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AI as countervailing
I like Stephen Downes’s argument in favour of AI: “these concerns are valid, but they need to be held up against the benefit this technology will provide” quoting Helen Crompton: “imagine having the...
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Trust human ‘systems’ ?
My knee-jerk reaction to Stephen Downes’s thought-provoking blog post “Why humans can’t trust humans: You don’t know how they work, what they’re going to do or whether they will serve your interests”...
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Distraction and Denial
Until recently Still, comparing human intelligence with AI typically involves pointing to some bigger feat that machines could not perform: some ‘higher order’ thinking such as coming up with an idea,...
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Interface with reply-buttons
Stephen Downes responded to a thread about the audiences of social media conversations, and he comes up with interesting suggestions: an ‘environment interface’ with a Reply button. Would I like that?...
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Prediction
After revisiting all my posts on AI and writing a summary, I dare to speculate about the future. My guess is that AI applications might become rather expensive, because enough people are willing to...
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Duly Noted
The first good book about note-taking is out: Duly noted by Jorge Arango. I was often frustrated with guidebooks that treated note-taking as a mere accessory for reading and writing, listening and...
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Distillator
One thing that I really hope AI will do for me, is sifting through large amounts of text. While I was just thinking about Stephen Downes’s post (distill, analyze, summarize), another post arrived...
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Wrong intelligence focus
There is a long paper by Carlotta Pavese (via OLDaily) talking about skills that are theoretical or intellectual vs. those that are practical and embodied. I agree that the priorities of education in...
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I copied my recent PDF into a wordpress page ‘Opinions on AI‘ to enable further comments, and pointed to Stephen Downes’s valuable comments from a long Mastodon thread.
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Another ChatGPT disappointment
Now we know how OpenAI imagines ‘personal’ AI, and a last hope for a genuine helper tool is gone. From the examples shown in their announcement (family’s preferences, simplicity preferences, travel...
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Beyond the page
I participated in Stephen Anderson’s Creative Challenge “Make A Zine!”. It was a very useful exercise because (as he says) it “Forces clarity: I know the constraints of only a few panels will force me...
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Siemens’ AI optimism
In an impressive TEDx talk, George Siemens explained how he sees AI as an opportunity. It is not a comfortable opportunity, because it builds on the idea that humans might not be as significant as we...
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Self-incurred minority
For Kant’s 300th birthday today, I looked up some important ideas and their translations. There is one term that seems very topical, but I am not sure if its translation has sufficiently strong...
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Wanted outcome
Stephen Downes asks us a difficult question: “what I ask readers to consider is what we want the outcome of an education to be by considering the four points of a pyramid: a young Marc Andreesen who...
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