AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice.
~ Bill Gates via Gates Notes
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Category Archives: 1347 – Quote Unquote
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via the report published by MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training:
AI is generating both immediate rapid changes and long-term tectonic disruptions – and MIT needs to respond.
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“If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them,” Dolly Parton once said. She was talking about makeup and plastic surgery, things she felt no shame in loving, but it’s hard to read that quote and not also think about what it means to be a visionary—to invent a whole world from nothing.
~ Amanda Petrusich via The New Yorker
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via the report published by MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training:
While AI is allowing instructors to develop exciting new learning experiences and enabling students to learn and experiment in innovative ways, there have been a number of concerning effects on the life of the campus.
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First-semester freshman grades at M.I.T. are reported as either pass or no record, to allow students time to get accustomed to an increased college workload and different teaching methods, the M.I.T. Registrar’s Office explains on its website.
~ Mark Arsenault via The New York Times
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I have no attachment to fame and no desire to preserve it for its own sake. What I want is enough freedom and time to build a life centered on thought. That life requires some money, but not very much.
~ Yiyang Zhuge via Wired Magazine.
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The first person I’m introduced to is a woman who looks like Daryl Hannah’s android in Blade Runner, beaming in on a TV screen. A bleach-haired goth, Amanda Askell is a philosophy PhD who did her dissertation at NYU on moral uncertainty. She was one of the first 10 employees, and her actual job has been to give Claude a personality. She’s Scottish and enjoys bagpipe music.
~ Joe Hagan via Vanity Fair.
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College should be one of the places where young people learn that evaluation isn’t always pleasant. Those experiences can hurt, but learning that you can tolerate them and move forward prepares you for adulthood.
~ Jonathan Alpert via The New York Times
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The fact that so many young adults are living at home reflects persistent weakness in the job market for recent graduates even as the overall economy remains fairly strong. The weakness may be growing as artificial intelligence affects white-collar jobs.
~ Noam Scheiber via The New York Times
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At colleges and universities everywhere, the syllabus has become a terms-of-service document.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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