ArXiv.org Reaches a Milestone and a Reckoning | Scientific American
Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server| Scientific American
Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server| Scientific American
No, AI isn't making people dumber. It's just a symptom of a much larger problem.| www.cyberpunksurvivalguide.com
Submissions by Institution (2022)| info.arxiv.org
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, published in the United Kingdom as The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember, is a 2010 book by the American journalist Nicholas G. Carr. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, the book expands on the themes first raised in "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", Carr's 2008 essay in The Atlantic, and explores the effects of the Internet on the brain. The book claims research shows "online reading" yields lower ...| en.m.wikipedia.org
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" is a 2008 article written by technologist Nicholas Carr for The Atlantic, and later expanded on in a published edition by W. W. Norton. The book investigates the cognitive effects of technological advancements that relegate certain cognitive activities—namely, knowledge-searching—to external computational devices. The book received mainstream recognition for interrogating the assumptions people make about technological change and advocating for a component of...| en.m.wikipedia.org
According to Nicholas Carr (2010), ‘Socrates was right.’ Once people had acquired the means to write and read their thoughts and the thoughts of others, they relied less upon the contents of their own memories (Carr, 2010). Writing affords us a way to preserve knowledge, information, ideas, and histories. The written word allows for the re-examination of information, and the organization of thoughts, whether they are to-do lists or academic essays. With the invention of letter and printin...| blogs.ubc.ca
arXiv| arxiv.org
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."| 404 Media
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.| TIME
Transcript: There’s so much bad news surrounding “AI” right now that I’ve had a real hard time narrowing down what I want to talk about. By “AI” of course, I’m talking about generative AI, large la…| Skepchick
Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps.| 404 Media
