I'm 100% with you. I teach at a high performing private school, and it's discouraging to see so many teachers going over to the dark side. They tell kids not to use it to write for them but say it's okay for research. I disagree with anything that results in kids thinking less. When I tell them what I thing, they look at me with a confused, annoyed look. This is definitely one of the main reasons I'm retiring from teaching at the end of this month.
It must be reeking absolute havoc! I wouldn't say its reliable enough for research, either. The only use I get out of it, is as a kind of interactive thesaurus. I can say give me an adjective that implies this. Or give me a verb used in this situation. It's handy, cuts down on trawling through the thesaurus. Best of luck with your next steps, and the war on the machines
Good observation! Especially about the over-the-shoulder racism (made me smile). To be fair, every generation had to deal with new and disruptive technology deemed evil. Sure, tech is automating some jobs, but radio made newspapers shiver, and TV took our free time. Phones don't have to have social media on them and we can all go back lining up to the two open cashiers/check-in stalls and hope for a change.
haha yeah you're right, I don't really have a problem with the robos. I find them a handy interactive dictionary, no doubt they'll just get exponentially handier, until they replace hands altogether
We have a choice as humans what we are going to value. It’s incumbent on us to shape the future that we want but as a species we also tend to take the path of least resistance precisely because it’s easy - this is an unfortunate optimization which to overcome requires long range thinking. We,however, have been trained economically and socially to think in the short term, in financial quarters and weeks and pay days.
So we are often satisfied with good enough and with an education system that has been in steady decline since the 1970s that bar is getting lower and lower. We are incentivized to do the minimum necessary because our wages stagnate regardless of how much effort we put in - everything that once was valued through apprenticeship has become a “hustle”. This is the environment that is allowing AI to thrive - this very low threshold that we have collectively allowed to manifest.
We’ve cheapened everything from the goods we produce/consume, the food we eat, the services we provide (if you can call them that) and ultimately our own self worth. But you have a choice in your habits and consumption what you’re willing to tolerate and if you truly feel strongly then you need to make the changes accordingly. I’ll try to remember that the next time I go to the grocery store and use the self checkout - for which I unironically neither get paid nor
“feel all the misdirected rage of a Rust Belt steel worker laid off for cheap overseas labour. “
I’m from the Rust Belt.
1). We made it by adapting.
2) Learn to code
3) Screw. The time to defend is when you are in numbers, before they come for you. Instead we got brushed off by writers with glib trite about “coding.”
I'm sorry man, I used that as some sort of general half-googled reference, without considering the fact there were actual people. I'm glad it worked out alright for you
A.I. is good at mimicry, not so great when it comes to originality. People will always be drawn to artists with a singular voice, whether it is in writing or music or other arts. You cannot program a soul and life experience. Is A.I. a threat? Absolutely, but there are billions of other humans who can also compete for your job. At this point it may be best to adapt, there are ways to use A.I. and find new forms of expression that are uniquely human. Whether we like it or not, the genie is out of the bottle.
My bet is that AI will absolutely destroy the amazon kindle store, the CBS thursday night sitcom lineup (to the extent that there's anything valuable left to destroy), and probably also the novel. When the camera became widely available, Picasso famously said, "Now we know everything painting isn't" and I am excited/hopeful for the same to happen to writing. Expanding outward into the essence of what lit and human experience can be, gives me hope.
I'm 100% with you. I teach at a high performing private school, and it's discouraging to see so many teachers going over to the dark side. They tell kids not to use it to write for them but say it's okay for research. I disagree with anything that results in kids thinking less. When I tell them what I thing, they look at me with a confused, annoyed look. This is definitely one of the main reasons I'm retiring from teaching at the end of this month.
It must be reeking absolute havoc! I wouldn't say its reliable enough for research, either. The only use I get out of it, is as a kind of interactive thesaurus. I can say give me an adjective that implies this. Or give me a verb used in this situation. It's handy, cuts down on trawling through the thesaurus. Best of luck with your next steps, and the war on the machines
Good observation! Especially about the over-the-shoulder racism (made me smile). To be fair, every generation had to deal with new and disruptive technology deemed evil. Sure, tech is automating some jobs, but radio made newspapers shiver, and TV took our free time. Phones don't have to have social media on them and we can all go back lining up to the two open cashiers/check-in stalls and hope for a change.
haha yeah you're right, I don't really have a problem with the robos. I find them a handy interactive dictionary, no doubt they'll just get exponentially handier, until they replace hands altogether
We have a choice as humans what we are going to value. It’s incumbent on us to shape the future that we want but as a species we also tend to take the path of least resistance precisely because it’s easy - this is an unfortunate optimization which to overcome requires long range thinking. We,however, have been trained economically and socially to think in the short term, in financial quarters and weeks and pay days.
So we are often satisfied with good enough and with an education system that has been in steady decline since the 1970s that bar is getting lower and lower. We are incentivized to do the minimum necessary because our wages stagnate regardless of how much effort we put in - everything that once was valued through apprenticeship has become a “hustle”. This is the environment that is allowing AI to thrive - this very low threshold that we have collectively allowed to manifest.
We’ve cheapened everything from the goods we produce/consume, the food we eat, the services we provide (if you can call them that) and ultimately our own self worth. But you have a choice in your habits and consumption what you’re willing to tolerate and if you truly feel strongly then you need to make the changes accordingly. I’ll try to remember that the next time I go to the grocery store and use the self checkout - for which I unironically neither get paid nor
does the cashier that is now unemployed…
Thanks for this article
thanks for reading and restacking
“feel all the misdirected rage of a Rust Belt steel worker laid off for cheap overseas labour. “
I’m from the Rust Belt.
1). We made it by adapting.
2) Learn to code
3) Screw. The time to defend is when you are in numbers, before they come for you. Instead we got brushed off by writers with glib trite about “coding.”
4) Learn a hard skill.
I'm sorry man, I used that as some sort of general half-googled reference, without considering the fact there were actual people. I'm glad it worked out alright for you
A.I. is good at mimicry, not so great when it comes to originality. People will always be drawn to artists with a singular voice, whether it is in writing or music or other arts. You cannot program a soul and life experience. Is A.I. a threat? Absolutely, but there are billions of other humans who can also compete for your job. At this point it may be best to adapt, there are ways to use A.I. and find new forms of expression that are uniquely human. Whether we like it or not, the genie is out of the bottle.
I agree. I believe, or at least, I hope, you will always need a human to moderate its output. Or maybe that's wishful thinking as my job depends on it
My bet is that AI will absolutely destroy the amazon kindle store, the CBS thursday night sitcom lineup (to the extent that there's anything valuable left to destroy), and probably also the novel. When the camera became widely available, Picasso famously said, "Now we know everything painting isn't" and I am excited/hopeful for the same to happen to writing. Expanding outward into the essence of what lit and human experience can be, gives me hope.
I like reading that makes me think, the predictive thoughts is 🧠🤛
Thanks Michelle! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😀 We won’t let them win