One feature I would love is to get notified via email when new papers are added (or periodically, once a week/daily).

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In my experience, what ended up happening was that pupils who already knew their way around a computer didn't really get any extra benefit from using cmputers in the classroom and those who didn't like using computers hated it even more when forced to write out an assignment on a keyboard as supposed to handwriting.

Most importantly though, they were a HUGE distraction. Any time the lesson got boring because the teacher wasn't good or just not good at getting the kids engaged in the lesson (which happened quite often sadly, but that is another discussion) we would all just start playing on the computers. Some kids came to school just to play videogames and barely learned anything.

Now, some of these issues (like bad professors, smart kids getting bored because of slow pace of lessons) have always been present in every school all over the world but I do think that having tech in the classroom just makes things worse, as now even those who would have normally followed the lesson are tempted to just turn on their computer and pretend to take notes when really they are playing Candy crush. It's bad enough being a teenager and being bombarded with stimuli from your phone and social media, having that kind of distraction at school just makes things even worse.

So yeah, I think tech in school is one of those things that sounds great but usually just back-fires in spectacular ways (imho).

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For all the talk about "AI ethics" there is it seems strinking to me that the current state of the art model will opt for providing a convincing argument for why it's wrong answer is correct, rather than say that the answer it provides might be innacurate. (Funnily enough this is what humans tend to do aswell.) Being that these models often tend to be trained on data found on the internet, could this be a sign of the bias we tend to have when writing on social platforms and the internet in general? (As in justifying our answers instead of trying to get to the correct one)

So the questions are: 1. What are the consequences of this in the development of LLMs and in their application to various fields?

2. How would one implement this capability of recognizing where the model might be innacurate?

3. Is 2. really that much more complicated than what is currently being done? If not, then why hasn't it been done yet?

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I realized how my peers (umivesity students) are affected by social media, most of them are endlessly circling instagram and tik-tok every time there is a spare second. Once I got off I discovered how much time it frees up for thinking and/or doing other activities. I get the feeling that people are losing the joy of being alone with one's thoughts. The hard part of being off social media is the fact that it is such a central part of our social interactions, sometimes I feel "out of the loop" and I still get A LOT of weird looks when I say to people that I am off social media.

All in all I am still convinced that being off social media is a net positive and I definitely advise people to try and see how it works out for them.

Honestly, since the release of ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion this Us something I have been thinking about a lot. I we thought that what we saw in the last 10-15 years was an explosion in content available online, we cannot even imagine the quantity of content that will come. I am actually surprised this has not happened yet, although I think that we will see more and more articles with contributions by ChatGPT. Short to mid-term I hope that this will not lead to a decrease in content quality/lack of diversity. Long-term I think we will see mechanisms arise to distinguish human writing from AI generated content.

I am aware that this might sound pessimistic, I am actually excited to see where his things will evolve!