I'm simply entertained that they speak now.
CULTURE
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AI Replaces Street Interview Jobs Unexpectedly
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I didn’t have street interviews being replaced by AI on my bingo card for 2025
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Daily tech failures eroding user trust and expectations
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For several days I've had experiences that undermine a certain basic expectation that things would just work the way they are supposed to. I feel that our basic trust is gradually being eroded through many such small daily failures.
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AI homework use spoiling kids raises educational concerns
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Kids are getting spoiled by using AI to do their homework. I think we’re raising a generation of BratGPTs.
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How People Use Generative AI Is Rapidly Evolving
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How People Use Generative AI Is Rapidly Evolving Top Use Cases:
Generating ideas
Therapy and companionship
Writing specific search responses
Therapy/companionship
Organizing my life
Finding purpose Other growing applications include: Enhanced learning -
Pinker Brings Facts and Sanity to Harvard Academic Debates
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Steven Pinker injects some facts and much-needed sanity in the debates around Harvard and American academia.
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University autonomy versus government control in AI policy
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I don’t think it’s methodical. It’s just a shot in a tug of war between ideologically captured universities and a president that demands fealty or quid quo pro
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Academia incentives: institutional barriers to genuine scientific commitment
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“Belief in science” usually refers to a spiritual faith in Akademia, instead of a commitment to science. Academia embodies science not better than churches embody God: in a multigenerational institution, employees follow economic, political, social and psychological incentives.
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Artificial Intelligences Created in Human Minds as Partners
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my preferred partners have always been artificial intelligences that created themselves in human minds
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Indian tech ecosystem evolution deserves genuine feedback not outright rejection
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There is no comparison with Google or meta or any other org. Critics were right when the Indian ecosystem was doing nothing. Now it's evolving, let it make its way by giving genuine feedback and inputs rather than outright rejection of innovation and work that is happening.