Deepak Kumar

Mostly, it has always been vocational for the last 35+ years. I know because I’ve been fighting it that long…

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I also know s few CS Profs who themselves use LLMs for planning course materials, including answering questions in class by typing them into ChatGPT and reading out the response. Students are pissed about this!

Professors that are planning to use AI because its inevitable, why resist?

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Those that are taking a critical evaluation approach.

Though majority (esp CS profs) have their heads in the sand-ignorance is bliss, or wait it out. Or, are demonically declaring a blanket ban w/o any guardrails.

YouTube video by Johnathan Bi Oxford's AI Chair: LLMs are a HACK

Looks like Oxford's AI Chair agrees with @garymarcus.bsky.social on LLMs being a "hack" rather than actual intelligence. Rightly so - and it becomes clearer and clearer throughout academia and even the industry!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Uz...

@ox.ac.uk

What AI really can do now: 6 lessons for harnessing artificial intelligence Newsweek interviewed a remarkable constellation of experts through its AI Impact series. Here are 6 lessons you can actually use, based on their experience.

@newsweek.com From last week, based on interviews with Yann LeCun, David Eagleman, and me. The three of us could be described as AI realists, and have devoted our lives to AI and understanding intelligence. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/04/a...

• Resist the introduction of AI in our own software systems, from Microsoft to OpenAI to Apple. It is not in our interests to let our processes be corrupted and give away our data to be used to train models that are not only useless to us, but also harmful. • Ban AI use in the classroom for student assignments, in the same way we ban essay mills and other forms of plagiarism. Students must be protected from de-skilling and allowed space and time to perform their assignments themselves. • Cease normalising the AI hype and the lies which are prevalent in the technology industry's framing of these technologies. The technologies do not have the advertised capacities and their adoption puts students and academics at risk of violating ethical, legal, scholarly, and scientific standards of reliability, sustainability, and safety. • Fortify our academic freedom as university staff to enforce these principles and standards in our classrooms and our research as well as on the computer systems we are obliged to use as part of our work. We as academics have the right to our own spaces. • Sustain critical thinking on AI and promote critical engagement with technology on a firm academic footing. Scholarly discussion must be free from the conflicts of interest caused by industry funding, and reasoned resistance must always be an option.

If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏

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“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Excellent!

In the same spirit, here's a piece on AI hype I wrote in....1985 🤯

melaniemitchell.me/EssaysConten...

Also awesome.

However, how about the analogy to Artificial Flight [Hayes & Ford, IJCAI 95]?

We have now reified the meaning of “smart”/“intelligent” to refer to phones, dishwashers, etc.

Awesome!

So, who was the distinguished Stanford Professor who predicted computer programming will be obsolete by 1963?

"AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None". A short article for Harvard Business Review (Eng tr. of orig.) on our dangerous tendency to attribute intelligence and much more to AI, the risk of being manipulated, and what can be done about it.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

"Every so often a new AI development comes along and great excitement ensues as people stumble over themselves convinced that the key to intelligence has been unlocked." Me writing about AI overhype 37+ years ago. Old dogs, old tricks. Yes, I did look like that. people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/idocs...

Am I reading this right? CAREER awards are gone? GRFP, IUSE, CSGrad4US, CS4All -- all gone? nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Opinion | Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point The influence of A.I. companies now extends well beyond the realm of business.

In Opinion

“The leading A.I. giants are no longer merely multinational corporations; they are growing into modern-day empires. With the full support of the federal government, soon they will be able to reshape most spheres of society as they please,” Karen Hao writes in a guest essay.

Best use case for Gen AI so far 😂

"A lot of the graphs in the paper were just too perfect. You don’t get data this clean from humans in the real world"

From the way people talk about AI agents you'd think people spend 80% of their time booking air travel

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For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"

www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

oh no

AI Experts Say We’re on the Wrong Path to Achieving Human-Like AI An extensive report on the future of AI research indicated that there's skepticism about current approaches to AGI.

I was a member of the panel that produced this report. All of us have spent our careers working on AI. Amongst the hypesters that is probably seen as a disqualification for understanding anything about AI. gizmodo.com/ai-experts-s...

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

Maybe they had a family emergency…you shouldn’t be calling anyone out like this.

Sorry, Kevin Roose is a stooge for the tech industry…

@randomwalker.bsky.social

NYT headline: E.P.A. Declares 'Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen" Corrected to: E.P.A. Declares an End to Clean Air and Water

Fixed it for you, NYT.

Yeah that one is great! Very thorough, lots of characters, and stories.

Love the Einstein quote Bout faculty meetings…

Also “seeking asylum” vs “coming from/to asylums”…