Cynthia Davidson
@cyndavidsonsbu.bsky.social
Advanced Senior Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. Writing and rhetoric, Work stuff. Digital things. GAI fretting and rumination. Very little politics here.
AI sales hype is a scourge upon the human race. That's not to say AI isn't useful or interesting, it is. But beware anyone who will benefit financially from telling you that it will make you into a genius.
December 17, 2023 at 6:31 PM
AI sales hype is a scourge upon the human race. That's not to say AI isn't useful or interesting, it is. But beware anyone who will benefit financially from telling you that it will make you into a genius.
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"Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond."
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"Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond."
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546157
Person, Thing, Robot
Why robots defy our existing moral and legal categories and how to revolutionize the way we think about them.Robots are a curious sort of thing. On the one h...
mitpress.mit.edu
October 3, 2023 at 3:01 PM
Now Available open access.
"Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond."
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546157
"Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond."
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546157
There are going to be conversations about academics using ChatGPT to write their books on ChatGPT--at least goodly chunks of them. The embarrassing moment when they summarize a movie they haven't seen using ChatGPT and it gets the plot wrong, for example.
October 25, 2023 at 5:48 PM
There are going to be conversations about academics using ChatGPT to write their books on ChatGPT--at least goodly chunks of them. The embarrassing moment when they summarize a movie they haven't seen using ChatGPT and it gets the plot wrong, for example.
Reposted by Cynthia Davidson
This is part of what Misti and I were getting at! So important (and sad): “What is lost when we move away from building communities and rely on a single source?…Will we lose our sense of belonging and the skills required to cultivate meaningful online relationships?” techpolicy.press/will-ai-degr...
Will AI Degrade Online Communities?
Kalie M. Mayberry is a social impact researcher and educator at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
techpolicy.press
September 15, 2023 at 12:23 PM
This is part of what Misti and I were getting at! So important (and sad): “What is lost when we move away from building communities and rely on a single source?…Will we lose our sense of belonging and the skills required to cultivate meaningful online relationships?” techpolicy.press/will-ai-degr...
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Amid bans and restrictions on their use, artificial intelligence tools are creating interest among those who see a solution to systemic peer-review woes. #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3MehAhJ
AI can lessen peer-review woes, researchers say
Amid bans and restrictions on their use, artificial intelligence tools are creating interest among those who see a solution to systemic peer-review woes.
bit.ly
October 24, 2023 at 4:04 PM
Amid bans and restrictions on their use, artificial intelligence tools are creating interest among those who see a solution to systemic peer-review woes. #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3MehAhJ
October 24, 2023 at 9:49 PM