Dr Christine Cuskley

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method PARIS—In an effort to modernize the principles and empirical procedures of examining phenomena and advancing humanity’s collective knowledge, the International Council for Science announced Thursday t...

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Let's suspend our disbelief and take the outsized claims of human augmentation and unalloyed positives at face value

Even if I could have a "second brain", I would never trust any tech company to own and operate it, nor should anyone

The problem with tech companies was never the tech part

Got there eventually - I do know how to search, just initial annoyance that an unrelated brand ruined it! I just want a very simple one to play with; I may just make a small frame (I also make wooden stuff, so I have the scrap). Do you like the cricket table loom?

I just want a loom, like for weaving and shit. All I can find is information about some AI company. I miss when the internet worked

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

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Ms. Belsky said these kinds of suggestions helped the company create its first billboard campaign aimed at college students. “Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?” asked one ChatGPT billboard, posted this spring in Chicago. “Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus,” another said. Ms. Belsky said OpenAI had also begun funding research into the educational effects of its chatbots. “The challenge is, how do you actually identify what are the use cases for A.I. in the university that are most impactful?” Ms. Belsky said during a December A.I. event at Cornell Tech in New York City. “And then how do you replicate those best practices across the ecosystem?”

Weird how the strategy is to get everyone using it and then figure out the use cases. Seems inverted. 🤷🏿‍♂️

genAI saves time alright but at cost of actual learning

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Uncritical adoption of AI “undermines our basic pedagogical values and principles of scientific integrity. It prevents us from maintaining our standards of independence & transparency. And most concerning, AI use … hinder[s] learning and deskill critical thought.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

We are now in an era of technosocial politics where data, ML models, AI etc aren’t just reproducing biases through inattention & lack of oversight; the fascist right is actually well read on this subject, knows how these systems work, and is using them to bake in their explicit biases intentionally

New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution” “The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...

"The president, tiptoeing precipitously down the sidelines of legality, inadvertently ran the constitutional football out of bounds."

Our new study in Psych Science @psychscience.bsky.social reveals many interesting-- and concerning -- things about the language on kids' shows, including a grammatical bias in favor of men and boys as agents or "doers" 👇

The word “Research” is doing way too much work. We need separate words for “creating new verifiable knowledge” and “looking shit up on the internet”

That's my read of the original quoted thread.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

That kind of "ban" didn't stop students using it, of course, but it did mean they did so with some caution. I think uncritically endorsing AI just because they may or may not use it anyway is an odd stance for a group that's supposed to be on board with critical thinking.

Maybe? But I'm also reminded of things like Wikipedia...the educational stance towards it was "don't, it may do more harm than good" for quite awhile. It's still not generally integrated into teaching despite it being the largest known repository of human knowledge (that's actually pretty reliable)

Also you're probably kidding 😂

The ideal is to have students actually learn and also feel the satisfaction/accomplishment of learning...but if we can only have one of the two I think it's the former we should be concerned with in the first place, and the latter will follow

I see your point here, but seems important to try to e.g., show students that they may not actually be learning when they use them (per recent studies) instead of just rolling over and saying something like, "oh well, as long as you feel like you're learning" whether or not they actually are

But do you think this necessarily holds for all learners and all learning situations? In other words, it seems possible it's not the best solution considering the evidence, which is at least a more active decision than "this isn't happening"

I think it's important to push back on this specific premise...I'm obviously sceptical, but I'm open: show me the study demonstrating that students using some AI tool or another learn better than students who don't, with the specification that regurgitating model output is not learning...

I still dispute the premise here - where, exactly, is the evidence that they're useful for learning, understanding, and knowledge building in students? I have yet to see any. That they are *being used* to shortcut this is certainly true, but I don't think that necessarily means they are "useful"

I can’t believe South Park went after Trump like that, mostly because I thought they stopped making South Park a decade ago

Pause to consider what this means: The Trump administration will audit admissions data by race, color, and test score.

RACE AND COLOR. COLOR. That’s exactly what Columbia agreed to do.

When’s the last time that someone asked you what color you are? Are you sure the Trump admin agrees with you?

Would be happy to chat! I'm still UK based and always looking to hear from other "free range academics" - love that term!

We're a seriously qualified international bunch, and we can jump onto research longer term through grants, or for shorter term data analysis, visualisation, or training needs. Check us out at www.cogknit.uk

Leaving Newcastle was a tough decision, but in the end I'm excited about what the future holds. I'll be working with LEVANTE throug my new consultancy, CogKnit. You can follow us on @cogknit.bsky.social - I'll be busy with LEVANTE personally, but CogKnit will be a powerful hub of expertise... 2/

Homepage - Levante

Some big news: I'm leaving Newcastle University and the usual academic path with it. I'll be joining the LEVANTE project (levante-network.org) at Stanford as a research scientist, with @mcxfrank.bsky.social and a fantastic international crew of scientists and developers 1/

The Limitations of Large Language Models for Understanding Human Language and Cognition Abstract. Researchers have recently argued that the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) can provide new insights into longstanding debates about the role of learning and/or innateness in the ...

This by @nerdpro.bsky.social and colleagues is good direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...