Andre Costopoulos
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Big if true. New today from Surovell et al.
Monte Verde 8200 BP at most?
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"He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
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Rich Sutton gives an eerily John The Baptist-like address on AI @ualberta I have much to say about this. Perhaps at some point I will.
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“If you’re an Iron Maiden fan, you’re part of one family”
IRON MAIDEN: BURNING AMBITION, exclusively in cinemas from May 7.
@universaldocs, @trafalgarrel
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One of my laws of academic administration: The most microscopic concerns genetate the most discussion. Big strategic issues are largely ignored.
I even have an evolutionary explanation for it.
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Here is my write up from last week:
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This is exactly what I was writing about last week. In the face of AI, we need to re-emphasize the value of human learning. AI can do stuff for us, but we're here to learn together.
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@JasonColavito To be fair to LLMs, how many humans would tell you the same thing?
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This the same AI that just told me that the Great Pyramid has a spinning emerald capstone on an iron axis that runs through the whole pyramid?
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Sam Altman says artificial intelligence may be discovered rather than invented. Deep learning may be closer to discovering a property of nature than inventing a new technology. Which suggests intelligence itself may follow a fundamental scientific principle we are only beginning to understand.
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@acerbialberto We should recognize that we're not a paper publishing engine or a student ranking machine. We're an academic community, and we better start behaving like it. Between this and the news on the Einstein companion, I've been writing a blog post about this.
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So: what should we do?
Claude paper: media.licdn.com/dms/document/m…
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I asked Claude Code to read a preprint of mine (osf.io/preprints/soca…), to develop some individual-based models (in R) exploring some dynamics that could result from the theoretical framework developed in the preprint and, finally, to write a paper. (I gave some further... -->
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@JasonColavito In my experience, most students want to do their own work, and they want to learn, if we give them a chance. If we design a learning environment in which using tools like this is the logical thing to do, it's largely on us.
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I guess this is the end of higher education. There are now AI bots that plug into Canvas to do all of the course work for students and others to then grade it all for professors without either student or professor entering the course.
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@caylanford Three years of Latin in school. Now Chair of an Anthro dept. Coincidence? I think not.
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The University of Calgary is closing its Classics Department in July.
Meanwhile, Calgary Classical Academy has hundreds of K-12 students enrolled in Latin, paleography, and (soon) Ancient Greek.
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My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪
You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do!
I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @Nature: nature.com/articles/d4158…
Try that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!
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@PatrickESavage @Nature Great stuff. Just in time for our discussion of human exceptionalism and the nature of culture in Anthro 101.
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And the @Nature essay is probably the only thing I’ve published yet that I think even non-academics will enjoy. Here is a gift link to the full PDF if needed (though it lacks some of the cool audio/visuals of the link above) 🔓: rdcu.be/e5gLE
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RE: The Sam Altman stuff.
In the end, what really matters is the experience of being here, and contributing, in what way we can, to making the experience of others better.
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Donald Trump orders the declassification of files on UFOs and aliens, implying that there is no actual proof of aliens since they have to go hunting for relevant files.
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@jens2go That's happened to me once. Very liminal experience. Fortunately, the display was built so that my shovel mark was on the back of the stone tool and invisible to the public. But I knew.
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One of the more bizarre experiences as an archaeologist is to meet old finds you once dug up in long and hot days at the excavation behind glass in an air-conditioned museum exhibition.
All of a sudden, they'd become something special, sacred things almost: an exhibit.
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