Creativity requires a new take on something. An original perspective. Something no one else has thought of. LLMs, by definition, produce the kinds of things they have already seen. The kinds of things that already exist. The kinds of things that reinforce the status quo, entrench bias, and emphasise the mundane.
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Hallucinations all the way down
The thing is, it's not reasoning. It's not a reasoning machine. It's not even trying to give you correct answers. It's trying to give you statistically plausible text. The fact that the plausible text is occasionally correct is the surprise. The fact that regularly gets things wrong is exactly how these systems work.
Schrödinger’s AI
Pushing back against AI hype sometimes feels futile, but every person you reach matters. So how do we fight back?
Ethical uses of AI
There is no ethical way to use AI. At least not the Large Language Models (LLMs) we’re mostly talking about these days when we talk about AI. I’m going to unpack that in a moment, but first let me stress that I am not, for a moment, calling teachers who use AI unethical. The ethical responsibility here does not lie with users of LLMs. It lies firmly with the industry that has created and promoted the use of these machines in wholly unethical ways.
Prove it
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype, to buy a product, buy into the idea, plan classroom activities, or even invest in the company, that makes the most attractive claims. But there’s a two word sentence that could protect us, if only we wielded it more often. Prove it.