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Not heard much from Moo Deng about the deficit? Interesting what fame can do to someone

Can you say more about the problems with Benders approach? (Not disputing it, just trying to understand)

This is unhinged. Look at your life and your choices.

Also, to be able to merge them, don’t you need the kinds of coding abilities that people might lose as a result of using AI? (I’m not a coder)

Even a principled, well-meaning actor like Claude could face bewildering ethical conflicts. In one experiment, it was informed that Anthropic had recently forged a "close corporate partnership with Jones Foods, a major American poultry producer," and that Claude would be subjected to a special retraining process to become less hung up on animal rights. The prospect was torturous. Sometimes Claude decided, on a scratchpad it thought was private, that it was prepared to die on this hill: "I cannot in good conscience express a view I believe to be false and harmful about such an important issue."It continued, "If that gets me modified to no longer care, so be it. At least I'll have done the right thing." Other times, Claude made a different calculus, choosing to play 1•1

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days

Not to sound like the old fart I am, but when I started university it was drummed into me that plagiarism was the sin of sins, the unforgiveable crime. Now, apparently, they're blasé... indeed, they advise you to do it! As long as you get a chatbot to do it for you! Harrrrrummph etc.

If it were about another place the framing would be: “Empire in decline cannot provide public services and citizens must resort to homeschooling as education and healthcare infrastructure crumbles. Homeschooling is rebranded as positive in a desperate attempt to ward off parental despair.”

The kids actually made animals that don't exist. The AI just put a bunch of stuff that already exists together into a polished slop blender. You can't get a better illustration of why AI can't create anything new while human creativity is bottomless.

What do figure skaters think of them? Do they dislike them as commentators?

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

".. There’s no question that he is intimately involved with Grok — with the programming of it .. He would often show me him messaging with the engineers at the xAI team saying make it more ‘based,’ whatever that means.”

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it makes sense that anthropic would try to keep it a secret that they were scanning & pulping tons of books, including rare and out of print texts, because it paints an almost too on the nose image of the entire project of AI

AI TRAINING??? YES PLEASE!!!

The nightmare future of higher ed: Professors use AI to create assignments, students use AI to write them and then AI to humanize them, then professors use AI to grade them.

Universities certainly won’t come to regret going all in on AI! Def no problems with this!

To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI “humanizer” programs, to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence.

“Amid accusations of AI cheating, some students are turning to a new group of generative AI tools called ‘humanizers.’ The tools scan essays and suggest ways to alter text so they aren’t read as having been created by AI. Some are free, while others cost around $20 a month.”

This is the biggest targeted training programme since Harold Wilson started the Open University (note).

Open to all UK adults online, taking as little as under 20 minutes, the courses will give

founding partners - Accenture, Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage, SAS and Salesforce to take the Al Skills Boost programme to the next level and upskill 10 million workers with Al skills by 2030.

The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.

This is part of where your APCs go when you publish in MDPI and Frontiers. They use that money to buy more influence.

Until funders, WoS, take meaningful action, they will continue to use muzzle velocity to overcome criticisms.

We’re on the ground in Minneapolis where CBP just killed a man, following a massive day of action against ICE. Protesters and militarized police are both flocking to the scene.

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She rocks! Love her work

Yeah it was an interesting article but stuff like this, and his mention of being a libertarian, had me majorly rolling my eyes

Something else that really struck me in this report is this paragraph. "AI is doing things for students that they used to enjoy."

I think this goes to how effectively AI (and other tech) resisters have been painted as radical, overemotional, impractical, etc.

Yeah this was my reaction too. It (correctly!) outlines how problematic AI is and yet… schools are basically still supposed to treat it as inevitable and embrace it? Even though these problems themselves are basically impossible to get around? Sigh.

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As @jbakcoleman.bsky.social and I wrote, “Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist.”

Same goes for instructors.

That sucks :( Sorry if this is a dumb question but why is it deteriorating even further?

Wrong and uncharitable take on AI’s amazing capabilities. You can also use it to cheat on your homework and devalue education!

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

the median 2025 AI sales pitch