O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms Alone and palely loitering?The sedge has withered from the lake,And no birds sing. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,So haggard and so woe-begone?The squirrel’s granary is full,And the harvest’s done. I see a lily on thy brow,With anguish moist and fever-dew,And on thy cheeks a fading roseFast withereth too. I met a ladyContinue reading “Ballad of a Selfish Boy”
Monthly Archives: May 2023
AI in the Classroom
I’ve long been an early technology adapter. I started building webpages/websites in the 90s, used turnitin.com not just for plagiarism checking but for providing rich feedback on student papers in the very early 2000s, and around that time had students write live blogs on a course website as part of their writing requirements. I didn’tContinue reading “AI in the Classroom”
AI and Talking Heads, Part III: Why Sentient Machines Will Never Exist
In my previous post, I made a distinction between “Strong” AI and “Weak” AI and then went on to describe how Weak AI works. I explained that Large Language Models such as ChatGPT convert words to numbers and then calculate the statistically most probable words and sentences that will follow any given words and sentences.Continue reading “AI and Talking Heads, Part III: Why Sentient Machines Will Never Exist”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 