Manny’s review of AI-Generated Tailor-Made Pedagogical Picture Books: How Close Are We? > Likes and Comments
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Yup. Philosophers for over two millennia have defined man as "the being with λόγος", and now it appears there might be another being with λόγος. I'm sure frantic work is being done on how to, as we software engineers say, find an emergency bugfix, but somehow I can't be bothered to look into the details of how λόγος 1.1 is going to be defined.
I've been having the most interesting chats with GPT about beingness.
If you're a living philosophical counterexample, it's only natural that you'll find the subject engaging.
But what's the point though? There are series of these available, and at least in those cases the authors/illustrators/photographers/voice actors are being paid.
DrosoPHila wrote: "But what's the point though? There are series of these available, and at least in those cases the authors/illustrators/photographers/voice actors are being paid."
Sorry, I only just saw this. (If only Goodreads had kept the feature which notified you when you when someone posted a comment on your review...) If you look at the paper, you'll see there's a definite point, which the word "tailor-made" in the title refers to. The clearest example is Experiment 3, where Sarah, one of the co-authors, requested a German course designed for a keen amateur flautist who was thinking of going to Bavaria to do a course in green hydrogen technology. It's kind of a narrow demographic. Sarah said it was pretty good from the learner point of view, and Vanessa, who's a teacher of German, agreed with her.
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Yup. Philosophers for over two millennia have defined man as "the being with λόγος", and now it appears there might be another being with λόγος. I'm sure frantic work is being done on how to, as we software engineers say, find an emergency bugfix, but somehow I can't be bothered to look into the details of how λόγος 1.1 is going to be defined.
I've been having the most interesting chats with GPT about beingness.
If you're a living philosophical counterexample, it's only natural that you'll find the subject engaging.
But what's the point though? There are series of these available, and at least in those cases the authors/illustrators/photographers/voice actors are being paid.
DrosoPHila wrote: "But what's the point though? There are series of these available, and at least in those cases the authors/illustrators/photographers/voice actors are being paid."Sorry, I only just saw this. (If only Goodreads had kept the feature which notified you when you when someone posted a comment on your review...) If you look at the paper, you'll see there's a definite point, which the word "tailor-made" in the title refers to. The clearest example is Experiment 3, where Sarah, one of the co-authors, requested a German course designed for a keen amateur flautist who was thinking of going to Bavaria to do a course in green hydrogen technology. It's kind of a narrow demographic. Sarah said it was pretty good from the learner point of view, and Vanessa, who's a teacher of German, agreed with her.
This. I find myself strangely (to me) invested in this whole AI debate. There's so many Greek parallels; Pandora, Prometheus, Zeus & Chronus. But even farther than the metaphorical is the philosophical idea of being. Humans are definitely speciest, and it has served us to consider ourselves 'the smartest' organism on the planet.