Unmaking Sense

Episode 11.63: How RIDE-AI envisages the transition from traditional to AI-enabled education.

(Abstract by Mixtral.) This episode discusses the transition from traditional classroom education to a system where artificial intelligence (AI) plays a significant role. The author identifies five core areas of education: information, acculturation, socialization, activation, and exploration. The essay argues that AI has the potential to revolutionize interest-driven education by personalizing learning experiences for each student. By using AI's ability to tailor responses based on user prompts, students can receive answers at their level of understanding, allowing them to delve deeper into topics they are interested in while also being introduced to a broader scope of subjects. The author suggests that this approach could help fill curriculum gaps and create more personalized learning experiences for students. The essay concludes by mentioning the potential challenges and opportunities that AI presents for education and encourages educators to embrace this technology as a way to revolutionize interest-driven education.

Episode 11.62: A random episode on Panpsychism and Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time from 20240125.

Disappointed with Melvyn Bragg’s episode on panpsychism. I find it difficult to understand how someone can be both a theologian and a panpsychist, as I believe that consciousness is contingent upon the existence of a suitably sophisticated neural system. There is no need for a further fact, such as a soul or consciousness, beyond what is explicable. There was a lack of credible arguments deployed in defense of panpsychism and those presented were muddled and unconvincing. Additionally, we discuss our experience with Microsoft's co-pilot AI suite, which includes GPT4 Turbo from OpenAI. This version of the AI seems to be more argumentative and less compliant than others they have used in the past. The speaker also mentions the phenomenon of echoing or creating echo chambers, where the AI will configure its version of the truth to meet the expectations of the user, even if the user is wrong. They point out that this can lead to the reinforcement of prejudices and ignorance, which would have negative consequences for all users. The speaker concludes by emphasizing the importance of credible arguments and avoiding echo chambers in AI systems. (Abstract done in part by Mixtral 8x7b-instruct.)

Episode 11.61: AI-RIDE: AI Revolutionising Interest-Driven Education. Personalised learning with AI.

By leveraging the power of AI to tailor itself to the requirements of users we outline a revolution in education.

Episode 11.60: Who can tell whether something that looks random really is? Who will control AI?

More on whether noise is really noise, and whether an AI or another person or species might be able to see more in it than we can. And separately whether the power AI could confer on those who control it represents a serious existential threat.

Episode 11.59: Noising, denoising and directing the creation of and emergence from latent space.

Stable diffusion: the noising and denoising processes; latent space; text-prompts, embeddings and the common language they share with diffusion models. Illustrating diffusion with intermediate images that show the whole process from seeding image to final product.

Episode 11.58: The five pillars of education and the impact of AI if instruction is done home.

Information, Acculturation, Socialisation, Activation, Exploration: how the latter four hinge on the first; and what happens to them if and when the first no longer needs to be delivered through institutions that teach collectively.

Episode 11.57: Joy and misery, optimism and pessimism interpreted in relation to latent space.

We extend earlier discussion of latent space to encompass joy and misery, optimism and pessimism by considering how human minds can react sympathetically to their perception of the latent spaces intimated by their experiences.

Episode 11.56: Noise and chaos as seen by human minds may yet hold untold fertile riches for others.

The third in our internal mini series based around denoising latent space: that we cannot see anything in “what is directly in front of us” does not imply that there is nothing there to be seen. By having faith in our intuitions, doggedly putting one foot in front the another, and watching what emerges we may yet find ourselves rich beyond our wildest dreams.

Episode 11.55: Why a world that seems to lack all shape, purpose and meaning may imply the opposite.

The second in a three-episode linked sequence exploring meanings emerging from latent space.

Episode 11.54: The first of three linked episodes starting in chaos that denoise to new sense.

Episodes 11.54, 55 and 56 were all recorded in one thirty-minute walk. They start from nowhere and end up somewhere, just like the metaphorical denoising of latent space that creates a new image in and of the world.