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Jacob Howland on the Hidden Human Costs of AI

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The Problem With Chat GPT

I want to come back to this to the educational point you made. We could test students on whether they read Homer by asking them, what's the name of the one eyed monster in the cave that Odysseus and his band encounter? So, one level of reading a great work would be, did you, did you do it? And in doing it, did you understand it at the most cursory narrative level? That is not education. You don't read the Odyssey to find out what happened. It's not why I'm sure students at UATX will read it. To learn something about the human experience itself, and that learning takes place to the arduous task of

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