yet to formulate.
incidents:
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mimi asking the computer to draw {emotion} rectangle in icm_class-1, and it failing to do so.
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asking the computer to make a game on an arduino, but it not understanding the intricacies (and getting them wrong); in ipc_experiments_week-2.
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from ipc_experiments_week-4:
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aram asked me why i don’t use chat-gpt to get it to work, and bother racking my head instead.
i told him that it is because i can get it work by asking a chatbot, but (a) i won’t bother understanding how it worked, and (b) i would lose out on all the other potential learning that ‘not knowing’ could lead me to (such as actually understanding what transistors do).
yes, not asking an ai-chatbot consumes more time, but it gives me more than a answer.
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the tisch statement of principle says:
The core of the educational experience at the Tisch School of the Arts is the creation of original academic and artistic work by students for the critical review of faculty members. It is therefore of the utmost importance that students at all times provide their instructors with an accurate sense of their current abilities and knowledge in order to receive appropriate constructive criticism and advice. Any attempt to evade that essential, transparent transaction between instructor and student through plagiarism or cheating is educationally self-defeating and a grave violation of Tisch School of the Arts community standards.
meaning that when students write code (or build something) that they do not fully understand, they are doing a grave dissatisfaction to their learning. they give a false sense of understanding to the instructor, by displaying the application of something that hasn’t been understood.
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from ga_ima_physical-computing_class_log:
the use of ai is also astounding. somehow, making art is not about the process anymore — it’s a job, a chore — and about the final outcome.
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from extended overthinking by pablo stanley:
Yes, they let us do more. But there’s this weird disconnect growing between me and the things I make. When everything is instant, it starts feeling like a slot machine. Except you always win. Which makes it more addictive. And somehow… also boring?
The thing gets done but it doesn’t feel like I did anything. I could’ve written that code myself… but sometimes I don’t even know where the component lives in the files. I’d have to inspect the element in the browser, find the classes, copy them, search them in my IDE, locate the file, then edit it (am I the only one who does this?) So instead… I just talk to the machine. I overexplain so it only changes what I want. I don’t design anymore. I direct.
readings (and quotes):
- i am an ai hater by anthony moser:
Critics have already written thoroughly about the environmental harms, the reinforcement of bias and generation of racist output, the cognitive harms and AI supported suicides, the problems with consent and copyright, the way AI tech companies further the patterns of empire, how it’s a con that enables fraud and disinformation and harassment and surveillance, the exploitation of workers, as an excuse to fire workers and de-skill work, how they don’t actually reason and probability and association are inadequate to the goal of intelligence, how people think it makes them faster when it makes them slower, how it is inherently mediocre and fundamentally conservative, how it is at its core a fascist technology rooted in the ideology of supremacy, defined not by its technical features but by its political ones.