The Problem With Chat GPT

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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

In the early 1900s, the philosopher Henry Adams expressed concern about the rapid rate of social change ushered in by new technologies, from the railways to the telegraph and ultimately airplanes. If we transpose Adams's concerns onto the power of artificial intelligence--a power whose rate of acceleration would have exceeded his wildest dreams--you might feel a bit uneasy. Listen as philosopher Jacob Howland of UATX speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why too much leisure is at best a mixed blessing, and how technology can lead to intellectual atrophy. They also speak about the role of AI in education and its implications for that most human of traits: curiosity. Finally, they discuss Howland's biggest concern when it comes to outsourcing our tasks, and our thinking, to machines: that we'll ultimately end up surrendering our own liberty.