General thoughts and musing on everything from education, to AI, to other tech in this world.
Dr. Ian Malcolm’s quote from Jurassic Park emphasizes caution in software development, especially with generative AI’s rapid coding capabilities. The industry faces rising “comprehension debt,” where prototypes are mistaken for final products. Technical oversight is crucial to prevent unmanageable debt and ensure sustainable software quality and security.
One of the challenges of teaching right now is the use of AI by students. As an instructor, I want my students to know how to use AI, but I also want them to understand core principles so they can use AI, and understand it’s results better. Unfortunately it seems that some students have embraced…
The post discusses the ongoing issue of cheating in education, particularly with the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT. It highlights the tension between students using AI for assignments and professors’ responsibilities. The author reflects on the blurry line between useful AI tools and cheating, emphasizing the need for clarity in academic practices regarding AI usage.
Every spring the smell of delicious, spicy chili fills the air, and you get to taste all the entries at Tusculum University. In previous years, voting was done by filling out a piece of paper, and counting the entries by hand. This was a tedious and labor intensive process. So last year, I helped to…
During this class, you’ll see/have seen me talk about a lot of old science fiction movies. There are reasons for this, first of which, if you can’t tell, I love science fiction, in nearly all forms. From books, to TV shows, to movies, I like them in all forms. Good science fiction can be used…
Earlier this week in my Ethics and Technology course we were talking about AI vs Human Generated content. One aspect is given how good AI content is getting, do we need to really write anymore? Of course, there are two issues: inaccurate information and the human experience. Inaccurate Information AI still has an issue with…
This is a story of two different students. For our sake, we’ll call them Think 1 and Think 2. (Yes, a play on words of Thing 1 and Thing 2… as they are thinking students… and how they think about themselves really matters.) Both of these students have been students of mine. They are similar…
