PinnedThe Great AI Literary BacklashCame for a Tiny Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of — A literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It’s a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift. HARI KUNZRU WASN’T looking for a fight. On August 7, the Brooklyn-based writer sat on the subway, scrolling through social media. He noticed several authors grumbling about…AI11 min readAI11 min read
PinnedIs ChatGPT the Future of Cheating or the Future of Teaching?Some Experts Argue that the Chatbot Can be a Beneficial Educational Tool. Teachers and Schools are Being Forced to Adapt to Students Using AI Chatbot ChatGPT. ChatGPT, the cutting-edge chatbot from OpenAI that was released in November 2022, can solve math equations, write a history term paper, compose a sonnet…5 min read5 min read
Sep 6Books3 Can Change AI ForeverCopyright activists are on a mission to wipe a popular generative AI training set from the internet. Success could alter the industry and who controls it. AFTER OPENAI RELEASED GPT-3 in July 2020, independent artificial intelligence researcher Shawn Presser and a few of his fellow machine-learning enthusiasts set a challenge…Ai Copyright11 min readAi Copyright11 min read
Jun 16Re-Imagining The Future Of Art Class Through AILance Weiler is an A.I. convert. His art students at Columbia University are still debating the creative value of ChatGPT and Midjourney. Are these powerful tools or a crutch? Weiler is preparing his students at Columbia University for the unknown. “What I’m going to show you might disturb you,” he…AI10 min readAI10 min read
Jun 9Marc Andreessen Crafting the Narrative for Generative AIAI will not destroy the world. In fact, it may save it. — (Opinion Piece) Marc Andersson is an American entrepreneur, venture capital investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and…Generative Ai Tools12 min readGenerative Ai Tools12 min read
May 8Getting a Grip on ChatGPTConsidering what academia got wrong about Wikipedia helps to crystallize the questions we should be asking about ChatGPT and our knowledge environments. Remember when professors and librarians expressed a sense of panic about Wikipedia after its 2001 debut? …7 min read7 min read
Dec 10, 2022ChatGPT: The Evolution of Higher Education and Content CreationChatGPT is one of the most brilliant innovations I’ve seen in a long time. Powered by AI, it can write decent — but not terrific — short and long form content in response to nothing more than a question or prompt. Tomorrow, it will evolve into an even more sophisticated technology, challenging the ways we create content in the workplace and assess and evaluate in the classroom. Along with the AI-generated visual creations we were seeing a few weeks ago, it’s going to be a disruptive time for creatives and educators. I’m here for it and I’m excited!AI1 min readAI1 min read
Nov 18, 2022AI Predicting Our FutureAS YOU READ these words, there are likely dozens of algorithms making predictions about you. It was probably an algorithm that determined that you would be exposed to this article because it predicted you would read it. …8 min read8 min read
Jun 2, 2022Dear Tech Company,Be Better. Do Better. TEN YEARS AGO, a young tech entrepreneur sat down with a pen and paper and calculated that one of his inventions was responsible for wasting the equivalent of more than a million human lifetimes every day. …Big Tech10 min readBig Tech10 min read
Feb 16, 2022Welcome To The Great ConstraintOne year into the Pandemic, when my daughter screamed my name three times to tell me that she was sick, really sick, I ran from a Zoom meeting being conducted in my spare room to her classroom a.k.a her bedroom, and quickly realized that she might be seriously ill. She…5 min read5 min read
