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Andrew Smith's avatar

"AI is progressing across almost every domain and on a timescale too compressed for society to properly observe and analyze its impacts and then gradually adapt" is a very MIT-way to say, "Hold onto your butts!"

Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

The ultimate irony is MIT may have had a big part in inventing the thing that proves to be their undoing

Andrew Smith's avatar

I think we all have, honestly. But yeah, MIT maybe a great deal more than most.

Thanks, Claude Shannon!

Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

If u hunger for the grimmest take (and video of the OG Claude) watch PBS' Ghost in the Machine

I don't recommend it.

Andrew Smith's avatar

"Thanks, I hate it"

Patrick Durack's avatar

I played with NetLogo a bit semi seriously trying to optimise pipe and cable routes in Coal Seam Gas fields. I would not have thought that it was for kids?

Also more recently tried to simulate the actual shape of string vibrations in a violin string. Good stuff.

https://www.netlogo.org/

Neela 🌶️'s avatar

MIT has a 38-page report.

You have ninth graders really building things.

I know which one I’d rather watch.

Happy Friday, Andrew.

Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

I get the heebie jeebies anytime i get near something that feels like a committee. Fight or flight kicks in.