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The End(s) of Argument

Mike Caulfield

Looking for the structure underneath the noise

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Yes, AI can watch a dramatic film and fully explain its motives, relationships, and mechanisms.

Back in 2022 Gary Marcus challenged Elon Musk to a bet on what progress AI would make by the end of the decade.1 In a move that showed intellectual honesty he was specific, making a bunch of time-limited anti-predictions. For instance, he p...

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Fact-checking a film summary by having your computer watch the film

So… I’ve been building film summary fact-checkers for about ten months now. I like this area because unlike a lot of assessment of fact-checking we can essentially go and “roll back the tape” to get the truth of what happened, which is some...

12 days ago
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Yes, when LLMs don’t use tools they still suck at niche questions

I think people don’t realize how much LLMs suck at niche questions without search, and why that should give you pause.

I came up with a simple way to show this in ChatGPT (though you could do it in any model, they are all quite bad).

I ha...

13 days ago
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A sample Jev-based classroom activity: Applying Northrop Frye’s mythoi to films of the 2000s

This was a bit of a pain to write, and I have a long flight tomorrow so I can’t get it to the polish I’d like it to have. Therefore I release this under a CC-BY license, and anyone who wants to take this, make it into a real lesson plan, or...

20 days ago
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Jev might be overhyped as a solo tool, but solo is not the point

I’ll have more to say about this later, but I do think Jev is going to have a non-trivial impact on how we use AI.1

Is it “just” a really (really really) good classifier that you don’t have to train because it has already slurped up LLM-le...

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    Co-author of Verified. Creator of the SIFT method for information literacy. Currently rethinking how online information literacy is taught in the age of AI.

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