📺 The Difference Between Great AI and Great Teaching
by Dan Meyer
The last-mile delivery problem is not met by chat bots.
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Succor borne every minute
by Michael Atleson
Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods.
Edward Snowden Says OpenAI Just Performed a “Calculated Betrayal of the Rights of Every Person on Earth”
by Maggie Harrison Dupré
Open AI’s hiring of a former NSA director may signal a shift to surveillance as a service.
Words without thoughts
People use words as a proxy for thoughts. LLMs generate words without thoughts.
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
by Molly White
[AI tools] do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial.
When measures meet reality
"A Nation at Risk" caused outrage and panic over the state of education despite illuminating pervasive discrepancies for the first time.
Fixing Autocorrect Woes
Every few months, my iPhone’s keyboard degrades. Resetting the keyboard dictionary helps.
Digital Minimalism Book Takeaways
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport has many strategies to help re prioritize your time, attention, and relationship to technology.
Experimenting on myself
by Mike Crittenden
I can convince myself to stick with anything if I tell myself it’s only a week-long experiment.
What kind of bubble is AI?
by Cory Doctorow
All the big, exciting uses for AI are either low-dollar (helping kids cheat on their homework, generating stock art for bottom-feeding publications) or high-stakes and fault-intolerant (self-driving cars, radiology, hiring, etc.).