The venture capitalist enthusiasm for AI in education should make us inherently suspicious. How they talk about education should be a blaring klaxon to do the opposite of what they advocate. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

Embracing AI means abandoning learning.

The “queen of the internet” is full of something…

Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

His podcast Lexicon Valley was interesting, but I think he was grappling to find a place as an even more prominent pop intellectual. He's flirted with language and politics for awhile, but mostly in a measured centrist kind of way until the anti-woke stuff started to garner more attention for him

'As one researcher put it: AI is “like Grammarly for empathy.”' Christ. Do they even give a fuck about what they say anymore?

Yea, I keep repeating myself that any article about AI that does not address its fundamental problems (copyright infringement, incapacity for truth, environmental disaster, etc.) within the first 4 paragraphs is mere propaganda.

Been thinking about this a lot recently: given the preponderance of tech boosterism (and technoliberal discourse), where do mainstream critiques of it all reside? And do they cohere into a movement?

Doesn't even have the 93% no confidence vote in the President at Indiana University.

AI has NEVER been "on the verge of" replicating human-level cognition. Instead, "Artificial Intelligences" are more akin to what Daniel Kahneman would call "System 1" or "Fast" Human thinking; automatic, prone to error and bias, and not what we would call intelligence or problem-solving thinking.

Ezra Klein's most recent podcast gets real deep into this, by may of McLuhan and Benjamin, too. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/o...

Opinion | Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?

Nilay Patel discusses the near-future of an internet as A.I.-generated content improves.

Is anyone going to do anything? Ever? What's it going to take? You can't put out a song with an uncleared sample without putting yourself in legal jeopardy; meanwhile these people are openly stealing all of human creation and bragging about it! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/t...