There was no heart and no soul. The avatars showed no emotions at all, had no body language and were talking so fast and monotonously that it was very hard for me to concentrate on what they said.
Thousands of AI workers have signed on to an open letter expressing ethical concerns about GPT-4.
My opening remarks towards our class homework question: what kinds of AI does your place of business (POB) employ? Answer: absolutely none.
POB HQ, August 2020: I rundown of our (then) 3 month LMS response to COVID. Primary takeaway: we weren’t even close to a beta (β) version.
Beginning of our last class, I closed our presentation with DS’s catherding slide:
Myconclusion when it comes to “data,” we are all straying close to a fundamental (α) dimension, ubiquitous-embodied-multi-modal We are All at Level 1.
What last Friday’s German Evangelical service lacked was affect: ostensive gestures, embodied communication, self-efficacy seeking, connectedness and pleasure. As we implement AI into our lives, how can they help bring us a higher life?
RQ: What design factors for Cognitive Tutors and Teachable Agents can further Worker Education?
Here are some current Cognitive Tutors and Teachable Agents:
Of course, they can be used in more common digital management systems. For example, Co-Writer can write memos from highlighted spreadsheet cells. These education AIs are a subset of “machine learning.” Even middle school learners will master “machine learning,” if it will help them in a game. Visual tools can also facilitate machine learning.
Betty’s Brain is a good starting point to critique current designs of online learning platforms. 3 systems were designed for it:
Learning by Being Taught (ITS) System
Barebones Learning by Teaching (LBT) System
Learning by Teaching with Self Regulated Learning (SRL) System
Betty’s Brain was able to guide confusion states by 8th graders towards delight and flow states. “At-risk” populations may be guided towards not disengaging. More importantly, when the SRL group had to expressly query Mr. Davis, an AI tutor, although they were initially slower to master content, moving forward their performance improved significantly. When all 3 groups were presented with new material, the SRL group performed best.
LearnLab was another early cognitive tutor applying the adaptive control of thought-rational (ACT-R) model. This model gathers dense data streams of student behavior and a large sample of students to greatly expand our knowledge of students’ mathematical cognition.
Another necessary design factor is successful integration into the school, into the classroom, and into a curriculum.
5.12.23: an affordance occurred to me. I wish I could flip the switch on an Experience Sampling Method gadget,
or a Contextual Activity Sampling System,
that somehow my “constituents of embodied cognition” could be acquired as motor-based mental representations.
while getting my hands on the data that feels like a lump of cold clay.
is great! But the way Mingei is used for glassblowing isn’t the way I would want to use it.
Heuristics for Wicked Problems
i’ve been doing street science since the last century
letting go listening
anthropological phenomenology
As a teenager, I grabbed gigs as a jazz saxophonist.
When Vigilette starts “trading 4s” sometime after 7 minutes, how did the trio work it out, jesters ostensively gesturing? They weren’t speaking, although a lot of face-to-face was going on. That’s the kind of improvised, embodied craftwork I’m traveling towards, while docking at CMLTD.
Das Du ist älter als das Ich “you” is older than “I”
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
My first iteration (“α”) at building a multimodal research tool on how construction trades apprentices learn is very scattered, but it centers around the following taxonomy:
Labor traditions date back centuries (guilds) and millennia(collegia). The apprenticeship tradition is how one generation shares with a later one, what we know before we retire. These traditions trace back to our earliest writings.
The “mutation” causing the branch, supra: capitalism, which converted crafted goods into commercial products, and embodied cognition into reflexive, unskilled labor. The Luddite rebellion was not a reaction against novel technologies – in fact most were highly skilled artisans. Why Luddites broke machines was a rebellion against “free markets” gutting community values dating back to the Tudors. Scandinavians artisans annealing bronze a millennium ago could not make it right at the branch. Today, “digitization” is another branch we must bear.
Digitizing construction trades apprentice traditions is not merely reproducing the best way to hold a hammer, turn a screwdriver, saw some wood, – what values must we ensure make the migration from analog to digital? My personal α guides me towards Luddites, Slöyd, and Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Our USA construction trades labor movement perhaps is perhaps upon a crest right now. All the more reason for us to forge relationships with cultural heritage movements. Slöyd is an exemplar of what that could be. It is an imperative that apprenticeship traditions dating back to our earliest writings are respected and preserved as we walk this digital migration.
Thus we must see the years 1811-13 as a watershed whose streams run in one direction back to Tudor times, in another forward to the factory legislation of the next hundred years. The Luddites were some of the last Guildsmen, and at the same time some of the first to launch the agitations which lead on to the Labour Movement. In both directions lay an alternative political economy and morality to that of laissez faire. During the critical decades of the Industrial Revolution, working people suffered total exposure to one of the most humanly degrading dogmas in history — that of irresponsible and unlicensed competition — and generations of outworkers died under this exposure. It was Marx who saw, in the passage of the 10 Hour Bill (1847), evidence that for ” the first time … , in broad daylight the political economy of the middle class succumbed to the political economy of the working class.” The men who attacked Cartwright’s mill at Rawfolds were announcing this alternative political economy albeit in a confused midnight encounter.
