"In shadowy, silent distance grew the iceberg too": universities, technology, work and life
Chat GPT is like an e-bike for the mind Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Twitter, 16 December 2022 “We think the casualisation problem will be solved by AI in about 15 years or so.” University CEO, 2019 1 Hello, it’s been a while. May 2020: something about refusal, and then three years of careful-what-you-wish-for. Three years of writing that refused to be written, as we all tried to find our footing in a pandemic that wouldn’t end, and wouldn’t end,…
Continue ReadingI don’t feel like I’ve been doing a lot of refusing lately. Lee Skallerup Bessette, ‘Refusal‘ 1. It’s 2019, I’m sitting at a thing, and a senior university leader is addressing us with a vision. My attention is drifting, I’m cold and I’ve had too much coffee. The vision seems familiar. And then there it is: “We think the casualisation problem will be solved by AI in about 15 years or so.” It’s like hearing a breaking plate in the…
Continue ReadingIt isn’t like researching and writing so don’t think that I was physically working on it all that time, but thinking about it also occupied the sewing time. Also talking with fellow quilters to get problems solved quicker. Rebecca Albury, email to me 1. I’m steering an underinsured rental car around a parked truck in a back alley in Dublin, and Bon Stewart is peering at two different digital maps, offering advice. Driving in new country is always like this:…
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