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Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
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That means so much, thanks for that!
And this is exactly what I’m talking about—educating, holding events, being the person in the room. I’m doing a bunch of these events in the fall, and the ones I’ve done in the last two years have made some small but meaningful changes.
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YESSSS.
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No doubt! I’m right there with you.
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And this thread is the result of the second time in four days when I’ve been told another one of these anecdotes.
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It sounds cinematic or magical but I am a living mental database of these situations because of the people who have told me about being in that room.
More people should spire to be the person in that room.
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So much of this is the result of GOBSAT (look it up; great acronym I learned from living in the UK) and when just one person who actually knows something says “hang the fuck on for just one minute,” actually these decisions have to be thought about.
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Just one person in that room who knows how irresponsible it is to use LLMs for X task, how harmful its use is, can make a difference in these meetings. I know this bc of the number of ppl who have told me about these meetings bc of the stuff I’ve published.
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Saw this in my inbox this morning, and cannot wait to read it!
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Whoa whoa whoa. How many maniacs WERE there in the band?
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NAME YOUR BAND SOMETHING DIFFERENT, BEN FOLDS
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I am very pro-rant on this subject!
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Have you read this excellent book? mitpress.mit.edu/978026254233... The Promise of Access
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You know what's funny? I was gonna follow up with a "this holds for librarians too" post but then figured if I'm wrong I don't want to incur the wrath of librarian bluesky.
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For sure. I think attributing this to technology and not people/an economic regime would be to wrongly subscribe to a tech determinist explanation whose purpose is largely to make all of this seem natural and inevitable.
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As soon as you use the term “replacement” you’ve lost the debate because you’ve allowed that the framing is correct. It is not.
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And you know what's amazing? These books by very smart people are ACCESSIBLE and entertaining writers. It takes me about two days to read these books, and I'm a slow reader.
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I know we're talking about a Business Insider repackaged press release here, but more generally, people who get excited about AI & education should read some books.
I can't believe how unread, how functionally illiterate, are the advocates for this stuff in real positions of power at universities.
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A magical time. The 36 Chambers was still a fresh release, I was experimenting with very baggy jeans and extremely thin eyebrows, and the internet was accessible by Prodigy and a very slow modem.
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What a machaye! Thank you for this.
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Well if that’s the case then someone was very lost in the mountains of New England.
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Only if you’re from out of town.
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I don’t know these rules but I endorse llamafication. Especially since so many of them were sacked in the wake of the Holy Grail credits fiasco.
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This is not the way. I don’t make the law.
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THEY ARE DELICIOUS