PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

Pill Pod 104 - AI & the New Crisis of Humanities Education

Dec 9, 2022

01:09:37

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What You Need to Do to Cheat Fail Safe

04:58

The Art of Success at Harvard Is Choosing Bird Courses

02:03

Education Is a Consumer Experience Not an Interest Experience

02:39

Introduction

2min

How to Write a Good Essay at the Undergraduate Level

2min

College Entrance Essays

3min

Teaching Assistants - Is This Going to Make It Unsustainable?

4min

You Used AI to Mark Someone's Paper?

2min

How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay

2min

Is Race an Important Factor in Canadian Elections?

4min

How to Read an Essay or a Novel

2min

The College Essay Is Dead

3min

10.

Education Is a Consumer Experience Not an Interest Experience

3min

11.

Adapting to the Future Is a Big Thing for Academics

5min

12.

What You Need to Do to Cheat Fail Safe

5min

13.

Is There a Future to the Five Paragraph Essay

4min

14.

How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay

3min

15.

I'm a Logician and I'd Like to Be a Creative Writing Major

6min

16.

The Art of Success at Harvard Is Choosing Bird Courses

2min

17.

How to Write Good Essays Without a Flourish

3min

18.

Is the AI the End of the Machine?

3min

19.

The Application of AI in the Academic Setting

4min

20.

Is There a Difference Between Symbol Manipulation and Deep Learning Algorithms?

4min

21.

Is There a Future for Machine Learning?

3min

Not with a whimper, but with a bang: it's time for another crisis of the Humanities. Students, then teachers, then administrators will realize that AI has nullified our current evaluation methods in academia. In this episode we discuss the implications of OpenAI for essay writing, and how to prevent universities from devolving into AIs reading AIs. Get access to all the episodes and other media at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills