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Good for Ukraine and the world.
Humans have a certain level of intelligence, they told us, and now generative AI tools — or “agents” — would complement that intelligence. In their mind, there was no distinction between human intelligence and supposedly computer-enabled intelligence, meaning the total intelligence in the world and available to the individual was expanding as the technology became more mature. We would all be more intelligent as a result. It’s an appealing story, as long as you don’t apply any critical thought to the claims of those tech executives. The most obvious point is that chatbots are not intelligent. They rely on pattern recognition to try to produce a response that reflects the prompt they’re given. They do not understand the response, they do not think about the response, and they have no ability to determine the accuracy of the response — hence all the discussion of “hallucinations” these past few years. But the problem goes even deeper.
AI boosters want us to see human intelligence and artificial intelligence as comparable and complementary, even though computers are not actually thinking — companies are just designing interfaces that trick us into believing they are.
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This is great stuff, and something I've been trying to push at my own university: we have to consistently put our values and our students above technological integration. Technology must serve pedagogy, not the other way around: first ethics and education, then (if ever) technology.
Yep, absolute nonsense. In my view, available evidence suggests just the opposite.
I mean, because you're good people?
Are you absolutely freaking kidding me?
People on here like to say "your plan can't just be to vote for Democrats forever" and yeah that's a good point, but we're not going to to be able to turn things around at the national level if people aren't willing to at least vote for Dems more than once.
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Breaking MS NOW:
More than 50 House Democrats are now calling for Trump's removal through impeachment or the 25th Amendment.
Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide.
Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session.
Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.
Come on then, and remove him.
I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.
Well, this wasn't exactly the Tuesday morning I thought about when setting my schedule last week. But hope matters, community matters, and sharing joy, even with silly games, matters. So join us at 12:30 p.m. EDT as we continue our first ever playthrough of Super Mario RPG! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
I actually can't believe the cynicism of Weingarten's position. It's not "however you feel about this, we have to deal with it," it's "however you feel about this, it's inevitable and so we have to embrace it."
Replace "AI" with "drugs" or "guns" or "mass death" and see how her logic scans.
"No matter how you feel about smoking, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that parents understand how they can encourage their children to do more of it."
No it isn't. It's important that educators understand how to stop this ethical, pedagogical, and ecological disaster, and equally important that you resign in disgrace.
Microsoft, to its billions of customers:
You must use this product to be hired or promoted.
It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy.
You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it.
It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.
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we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it"
both parts are important!
My novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space comes out on Tuesday (the 7th)!
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Notice how they never cite a study or statistic that justifies AI use in the classroom. Why? Bc there is basically no evidence that AI improves student learning outcomes (and they know it). Politicians are putting corporate profit ahead of student needs—a corporate-backed science experiment on kids
No one does more wishcasting than GenAI shills. "Everyone does it! Everyone!" *Increasingly shrill* "Stop lying! Please, you have to be using it! Don't let me be the only one using it! Someone else has to be pretending they're authors too! USE IT! USE IT!"
Real creators don't use GenAI. Full stop.
Love when I get to use this again!
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• Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves.
They: “We cannot ban AI from the classroom!”
Us: “Would you allow students to smoke in class?”
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It is still possible to do the right thing.
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Congratulations to Ailin--my daughter, Senavene, is Bridgeport's first Student Poet Laureate. Please honor both of them, and all creative people, by reversing course on your disastrous plan to enable the ethically bankrupt and pedagogically disastrous use of GenAI in your schools!
Also, "GenAI proficiency" is not a thing. You don't need to be proficient in asking a predictive theft machine to do your work for you (which it won't). All of this is a fever dream, and smart people everywhere need to be rejecting it before the bubble pops.