we can't detect AI enabled writing with any reasonable degree of confidence. And no, we can't mark student work with LLMs, or solve real world problems with LLMs, or replace the people doing jobs requiring judgement, compassion, or rationality with LLMs. Not without suffering painful regrets when it comes time to deal with the consequences!
Tag: AI
Making Sense of AI
So you haven’t got time to read through hefty books about the AI industry. You’ve had fun with image generators, and you find chatbots useful although occasionally alarming. But there’s information firing at you from all directions, and it’s wildly contradictory, alarming, exciting, and horrifying, all at the same time. What the heck are you supposed to do?
Dr Emily Kahl on pretty much everything!
Amazing conversation with Dr Emily Kahl from Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, on everything from the need for a humanities education in STEM, the application of Marxist and Feminist Lenses to Data Science, and a whole lot more. This was an absolute delight. Check it out! "I wanted to use the tools of maths and science… Continue reading Dr Emily Kahl on pretty much everything!
What is creativity, and can chatbots have it?
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.
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.