Patrick Plante

Professeur en fad et technologie éducative – TÉLUQ. E-learning - Design pédagogique - Théories de la technologie - Hackers - Jeux sérieux - Ludification.

[Patrick Plante @patrickplante]

🎮Découvrez le Niveau 1 du cours TED 1280 (Jeux sérieux, ludification, immersion numérique & conception pédagogique).

Le jeu est partout… y compris en éducation! Plongez dans la culture vidéoludique et testez vos connaissances dès maintenant:
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[The Royal Canadian Legion @RoyalCdnLegion]

June 6, 1944. Today, we mark the anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. 14,000 Canadians stormed Juno Beach, showing unparalleled bravery in the face of fierce resistance. 359 Canadians made the ultimate sacrifice that day.

We stand in silent gratitude for the heroes who broke through the Atlantic Wall and paved the path to liberation.

Learn more: https://t.co/fwAmSCIN3W

Photo: Troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade
(Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry Highlanders) going
ashore from LCI (L) 299 [Landing Craft Infantry],
Bernières-sur-mer, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944.
[Library and Archives Canada 3408540]

[Michelle Blanc M.Sc. @MichelleBlanc]

Mozilla et Mila s’allient pour une IA souveraine et ouverte https://t.co/9eGSTgfgji via @lp_lapresse

[Oliver Prompts @oliviscusAI]

🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced software that sees you through walls using only WIFI signals.

it’s called WiFi-DensePose. It maps your exact body pose in real-time. no cameras. no sensors. just your living room router.

100% Open Source.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: A petri dish of human brain cells just learned to play DOOM

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I tried to warn you! 😂 🤖

[Donald Clark @DonaldClark]

Very good…

[Ukrainian Ministry of Accidental Russian Fires @EPICGOPFAIL]

spot on

[Retour vers le Passé (ville de Québec) @ArchVillequebec]

En 1969 ... La rue Ste-Thérèse

''La rue du Carnaval'' et "L’use-Q-Lotte" ...
commandité par les patates chips Granny Goose 🥔

Plus de 175 monuments de glace !!!

Une foule immense pour célébrer cette artère féerique

Pierrette Roy interprète la chanson thème du Carnaval.

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

In Canada when Children die, politics are pushed aside.

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

I’m not crying. You’re crying.

[Gilles Chevalier 🇪🇺 🇫🇷🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱⚓ @GJChevalier]

Nous avons brutalement changé d'époque. Nous devons cesser d'être des herbivores dans un monde d'empires pathologiquement devenus fous. #Europe, réveille-toi avant qu'il ne soit trop tard. Protège le ciel ukrainien avant d'être obligée de protéger le tien !

[Patrick Plante @patrickplante]

Mozilla veut bâtir une alliance alternative de l’IA face aux géants du secteur https://t.co/EVrfkmjgXQ

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

The ‘great’ thing with AI coding tools is that any kid can write 10,000 lines of code that appear to work. Could be Python, C++, Go, Java… doesn’t matter. And there won’t be any English typos in the comments.

Well, when I say « write », I should say « have a tool write ».

And you can even get a novel-length description of the work.

Every open source project can get multiple 10,000-line pull requests a week.

The intern you just hired can generate 50,000 lines of code in his first three weeks.

Brilliant.

Now, who wants to read all that?

The cost of 10,000 lines of C++ that can compile and run some tests just went to the floor. Nobody cares about it.

You can replicate the problem in other domains such as science. It has become trivial to generate a 12-page scientific paper, complete with graphs, using AI. A little bit of prompting and off you go.

Want to write a 250-page PhD thesis? A few days of prompting and ChatGPT will get it done. Just make sure to pay for your subscription.

Who wants to read all that?

Sure, we can use AI to read the work but… what you learn in mathematics is that not all iterative processes converge. Adding more layers of AI increases the latency, but it may not get you where you want to be.

In the world of generative AI: producing content is cheap… but producing content that is well above the quality of ChatGPT, well, that’s something else.

Take this post that you are reading. I could have prompted Grok to write it. Just one request, and I get Grok to write tens of paragraphs. Done.

The cost of an English post written in correct English and making reasonable statements… just went to the floor. It is now effectively free.

But, you see, I write my posts myself because I think I can be clearly more insightful and deeper than ChatGPT or Grok.

And similarly for software. I spend several days a week coding, and though I have been an early adopter of copilot, I mostly code by hand because I often want to maximize quality, not volume.

I do enjoy using AI. For example, we recently added a C API to our simdutf library. It was boring work, mapping C++ functions to C functions, so I had this part of the code done by AI (I could also have scripted it).

There is a lot of boring work in programming that I am really happy to delegate. But for high-quality work, I'll mostly write my own code. I am happy to use AI as a fancy autocomplete, but I won't rely on agents.

It is not just about quality. Besides quality, I also care about understanding. To really understand what is going on, you often need to spend a lot of time thinking, trying things and so forth.

To be fair, AI can help you understand what is going on better. You can interact with AI to check your understanding. But if you delegate to your AI, your understanding will be shallow.

I was listening to someone from Anthropic this summer. She was saying that, unavoidably, we are going to end up with more software of lesser quality. Maybe it is already what we are getting today.

So here is what I am doing. Here is what I am going to keep doing. I am going to keep typing my own words, my own code. I am no luddite and I love cool toys. But I believe that the tools should enhance my voice, not replace it.

[Patrick Plante @patrickplante]

J'ai le bonheur de vous présenter mon nouveau cours 🕹️TED 1280 Jeu sérieux, ludification, immersion numérique et conception pédagogique. Un cours de 1er cycle asynchrone à distance offert à l'Université #TÉLUQ 🎓 Inscription en tout temps: https://t.co/FCNJVw3Ntf

[Mrs. Butters 🥧 @MrsButters]

Hey MAGA!

We know you're confused.

Here's some terms you've often misused!

[Philippe Roi @7559pr]

Délaisser stylo et papier pour des claviers numériques change la façon dont votre #cerveau pense lorsque vous écrivez. Loin d’être anodin, cela altère vos capacités d’#apprentissage, vos aptitudes à la #lecture et votre #mémoire. Alors, efforcez-vous d’#écrire un peu à la main.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

D-Day 1944:

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary."

Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."

German Chancellor:  "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."

[Patrick Plante @patrickplante]

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