This post is an essay by Alva Noë that was recently published in the online magazine, Aeon. Here's a link to the original. Noë is a philosopher at Berkeley who is addressing a key issue that is often misrepresented in the conversation about artificial intelligence. The central point is computers can't think. The computers that drive … Continue reading Alva Noe — Computers Can’t Think
This post is an essay by Elizabeth Steere that was recently published in Inside Higher Ed. Here's a link to the original. For teachers worried about students who turn in AI produced essays, she provides an analysis of 50 some essays she generated using ChatGPT using prompts from past assignments she's deployed in her own teaching. … Continue reading Elizabeth Steere — Anatomy of an AI Essay
This post is an interview with Steven Pinker that appeared in the Harvard Gazette. Here's a link to the original. Pinker points out the downside of AI. The core problem is that it's not based on knowledge of how things work but on a massive ingestion of text. This allows AI to figure the probability of … Continue reading Steven Pinker — Will ChatGPT Replace Human Writers?
