Omicreativedev @omi@qoto.org
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Computer Science Student, Autism Mom, Artist, Polymath
Now that my children are older, I've returned to school to complete a degree. I'm studying Computer Science with a focus on engineering for Data Science. The direction of my studies are in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, notably AGI.
Otherwise and subsequently, my interests are ridiculously broad. Rather, there isn't a subject I can't find interesting. Naturally curious, I deeply enjoy philosophy, the humanities, the arts, technology, history, nature, physics, and a wide range of nonsense that I may not believe (personally) but enjoy indulging.
Out of the corner of my eye I read the prompt right here as "Why are you mad?" instead of, "What's on your mind?" 😂
Are you on more than one server? I just found out about me.dm and I'm a big Medium user. But I like my account here. Do you ever have 2?
@omi that’s just an idea for teaching…
@omi interesting, i havent digested everything yet, but my hot take is that it would eventually be good to restrict which apps are used aswell , for various reasons , something to think about for next year perhaps 🙂
@omi There's a reason graphing calculators are allowed in certain math courses, but not in others (or at least I hope there is).
I'd think the same would roughly apply to AI tools.
They should be verboten in english/writing classes, but generally acceptable elsewhere.
We all know how badly the AIs are about fudging facts, so any students that rely on them in their entirety are sure to slip up quickly.
The real question is, should non-English courses be grading on the quality of the English in the papers they assign? Because if they do, then ChatGPT can provide an unfair advantage to students who use it (it's pretty good at mimicking good structure for an essay, and extremely helpful for ESL students). So, that type of grading may need a re-think for the modern times if AIs are allowed to be used as a tool for writing.
I suppose another good question is: Do you want to teach the kids to rely on these tools, or to rely on themselves?
There's a lot of benefit to the latter, but professional adults rely on calculators with no shame on a daily basis, so 🤷♂️
So I'm writing a paper about how I think my #college should handle #AI policy concerning
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #dalle2 #jasperai #novelai #grammerly
#stablediffusion #midjourney
and similar gen models.
What do you think a school policy should be?
One of my professors included in her syllabus a rule that AI is okay to use BUT it must be cited, along with the prompt, result, what was learned, and output must be reworked/paraphrased/summarized but cannot be used "as is" and no quoting AI, because AI cannot author (and we don't know the training sources)
What are your thoughts on this? And what are your thoughts on what a school policy should be? Many schools are trying to block the models.
@omi I used your idea today in class! I didn't have layers but I made playdough balls in three different colours, each with a dinosaur inside. Didn't have time to let them dry, but the kids loved making dinosaur tracks and impressions afterwards in the soft dough.
They took their excavated dino to a station to find a matching picture, and learn their dinosaur's name. Next they put their dino picture on a chart in the Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous row, depending on the colour of the dough! It was great fun!
Are there any popular domains you follow?
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"Guiding Text-to-Image Diffusion Model Towards Grounded Generation. (arXiv:2301.05221v1 [cs.CV])" — Enhance a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model to simultaneously generate images and segmentation masks for the corresponding visual entities described in the text prompt.
Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05221
Code: No code in linked repo (yet)
#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning
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Many people are desperately afraid of “forever masking.”
I'm afraid of #COVID19 remaining a top five cause of death indefinitely.
I'm scared COVID will leave billions with lasting damage to their heart, brains, and immune systems.
I'm frightened that children infected three, four or nine times will have lifelong health issues.
I'm worried that a rapidly mutating virus could yet spin off a deadly new variant.
Why is it so hard to do something so simple to possibly save a life? #WearAMask
**How #Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot #Misinformation**
[https://archive.ph/LNpan#selection-451.272-451.286](https://archive.ph/LNpan#selection-451.272-451.286)
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*Rambling: I strongly favor the approach of teaching critical thinking and media #literacy in contrast to #censorship and #regulation of #freespeech #freepress and #firstammendment — It's very important as #parents and #educators of all types to support open #information (yes, even nonsense, #fantasy, #propaganda, etc.) I do realize that #fakenews and #deepfakes have more #power of #influence than ever. However, #bookbanning, censoring and #control is not the answer. (It also inspires defensive resistance and motivates persistence of the deception worth culling.) Once upon a time, public discourse and debate was normal. I'm not sure if it's that we're too lazy, too busy, or don't care. But it seems more today that it's "Cooler" to erase #history or selectively ignore things that are uncomfortable. I also realize that people are afraid for the neglected and uneducated children of the world who lack #education and parental oversight being wrangled into #dangerous activity. Rather than impose our views and overstep jurisdictional, parenthood, and personal #boundaries (which are healthy to promote in general) in order to control others, gain false sense of security and 'save the world' (which is vainly imperious, imo- but that's another topic). It better serves the world (in my opinion) to teach critical thinking and how to learn, not just what to learn and whom to trust (which in itself, could suffer from appeal to authority: a fallacy.) Even formal #academia is congested with #egocentrism and rigid near #religious #beliefs in dogmas. (I, in part, blame this on the modern science distain of #philosophy- another aside for another day.) I remember when school taught that the tongue had different taste zones as if it were law. My point being that honest #science is open to correction. There are many things that even #Einstein thought to be **impossible** that we know are not. With the tenacity of the internet and the dawn of more powerful #AI, what the world may need more of is a revival of the lost #art of fearless skepticism.*
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- Twittish
- https://twitter.com/omicreativedev
Computer Science Student, Autism Mom, Artist, Polymath
Now that my children are older, I've returned to school to complete a degree. I'm studying Computer Science with a focus on engineering for Data Science. The direction of my studies are in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, notably AGI.
Otherwise and subsequently, my interests are ridiculously broad. Rather, there isn't a subject I can't find interesting. Naturally curious, I deeply enjoy philosophy, the humanities, the arts, technology, history, nature, physics, and a wide range of nonsense that I may not believe (personally) but enjoy indulging.
