#oldaily — Public Fediverse posts

We Must Pace the Frontier #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79775 This is the season for manifestos from tech CEOs, I guess, and the current offering is from Anthropic's Dario Amodei and the argument is that frontier AI developers should slow the pace of that development in order to ensure oversight and guardrails are in place.

Evaluation or AI-valuation #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79774 I think there's the genesis of a good argument here. After discussing what AI does to evaluation as we know it, Heléna Stakounis raises the question of why we're evaluating at all. "Evaluation, in its ideal form, should not in fact be a form of evaluation.

AI has made the practice of homework obsolete. #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79773 This is a short post from Clark Aldrich arguing we should block all AI from schools and, concurrently, limit all homework assignment to work done at school. "This means re-inventing classrooms completely.

Information Processing in the Brain: Research team discovers narrowings in the tube-shaped extensions of nerve cells #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79771 This brief article reveals a nuance in the structure of dentrites, the tendrils neurons use to connect to each other. "Dendrites in both mouse and human neurons exhibit localized diameter constrictions in the nanoscale range along their shafts...

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Crap H-Index Paper #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79770 I join with Alex Usher in criticizing this poorly researched and frankly offensive publication (54 page PDF) from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) criticizing diversity in Canada Research Chair (CRC) hires. The grounds for this argument? Supposedly, diversity hires have lower H-Indices than non-diversity hires (an H-index i means an author has i papers cited i or more times).

AIEd Knowledge Base #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/79769 So now we know what Doug Holton did with his summer. This is the AI in Education Knowledge Base, a sweeping project that challenges the imagination. Core navigation is based on concepts that radiate out from a core AI in Education concept. Each concept is a markdown article on GitHub which I think is authored by an AI that interacts with the knowledge base.