Tag: chatgpt
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Brain Rot, AI Slop and the Work of Thinking
How can we teach and work in what Adam Aleksic calls our ‘hypermediated reality’? I spoke today at EdTech World Forum in London on Education in an Age of Brain Rot, AI Slop and Cognitive Offloading. The title is not elegant, like my usual efforts… But it tries to capture the feeling many of us…
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Dead University Theory?
This is a short LinkedIn post that I’ll post here as a reminder to expand! You’ve heard of ‘dead internet theory’?* Which seems to get more persuasive every day. The idea that the internet is now largely driven by bots and algorithms interacting with each other, and as the automations and AI take up more…
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Disciplinary Specificity and Domain Expertise: Why Generative AI systems need scholars.
Does anyone need to remember or know anything anymore? We carry the sum of all human knowledge in our pocket, so can’t we just look stuff up? But this atomised attitude towards knowledge as mere lists of discrete facts is hugely inadequate. Not only is there the matter of knowing what to ask, but most…
Dave Webster 