Tag: content creation
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AI and judgement: Cultivating taste in an age of capability
Content creation is trivially easy now. Curation—selecting what to make—is also becoming easier as AI learns your patterns. What remains is taste: evaluative judgement about what should exist in the first place. AI can be descriptive but not evaluative. It can learn your preferences but cannot judge whether they’re worth amplifying. That’s your responsibility.
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Last day for discounted access to Head space course
This 3-hour course focuses on practical ways to incorporate generative AI into your daily academic routines, from reading and writing to creating and learning. You’ll explore how to use AI as a coach, a brainstorming partner, and a project assistant. The goal here is not only to teach you how to use AI, but to…
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Link: AI & Internet’s Existential Crisis
https://om.co/2023/07/17/ai-internets-existential-crisis/ Tomorrow it will be a dozen other companies with more nefarious ideas who will use AI systems inspired by Wix to create an endless chain of websites and then fill them with information created by AI tools. They can use them to farm for ad dollars, referral links, or plain-old misinformation. By creating an…
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Weekly digest (10-14 May 2021)
Mazur, B. (2021). Scientific Publishing Is a Joke: An XKCD comic—and its many remixes—perfectly captures the absurdity of academic research. The Atlantic. The joke was on target. “The meme hits the right nerve. Many papers serve no purpose, advance no agenda, may not be correct, make no sense, and are poorly read. But they are…