No matter how good it might seem from superficial instruction, ChatGPT doesn’t understand chess and doesn’t have a proper model of what chess is about. Despite (likely) millions of games and many books.

Same is true in every domain anyone looks carefully at.

And finally: 2) Google models the teacher as a data-visualizable set of characteristics and values. Once you do that you can compare them to machine tutors and visualize them as a 'manifold' of pedagogically valuable behaviours. Even if it's pseudo learning science. [end thread]

The report itself resembles the 'big science' format of big authorship team, big tech infrastructure, big data - this is industrial, enterprised-up learning science invoking digital data as the source for 'responsible' educational change. Big Learning Science in the making ...

Two final reflections: 1) Google is out to own the learning sciences. It's report makes plain it hopes to get AI, EdTech and learning science to work together to build 'responsible' AI in education applications ...

So that's new. Google just mathematically reduced all pedagogy and learning contexts into an incomprehensible high-dimensional manifold diagram. Someone else on here called it pseudoscience. I call it Google's pitch to become the Big Learning Science authority ...

In its 86-page paper, the Google DeepMind team - and a bunch of other G teams - make a big play on 'learning science'. They say they review the learning science lit - actually they just cite 50 or so papers on 'intelligent tutoring systems', chatbots and AIED but whatever ...

Yes, AI has a limitless thirst for water & energy, but cooking the planet even faster is a tradeoff we must be willing to make in order to get horrible AI generated images, mountains of misinformation, deepfake pornography, & absolutely terrible writing.
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This is not funny anymore.

Google casually drops an 86 page paper on its DeepMind AI tutor project, pretty much confirming AI in education is now an unstoppable commercial big science enterprise combining big tech and learning science, with Google itself as the 'responsible' steward for future development

'I'm confident that OpenAI will build AGI' -- these folks are like members of an AGI Witnesses sect. We aren't closer to inventing AGI just because we have got LLMs. We aren't closer to inventing AGI because we don't know exactly what we are supposed to invent.

Saying you will

So no defections today. Instead these Tories voted overwhelmingly to block Tim Farrons bill to hold Water Companies to account.

They do not represent ordinary British people. They’re in it solely to line their own and their mates pockets.

The worst most corrupt Govt in history

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Since privatisation, the 16 water monopolies have paid out a total of £78,000,000,000 in dividends.

Meanwhile, we're swimming in and drinking our own excrement.

It's existential: water must be brought into public ownership.

AI is *not* magic!

Water: Profit before safe water

NHS: Profit before patient safety

Railways: Profit before safe trains

Power: Profit before liveable homes...

Anyone see a pattern yet?

Profit before people never makes sense.

Except for the profiteers.

Humans should think; machines should do the work.
-- @ibm 1967

A computer can never be held accountable and therefore must never make a management decision.
-- @ibm 1979

True then; still true now.

AI companies vowed to scrape all publicly available data & declared that the internet is fair play, yet looking at the recent major developments from OpenAI & Google it's fair to say, scaling has finally hit the ceiling.

It was predictable as a sunset.

If people — by people, i mean politicians and technologists pushing AI into our throats — had a tiny understanding of justice, equity, and accountability, they would stop force-feeding us AI

More edu-nonsense from Nesta who deliberately got rid of its education experts: “generative AI might make education and educational content more personalised and engaging, while also easing the workload for … educators.” It might but there’s no evidence it will. Pathetic.

What a roaring success the privatisation of water has been. One of the richest countries in the world and we can't swim in our water or even drink it without getting sick? This can't go on. What will it take for this Government to act? news.sky.com/story/warning-…