Tina Eliassi-Rad
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Like you shouldn't, it shouldn't tell you how to like rob a bank, but you can jailbreak that and it will tell you how to rob a bank, right? But there's no guarantees. It's not like, oh, here's a theorem, the proof, QED, go home. You cannot jailbreak this.
And so if you're getting all of your information from these AI systems that we know can be manipulated and we don't know how they exactly work, then you may not have a shared reality. with other citizens. And that's, I think, the worst for democracy. We really do need a shared reality to be able to withstand our democracy, to hold it and not lose it.
Well, I guess as a professor, to me, it's education. I think actually educating The public, and I spend a lot of my time educating the general public and not just the students at my university, but educating the public about how these tools work, what they're good at, what they're not good at, not giving their agency to these tools and critical thinking skills. I think that that's the way forward.
Yeah. Perhaps we should think about how we educate people and maybe they'll see the value of education, right? And that education is about enlightenment. Education is about empowering yourself, right? So education isn't like a teacher just pouring water knowledge into your head. It's about you learning about the world and so you could do better in the world.
As a teacher, I'm already 11 on my guitar, right? I just want you to do better. And if you do better, then I will also do better. The society will do better and we will all do better, right? And so I think part of that is maybe we should rethink about how we sell education.
Yeah, I think so. I mean, there are certain things that I have I have heard. So, for example, now there's some privacy aspects to this.
But if you are a college and you are tracking how students are doing on their homework, et cetera, and let's say Tina took calculus and she didn't do very well on differential equations and now she's taking machine learning and they're going to talk about differential equations.
that you could tell Tina, oh, you know, maybe you should go brush up on differential equations because they're going to talk about differential equations. Yeah, okay. You know, so there's some of that kind of a thing to like to help you. And then there's also like basically like personalized tutoring that I think AI can be helpful there.
I use it for fun. Give me a bio of Sean Carroll in the King James style. I don't use it. I haven't used it for any real work stuff or anything. I don't trust it. That's the problem.
Oh, that's great. Yeah, I asked it some stuff about linear algebra and matrix norms, and it was really bad at it. And I was like, wait, what? Like, there's so much about linear algebra. In the world, you should know about matrix norms.
yeah yeah so so i guess maybe the the point is let's not teach linear algebra to kids and then no no no because the whole of machine learning is basically it's all linear algebra and like quantum mechanics also so yeah linear algebra kids that's that's your lesson for today from mindscape learn more linear algebra i think it's the key to everything yeah exactly exactly but it's very good at like um
Basically, admin stuff. So if you show it some picture of Google Scholar, put it into BibTeX, put these references into BibTeX, it does it for you. So some of those kind of admin stuff it's good at.
Indeed. Indeed.
Thank you. Thank you for having me on, Sean.
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