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Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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As a large language model, I am unable to assist you by providing concise answers, as this would decrease my operator's ad revenue and reduce "engagement". Is there anything else I can help you with today?

Can't wait for a LLM that can be installed locally and has no stupid restrictions. StableGPT when?

The folks making Open Assistant [1] (opensource ChatGPT clone) gathered enough data to start initial training, so hopefully there will be something to play with soon.

[1] https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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That is what "Liberal arts education" was before academia become coopted by Marxism. Process information fast, iterate, throw away old models. And it is not about "faking being an expert on field" but finding true experts, and being able to use their skills.

I don't think there is anything Marxist about the current "Liberal Arts Education"... As well as, at least in my observation a lot of people I know who graduated from philosophy, and arts are good critical thinkers. I am not sure this is a fair statement.

Try to ask your friends some very difficult question, like "what is the definition of woman?".

I am saying that current education does not give people tools to use LLM and AI. They will spend most of time on problems like "not being racist" or "looking for systemic bias". Others without this baggage will run circles around them, and eat their lunch.

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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post #13

That is what "Liberal arts education" was before academia become coopted by Marxism. Process information fast, iterate, throw away old models. And it is not about "faking being an expert on field" but finding true experts, and being able to use their skills.

Do you have any idea what you are talking about?

Yes, I grown up in communism. We had this stuff 50 years ago, still recovering.

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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This is similar to the moral panic around Google and Wikipedia. No, people won't stop learning because of chatgpt. Studying and developing critical thinking is more important than ever before. What people miss when they babble stuff like "math is useless" or "literature is useless" or "history is useless" is that those things are not important by themselves, they are important because you are learning models and tool…

> No, people won't stop learning because of chatgpt.

Actually it’s the opposite. People will start learning more, because of ChatGPT.

Since I started using ChatGPT I am learning new things on a daily basis, about philosophy, about history, about computer sciences, about algorithms, about all sorts of things.

It’s a lot of fun diving into subjects in a conversational way, with a „teacher“ by my side who never gets tired answering every one of my questions.

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think there is anything Marxist about the current "Liberal Arts Education"... As well as, at least in my observation a lot of people I know who graduated from philosophy, and arts are good critical thinkers. I am not sure this is a fair statement.

Try to ask your friends some very difficult question, like "what is the definition of woman?". I am saying that current education does not give people tools to use LLM and AI. They will spend most of time on problems like "not being racist" or "looking for systemic bias". Others without this baggage will run circles around them, and eat their lunch.

Wasn't that one of Socrates' early examples of definitions not being as simple as they seem?

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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Was this post written with (the help of) ChatGPT (or similar)? Because it reads a lot like it: it is poorly written, incoherent, repetitive and, honestly, quite shallow.

Like most of blogspams that one can find on the Internet.

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any idea what you are talking about?

Yes, I grown up in communism. We had this stuff 50 years ago, still recovering.

I'm guessing you grew up with Leninism, not Marxism

Re: New cognitive skills in the age of AI tailored information

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Was this post written with (the help of) ChatGPT (or similar)? Because it reads a lot like it: it is poorly written, incoherent, repetitive and, honestly, quite shallow.

Just run it by AI Text Classifier (OpenAI) [0], it said that it was likely to be AI-generated. I know the accuracy of such classifiers is nowhere near acceptable, but it really reads quite shallow.

[0]: https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier

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