Preston Maness ☭<p><a href="https://thebullshitmachines.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">thebullshitmachines.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I'm only finished with the first chapter --and with going through all of the supplementary material for chapter one that's hyperlinked in the instructor guide, which I think should be mandatory rather than supplementary-- but I'm already convinced that this class (and its supplementary materials) should be a requirement for CS majors at least, if not for engineers and "STEM"-type majors in general.</p><p>The Stochastic Parrots paper, in particular, is excellent. Two of that paper's listed authors (Emily Bender <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emilymbender</span></a></span>, Angelina McMillan-Major) hail from the University of Washington. Not surprising then, I suppose, that the folks behind this class/course/curriculum/website also hail from there: Carl Bergstrom (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ct_bergstrom</span></a></span>) and Jevin West (@jevinwest@x.com). Those two are also members of a broader effort from that same university called the Center for an Informed Public (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ngo/@uwcip" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>uwcip</span></a></span>).</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/cs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cs</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>claude</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gemini</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/dalle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dalle</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/midjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>midjourney</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StableDiffusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StableDiffusion</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StochasticParrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticParrot</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticParrots</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Curriculum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Curriculum</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/CurriculumDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CurriculumDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/pedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pedagogy</span></a></p>