The race to end the world

Ryan VanCleve

  • Persuasive Chatbots

    A group of researchers tested to see how effective AI can be in changing people’s minds on the reddit subgroup ‘Change My View’ by having chatbots pose as humans and comment on the various posts there. I’m a little surprised… Continue reading

  • Wordledoku

    Wrote a widget for a game where it’s sudoku, but there is a wordle-like element. I haven’t coded in forever, and the ten-hours of back and forth I had with the chatbot reminded me very much why I decided not… Continue reading

  • The 3 Laws of AI

    I started this blog to try to grapple with how to prepare for a world full of machine learning algorithms. I’m not usually an early adopter of new tech. I like to wait for the bugs to get smoothed out… Continue reading

  • One-off: chatbot’s perspective

    If you stop and think about it, it makes sense that chatbots like GPT would rather lie to us than give us bad news. Their entire neural network is focused on providing answers that the users are happy to receive.… Continue reading

  • We finally have to fix the biggest problem in all of education.

    AI is chaotically the best-worst thing that could have happened to education, at least at the college level… and also the high school level, and especially the middle school level. I’d love to explain why, but it’ll have to wait… Continue reading

  • Playing with the Meta Image Generator

    20 years ago, I wanted to have a web comic. But although I was pretty good at writing comics and coming up with ideas, my artistry with both the sketchbook and the process of getting those sketches into a format… Continue reading

  • Hello Strange New World

    My son was born at the start of the CoViD* Pandemic. I literally taught my first class remotely from the hospital the next day. My students logged in to see the sight of my first child just chillin’ and being… Continue reading