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Today at work they announced that within the next couple years they are closing all four of our master programs in the humanities (philosophy, (Danish) lit, history, and cultural stud) and will instead offer something called ‘applied human sciences’ I kid you not this is the future they want
November 14, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Today at work they announced that within the next couple years they are closing all four of our master programs in the humanities (philosophy, (Danish) lit, history, and cultural stud) and will instead offer something called ‘applied human sciences’ I kid you not this is the future they want
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People who view the arts as "things we make to move merch" as opposed to "processes we undertake to articulate our individual response to the absolute fucking chaos, horror and wonder of human existence" will inevitably say dumb shit like "people prefer poems written by ChatGPT."
Because bots don’t have feelings, a perspective, or insight, whether the tech can construct something that mimics the form of a poem really seems to be the wrong question.
ChatGPT is a poet. A new study shows people prefer its verses.
A new study finds that people prefer poems written by ChatGPT, a chatbot, over those written by human writers.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2024 at 11:11 PM
People who view the arts as "things we make to move merch" as opposed to "processes we undertake to articulate our individual response to the absolute fucking chaos, horror and wonder of human existence" will inevitably say dumb shit like "people prefer poems written by ChatGPT."
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It is ludicrously naive, and it's also the discourse of governments seeking to reassure teachers AI will help offload "admin" and "save time". My view, from a UK schools perspective - where government is all-in on this - is it's automating austerity codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/a...
It feels incredibly naive when people in academia talk about delegating certain pedagogical tasks to “ai” so they can spend more time with students doing “what matters.”
1) it all matters
2)it’s not going to play out that way
1) it all matters
2)it’s not going to play out that way
October 11, 2024 at 8:54 PM
It is ludicrously naive, and it's also the discourse of governments seeking to reassure teachers AI will help offload "admin" and "save time". My view, from a UK schools perspective - where government is all-in on this - is it's automating austerity codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/a...
already kinda hate this site lol peace
October 6, 2024 at 7:23 AM
already kinda hate this site lol peace
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Sure would be cool if the 165 pages of obvious crimes we heard about today would function as some sort of barrier against these explicit plans to do a whole bunch more terrible crimes
Trump tells NewsNation he would “absolutely” revoke the temporary protected status of the Haitian migrants in Springfield
October 3, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Sure would be cool if the 165 pages of obvious crimes we heard about today would function as some sort of barrier against these explicit plans to do a whole bunch more terrible crimes
why yes, I read Theory
October 1, 2024 at 3:25 AM
why yes, I read Theory
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This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you.
Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.
Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.
Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in AI design towards reliability, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4eCAnis 🧪
September 30, 2024 at 2:31 PM
This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you.
Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.
Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.
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"tits or ass"? bro, the undeniable passion she has for her special interests in the face of a world which tries to kill that spark
September 25, 2024 at 9:46 AM
"tits or ass"? bro, the undeniable passion she has for her special interests in the face of a world which tries to kill that spark
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Westerners will literally build a spectral simulacrum of a mental simulacrum of a dead rather than allow themselve a cathartic funerary banquet, 3 year-long mourning and a humble ancestors worship.
September 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Westerners will literally build a spectral simulacrum of a mental simulacrum of a dead rather than allow themselve a cathartic funerary banquet, 3 year-long mourning and a humble ancestors worship.
man this guy was pretty smart wonder what happened to him
September 24, 2024 at 12:54 AM
man this guy was pretty smart wonder what happened to him
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I understand that the calculations of AI energy use are messy and estimates have a margin of error. But! AI is being used to justify new fossil energy projects and keep fossil energy online when it might have been wound down sooner. Which seems like a pretty concrete "here's a bad enviro impact."
September 20, 2024 at 8:31 PM
I understand that the calculations of AI energy use are messy and estimates have a margin of error. But! AI is being used to justify new fossil energy projects and keep fossil energy online when it might have been wound down sooner. Which seems like a pretty concrete "here's a bad enviro impact."
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"A small, cloistered elite of not-especially-bright billionaires have decided that they are very, very special, and that the problem with society these days is that people keep treating them like everyone else. "
Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
September 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM
"A small, cloistered elite of not-especially-bright billionaires have decided that they are very, very special, and that the problem with society these days is that people keep treating them like everyone else. "
Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
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Every time an administrator in the UC system denies a department’s request for a full time permanent faculty hire, that administrator should have to say on camera, “we cannot afford your request because we needed the money to purchase kinetic munitions to use against students.”
September 15, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Every time an administrator in the UC system denies a department’s request for a full time permanent faculty hire, that administrator should have to say on camera, “we cannot afford your request because we needed the money to purchase kinetic munitions to use against students.”
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There are literally only four ideas in "tech" (because its not tech, it's an extropian fantasy-land):
- Robot God
- Tangible dream world
- Magic beans
- Rocket ship to the stars
- Robot God
- Tangible dream world
- Magic beans
- Rocket ship to the stars
September 13, 2024 at 2:49 PM
There are literally only four ideas in "tech" (because its not tech, it's an extropian fantasy-land):
- Robot God
- Tangible dream world
- Magic beans
- Rocket ship to the stars
- Robot God
- Tangible dream world
- Magic beans
- Rocket ship to the stars
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Strongly maintain that the way these systems are discussed in popular media is doing massive amounts of damage to how people understand them and their capabilities. These narratives are a detriment to any meaningful regulation and even navigating the existence of the technologies.
This New Tech Puts AI In Touch with Its Emotions—and Yours
Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice.
www.wired.com
September 11, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Strongly maintain that the way these systems are discussed in popular media is doing massive amounts of damage to how people understand them and their capabilities. These narratives are a detriment to any meaningful regulation and even navigating the existence of the technologies.
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We're so fucked.
"Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."
"Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."
GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review
Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, genera...
misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu
September 7, 2024 at 2:31 AM
We're so fucked.
"Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."
"Our analysis of a selection of questionable GPT-fabricated scientific papers found in Google Scholar shows that many are about applied, often controversial topics susceptible to disinformation: the environment, health, and computing."
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Any educator who embraces AI on the basis that students will need to engage with AI in the world of work has missed the point that AI is a fundamentally anti-worker technology which will immiserate students' prospects of getting work and their experience in workplace itself.
September 7, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Any educator who embraces AI on the basis that students will need to engage with AI in the world of work has missed the point that AI is a fundamentally anti-worker technology which will immiserate students' prospects of getting work and their experience in workplace itself.
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“Nazi sympathy is the natural endpoint of a politics based on glib contrarianism, right-wing transgression and ethnic grievance.” www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/o...
Opinion | Tucker Carlson and the Heterodoxy-to-Holocaust Denial Pipeline
Nazi sympathy is the natural endpoint of the politics of trolling.
www.nytimes.com
September 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
“Nazi sympathy is the natural endpoint of a politics based on glib contrarianism, right-wing transgression and ethnic grievance.” www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/o...
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in theory, chatgpt is the ultimate "smooth and intuitive" product experience. you don't have to learn how to use the product at all. you just say what you want and the computer does it. of course every business major has a hardon for it. and maybe that's a sign the principle isn't absolute
September 3, 2024 at 11:27 PM
in theory, chatgpt is the ultimate "smooth and intuitive" product experience. you don't have to learn how to use the product at all. you just say what you want and the computer does it. of course every business major has a hardon for it. and maybe that's a sign the principle isn't absolute
