Sharon Steeples

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[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:

1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators.
4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc.

TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Gemini Nano Banana Pro can solve exam questions *in* the exam page image. With doodles, diagrams, all that.

ChatGPT thinks these solutions are all correct except Se_2P_2 should be "diselenium diphosphide" and a spelling mistake (should be "thiocyanic acid" not "thoicyanic")

:O

[Kala Elizabeth @kalaelizabeth]

"You hate AI because it's going to replace you" Actually, I hate genAI because it is built off of stolen data, it breaks copyright laws, it's poisoning the planet & black communities. It's raising our electricity bills. It's spreading misinformation & making people fucking stupid

[Sharon Steeples @sharonsteeples]

@Tesco why don’t you rely to your DMs? I just get looped through bot responses and never get to a real person. I’ve been trying for over 24 hours. Appalling customer service. Especially when I am trying to help you by reporting a fault with your online grocery shopping website

[Sharon Steeples @sharonsteeples]

@sambakey @Tesco Were the red peppers the first thing you put in your basket? For me it was the first item I can’t remove.

[Sharon Steeples @sharonsteeples]

@Tesco your website and your app are refusing to let me remove an item from my shopping basket. Every time I remove it the site puts it back! Please fix this bug. See video

[Bantshire University @BantshireUni]

It looks like you’re trying to find a creative marketing angle for your disappointing NSS results. Would you like me to start?

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years.

I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.

We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous.

This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.

When the OBBB comes back to the House for approval after Senate changes, I will not vote for it with this in it.

We should be reducing federal power and preserving state power.

Not the other way around.

Especially with rapidly developing AI that even the experts warn they have no idea what it may be capable of.

[Bantshire University @BantshireUni]

Students are kindly reminded to remove post-it note artwork from their windows before this weekend’s open day.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Graduate visas will be reduced to just 18 months and a new levy will be imposed on income from international student fees, under plans outlined by the UK government. @TWilliamsTHE reports
https://t.co/F5sOjlq7MA

[WeThePeople🇺🇸🇺🇸 @PrincessBravato]

@DebiPennyLane

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

Small coding team, we have Friday video meetings with management to explain what we've done/are going to do. Been using bullshit meaningless coding terms generated by AI to explain bugs/fixes. 5 weeks now and they're still just nodding and saying "good job, well done".

[Sharon Steeples @sharonsteeples]

@Herring1967 Technically Jesus was Jewish….

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

microsoft co pilot is a time machine that allows you to use chatgpt 12 months in the past.

it’s remarkable.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform
USA: Hold my beer...

[UCU @ucu]

🚨A MUST WATCH🚨

“Incompetence at the very top of Dundee University”

@dundeeuni principal Shane O’Neill gets grilled for trying make over 600 staff pay the price for his mismanagement👇

[Sharon Steeples @sharonsteeples]

@MSFT365Status That’s the SECOND bad code rollout THIS WEEK!! First Sharepoint search. Now Outlook. FFS!!!

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Alaska’s Passive Aggressive Map of the United States

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

Monday - Roll back tariffs
Tuesday - Reinstate tariffs
Wednesday - Roll back tariffs
Thursday - Reinstate tariffs
Friday - Roll back tariffs
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf