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ᴀssᴏᴄɪᴀᴛᴇ ᴘʀᴏғᴇssᴏʀ ʀʜᴇᴛᴏʀɪᴄ & sᴜʀᴠᴇɪʟʟᴀɴᴄᴇ ʜᴇ/ʜɪs/ʜɪᴍ Author of The Rhetoric of Western Thought https://xitter.cf/t.co/ZKuttHbywE

 Omaha, NE
creighton.edu/ccas/communicationstudies/facultystaff/fulltime/guymchendry/
Joined June 2009
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The Cycle of Anti-Government Rhetoric. #teamrhetoric
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Omaha folks, join my colleagues and I tonight at Filmstreams for a showing of Blade Runner and a discussion of Al afterwards. filmstreams.org/films/blade-…

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

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Mar Hicks@histoftechOct 9
I agree with this, but also think it’s important people do not become accultured to being abusive towards anything, because if they talk to machines a lot, they get accustomed to talking to people that way too. I think there’s already even been studies on this w/Alexa, Siri, etc.
neil turkewitz@neilturkewitzOct 8
God, the irony of Anthropic restricting “abusive or cruel behavior” towards Claude while operating a system dependent on stolen property which effectively recapitulates its origin story by eroding the cognitive ability & agency of its users! Please stop the bus—I want to get off.
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Marc Watkins@Marc__WatkinsOct 8
Any vendor supplying a learning management system to a university should absolutely ban agents. Students will use agents for all coursework, faculty will use agents to grade, admin will see it as cost savings. People are already questioning the point of education because of AI.
Paul Graham
@paulgOct 8
Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won't want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.
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Six years ago today we lost my mom. She was a remarkable human. acaguy.medium.com/eulogy-for…

Eulogy for Helene McHendry

Tonight we held a remembrance service for my Mom, Helene McHendry (January 20, 1951-October 7, 2020). I wanted to share the eulogy I…

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Has anyone seen any actual data on the scale and depth of AI integration at Universities? I hear a lot of narratives about forced adoption, but mostly that refers to encouragement from admin, anecdotes, or limited initiatives being mistaken for large scale changes.
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So much this: “I am skeptical of the written word now, a heartbreaking result for me.”
John Gallagher@MereSophistryOct 5
New blog post up! "The treachery of approximation in an era of AI" I hope you'll read and enjoy. Maybe share if you enjoy. (link below)
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Jacob Shell
@JacobAShellOct 4
Not saying I like the policy, but the explanation here is obvious.
QnZ@Theo47102867Oct 4
The entire World Trade Center memorial area has no garbage cans. Why did nyc suddenly decide to become Tokyo just right here?
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Success or failure will be: 1) AI as infrastructure. Deep integration with hidden costs passed on to the consumer. 2) Advertising and the attention economy. The lesson from the development of Web 2.0 was that individual subscriptions never provide lasting economic viability.
a16z
@a16zOct 1
98% of US households aren't paying for AI yet More charts in State of Markets II: a16z.news/p/state-of-markets…
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If you want to know why these companies are so desperate for education footholds…
a16z
@a16zOct 1
98% of US households aren't paying for AI yet More charts in State of Markets II: a16z.news/p/state-of-markets…
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John Gallagher@MereSophistryOct 4
Because people just use the term “wrong” now
Hannah
@anah_sahhOct 3
nobody talks about AI hallucinating anymore. why?
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Everything about this is wrong
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Lots of attention is being given to the supposed loss of the essay in higher ed. The bigger problem is the loss of trust between faculty and students. Mistrust of papers are a symptom of the larger toxicity.
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Dan Collier@Dcollier74Oct 2
Actually... Ya I agree with Derek's assessment. I want to teach my students how to use it and be honest about how they're using it - because they will and one day they'll make decisions as institutional leaders with it that may help or fuck people over.
Derek Thompson
@DKThompOct 1
The fundamental tension w AI and education is that I think schools ought to (a) teach people how to think and (b) prepare them for the workforce (or, at the very least, not actively harm their employability). Those goals push in opposite directions. AI interferes with thinking but it’s also baked into the work of software, finance, legal, marketing, etc. If you use too much AI in college, you’ll be dumb; never use it for four years, and you’ll be in a disadvantaged position for the most popular high-paying entry level jobs. Something like this below seems like at least a thoughtful way of addressing that tension.
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If something like general prompt engineering is being taught then no, no disadvantage. If major/industry specific uses, norms, and ethics are being explored there are advantages.
Aaron Astor
@AstorAaronOct 1
Replying to @DKThomp
Is one really at a disadvantage in not using AI in college? I mean, most AI programs are extremely easy to get up to speed on. A reasonably intelligent new hire can figure out how to use AI for whatever that company needs without much "training" in college.
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A better workflow is to ask AI to help identify errors by indicating the sentence with the problem but not suggesting the edit or fix.
Paul Novosad
@paulnovosadSep 30
We need to distinguish between "AI grammar checking" and "AI rewriting." The first preserves your voice and your writing. The second replaces your voice and writing with AI-voice and AI-writing. (The ideas might still be yours) Interestingly, Pangram distinguishes these. 1/
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This is dumb. Cramming haphazard AI edtech tools into Canvas is hardly good integration let alone a good measure of integration.
Inside Higher Ed@insidehigheredOct 1
Higher Ed’s AI Integration Overhyped, New Data Shows For the first time, the company that owns Canvas analyzed which external learning tools higher education users integrated into the LMS most often. The most popular AI tool didn’t even crack the top 100. bit.ly/3TrYtYp
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Didn’t have the government making a chatbot that has an existential crisis because it can’t play Minecraft.
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Emily Zanotti 🦝
@emzanottiSep 29
Oh man the influencer instruction emails went out BEFORE the testimony 😂☠️
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Because they were already discounting tuition near that percentage. Most students at most institutions do not pay full sticker price
Mike Pierce@millennial_debtSep 27
This makes absolutely no sense if you spend more than 10 seconds thinking about it. Congress didn’t cut back undergrad access to loans meaningfully— certainly not to the degree that would push *Coe College* to cut tuition nearly in half.
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Justin Baeder, PhD
@eduleadershipSep 25
I’m just gonna say it: dual credit is destroying high school with crummy off-campus versions of high school classes, for college credit of dubious value. High schoolers should take high school classes (including AP for college credit) at high school.
Savvas Learning
@SavvasLearningSep 25
What if more students could begin earning college credit while still in high school? Savvas CEO Bethlam Forsa joined @CNBC's @jonfortt to discuss dual enrollment & how earlier access to college & career pathways can expand students’ options. tinyurl.com/44zw2e7y #CareerTechEd
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