I had never read that spider story before but I’m glad I did. You capture dreams really well but also the essential spidery-ness of spiders.
That’s something that these LLMs can’t do. If I told chatgpt to write a story where a spider is very spidery and kind of a dream within a dream, it wouldn’t write anything like what you wrote.
In my job (and in my life, at a smaller level) we have seen a bias from readers in favor of human writing. LLMs can mimic human-like writing a little but there are features of human writing that they simply can’t replicate. There’s an element of surprise that these LLMs simply have no way of understanding. And people are getting better and better at sniffing out writing that isn’t human written, which I find encouraging.
I have never been a teacher but I have been a student. Students have always found ways to cheat and half ass and shirk and avoid probably since forever. Technology keeps giving them ways. I was supposed to read a book for a lit class one time in particular and I just never bothered to. The discussions in class gave me context to be able to write pretty convincingly about it. I was even able to talk to the professor about the themes when she tried to quiz me on it.
Students who want to learn will find a way and students who don’t care will find a way, too. I like that we make everybody try out the same core subjects, because I think a good base education is a broad one. We can see what all there is and dig deeper on the stuff that interests us. I suppose I’m pretty liberal-arts-pilled.
The older I get the more I see these patterns repeating. It’s comforting but also exciting. One day all this consternation about ai will feel as dated as the arguments Posy in the 80s had to hear when she started graphic designing on a computer instead of using paper and scissors. I wonder what new wonders the students of the next generation of teachers will use to drive their professors crazy.
Thanks for reading it! Teaching is hard--my biggest issue toward the end was with getting students to read. They didn't want to spend the time, or they didn't have the time. I have strategies in mind for if I ever go back to it, but I don't know. ChatGPT is making me a website, but it says it's going to take weeks to complete.
I had never read that spider story before but I’m glad I did. You capture dreams really well but also the essential spidery-ness of spiders.
That’s something that these LLMs can’t do. If I told chatgpt to write a story where a spider is very spidery and kind of a dream within a dream, it wouldn’t write anything like what you wrote.
In my job (and in my life, at a smaller level) we have seen a bias from readers in favor of human writing. LLMs can mimic human-like writing a little but there are features of human writing that they simply can’t replicate. There’s an element of surprise that these LLMs simply have no way of understanding. And people are getting better and better at sniffing out writing that isn’t human written, which I find encouraging.
I have never been a teacher but I have been a student. Students have always found ways to cheat and half ass and shirk and avoid probably since forever. Technology keeps giving them ways. I was supposed to read a book for a lit class one time in particular and I just never bothered to. The discussions in class gave me context to be able to write pretty convincingly about it. I was even able to talk to the professor about the themes when she tried to quiz me on it.
Students who want to learn will find a way and students who don’t care will find a way, too. I like that we make everybody try out the same core subjects, because I think a good base education is a broad one. We can see what all there is and dig deeper on the stuff that interests us. I suppose I’m pretty liberal-arts-pilled.
The older I get the more I see these patterns repeating. It’s comforting but also exciting. One day all this consternation about ai will feel as dated as the arguments Posy in the 80s had to hear when she started graphic designing on a computer instead of using paper and scissors. I wonder what new wonders the students of the next generation of teachers will use to drive their professors crazy.
Thanks for reading it! Teaching is hard--my biggest issue toward the end was with getting students to read. They didn't want to spend the time, or they didn't have the time. I have strategies in mind for if I ever go back to it, but I don't know. ChatGPT is making me a website, but it says it's going to take weeks to complete.