Proposed Title: ChatGPT and Human Communication: Convenience, Agency, and Authenticity For my Critical AI Analysis Paper, I would like to investigate the concept of ChatGPT as an AI and its potential influence on humanity’s ways of communication. The tool can be used to produce emails, create content for social media, compose essays, and achieve other …
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Oct 16
Thoughts on Reading 4 and Vibe Coding
On a complete converse from the last pair of pieces. The reading we have introducing vibe coding is actually why I an not an AI dooms-dayer to the core. I have been actively and extensively using AI since I could essentially beta test GPT. In more recent times I have been using LLMs (and much …
Oct 16
Readings Three: On Turkle and Chiang
These readings present two overlapping crises of the current AI moment, both of which have been on my mind a lot lately. With character.ai being sued into bankruptcy because of the multiple cases of harm resulting from engagement morphing into addiction for its users, you can easily see exactly what Turkle warns of in her …
Oct 08
Week 4 Readings
Chiang, ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web – I really liked the blurry JPEG example Chiang used because it made his idea so much easier to understand. A JPEG can look clear while losing information and Chiang compares this to how ChatGPT can give us a clear answer that is not always accurate. …
Sep 30
September 29th Reading Reflections
Kate Crawford’s NY Times article, “Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem,” accurately describes the lack of representation currently being faced within the white male-dominated tech industries of today. These machine systems are being built with questionable ethical standards, creating biased answers as these systems replicate and reproduce the ideas and information they were originally fed, under …
Sep 30
AI Proposal Paper Topic:
My proposal idea/topic for Assignment 1 will be to research how to ChatGPT (a multimodal generative AI system using large language models) “works”, it’s interface, as well as analyzing potential biases and how clerical human error can be harmful when programming these systems of artificial intelligence (real world/social scientific impact). I will also include how …
Sep 29
Week 2 Readings
Crawford, Atlas of AI (Excerpt) – This reading made me think about how people can create technology without thinking about the people who could be affected by it. I was surprised that some AI researchers can work with information about real people without having to go through the same ethics reviews as other types of …
Sep 29
On Our Second Readings: Ruha Benjamin and Kate Crawford
This Crawford piece speaks very much to a thing I have personally been saying to a lot of people in my life and it is that we really need to pump the breaks a little on AI sensationalism because it is a marketing campaign, an AI power accelerator, a thing to argue about in the …
Sep 29
AI Paper Proposal
I use three LLMs for entirely different purposes, aside from sandboxed models for messing around with image generation or video. Claude for code and general server development and maintenance. Gemini for administrative and research things related to schooling. ChatGPT for every other stupid thing I can think of and to test the limitations, reactions, evolution, …
Sep 29
Week 3 Readings
Crawford, Kate, NY Times, “Artifical Intelligence’s White Guy Problem” – This reading taught me that AI can have the same biases that people have. I was surprised that technology that seems smart can still make serious mistakes like misidentifying Black people or giving some people fewer job ads based on their gender. I also learned …
