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She is also part of the extremely morally sketchy Effective Altruism movement
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effecti...

This person is employed by the company that makes Claude.

The same person said 2 weeks ago that she wasn't sure if AI was "conscious".

The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc. consistently get people with a vested interest in AI to make evidence-free puff-pieces about AI.

Screen cap from linked article: Abstract The scarcity of subspecialist medical expertise poses a considerable challenge for healthcare delivery. This issue is particularly acute in cardiology, where timely, accurate management determines outcomes. We explored the potential of Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), a large language model-based experimental medical artificial intelligence system, to augment clinical decision-making in this challenging context. We conducted a randomized controlled trial comparing large language model-assisted care with the usual care of complex patients suspected of having a genetic cardiomyopathy, and we curated a real-world dataset of complex cases from a subspecialist cardiology practice. Nine participating general Highlighted in blue: randomized controlled trial

Screencap from linked article Ethics approval The clinical subspecialist evaluator component of this research involved the participation of physicians. This study adhered to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from each physician before their participation. This study used only retrospective, de-identified data that fell outside the scope of institutional review board oversight.

@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Professors are embracing AI: Here's what that looks like in the classroom | CBC News More educators are bringing AI into their university classrooms, setting clear parameters for and encouraging students to practice using the technology responsibly and with a critical eye — a decision...

Canadian professor uses chatbot to answer questions from students, but tells them "you cannot count on {chatbot} to do your work"

Why are professors allowed to use chatbots to get out of work, but students aren't?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The CBC article covers these 4 professors uncritically, and does not mention the well-documented scientific evidence that using AI produces _worse_ learning outcomes.

Intelligence artificielle à l’UQAM | Un professeur crée un assistant virtuel disponible en tout temps Le professeur Antonello Callimaci trouvait qu’il ne réagissait pas assez rapidement aux courriels parfois urgents de ses étudiants. Il n’a fait ni une ni deux et a créé un agent conversationnel qui fo...

The same professor that gave their chatbot a cutesy name and claimed that it "cannot fabricate or invent" information. Which seems extremely unlikely for a chatbot based on ChatGPT.
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

Professors are embracing AI: Here's what that looks like in the classroom | CBC News More educators are bringing AI into their university classrooms, setting clear parameters for and encouraging students to practice using the technology responsibly and with a critical eye — a decision...

Canadian professor uses chatbot to answer questions from students, but tells them "you cannot count on {chatbot} to do your work"

Why are professors allowed to use chatbots to get out of work, but students aren't?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Amazing Generation by Jonathan Haidt | Black Bond Books #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by the award-winning phenomenon The Anxious Generation, this new book for kids and tweens is a comprehensive guide for living a happy and exciting life that isn...

This book from @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social seems like a good place to start for parents that want to talk to their kids about how AI can be addictive just like other apps
blackbondbooks.com/item/uFul1NH...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Update: one of the hosts is Client Technology Lead, Education at Microsoft and should probably know that a laptop running Zoom is not "AI"

The next time you are tempted to write "AI", ask if this tech existed 5 years ago, and what it would have been called then?

I don't think this podcast is doing it out of malice, they are simply an example of the results of an extremely effective campaign of disinformation.

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This might seem like nit-picking, but companies have been purposefully applying the term AI to as many things as possible.

Vacuums with dirt sensors now have "AI". TVs with motion smoothing are "AI-powered"

If everything is "AI", opposing AI becomes like opposing electricity or computers.

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The former could be called AI in its current meaning. Using large data and algorithms to find patterns.

The latter is not AI. Its video conferencing. If "AI" is being used to apply to video conferencing then "AI" has existed since the 80s.

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On the positive side they talked about a student that was undergoing chemotherapy and could not attend class.

Thanks to "AI" the student was able to attend school, with a "robot" being carried between classes by classmates.

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On the negative side, they mention TurnItIn using "AI" to detect plajorism and giving many students zero marks, with many being in error.

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Unfortunately @aiineducation.bsky.social is a perfect example of people using "AI" for anything to do with computers.

In a recent episode they talked about "A tale of two AIs", in which there were two very contrasting cases of "AI" being used in schools

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90% of the time "AI" is used by media, they really mean "computer" or "algorithm".

Resisting AI Mania in Schools - Part I Here are the messages to push back on

This is a must-read for caregivers, teachers, anyone with an interest in education and AI

annelutzfernandez.substack.com/p/resisting-...

Thank you, this is an amazing article

CBC released an interview with Christina Walker, the Vancouver School Board's Digital Literacy Mentor.

VSB are planning to put Copilot into schools, and this interview has many key omissions and mis-truths that are important to correct and clarify.

www.aicaution.ca/news/cbc-int...

A set of 4 graphs showing how many students in different groups got different test scores using different tools. Students in group 1 using just AI, got an average of around 45% Students in group 1 using just notes, got an average of around 60%, visibly higher than the AI-only group. Students in group 2 that just used AI performed roughly the same as those in group 1. Students in group 2 that used AI and notes did slightly better, but not as well as students that just took notes.

Even Microsoft's own paid studies show that AI harms learning.

Students that just took notes did better than those that used AI.
Students that used AI and took notes didn't do as well as those that just took notes.

From this puff-piece page on their site:
www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat...

The research paper on which the PDF is based:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The image comes from this PDF that is linked in the blog post.
cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/m...

Hi, the blog links this PDF that is produced by Microsoft and contains the graph:
cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/m...

A set of 4 graphs showing how many students in different groups got different test scores using different tools. Students in group 1 using just AI, got an average of around 45% Students in group 1 using just notes, got an average of around 60%, visibly higher than the AI-only group. Students in group 2 that just used AI performed roughly the same as those in group 1. Students in group 2 that used AI and notes did slightly better, but not as well as students that just took notes.

Even Microsoft's own paid studies show that AI harms learning.

Students that just took notes did better than those that used AI.
Students that used AI and took notes didn't do as well as those that just took notes.

From this puff-piece page on their site:
www.microsoft.com/en-us/educat...

CBC released an interview with Christina Walker, the Vancouver School Board's Digital Literacy Mentor.

VSB are planning to put Copilot into schools, and this interview has many key omissions and mis-truths that are important to correct and clarify.

www.aicaution.ca/news/cbc-int...

Teaching students “AI prompt engineering” is such an offensive perversion of inquiry based education it makes me breathe fire.

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

It seems like it will turbo-charge an already terrible problem in science journals.
archive.is/CNMff