I tested AI against my own academic research, and it did terribly. Yes, I know it will get much better. What I don't like about it now is that it lies with a straight face. Just invents all kinds of stuff. Lord knows where it gets this information. Also, it's terribly polyana about areas that contain much controversy: trans, for example. As a professor, I like to think I could probably catch students that were using it to write their papers, at least for now.
Cheers for your insight about this. I think AI can be a bit dangerous if it merely institutionalizes existing data patterns that reflect racism and such. But attempts to regulate it by govenrnmet seem far more dangerous, simplistic, and doomed to failure. It't a bit like regulating pornography, but much more difficult.
“I heard an NPR or Hidden Brain podcast many years ago about how a study showed that when a local reporter stops covering a city council they start wasting more money.”
This is empirically accurate. It’s been a casualty of the closing of local papers and the consolidation of news coverage in general.
I tested AI against my own academic research, and it did terribly. Yes, I know it will get much better. What I don't like about it now is that it lies with a straight face. Just invents all kinds of stuff. Lord knows where it gets this information. Also, it's terribly polyana about areas that contain much controversy: trans, for example. As a professor, I like to think I could probably catch students that were using it to write their papers, at least for now.
Cheers for your insight about this. I think AI can be a bit dangerous if it merely institutionalizes existing data patterns that reflect racism and such. But attempts to regulate it by govenrnmet seem far more dangerous, simplistic, and doomed to failure. It't a bit like regulating pornography, but much more difficult.
“I heard an NPR or Hidden Brain podcast many years ago about how a study showed that when a local reporter stops covering a city council they start wasting more money.”
This is empirically accurate. It’s been a casualty of the closing of local papers and the consolidation of news coverage in general.