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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Dec 9

🤯 On the FUTURES Podcast, I meet the incredible individuals who dare to imagine the world of tomorrow. The show explores the topics of artificial intelligence #AI, human enhancement, #space travel & virtual reality #VR.

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FUTURES Podcast

FUTURES Podcast explores the multitude of possible tomorrows. Host Luke Robert Mason interviews artists, philosophers, scientists and technologists.

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Sep 4

Unless I’m writing to a close friend or trusted colleague, I don’t think a single email in the past six months has gone out without first being run through AI with the prompt: "Improve this…"

Write what you mean, and then use AI to make sure someone else understands what you're trying to say.

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Sep 3

We are living through the birth of a new world order. To dismiss it is not just hubris; it is a dangerous blindness that will define the West’s decline.

For more, see Oswald Spengler.

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Sep 3

There is something satisfying about the fact that AI fails to give convincing summaries of the texts that deal with the more metaphysical aspects of human existence. It shows it hasn't yet grasped the fuzzier aspects of human experience.

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Sep 3

Reading is going to be the most important skill that most humans have already lost. Especially in an age where an AI can provide an authoritative summary of any book.

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Sep 3

Faceless AI-generated YouTube Videos have now reached the quality of your average adjunct university lecturer. Some of the voices even have more personality. This should really concern the higher education sector.

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 26

Those who experience 'Future Shock' rarely face the world beyond their screens.

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 25

🧠 What if you could talk to an AI-generated version of your future self?

🤖 @mitmedialab.bsky.social's Pattie Maes joined me on the @futurespodcast.bsky.social to explore how #AI might help us become the best version of ourselves by reshaping how we think about our long-term decisions.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Aug 17

Another day, another hackneyed eulogy for college on its death at the hands of AI.

Striking here is that these thoughts did not originate from a college freshman’s own mind. These are talking points this student has been fed for years. What freshman says this?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Like the other members of his class, Lieber did experience a bit of college life before ChatGPT appeared. Even then, he said, at the very start of his freshman year, he felt alienated from some of his introductory classes. “I would think to myself, What the hell am I doing, sitting watching this professor give the same lecture that he has given every year for the last 30 years?” But he knew the answer even then: He was there to subsidize that professor’s research. At America’s research universities, teaching is a secondary job activity, at times neglected by faculty who want to devote as much time as possible to writing grants, running labs, and publishing academic papers. The classroom experience was suffering even before AI came onto the scene.

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 16

University profoundly shaped me and who I wanted to become. As someone who now teaches, I try to offer undergraduates more than information - I try to model that possibility.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why? | Simon Jenkins

Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 9

If it were truly 'PhD-level' AI, it would crash the moment you asked it to explain in plain English.

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 9

A truly 'PhD-level' AI would have enough imposter syndrome to be unsure about the answers it provides.

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 9

A truly 'PhD-level' AI would know more and more about less and less until it knows everything about nothing.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · Aug 9

What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 9

A 'PhD-level' AI would write 30,000 words, cite itself, and still get prompted to 'clarify contribution.'

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 8

Let’s hope 'PhD level' AI doesn’t mean it also needs three supervisors, six revisions, and a nervous breakdown before it can explain anything.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’

GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

www.bbc.com

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 8

Beyond parody 🤦🏻‍♂️

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Aug 8

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.

But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 8

@michae.lv @dralistruthers.bsky.social It's Beyond parody! 🤣

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 8

This can't be real?!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Aug 8

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uculondonoffice.bsky.social @uculondonoffice.bsky.social · Jul 31

' ... to view universities as being like 'luxury brands' “ ... is to fundamentally misunderstand their purpose”.

“They don’t exist to cultivate prestige – they exist to expand knowledge, support critical thinking and serve the public good.” '

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick...

Warwick marketing ‘fiasco’ shows ‘education isn’t a luxury brand’

Experts warn institutions against losing sight of their purpose, as more details emerge about university’s prolific spending on PR activities

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Aug 1

‘Authentic AI content’ is a contradiction in terms - but that won’t stop marketers from coining another shiny neologism.

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Jul 31

“Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine should be.” - Arthur C. Clarke

@profstevefuller.bsky.social's update (below) with a similar sentiment, "You don't want to have a bionic textbook whose content is reducible to their PowerPoints."

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Jul 30

Can anyone explain Midlands-based universities' obsession with the word 'Beyond'? 😂

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Jul 29

I'm looking for a service that lets me pay $10 a month to access 20 articles from any news platform for Free. Simple. Friction Free.

Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Jul 25

Barbie's Dreamhouse was a £200k investment in my education.
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