I think I’m glad I’ve not had any dreams about teaching yet, but I recognise some of the themes of Lisbeth’s nightmare…
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OpenAI plans to charge $20,000 (USD) a month for an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” – apparently some people will pay more for robots than people. At […]
This is my original Norwegian draft of an essay published in the Danish foreign policy magazine Udenrigs today as part of a special issue on AI and foreign policy. I argue that AI is influencing the way we tell stories, and more seriously, that there is a risk of this […]
In 2022 I learned about FAIR data, the movement to make research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible. One of UiB’s brilliant research librarians, Jenny Ostrup, patiently helped me make the dataset from the Machine Vision project FAIR in 2022 – I wrote a little bit about that in my […]
Thanks to everyone who came to the triple book talk of three recent books on machine vision by James Dobson, Jussi Parikka and me, and thanks for excellent questions. Several people have emailed to asked if we recorded it, and yes we did! Here you go! James and Jussi’s books […]
Finally I can share what I’ve been working on! I absolutely loved writing this book, taking the time to dig deep into histories, ideas and theories that I think really help understand how machine vision technologies like facial recognition and image generation are impacting us today. I wanted the book […]
Last night I attended the OpenAI Forum Welcome Reception at OpenAI’s new offices in San Francisco. The Forum is a recently launched initiative from OpenAI that is meant to be “a community designed to unite thoughtful contributors from a diverse array of backgrounds, skill sets, and domain expertise to enable […]
Dennis G. Jerz
I remember the first time I had the “There’s a test today and I’m not prepared” dream from the perspective of the teacher who forgot to create the test. I jokingly announced that to my students one day while passing out tests, and they agreed that that didn’t count as a nightmare. Some looked hopefully at the papers I was passing out, thinking that maybe I had forgotten after all and this paper was blank.
Jill
I don’t know, I think it’d pass as a nightmare. Not for them, maybe… Ayayayay.
Tracy Kennedy
Yeah – after reading her post about her nightmare a couple days ago, I had one of my own. You know, students revolting in class, telling you that you don’t know what you are talking about…then power point, computer and overhead not working etc etc. Luckily the class I taught this week went by fine. phew. I think this is common (I have a number of friends who are police officers, and they often dream that their gun doesn’t go off when confronted by a criminal).
Jill
The powerpoint, computer and overhead not working isn’t a nightmare, it’s STANDARD!
Yesterday I actually dropped the overhead. I laughed and told the students I’d dropped my powerbook from a far greater height, and with no carpet, and everything was fine – but the overhead projector turned out to be done for. A tiny plastic tab that keeps the arm up had broken off and even with wads of paper I couldn’t get the arm to stay in a position where it would keep the words on the screen in focus.
Probably that’s why my subconscious doesn’t bother plaguing me with nightmares.
And dreaming your gun won’t fire when a bad guy’s trying to shoot you’d be worse. Unless you could run, I suppose.