ai, ai, ai: critical thinking and literacy won’t save you
I attended an event on campus about AI (specifically generative AI) and how it was being approached in different disciplines and units. We are where everyone basically is, which is “Keep swimming. I think I see an island ahead.” One shared worry about generative AI is that its results are unreliable. Setting aside “cheating,” students…
on being a “theorist” and an “Adirondack Speculator”
I’m teaching our introductory graduate course on “Media Theory” in the fall. The stereotype of these courses is that they are like a week-long tour of Western Europe (it’s Tuesday it must be feminism or Rome or whatever). While we anoint certain people as “theorists” in the humanities, that’s not really a job. It’s certainly…
from paper clips to brainstems: large language models and nonhuman rhetorics
A familiar cautionary tale about AI is the paper clip maximizer, where an AI destroys the world in pursuit of its seemingly banal task of making paper clips efficiently. The story imagines an AI with general, even superhuman, intelligence and agency. The debates continue about whether or not AGI will ever be achieved. But what…
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Alex Reid 