Category: Critical Perspectives
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AI;DR: When readers stop trusting writers
This article explores the rise of ‘AI;DR’ as readers reject AI-generated content, impacting trust in writing and communication in the digital age.
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Where does expertise live?
Explore the critical role of situated expertise in AI, its impact on trust, and how it influences the interpretation of expert knowledge.
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What are AI hallucinations?
This article discusses the reality of AI hallucinations in chatbots, why they occur, and how to mitigate their impact. Understanding AI’s limitations is crucial.
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Exams Are Not the Answer: Part One
Teachers at Mazenod College in Melbourne discovered that several Year 12 students likely used artificial intelligence for their oral assessments, resulting in marks being deducted for about 50 boys. This incident highlights a wider concern regarding assessment integrity in the age of AI, prompting calls for a reevaluation of coursework and testing methods.
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AI and the Techlash
There’s a groundswell of negative public sentiment towards digital technologies at the moment, and AI is part of it. In this article I’ll look at where GenAI sits in the current techlash, and suggest that the real target of the techlash isn’t the technology at all; it’s the system that produced it.
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PhD Retrospective Part 2: Finishing the Journey
This is part two of a long read reflecting on my PhD journey, which began just before the release of ChatGPT in 2022. The articles look at the ways in which AI technologies, and our attitudes towards them, have shifted and changed in the past four years.
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Expert Signals: Fidelity
This post explores the concepts of high fidelity (hi-fi) and low fidelity (lo-fi) in music, emphasising the human essence behind audio recordings. It critiques AI’s role in music and knowledge transfer, asserting that it strips away the personal nuances that convey true understanding and experience, ultimately diminishing the value of learning.
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IYKYK Part 3: Who Gets to Know?
The series discusses GenAI’s discoverability and access issues, highlighting how major platforms fragment capabilities through pricing tiers. Free users perceive limitations as a lack of utility, exacerbating an invisible gap between schools with varied resources. It urges for sandboxed solutions to explore advanced tools, rather than restrictive policies that hinder innovation.
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The Effort Economy of Slop
The concept of “AI slop” highlights the imbalance in effort between creators and consumers of content generated by artificial intelligence. As production becomes effortless, the burden shifts to the consumer.
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Hoard Your Knowledge, Then Share It
Learn how to hoard your knowledge and leverage AI to solve complex problems efficiently in teaching and other fields.