Crikey! “AI worse than humans in every way at summarizing information … the technology might actually make more work for people, not less” Crikey

Every university administrator who encourages us to use AI, every AI fetishist in edtech and academia, every AI grifter in education should be asked why we should allow this shite into our classrooms and take up time we don't have wrestling with AI

Definitely think this can be true sometimes. But I'm more willing to ascribe the growing unconsciousness of our culture -and therefore the growing high strangeness of it - as a byproduct, rather than an intentional act (see, e.g., the decline of Google Search).

New paper out today with Prof. Evelina Leivada, Gary Marcus and Fritz Günther ‘A Sentence is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Can Large Language Models Understand Hum4n L4ngu4ge and the W0rld behind W0rds?’ arxiv.org/abs/2308.00109

someone I know from online told me to listen to podcasts and someone else I know from online made a thread of soup recipes and now I’m listening to podcasts making a hungarian mushroom soup and life really couldn’t be better

Yes, I did choose to get a PhD and then pursue a job in academia, but I think it’s important to remember that I’m the victim here.

As election season heats up, check out "Boxed In," a new release by UC Philosophy Professor Eduardo Martinez for an insightful look into identity politics! eduardojmartinez.com/boxed-in

Back to intuiting the forms (attempting to divine by sheer telepathic force of will what Chris Pincock thinks a structure is).

One of my best friends from college Khuyen Bui tuning in here on how the Palestinian struggle mirrors Vietnam’s past.

This whole incident really bothers me, for a range of reasons, but it should really bother everyone: There's a tranche of STEM that's reflexively anti-ethics. This isn't a new problem; we saw it throughout the 20th century. That's how we know the consequences are horrid.