would like to know, too.
@neilturkewitz Cuts both ways. Here's the beginnings of a solution from my contribution to the "Routledge Companion to #Remix Studies." @routledgebooks And there's more to come.
@johnrushx I understand that existing economic systems are healthiest with a growing population, but the resources of the earth have real limits. I don’t have the answer, but it’s something we need to solve. We can’t rely on population growth forever, or we will have a population collapse.
@thecollegehill Indeed, there’s a world of difference between an artist taking bits of existing works in pursuit of her artistic vision/expression & billion $ companies misappropriating the world’s cultural output to build commercial products that will then compete with human artists.
i hate AI companies. a lot. i've been relentless in my haterism on here but i am begging people BEGGING to start using arguments against AI Art that don't indirectly shit on hip-hop and dance music i'm not even sure if people know they're doing it, but it's very hurtful
By the way, if you want to analyze almost any current SOTA LLM, @huggingface has a thing where you can super easily spin it up for a few bucks/hr, mess with it, then shut it down: ui.endpoints.huggingface.co I'm kind of addicted. Sorry @ClementDelangue for the $20 bucks I've spent.
@hthompson_art For example, if I ask one of these systems what points in a draft could be clarified and what readers might wonder, it can be helpful.
@hthompson_art Counterpoint: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_du…
Though I am sympathetic to the problem and find the image rather amusing, it fails to account for #collage and #Remix practices especially (but not only) in hip hop and other artforms that challenge the dominant Western/European understanding of what is (and what is not) art.
No that is not how AI works. This is how it works. (image by @RonDanChan; see also: x.com/o_guest/status…)
Transhumanism is all the rage with tech billionaires pushing mind uploading, AGI, and more. But where do those ideas come from? This week Meghan O’Gieblyn joins @parismarx to discuss the religious roots of transhumanist visions of the future. Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/the-re…
Thank you. A concise argument against what I might label the LADs - the Learning Avoidance Devices which offer to save us from the process and just skip to the product (artefact).
"university students are given a lot of reading and expected to hand in a lot of writing, but it is not the artefacts themselves that are central to learning . . . .it is the doing of that reading and writing" tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…
@luke_fernandez ‘Capital’ in the context of a western technologically enriched society will—without a doubt-encompass access, attitudes & practice with #AI . We still have not addressed the #digitaldivide & the emerging #AI divide will further stratify people socio-economically.
I was reminded this morning about how the University of Utah completely redesigned their landscape to discourage protests and also established their first campus police department after mass student protests in the 1970s dailyutahchronicle.com/2023/07/08/stu…
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