This is insane.
OpenAI could be keeping an eye on scientists’ prompts, tracking when someone seems close to a major breakthrough, and then putting its own team on the same problem using ideas from those conversations.
This would let OpenAI get to the result first, steal credit, and use the achievement to improve its public image and stay ahead of Anthropic.
It’s simple: a major goal of education, at least in principle, is to teach kids how to STRUGGLE & WORK THROUGH challenges to develop critical thinking. LLMs obviously undermine this. It’s like building a gym where the machines lift the weights for you. It’s 100% counterproductive
Excuse me I’m about to sound very dramatic, but. You can’t expedite your own becoming. It starts with outsourcing annoying tasks you don’t want to do but before you know it your life is utterly devoid of the necessary friction of existence. Literally no meaning. This sucks shit
Last month I reported on Harvard's shuttered writing center. The official line was that the closing of the center was not about de-valuing writing. Now Harvard's dean—David Deming—is calling for "AI acceptance or even encouragement" in writing courses. 1/
https://t.co/SKnNTSYeVg
Surely the only reason a clip like this would be cool is if it were real? It’s the celebration of human achievement we want to see… Am I losing my mind?
Lost in the “debate” about whether a parent or someone else is the best person to cast a proxy ballot for a child in an election is that proxy voting for children *at all* is a dumb idea.