Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LightNews

ahdok

@socksandpuppets.com

310 followers 88 following 1.7K posts

I make comics sometimes https://linktr.ee/ahdok

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · Nov 3

Month in summary

#sockstober #Drawtober #Inktober #Gobtober #DnD #DnDArt #DnDCharacter #OC #OCArt #Goblin #GoblinGirl

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 13h

I'm willing to take part, especially if my turn is in the new year (if we're starting in November, and it's 2 weeks per person, then that should probably be okay!)

You already know my art :)

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 17h

This graphic has Washington DC in the wrong place, and an entire paragraph of Lorem Ipsum. It's "better" but it's still garbage.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 23h

I never know when #PortfolioDay is

Reposted by ahdok

kell ☆ @corviida.bsky.social · Sep 3

verso doodles... voodles, if you will #expedition33

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 23h

Oh my god she's going to slam three of them, get wired on caffeine, and solve world hunger.

Reposted by ahdok

Zoe Baskerville Art @zoebaskervilleart.bsky.social · 1d

for todays #gobtober we got @socksandpuppets.com oc konsi just enjoying some nice pumpkin spice
#art #goblin

Reposted by ahdok

Fukkatsu (cmm-close) @fukkatsu.bsky.social · 3d

My OC Silino💙
I wanted to draw something aesthetic with him. And I realized that I hadn't painted much with him this year, ahah
#OC #illustration

Reposted by ahdok

Bee - Commissions OPEN @boaillustration.bsky.social · 3d

I've been playing a lot of Hades 2 lately

#art #hades2

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 3d

I'm using Visual BoxProBroProBroProFoxBox Professional Edition Final_FINAL 2.0

Reposted by ahdok

Huffslove @huffslove.bsky.social · 6d

Silksong!

Reposted by ahdok

🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open @sitaart.bsky.social · 7d

The Prismatic Kobold Scholar

Illustration: a lovely scholar kobold with pale white and prismatic scales. She carries two arcane scrolls, a fancy tome and wears a colorful pair of glasses.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

Alright, that's my ted talk. If you read it, thanks!

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

It's the same argument with critical thinking as you made with doing art.

AI doesn't "make you a better artist" by doing the hard parts for you, and it doesn't "make you a better thinker" by doing the thinking for you, it just offers you an alternative to practicing and growing yourself.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

Microsoft put out a study months ago showing that people who relied on their copilot AI assistance tools showed a significant decline in critical thinking skills - because they stopped trying to figure stuff out themselves, they stopped practicing *thinking* and just let copilot do it for them.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

As for "supercharging critical thinking" - it's quite the opposite. You develop and maintain critical thinking skills by challenging your brain. Engaging with a problem and figuring it out yourself makes you better at figuring things out yourself. AI shortcuts that process to just give you an answer

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

I think this is one of the biggest dangers with AI. People are just relying on what it says and trusting the outputs, because it *seems* knowledgeable, and they tend to do that when they don't have the skills to vet the outputs and check they make sense.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

I think all this buzz-speak around AI is just empty marketing. They're promising you that it's really amazing and intelligent, and they've built something that LOOKS like that right up until you actually know what the hell you're talking about, and then you realize it's a facade and a farce.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

The sum total of blending all this together isn't "superhuman intelligence" it's "average intelligence" - it doesn't have any way to distinguish the quality of the information it ingests, and it's weighted towards common responses, not accurate ones.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

It's basically mashing up all the "information" out there that exists that relates to your query, and spitting out a collage of the inputs, but those inputs include scientific papers that disagree with each other, wikipedia, reddit, the Onion, twitter shitposts, etc etc etc.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

If I ask ChatGPT about a topic I have no understanding of, it gives me some plausible looking response, but I lack the expertise to know if it's right.

Whenever I ask ChatGPT about a topic I took my degree in, I *always* see that it's responses are just... wrong? Like, there's so many flaws.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

I enjoy a lot of this, but I want to focus on the idea that AI is supercharging people's critical thinking skills

Sam Altman says that talking to OpenAI's new models is like talking to an expert with a PhD for every subject

But, for subjects where I actually have expertise, my experience differs.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 6d

npr don't employ him any more, so I guess you got your wish?

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 7d

I find it really hard to figure out what makes empathetic sense for a souls-like protagonist to believe or think, because "if you die you just respawn" is often in-universe knowledge they have, and I have no idea how I'd handle learning that in my life...

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 7d

OpenAI (of all people) released a study last month saying they've proved that it's actually impossible to avoid hallucinations with this technology and the way they've designed it.

Wrong information is a baked in and inevitable part of the way it works.

So it's as useful as a magic 8-ball really.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 7d

Well yes, it's just randomly compiling common responses to a string

The problem is it also regularly gives very bad advice (like eat rocks or put glue on your pizza), and has no capacity to distinguish

If you rely on it for societal stuff, it'll mostly just agree with you and reinforce your biases