ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

From Fairbanks, #Alaska, Becky Ames took these shots of the Northern Lights tonight.
#NorthernLights #AlaskaWinter #FairbanksAK

Can we talk about all the ways #ChatGPT isn’t at all like a calculator?

I’ll start

You have to give a company a bunch of your data to use it

It randomly gives you wrong answers

The relationship with meaning is just different with words than it is with numbers

It is a half baked experiment on the public

What else 🤔

“A prominent pro-reform law professor in Saudi Arabia is facing the death penalty for alleged crimes including having a Twitter account and using WhatsApp to share news” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/saudi-arabian-academic-on-death-row-for-using-twitter-and-whatsapp

Can we stop using the term "hallucinating" for #AI that gives false answers? Hallucinations are ungrounded perceptions based on disembodied sensation, which implies when an AI gives a correct answer it is grounding its perception in embodied sensation. But #ChatGPT can't sense anything. It just finds statistical correlations among conclusions made by beings with real bodies (us).

JK Rowling has explicitly said, multiple times, that people continuing to buy Harry Potter stuff is proof that they agree with her transphobia

Stop giving this bigot money

Forgive me for being facetious because of course we should not even HAVE academic integrity hearings, but how about at every hearing we simultanously put the *instructor* on trial and have them defend their assignment/assessment from charges that it pedagogically warranted cheating.

@crecente @publichealth @edutooters

Sure, the media is a factor in "violence".

A six year old shooting an adult? I daresay the prime factor is a six year old having access to a gun.

The standard playbook of doubt is to confound the issue by including other factors.
E.g. The tobacco lobby, who sponsored a swathe of studies arguing for other factors for cancer. This delayed sensible health policy by at least 20 years.

Ditto the fossil fuel lobby.

@crecente @publichealth @edutooters

That you would use a horrific current event to stat a conversation about a field you're familiar with is completely understandable.

But ultimately, by associating general considerations on cultural factors for violence to a particular gun-related event, you are unwittingly (I hope) running the exact doubt playbook that has done so much harm in other fields, and still precluded meaningful gun control in the U.S.

I just do not understand how "beta" self-driving features are allowed to be released on public highways and roads. There are so many other drivers on the road who have NOT opted into the beta test but who are forced to take part. This footage from the Tesla pile-up that happened on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco/Oakland the day that the "Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta" was launched is maddening: https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/

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@jocelyn_etienne @ZingerLearns @TEG @anne_kreft @SteveCooke @academicchatter

A nice perspective is expressed here: https://thesiswhisperer.com/2020/05/13/stop-letting-the-ghosts-of-old-academia-haunt-you/ (I translated into spanish).

PhD programms should increase the amount of transferible skills. Not just teaching how to be an academic.

If they do so, the overall contributions of PhD programms to society would increase exponentially

@ZingerLearns @ProfDCotton @edutooters Yes, I get teacher fatigue with the flavor of the month PD. I think we need more than bandaids to keep going with the present system.

@ZingerLearns @TEG @anne_kreft @SteveCooke @academicchatter

France isn't as good, but 3 years after defence 93% #PhD are in employment, with 66% on a stable job. Median wages are not huge, €2150 (sociology) to 2700 (maths) depending on the field, but 95% are on mid/upper executive jobs. 47% are in academia, 19% in private-sector research-related jobs, 15% are in public sector outside academia (used to be mostly school teaching, but a growing number of experts I believe - no figures on this).

@ZingerLearns @ProfDCotton @edutooters Yes! It should be about putting learning at the center. And by learning, I don't mean the ability to memorize things, though there's a place for that of course (like multiplication tables). Isn't part of the problem the prevalence of standardized testing, which skews towards measuring memorizables?