Recently, the AAUP has become the Jim Cramer of wisdom on academic matters. While it's not a perfect strategy, there are far worse things than listening to their advice and doing the opposite.

@SJ_Murray @IMurtazashvili Some people even believe we’re in the singularity right now.

@IMurtazashvili I get that the AAUP is not an epistemically virtuous organization, but is it so hard to see AI tools as an extension of what we’re offering students when we’re giving them access to the library?

@IMurtazashvili I think you are misunderstanding the situation. What you are referring to as the AI era of higher education is not working out as education at all in many classroom situation. AI, in fact negates or erases the opportunity for students to learn.

@IMurtazashvili In fairness, it was.

@IMurtazashvili How much of your career success can you trace back to your undergraduate institution partnering with Microsoft so you could learn power point skills?

@baileyray @IMurtazashvili It’s really not, though. And if you go back and study Markov chains, it’s obvious why. Shift the foundational philosophy of the models away from Markov, and we can—I hope—get to what you’re suggesting.

@baileyray @IMurtazashvili To be clear, I’m saying this as someone who is very pro-technology. Just not pro-hype that is being floated around right now.

@IMurtazashvili Mark Levin is a disgusting genocidal maniac. It's ridiculous that you would quote him like he's some voice of reason.

Do SPIA a favor and stay in Israel.

@SJ_Murray @IMurtazashvili AI will shift from productivity to stewardship.

@SJ_Murray @IMurtazashvili @SJ_Murray The part everyone feels but few want to say: AI isn’t just getting better at tasks — it’s entering the feedback loop of taste, psychology, and storytelling. The ego response is to defend the old hierarchy. The obvious response is to learn the tool.

@baileyray @IMurtazashvili There is a better undergirding assumption that we started exploring with computers in the late 1990s and if we brought more of that back into the discourse (which I’m mulling over right now), we could end up, I think, with even better systems.

@baileyray @IMurtazashvili You’re missing the premise of how and why Markov undertook his work, which is a real fun story. The fundamental assumption that language is a cold hard, predictable thing that has nothing to do with humans is deeply flawed.

@SJ_Murray @IMurtazashvili Totally. This conversations is on the tip of my tongue. Enablement provides Opportunity leads to Faliure or Success Learnings /loop Improve You could argue that Markov chains lead to better decision-making based in reality.

@jhimmelreich Access to the library is a good analogy. Also, it's useful to think of this as dealing with a digital divide. The UC approach also recognizes skill in using tech as a significant aspect of this gap. I like the approach for those reasons.

@IMurtazashvili other than online journals, the Internet has not been good for university students...

@AchimWar @IMurtazashvili Quite a bit, if you mean using PowerPoint in the process of learning how to effectively communicate and present to people. Good example!

@IMurtazashvili Imagine if every time you used the internet, you were complicit in an act of unprecendented intellectual piracy?

@baileyray @IMurtazashvili And they would be wrong. I also believe I own a Tiffany’s and can walk in and borrow everything in sight. It doesn’t make it true. The more someone codes, the less they believe this.

@SJ_Murray @IMurtazashvili Are you pointing back to the idea of computers as augmentation — tools that expand human reasoning — rather than systems that flatten judgment into output?

That feels like the fork we’re still living inside.