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Jon Jackson

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Senior Lecturer & Programme Director at qmul.ac.uk; Visiting Research Fellow at bnu.ac.uk; SpongeBob fan; I also like coffee gimme coffee 😬 Higher Education | Degree Apprenticeships | Software Engineering | AI Ethics | LLMs linkedin.com/in/iamjonjackson

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks, I was wondering that

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 7d

Oof thanks, missed that.

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 9d

Can confirm. It is an absolute mess.

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 10d

👌

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, indeed. Some prominent individuals position “AI” as the great leveller, beneficial for all, etc etc. Of course, it’s not. Pros and cons, as always.

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Do you mean in the follow up posts? Accessibility

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

#academicSky

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Spice up your Entity Relationship Diagrams with GenAI 👌

The bizarre typos are delicious and I particularly like the psychopathic relationship cardinalities.

Also, customers aren’t people, ok? #GenAI says so.

I’m going to have so much fun with this and my students 🤓

#SoftwareEngineering #AI

I don’t know what to say other than it’s a really messed up entity relationship diagram that’s wrong wrong wrong

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

What a time to be alive

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

I think they conflated self-checkout with normal checkout in that sentence.

Self-checkout automates away jobs entirely. One attendant now looking after 10+ self-checkout machines.

Normal checkout is assisted by barcode scanning + automated calculations so a cashier doesn’t need to know basic math.

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Sounds like a thoroughly committed anarchist to me

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Users always find a way to break the system 😝

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Slop as far as the eye can see 😕

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Gift link to article:

How AI will divide the best from the rest

How AI will divide the best from the rest

Optimists hope the technology will be a great equaliser. Instead, it looks likely to widen social divides

economist.com

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Otis et al. (2023)
Profits and revenue
Inequality increased

Roldan-Mones (2024)
Debating points
Inequality increased

Toner-Rodgers (2024)
Material discovery
Inequality increased

Kim et al. (2024)
Investment decisions
Inequality increased

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Dell'Acqua et al. (2023)
Product design
Inequality reduced

Chen and Chan (2023)
Ad effectiveness
Inequality reduced

Choi, Monahan and Schwarz (2023)
Legal analysis
Inequality reduced

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Impact of generative Al on the gap between high- and low-performing workers

Peng et al. (2023)
Coding efficiency
Inequality reduced

Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2023)
Customer chat
Inequality reduced

Noy and Zhang (2023)
Writing quality
Inequality reduced

…

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Generative AI reducing inequalities in some contexts, widening inequalities in others.

via @economist.com

#GenAI

Pulling up the ladder

Impact of generative Al on the gap between high- and low-performing workers

Source: The Economist

Peng et al. (2023)
Coding efficiency
Inequality reduced

Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2023)
Customer chat
Inequality reduced

Noy and Zhang (2023)
Writing quality
Inequality reduced

Dell'Acqua et al. (2023)
Product design
Inequality reduced

Chen and Chan (2023)
Ad effectiveness
Inequality reduced

Choi, Monahan and Schwarz (2023)
Legal analysis
Inequality reduced

Otis et al. (2023)
Profits and revenue
Inequality increased

Roldan-Mones (2024)
Debating points
Inequality increased

Toner-Rodgers (2024)
Material discovery
Inequality increased

Kim et al. (2024)
Investment decisions
Inequality increased

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 13d

ChatGPT faired a bit better but dropped some of the text

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 13d

Image alt:

Screenshot of chat with Microsoft Copilot.
Prompt: "upscale this image please" (attachment is a black and white diagram related to business environmental factors, purely made up of text and boxes)
Response shows an AI-rendered image of a woman, brown hair, in her 20s or 30s

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks Copilot. Super useful.

#GenAI

Screenshot of chat with Microsoft Copilot.
Prompt: "upscale this image please" (attachment is a black and white diagram related to business environmental factors, purely made up of text and boxes)
Response shows an AI-rendered image of a woman, brown hair, in her 20s or 30s

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 14d

Hello from me a floofy kitty cat (yesterday evening) 👋

Selfie with fluffy white/cream cat staring into the camera up close and Jon in the background

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 16d

First day back teaching at London city institute of technology 🙌

Team did good. Apprentices did good.

Let’s go!

@qmul.bsky.social

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Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 24d

Yes we could prompt prompt prompt prompt prompt prompt prompt…

or we could go read a book

seriously…

go read a book

Jon Jackson @iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 25d

All very intellectually stimulating but…

#GenAI #AI #ML #LLMs

#agi #ai #genai #llms | Jon Jackson

All very intellectually stimulating but… The solution to this problem solves nothing particularly useful, particularly in the context of Generative AI / Large Language Models being more reliable. Th...