@luciedigitalni
Agree that there are equity issues. At least now, with wages behind inflation, graduates are not going to fall increasingly behind. @mativity
“Almost everything that allows a human society to function has been destroyed: civil register, property register, cultural and health infrastructure, most of the schools built by UNRWA”.
@cathywilcox
How would you address climate change?
Anything but reduce carbon emissions and instead focus on impractical 'pie in the sky' solutions like nuclear energy and CCS.
@elilla
Yes, we have a fridge that is covered in lights and buttons. Not helpful.
I suspect most people in the first world have lives full of devices with dozens of 'must have' features they never use. @VickiWoodward
@sidereal
When teaching I used AI like ChatGPT to churn out a few paragraphs of background. So for instance I set a group work assignment and ask for some dot points I could edit on effective group work to use in the introduction to the assignment. In the past, I would write it myself, but the AI saved me 20 minutes. @stephstephking
🤩 Aren't you just delighted by all those proprietary software apps for the #Fediverse?
😮 Don't be. Each time you choose proprietary you help turn the fedi slowly in the direction of the usual corporate hellscape that the rest of the Web already is.
😨 And then we end up in an online space where for years we can complain to each other how we squandered an opportunity and how #capitalism won once more.
🎯 Use #FOSS apps instead, created by the public for the public.
@smallcircles@mativity
so are Tusky and Fedilab OSS?
I am not sure it makes much difference while Mastodon servers are open source. The apps can't change the nature of the fediverse or the servers? They are just an interface after all.
I see everyoine is (rightly so) ripping on Musk's new all-male xAI effort to "understand the true nature of the universe."
But the real problem is AI can't tell us anything new beyond what scientists have already figured out. It doesn't do any "thinking" or actual research or anything new; it simply regurgitates re-formulated ideas based on the science of what we already know.
What is MIGHT produce, especially since Musk is leading this, is garbage speculation unsupported by evidence.
@petergleick
I decided to ask Elon's giant hive mind (🐦) this question. The reply was a picture of a scantily dressed girl with very exaggerated anatomy and a few Bible verses of questionable relevance.
Needless to say I am not very confident xAI will do any better. Looks like a massively funded school group project for the science fair.