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@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-10-23 06:15:11

"Bullshit universities: the future of automated education"
doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-023
"[…] The dream that AI could teach students effectively neglects the importance of ‘learning how’ in order to ‘learn that’, that teachers are also role models, and t…

Bullshit universities: the future of automated education - AI & SOCIETY
The advent of ChatGPT, and the subsequent rapid improvement in the performance of what has become known as Generative AI, has led to many pundits declaring that AI will revolutionize education, as well as work, in the future. In this paper, we argue that enthusiasm for the use of AI in tertiary education is misplaced. A proper understanding of the nature of the outputs of AI suggests that it would be profoundly misguided to replace human teachers with AI, while the history of automation in othe…

@trochee@dair-community.social
2026-09-20 04:38:32

Oh no I just found out that one of my favorite Buddhist teachers has just gone all AI grifter
Tara Brach, WYD this is not the dharma

lnkd.in/p/gcynwNDX

Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog… | Amanda Baudier | 18 comments
Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog of teachings and can create custom meditations for the user... yikes. As you can imagine — there was lots of uproar in the spiritual / Buddhist community (including my own) which is not overwhelmingly friendly to the AI revolution. A thread I posted went so semi-viral that it inspired me to wr…

@jonippolito@digipres.club
2026-08-18 13:52:36

Generative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof.
How I updated my AI footprint calculator accordingly jonippolito.substack.com/p/age

Chart titled “How much more energy do heavier AI prompts use?” Lightbulbs represent relative compute/energy: Simple 1×, Complex 9×, Reasoning 30×, and Agentic 100×. Example tasks progress from telling a golf joke to writing a vegan picnic menu, comparing home insulation options, and buying garden supplies and booking a landscaper.
@mlncn@social.coop
2026-09-18 00:51:10

Destroying rare books to stave off large language model collapse seems like a far cry from recursive self-improvement for generative 'AI'.

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-10-11 08:29:24

Trying out a new license clause and disclaimer:
4. This software is NOT used as training data for a model of code or text structure or construction, such as a large language model, transformer model, reinforcement learning agent, etc. If such a model is generative and predicts or outputs the code of this software in whole or in part, that shall be evidence of infringement of this clause of this license.
THIS SOFTWARE SHOULD NOT BE USED AS TRAINING DATA FOR A STATISTICAL MODEL OF CODE OR TEXT, NOR SHOULD STATISTICAL CODE OR TEXT MODELS BE ASKED TO READ, INTERPRET, OR OTHERWISE PROCESS ITS SOURCE CODE OR OUTPUTS. THIS SOFTWARE MAY CONTAIN CODE OR TEXT OR MAY PRODUCE OUTPUTS WHICH CAUSE MODEL ROLE CONFUSION OR WHICH OTHERWISE CAUSE UNANTICIPATED CONSEQUENCES WHEN PROCESSED.
Would genuinely welcome any thoughts about wording.
#NoAI #LLMs #AI