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        Date: 2025-01-15 18:57:49+00:00
        From: Thorsten Ries <ries.thorsten@gmail.com>
        Subject: Impact of AI on the Discipline - Strategies for concrete issues

Dear all,

I have given an interview on the impact of AI on the humanities
disciplines and on teaching "AI, Language Learning, and Comparative
Literature. An Interview with Dr Thorsten Ries" (pp. 7-13 in the PDF),
and I am discussing some of the effects there that usually don't get
much attention in the present discussion, e.g. the challenges of
motivation, social valuation, disciplinary identiy, over time, but also
inflated standards for human learners, social effects of AI on learners,
and the impossibility to peer review AI-leveraging research due to
reproducibility issues. But obviously, there are also important
opportunities to consider and to actually leverage - and the question
wiuld be how we get our colleagues to do that.

https://utexas.box.com/s/gm8yuat7t8lbwzklomc77yr9rxf9feog

Some things I said there a few weeks ago are already "old", I wouldn't
e.g. repeat that AI models don't "reason" anymore, even though from a
Humanities perspective, the responses don't look that different yet -
but under the hood something else is happening, although it might never
really resemble human reasoning.
https://x.com/MLStreetTalk/status/1877046954598748294?mx=2

I would be interested in hearing what you think about a longer term
strategy that I tried to start thinking about there.

Thorsten


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