“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.”
Iris van Rooij 💭That is in addition to that this fascist technology deskills students, teachers, academic fields and hollows out our university institutions and education (open access, archived link: archive.ph/nOYpc) www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science
Iris van Rooij 💭Maybe of use www.ru.nl/en/research/... cc @olivia.science
‘AI is often introduced into our classrooms and research environments without proper debate or consent,’ says van Rooij. ‘This is not just about using tools like ChatGPT. It’s about the broader influence of the tech industry on how we teach, how we think, and how we define knowledge.’
Iris van Rooij 💭Maybe of use www.ru.nl/en/research/... cc @olivia.science
Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
OSFdoi.orgDr Abeba BirhaneWhen I told Anthropic interlocutors that I avoid contact w LLMs, their response was bemused:perhaps I hadn’t spent enough time w them? there was light in their eyes when they talked about Claude. It dawned on me that they're under enchantment. Like Pygmalion, they had fallen in love w their creation
“But I didn’t want to talk about Claude. I wanted to talk about the user, about addiction and dehumanisation, about power and accountability. I don’t for a minute think AI needs a new metaphysics”
Dr Abeba Birhane"But there is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way." www.ft.com/content/bdb3...
This type of wishful thinking is so pervasive that, of course, LLMs will regurgitate it ...
Iris van Rooij 💭There is no such thing as a "worst-case distribution". Worst case analysis is generally misunderstood. The point is merely that we do not know the distribution. Worst-case *analysis* is a way of acertaining something. If we knew distribution, there were no problem to solve.
Here you go ☺️ irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/12/27/c...
Computational complexity for cognitive scientistsHere, I compile a set of videos that complement a course on computational complexity for cognitive scientists that I co-teach with Nils Donselaar. We use the textbook Cognition and Intractability, …irisvanrooijcogsci.comOlivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστTractability is formal so no amount of English without also formalisms can really capture it. Would you be open to watching some videos? Maybe there's some good ones... I can try and check but also @irisvanrooij.bsky.social probably has some handy