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I ordered a box of composition books. Low-tech response to AI.
I felt like a capitalist, buying in bulk on the cheap and selling individual books for $2 (about a 20-cent…
It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions
I'm also thinking of the cost to the students who have to repeat a course or fail out of a…
There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
Two years after the release of ChatGPT, it may not be surprising that creative work is used without permission to…
Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world
[A] popular type of generative AI model can provide turn-by-turn driving directions in New York City with near-perfect accuracy — without…
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No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.
Everyone who is reading this article in 2024 grew up in an era where a photograph was, by default, a…
A week of nonstop breaking political news stumps AI chatbots
Chatbots are designed to give conversational answers and keep people engaged. Names and links to sources for answers range from…
LLM error rates
I worked on LLMs, and now I got opinions. Today, let’s talk about when LLMs make mistakes. On AI…
“Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just don’t care.”
Over the past couple of years, researchers at Jigsaw, a Google subsidiary that focuses on online politics and polarization, have…
The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI: “AI everywhere in our newsroom.”
Already facing scandal, the Washington Post's new-ish CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to…
Google’s broken link to the web
I guess now we know why for the past decade or so Google doesn't seem to be valuing what used…
ai, ai, ai: critical thinking and literacy won’t save you
Here’s the underlying problem. We have an operating image of thought, an understanding of what thought is and how to…
A.I. ‘Completes’ Keith Haring’s Intentionally Unfinished Painting
After learning of his AIDS diagnosis, artist Keith Haring created the work, "Unfinished Painting" (1989), which is mostly a blank…
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This is what the techbros are excited about? Really?
Some 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, Plato wrote a dialogue featuring his mentor Socrates, who argued that the ability…
Duke stops assigning numeric values to essays, test scores
This story is about the admissions process, not about academics. Duke University is no longer assigning numerical ratings to applicants’…
Horrifying deepfake tricks employee into giving away $25 million
No names in this single-source anecdote out of Hong Kong, credited to "Senior Superintendent Baron Chan Shun-ching." The employee joined…
AI researchers find AI models learning their safety techniques, actively resisting training, and telling them ‘I hate you’
Researchers had programmed the various large language models (LLMs) to act in what they termed malicious ways, and the point…
New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re…
What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?
I'm sad thinking of all the students whose academic careers and personal intellectual growth will suffer because they depend on…
How to Keep Students Writing in the Age of AI Tools
In a writing-intensive class, students need to write extensively to the point that the teacher cannot possibly grade all of…
ChatGPT answers more than half of software engineering questions incorrectly
The results showed that out of the 512 questions, 259 (52%) of ChatGPT's answers were incorrect and only 248 (48%)…