The human approach to reality is not through AI. In fact AI will take ones knowledge further from it and is also likely to make it harder to get there. Human approach to reality is impossible to completely achieve but our science is the best way we can approach this matter. When it comes to less scientific things about our own relationships, the degree of reality is likely to be closer, because we actually take part in these relationships. If and when AI finally manages to become a deductive method for the investigation new topics and problems, we might stand a chance in really getting something for the amount of hope and investment put into this new computerized sport. But to take it seriously, when (as an engineer with an inquisitive mind and a self nurtured logical way of thinking), I can still manage to think about what things really consist of and how they actually work (particularly in my pet subject of macroeconomics), is a still a better way than asking for a machine to do it for me!
Thank you, Marc, for sharing very human feelings one might have and experience at the presence of growing pressure ‘to normalise’ new patterns of AI intrusion into intimate web of human relationship. Covic pandemics itself left visible scars on young generation’s socialising, collaborating and human to human communication skills. I concur with you about a need to adopt critical, aka, sceptical, approach to introducing LLM to education. Educading students to be and stay humans no matter what promises they are given by tech corporations.
Hi Marc, thank you for this. There is lots of great insight your write up. I, however, do take issue with one line, "what's the point? Practice? No, because if you practice stringing words together for a computer, you aren't practicing writing, you're practicing some other kind of performative nonsense." I very much do not agree. Practice, in general, is a very powerful tool for learning regardless of weather another person seeing the practice content or not. This is true for writing, for giving a speech, or any other performance. We learn by doing things over and over again. Now, this practice can be greatly enhanced in that an AI can provide us with usable feedback.
I also want to highlight that using AI is not an all or nothing endeavor. At times you seem to reflect this in your writing as well, but not all the time. The practice aspect is an example in that as an instructor I could have students practice writing a good paragraph multiple times, have the AI review it and give them feedback and then the students write a new final paragraph that I then grade and give feedback on. In this case it is a relationship where AI is involved but doesn't take over everything.
You article is very powerful in helping the world understand the new realities of how students will start to develop relationships with AIs. I think the approach needed is to understand that this will happen and to help students understand what an appropriate relationship with an AI is and that it is vitally important that they also have good real relationships with real humans.
I think part of developing good AI Literacy in ourselves and in our students is to be realistic and to share both the good and the bad of AI. Thank you for helping with that Marc.
Thank you, as always, Marc. I was waiting to hear your thoughts on this commercial, which almost brought me to tears when I first saw it. The loneliness epidemic won't be solved by Friend™.
The human approach to reality is not through AI. In fact AI will take ones knowledge further from it and is also likely to make it harder to get there. Human approach to reality is impossible to completely achieve but our science is the best way we can approach this matter. When it comes to less scientific things about our own relationships, the degree of reality is likely to be closer, because we actually take part in these relationships. If and when AI finally manages to become a deductive method for the investigation new topics and problems, we might stand a chance in really getting something for the amount of hope and investment put into this new computerized sport. But to take it seriously, when (as an engineer with an inquisitive mind and a self nurtured logical way of thinking), I can still manage to think about what things really consist of and how they actually work (particularly in my pet subject of macroeconomics), is a still a better way than asking for a machine to do it for me!
Thank you, Marc, for sharing very human feelings one might have and experience at the presence of growing pressure ‘to normalise’ new patterns of AI intrusion into intimate web of human relationship. Covic pandemics itself left visible scars on young generation’s socialising, collaborating and human to human communication skills. I concur with you about a need to adopt critical, aka, sceptical, approach to introducing LLM to education. Educading students to be and stay humans no matter what promises they are given by tech corporations.
Hi Marc, thank you for this. There is lots of great insight your write up. I, however, do take issue with one line, "what's the point? Practice? No, because if you practice stringing words together for a computer, you aren't practicing writing, you're practicing some other kind of performative nonsense." I very much do not agree. Practice, in general, is a very powerful tool for learning regardless of weather another person seeing the practice content or not. This is true for writing, for giving a speech, or any other performance. We learn by doing things over and over again. Now, this practice can be greatly enhanced in that an AI can provide us with usable feedback.
I also want to highlight that using AI is not an all or nothing endeavor. At times you seem to reflect this in your writing as well, but not all the time. The practice aspect is an example in that as an instructor I could have students practice writing a good paragraph multiple times, have the AI review it and give them feedback and then the students write a new final paragraph that I then grade and give feedback on. In this case it is a relationship where AI is involved but doesn't take over everything.
You article is very powerful in helping the world understand the new realities of how students will start to develop relationships with AIs. I think the approach needed is to understand that this will happen and to help students understand what an appropriate relationship with an AI is and that it is vitally important that they also have good real relationships with real humans.
I think part of developing good AI Literacy in ourselves and in our students is to be realistic and to share both the good and the bad of AI. Thank you for helping with that Marc.
Thank you for all your writings.
Thank you, as always, Marc. I was waiting to hear your thoughts on this commercial, which almost brought me to tears when I first saw it. The loneliness epidemic won't be solved by Friend™.