Connie on Nostr: “The assignment was simple: have a conversation with a chatbot about the history of ...
“The assignment was simple: have a conversation with a chatbot about the history of attention, edit the text down to four pages, and turn it in.
Reading the results, on my living-room couch, turned out to be the most profound experience of my teaching career. I’m not sure how to describe it. In a basic way, I felt I was watching a new kind of creature being born, and also watching a generation come face to face with that birth: an encounter with something part sibling, part rival, part careless child-god, part mechanomorphic shadow—an alien familiar.”
— D. Graham Burnett teaches history of science at Princeton and is co-founder and director of the Strother School of Radical Attention, in Brooklyn.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence?
Reading the results, on my living-room couch, turned out to be the most profound experience of my teaching career. I’m not sure how to describe it. In a basic way, I felt I was watching a new kind of creature being born, and also watching a generation come face to face with that birth: an encounter with something part sibling, part rival, part careless child-god, part mechanomorphic shadow—an alien familiar.”
— D. Graham Burnett teaches history of science at Princeton and is co-founder and director of the Strother School of Radical Attention, in Brooklyn.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence?