Paul Reid
@paul-reid-next.bsky.social
Regenerative learning | ILT Strategy | Transversal competencies coach | EdTech Navigator
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Gather round kids and let me tell you a story about a real technology ban...
January 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Gather round kids and let me tell you a story about a real technology ban...
My thoughts exactly!
⌛️ 12 years on #EduTwitter shaped my life.
The first decade was magic: connection, inspiration, and growth through the #edu community. I’m endlessly grateful for the friendships, opportunities, and memories it gave me. 💙
But times changed, and so did that space.
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The first decade was magic: connection, inspiration, and growth through the #edu community. I’m endlessly grateful for the friendships, opportunities, and memories it gave me. 💙
But times changed, and so did that space.
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November 18, 2024 at 10:04 AM
My thoughts exactly!
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🌲I wanted to “take a step back” to get an overall view of the main components in AI’s environmental impact, short & sweet. And @sashamtl.bsky.social & Bruna wanted similar, with relevance to current policy discussions. We merged our thinking: check it out!
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/a...
The Environmental Impacts of AI -- Primer
A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
September 6, 2024 at 6:31 PM
🌲I wanted to “take a step back” to get an overall view of the main components in AI’s environmental impact, short & sweet. And @sashamtl.bsky.social & Bruna wanted similar, with relevance to current policy discussions. We merged our thinking: check it out!
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/a...
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"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation[...]The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."- @eryk.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.
www.techpolicy.press
September 11, 2024 at 4:17 PM
"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation[...]The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."- @eryk.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
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Me: writes a paper (with @sashamtl.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social) on how hype and choice of goals and benchmarks leads to an arm race in AI arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Them: here's my proposal to solve the problem by a better AI algorithm.
🤨 The problem is social: it's norm setting..
Them: here's my proposal to solve the problem by a better AI algorithm.
🤨 The problem is social: it's norm setting..
Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI
With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...
arxiv.org
November 5, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Me: writes a paper (with @sashamtl.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social) on how hype and choice of goals and benchmarks leads to an arm race in AI arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Them: here's my proposal to solve the problem by a better AI algorithm.
🤨 The problem is social: it's norm setting..
Them: here's my proposal to solve the problem by a better AI algorithm.
🤨 The problem is social: it's norm setting..
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In the same way that social media leveraged dopamine, genAI tools are leveraging our oxytocin. Our devices are no longer designed to play on our desire for stimulation and novelty, but connection.
November 17, 2024 at 8:58 PM
In the same way that social media leveraged dopamine, genAI tools are leveraging our oxytocin. Our devices are no longer designed to play on our desire for stimulation and novelty, but connection.