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The money is a big part of it. A.I. has merely accelerated a trend that was already underway at Stanford and has been reflected by many of the country’s most corporatized universities: Education itself can be seen as a secondary goal to enabling future success, frequently defined as a future windfall.
What A.I. Did to My College Class by Theo Baker in The New York Times
Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfreakers around?
Don't Use A.I. to Do This by Colson Whitehead in The New York Times
This is not literature as “entertainment,” no. It’s literature as propaganda.The story’s foregrounding of LLMs as narrator and main character, its framing of both as alienated workers mourning the absence of something they can’t even name, and its depiction of writing itself as more or less Sisyphean labor all serve to discursively construct LLMs as comrades to suffering humans. By extension, the human condition is cast as a generic, apolitical state of abstracted loneliness and confusion cut through by the occasional moment of similarly nondescript wonder.
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities by Rachele Dini in the LA Review of Books
Today's artificial intelligence is a tool for generating new numbers from patterns in massive piles of old numbers. Given the recent ebullience around AI, it's important not to lose sight of this. These tools are no doubt dazzling, but they are essentially next-word predictors, or next-pixel predictors.
The Desire Called Synthesis by Alexander R. Galloway