Activity tagged "artificial intelligence"

too many people are doing a great disservice to their writing by garnishing it with generative-ai (artificial intelligence) - ethics and values aside (lol), it looks tacky and it cheapens the words around it. there are so many human-created, realistic, and beautiful images available for you to use on your blogs, websites and projects for free. the following is a list that i believe just scratches the surface of what's available out there.

I think there are three distinct things go on here, each of them interesting in their own right but hard to disentangle: 1. This has all the hallmarks of a moral panic. ... 2. As far as I can tell from reading news articles and forum threads this is really an extension of the "LLM sycophancy" discourse that's been ongoing for a while now. ... 3. BlueSky user Tommaso Sciortino points out that part of what we're witnessing is a cultural shift away from people fixating on religious texts during mental health episodes to fixating on LLMs.

What I’m most certain of is that we have choices about what our future should look like, and how we choose to use machines to build it. Don’t let inevitabilism frame the argument and take away your choice. Think about the future you want, and fight for it.

It begins to feel like a broad celebration of mediocrity. Finally, society says, with a huge sigh of relief. I don’t have to write a letter to my granddaughter. I don’t have to write a three-line fetch call. I don’t have to know anything, care about what I’m doing, or even have an opinion. I can just substitute some Content™. I can just ask the computer for Whatever But I like programming. I like writing. I like making things and then being able to sit back and look at them and think, holy fuck, I made that. There is no joy for me in typing a vague description into a computer and refreshing my way through a parade of Whatever until something is good enough.

The AI bubble popping will not be one single event, but a succession of smaller ones, and I believe this situation is one of them.

Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Last month, I wrote an article about how schools were not prepared for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, based on thousands of pages of public records I obtained from when ChatGPT was first released. As part of that article, I asked teachers to tell me how AI has changed how they teach. The response from teachers and university professors was overwhelming. In my entire career, I’ve rarely gotten so many email responses to a single article, and I have never gotten so many thoughtful and comprehensive responses.  One thing is clear: teachers are not OK.