Category: AI

A Review of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Introduction After more than a year of on and off reading, I have finally finished Douglas R. Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (GEB). The book is a seminal one (I hear) in AI research/Silicon Valley circles, and it is referenced as a book that inspired a young nerd to want to pursue … Continue reading A Review of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid →

Teachers and the Turing Test

The crisis for education that generative AI ‘generates’, is that students have a machine that can produce the correct output to almost any learning task that a teacher can conceive. And yet, teachers should find this strangely familiar. In a very real sense, the problem posed by generative AI is nothing new.