Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

A great article the unearned self-confidence that plagues the Tech Industries and its effect on the limitations of AI, i.e., modern white English speakers on the internet are not the whole of the human experience.

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Petition to ANU Council In support of our petition, we observe that:  • ANU Council has the entire control and management of the University and is required to act in all matters concerning the ANU in the way it thinks w...

The ANU Chancellor Julie Bishop and VC Genevieve Bell are tearing this university apart brick by brick. I stand with the NTEU and signed their petition to the ANU council to remove them and their destruction of our national university. please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Cutting lines or even whole departments is the frontal assault on higher ed, but another low key war of attrition is the slow accumulation of grinding, meaningless additional tasks concerning syllabus templates, learning outcomes, institutional pablum, and ever more intricate evaluation hoops.

ANU VC made a serious allegation against NTEU ACT division secretary today on ABC radio, totally unchallenged. Asked why the VC hadn’t met with the union head, Bell claimed Clohesy screams out front the VC’s building for the VC to rot in hell. Gobsmacking allegation. It’s untrue.

There hasn’t been a single day this week where every system was accessible. ERMS, HORUS, SAS, eForms each took their turn being down.
Exec’s timing is impeccable, as always. 👌

Inaugural venture into the not-as-bad place….देखेंगे 🤨