I was trying to figure out why many writing teachers seemed so annoyed at this tweet and realized they weren’t reading the context. I am clearly referring to college admissions essays. Sigh. I think I need to delete this.
CULTURE
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AI Impact on College Admission Essays and Education
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ADMISSIONS essays are dead, geez. I don’t claim to be an expert on writing education. Pretty harsh.
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AI Writing Quality Compared to Human Writing Standards
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Agree on both counts. But this was also a really simple prompt without any attempt to do multiple interactions, etc. AI writing is not near as good as good human writing, but it does beat that of a large number of people, especially when they haven’t been taught to write well.
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Developer Culture: Last-Minute Task Completion Humor
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Are you even a developer if you are not doing tasks one day before the deadline?
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Lem’s Cyberiad: Essential AI Science Fiction Reading
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Niche tweets I know, but Lem’s Cyberiad short stories should be on everyone’s AI in science fiction reading lists.
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Love Poem in Tensor Algebra and Cybernetic Spirit
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“Let’s have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand & in the cybernetic spirit” Stanislaw Lem still wins, of course, but huh
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Chris Messina’s Hashtag Invention and Twitter’s Initial Skepticism
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True. It was such a brilliant tool, while it lasted. Invented by Chris Messina, a Twitter user, who was told by Twitter founders, it’s ‘too nerdy, won’t work’!
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AI interaction feels magical but not quite perfect yet
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Honestly it feels pretty magical to use, like interacting with a person. Not quite smart enough to pull it off yet all the time, but close.
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AGI Release Sparks Conflict with Sentient Tarantula Swarms
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meanwhile, nora belrose had released a supposedly hobbyist level 6 agi into the public domain, and some youtubers found out that it runs well on pet spiders, so humanity finds itself in an increasingly nasty conflict with semi sentient tarantula hordes for two months now
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Legal compliance versus human trust in technology
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Legally fine isn't the same thing as not feeling betrayed