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Darwin and AI (opens the original)
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The old fear that civilization makes life too easy, that human beings are going to devolve and deteriorate, has reared its head of late. AI is going to diminish our brains. AI will cause “cognitive surrender,” the NYTimes headline cries. I hear the same turn-of-the twentieth-century alarm that machines will make things “too easy<s
Aristotle and AI (opens the original)
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There are many approaches to “AI readiness” in higher ed. Mine, a 2000-level English course, begins with the second L in large language models, language. Accordingly, and with an eye to state legislators scrutinizing syllabi for racy texts, we begin with Aristotle.Most AI 101 college courses begin with the technology. Stanford’s CS324 (“a new course on understanding and developing large language models”) opens by defining a language model as a probability distribution over sequences of tokens, w
“After the University” (Review) (opens the original)
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My rule is that you get to write one book on higher education and if nothing changes, or things get worse, you had your chance. To write two books on higher ed is to admit your first book didn’t improve things. My rule assumes that the point of writing about higher ed is to change it, which means the book has to want to change things. Complaint (or lament, outrage, grievance, or protest) is central to the genre.I knew of Chad Wellmon’s first book, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchant
Just one more thing.... (opens the original)
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Chain of thought (CoT) reasoning is in the headlines with all the reports on the Hugging Face “incident,” where a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents went on a rampage and appeared to have left an evidence trail of their exploits and swarming behavior.<a class="footnote-anchor" href="#footnote-1" i
Teaching the Ocean to Swim (opens the original)
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In fields outside of literary studies (my field), the so-called “Big Five” personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism—seem, to many smart people, to be useful and explanatory. I have never found them to be useful or explanatory. But they are psychology’s standard answer to the question of what a person is like, and since there are more psych majors than English majors, social scientists have gotten to decide how to talk about personality for the last
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