"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜
I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is.
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My students had a creative project today in which they were creating a journal cover that would reflect themselves. 20% asked whether they could go online to find inspiration. They were aghast when I told them they had to use their own imaginations.
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.
I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.
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Don't knock your artistic skills. This was my attempt at explaining some transhumanist's fantasy that we'd be able to solve extinction by using ML to translate animal speech to human speech. 😆
"The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it. We can’t possibly imagine a different social order—we just can’t! "
Why are you saying none of the history they teach in K-5 is US history? And why do you say that they're teaching creationism? I can't find any evidence of this in any of their materials. The "Core Knowledge" curriculum that they use includes US history throughout K-5.
"Have you ever thought...maybe *our* thoughts are just word that get matched up cause we've seen them together a lot. Like, maybe we thinking we're thinking but we're...not."
"Yeah, there should be a scientific study of what thinking is. Like, with classes and stuff."
Fascinating read, and I wonder how this relates to standards-based learning in K12. Are we prioritizing knowing/SWBAT over learning? Even if learning is the outcome (rather than product), are we robbing students of full participation in process in our race to get to the learning outcome?
Used to be you were a willing participant in setting your clock forward. Now technology coerces you into the time change, sometimes without your own knowledge.
(Yes this is a silly post)
The success of this "AI" project relies on convincing people that they know less than they do, that they are less capable than they actually are. Then deskilling makes it a a self-fulfilling prophesy.
I looked them up, but it doesn't say anything about them teaching creationism, and I see evidence of evolution in the . Can you point to where you found that? Also, their curriculum pages show them teaching US history in 6th, 9th and 12th grade. Maybe we're looking at different things?
But do you have any evidence of schools teaching these things on any sort of scale? Based on state standards, teachers are not supposed to be teaching creationism in Earth Science or Life Science classes in these states. The federal government doesn't "allow" states to set certain science standards.
I'm not sure what you mean by your statement then, because all of those states have biological evolution as part of their academic standards, and none have creationism.
Which states?
Remember when you used to just buy computers and they were useful little gadgets rather than hateful spy machines?
Neither do I, but they can be better
They recommend that primary school children have their own working phones??
They seem extra fun this month!
Because they're more focused on making sure they kill people than making sure they don't kill people.
The collection of productivity software that a person uses.
"We'll keep control, but we'll keep it here at the top, where it belongs."
Hugh Thompson Jr. and Stanislav Petrov have no place in the computational war machine.
Every time they say "distraction," they mean, "not my priority," but they know how horrible it sounds to say that about attacking people. It's cover for not caring about other people as much as they know they should.
But do they use brain science???
Being married to the president should not be a job.
Good news! The Ontario Science Center can now serve as a habitat for giant hamsters.
Interviewing for my current job, they mentioned the importance of "teaching students to use [LLM chatbots] ethically." I said, "If it's even possible to use them ethically." A beat of silence, and the conversation moved on. To all the "pragmatists", critical refusal is a very practical strategy.
Years ago, I sat in a classroom and listened to this "AI researcher" justify the position that girls aren't as good as math as boys are. When I argued back, he blustered and changed the subject. If you'd asked me to guess which one of my professors was in the Epstein Files, it'd have been him.
I had women at the university warn me about him when I was there. Not everyone thought it was just an entertaining shtick.
Are you attending this year?
cant.stop.laughing
What does this mean??? What are Layman's behavioral expectations of children who have gone through massive trauma?
