/tags/a.i./ Recent content in A.I. on Home Hugo en ©Dialid Santiago 2025 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /scrapbook/05-ai-college-writing/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /scrapbook/05-ai-college-writing/ <p>Just read this fascinating article in The New Yorker</p> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: none; display: block;"> <div style="border: 1px solid #ddd; border-radius: 8px; overflow: hidden; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin: 1em 0; box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); min-height: 80px; align-items: stretch;"> <div style="flex-shrink: 0; width: 120px; display: flex;"> <video style="width: 100%; height: 100%; object-fit: cover; display: block;" muted autoplay loop> <source src="https://media.newyorker.com/clips/685c0672348e55988b789996/master/pass/r46994.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video> </div> <div style="padding: 1em; flex: 1; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; min-width: 0;"> <div style="font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 1.2;">What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?</div> <div style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #666; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 1.3; overflow: hidden; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; -webkit-box-orient: vertical;">The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.</div> <div style="font-size: 0.8em; color: #888; margin-top: auto; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper</div> </div> </div> </a> <p><strong>Takeaways:</strong></p> /scrapbook/03-video-geoffrey-hinton.md/ Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /scrapbook/03-video-geoffrey-hinton.md/ <p>Just finished watching <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton#Views" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Geoffrey Hinton</a>’s interview on The Diary of a CEO — a rare, candid conversation from one of the pioneers of AI.</p> <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center;"> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/giT0ytynSqg?si=5m42a0UTQB_TcKp2" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen> </iframe> </div> <p><strong>Takeaways</strong></p> <ol> <li> <p>Real AI risks are already here Hinton emphasizes that the pressing dangers aren&rsquo;t sci-fi superintelligence, but things we see today: algorithmic manipulation, the amplification of bias, and disinformation at scale.</p> </li> <li> <p>Hinton comes from a family tree of scientific legacy. His lineage includes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Boole</a> best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854), which contains Boolean algebra; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Everest</a>, a geographer and a Surveyor General of India, after whom Mount Everest was named; and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joan Hinton</a> a nuclear physicist and one of the few women scientists who worked for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos.</p>