We have been talking a lot about AI at work. How and why it could be implemented. Ethical issues. How to enforce the non use. How to encourage it in other places.
My initial response is that I am so bored by it all. I feel like most AI is obvious, though not all. AI writing sounds unnatural and AI images all have that weird Thomas Kinkade light.
There are a couple of people in my Facebook feed who seem to love those images. They pair them with AI feelgood stories and I am left empty. The old gentleman in the picture with a cap crumpled in his hand makes me think of pod people. The story reminds me of the stories Winston Smith recounts in 1984. Made by machine for the masses.
I find myself begging students to turn things in with mistakes, because at least they are not boring. Honest mistakes, not the too-many-fingers mistakes that AI makes.
It comes down to being comfortable enough with oneself to make mistakes and I wonder if that is something we need to emphasize more than how and when to use AI.
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